2011-02-04
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Photographer Robert McCabe’s best shot, complete with a description:
This was my first encounter with penguin psychology: I was impressed by how human they were, in their curiosity and in the way they walked. He looks like a businessman carrying a briefcase, or someone wearing a burqa.
It would be impossible to take a picture like this today: there are now firm rules about getting near penguins. Basically, you have to keep well clear.
2011-01-20
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“Radiating charisma on a 23ºF morning, a three-foot-tall emperor penguin strikes a post on the pack ice of the Amundsen Sea. The photographers were taking a month-long cruise aboard a Russian icebreaker.” (via, via)
Photograph: Jonathan and Angela Scott.
2010-12-27
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The camera at the Apartm.net is less interesting than the flash. The flash for the camera is three Alien Bees strobes totaling 1280 watts of power. We normally use them on a 9-foot seamless backdrop mounted on Manfrotto Autopoles in the office. “
2010-04-20
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John Squire’s cover of Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor, for the Penguin Decades series.
2010-04-16
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Penguincubator (by STML)
A slot-machine that dispensed his paperbacks at 6d a time. The other memebers of the book trade were shocked at such an innovation…
The original scan appears to be here, at Twitpic.
2010-04-13
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Speaking to the Past, by Douglas Coupland; one of twenty-six covers from Penguin Group (Canada)’s Flickr stream.
As introduced on their web site, the project uses book covers to speak to someone from 1935, on the occasion of 75 years of Penguin Books.
2009-05-20
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From Michael Bojkowski’s small but perfectly formed Sans Text Flickr set.
The original text is pretty grim, but this is a great photo, so this Sans Text thing really works here.
2009-02-02
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Snow disruption in Britain - to cope, walk like a penguin, according to Boston.com (via the Guardian)
