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Tuesday, November 9th, 2010
The Daily Mail publishes some breathtaking photos of the chrysina jewel scarab from Costa Rica. The photographer is Roland Seitre; at his web site you can find much more extraordinary nature photography.
 One other photo from Seitre's site: Baby rhino!
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
Time for another entry in the grafitti blog: My dad sends along a link to Internesni Kazki, which documents the murals of Ukrainian artists AEC and WAONE in various cities of Europe. I love this piece from Kiev, posted last month:
 (Also, here is an image that works very well as desktop wallpaper.)
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Saturday, October 16th, 2010
 National Geographic publishes the winners of the 2010 Small World Microphotography Competition (thanks for the link, John!) -- my favorite image is the structure of a rat's retina taken at 100x magnification, shown to the left. I was also very taken with these green, spiraling vessels from the stem of a banana tree:
(Speaking of bananas, My Hands are Bananas.)
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010
Two fine galleries of photography of newly discovered or identified species: Alan Boyle of ms-nbc reports on 200 new species in Papua New Guinea -- insects, arachnids, rodents, marsupials and more -- including the bejeweled katydid pictured above; and the Telegraph presents a widely varied census of new marine species, from the Protoperidinium pellucidum under a scanning electron microscope to the bizarre furry crab Kiwa hirsuta (which, as Sheldon notes, will inherit the earth).
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010
 David Byrne was in Detroit for a week, working on Paolo Sorrentino's forthcoming movie Divo; while he was there he composed a post about the feeling of being in Detroit -- his writing coupled with the breathtaking photos were enough to take me there briefly.
Speaking of breathtaking photos of Detroit, you should by all means take a look at the slideshows on detroiturbex.com, some amazing images including the string band I've excerpted here. (Thanks for the link, Todd!)
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Sunday, September 26th, 2010
Radoslav Radoslavov Valkov of Bulgaria won the under-21 category of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management's Environmental Photographer of the Year contest for 2010 with this gorgeous picture of a fly taken in his back yard. (Thanks for the link, Djini!)
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Dark Roasted Blend has a collection of photos of gargoyles from all over the world -- this is billed as part I, so hopefully we will get more soon. (via cleek)
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010
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Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Jorge López has been posting a lot of beautiful photography lately. Take a look at his latest: "I'm writing you this card..."
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
At Pink Tentacle, a plethora of Japanese posters from the 1800's with public health themes. Above is a sign from the 1860's by Utagawa Yoshimori, showing what foods can safely be eaten by a measles patient. (Thanks for the link, SEK.)
 (And cool, I just found out that the genre of woodcut printing of which these are examples is called ukiyo-e, which translates as "Pictures of the Floating World".)
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