2013-03-18
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Today I learnt that the San Francisco Market Street Railway owns Streetcar No. 189, from Porto, Portugal.
Sadly it’s not in service, but it is under restoration. Hopefully it’ll see service some time soon.
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Sandia engineer Steve Yearout displays a 1/15 scale model of a NAVSTAR Block IIR GPS satellite: “Sandia sends sensors into space to detect nuclear blasts globally”. (Google cache; via.)
2013-03-15
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Robert Doisneau, Les Hélicoptères. 1972 (via theincompletenesstheorem)
2013-03-14
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“Mourners taking pictures with cellphones of Pope John Paul lying in state in St. Peter’s. Their photo opportunities lasted just 30 seconds.” from the New York Times, 8 April 2005. Photograph: Patrick Herzog.
That photograph via Nick Sweeney, who wrote at the time ‘Cameraphones as digital reliquaries. It makes curious sense’). Previously.
(Source: The New York Times)
2013-03-08
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I have something of an obsession with the image above, considering it the “canonical” image of a drone.
I had some suspicions about the Canon Drone, and research bears these out.
Good stuff from James Bridle (ht to Timo for the link).
2013-03-06
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Étude De Nu, 1940, by Laure Albin-Guillot.
A promotional post by Jeu de paume, Paris on Facebook for an exhibition of his work had to be censored after Facebook blocked their page for a day. (Image via mapetitemelancolie.)
2012-11-22
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From the Guardian’s Picture desk live: the best news pictures of the day:
A young Japanese woman looks at stars displayed during the ‘Star Cruise Planetarium’ at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan.Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA
2012-11-18
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Chesapeake Bay Hydraulic Model technician at a tide gauge located on the Elizabeth River, at Portsmouth, Virginia, August 1977. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station photo (via The Center for Land Use Interpretation).
