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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
The Siege of Leningrad ended 65 years ago, in January of 1944. To mark the passing of this anniversary, photographer Sergei Larenkov has created a mesmerizing mash-up -- on the streets of modern-day St. Petersburg, bombs are falling, buildings collapsing, the dead being carried away... Thanks, Maurice, for the link!
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
As long as I'm posting some nice visuals:
Hermano Cerdo links today to Olivier Kugler's site -- I'd never heard of Kugler but I'm a fan now. The image above is from Kugler's travel diary documenting a (circuitous) trip from the Shetlands to Cuba; and there's a whole lot of other stuff too.
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A spectacular view, from Maui:
 Daily astronomy pictures from NASA. (Thanks for the link, Dad!)
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Promoted from comments: Jorge links to an amazing set of photos at his Picasa account: Isla Negra is the site of one of Neruda's residences. I'm just blown away by the shades of black in this picture.
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
4th Estate celebrates 25 years of publishing books with a beautiful video presentation. The resolution is high enough to watch it full screen, I very much recommend doing so.
(h/t The Wooster Collective)
 Also at Vimeo: timelapse photography of building and shooting the city of books and the museum.
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
The Wooster Collective features some art from Peter Fuss of Poland, including this billboard, which reminds me a bit (as so much else is doing these days) of The Stone Raft:
 (Seen in context at Fuss's site the message is a bit different.)
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
 Listen to the song available on this page, while looking at the image on this page. Fun, right?
 (Thanks to a couple of people on the Fegmaniax list...)
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
In comments at the Apostropher's blog, Gaijin Biker mentions how cool Idée Inc.'s new image-searching technology is. And it is indeed very cool: try out a couple of the applications they are demoing on their labs page.
- Multicolr Search lets you scan their database of images (10 million pictures selected from Flickr) for pictures with particular combinations of colors.
 I don't see any application for this in my own life (then again I'm not a designer) but it does seem very cool and fun to play with.
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BYO Image lets you specify an image file and have Idée search its database for images that are similar. This seems just great, and maybe more complicated than the Multicolr application.
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Monday, December first, 2008
 From Dark Roasted Blend, a page of truly spectacular microscope photography. There are even images with visibly granular atoms, which I did not know was possible.* The pictures are selected from among the winners and honorable mentions of this year's BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition, and other sources. (via Apostropher.)
 * Yep: you need a scanning tunneling microscope to do it. Atoms have been being photographed since before I was born.
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
 Some beautiful art at this Flicker set of images from the recent Urban Painting exhibition in Carugate, Italy. (via Wooster Collective)
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