Crescent Earth

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures, Science & Tech on November 13, 2009 at 12:04 am

This beautiful picture of Earth was taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. Rosetta is on a mission to intercept the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which will happen in 2014. The brightest part of this picture is our South Pole. Link

(image credit: ESA)

 
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Weird Images of Yore: Black and WTF

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet on October 23, 2009 at 4:01 pm


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The next time you get a bunch of WTF pictures on a viral email, remember this: human’s propensity for making weird (and weirdly wonderful) pictures predates the InterWeb. Take a look at these strangely compelling black and white images of yore over at Black and WTF tumblr blog: Link – Thanks Matt!

 
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A Difficult Goodbye

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures, Weapons & War on October 8, 2009 at 8:51 am

Army Reservist Staff Sgt. Brett Bennethum was ordered to Iraq in July. His four-year-old daughter Paige had a hard time letting go, so much that she held onto his hand in formation. No one, including the commanding officer, had the heart to pull her away. The picture of the incident, taken by Paige’s mother, has gone viral and touched people all over the country. Link -via Buzzfeed

(image credit: Abby Bennethum)

 
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Tinkerbell Caught on Camera

Posted by Miss Cellania in Odd News, Pictures on September 9, 2009 at 10:29 am

Phyllis Bacon of the London Borough of Croydon wasn’t even looking into the camera when she shot a photograph of her backyard in 2007. When she saw the picture, she couldn’t figure out what was flying around.

‘I think it must be a fairy,’ she said yesterday as she made the picture public for the first time.

‘No one I’ve shown the photos to has come up with any plausible explanation as to what the figure is.’ The photo reminds some of the Cottingley fairies, photographed in a West Yorkshire garden in 1917.

See the entire picture with the story. Link -via Unique Daily

Previously at Neatorama: The Cottingley Fairies in Five Hoaxes that Fooled the World.

 
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Woodstock Lovers Still Together

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on July 20, 2009 at 10:00 pm

Photographer Burk Uzzle took plenty of photographs of the Woodstock music festival in August of 1969, but none are remembered better than the young couple wrapped in a blanket that became the cover art for the record album, and later the poster for the movie.

Forty years later, the couple in the photo – Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, both 60 – remain together. They married two summers after the fabled weekend, and they still live less than an hour’s drive from the original concert site of Bethel, N.Y., and within spitting distance of where they both grew up.

Nick Ercoline works for the Orange County, N.Y., Department of Housing. Bobbi is a resident nurse at the elementary school in their hometown of Pine Bush.

The two weren’t even aware of the photograph until they saw the album cover. Link -via Boing Boing

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The Human Printer

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Pictures on July 14, 2009 at 4:09 am


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Some one hundred and twenty years after Georges-Pierre Seurat completed his iconic A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, a group of artists called The Human Printer resurrected the art of pointilism by painstakingly recreating a photograph dot by dot using markers to replicate the halftone effect of CMYK printers.

See more here: Link – via Drawn!

 
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Migrant Mother's Daughter Found

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on December 4, 2008 at 11:08 am

You may recall the famous photograph known as “Migrant Mother”, taken by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson and her children in 1936. It was used over the years to illustrate the Great Depression. Thompson was a migrant worker with seven children who also worked the fields. 77-year-old Katherine McIntosh was the girl burying her head in her mother’s shoulders in the photo. She was four years old at the time.

“The picture came out in the paper to show the people what hard times was. People was starving in that camp. There was no food,” she says. “We were ashamed of it. We didn’t want no one to know who we were.”

The photograph helped define the Great Depression, yet McIntosh says her mom didn’t let it define her, although the picture “was always talked about in our family.”

“It always stayed with her. She always wanted a better life, you know.”

McIntosh talked to CNN about what her life was like in those days. She now lives in Modesto, California. Link -Thanks, Geekazoid!

(image credit: Gregg Canes/CNN)

 
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