notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

hchamp:

Impossible Project, 2010 - Color Shade, First Flush. It may seem heretical to some, but I miss the beautiful painterly aspects of those first few packs of Impossible Project film. They were so beautiful, like a photograph trapped between a dream and a painting. Hard to believe it’s been three years already

Heather’s right; it is hard to believe. I first saw this post in its Twitter version, and my reaction was a sort of stunned disbelief.

Coming across the full photset on Tumblr, though, and I see exactly what she means. Personally I never had quite so much luck with the early Impossible Project films, but I can entirely see the desire to go back to that.

(I’ve recently dug my 680 back out after a year of it sitting unused. Time to get back in the instant habit.)

glitchnews (via slavin):

Pedestrians cast shadows on the pavement near the headquarters of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo.

chriswoebken:

“A view of Command Post at Headquarters, Strategic Air Command, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska where television facilities send up-to-the minute information to help Commands.” Circa February 1961

Nice polar map.

SatTrack Cam Leiden (via iamdanw):

In the evening of June 25 I by chance captured a GPS satellite that was decommisioned last year on photograph: Navstar 39 (USA 128, GPS 2A-27, 1996-056A). It showed up as a very bright small trail  and was flashing at a rate of  2-3 flashes per 10 seconds. 

Robert Doisneau, Les Hélicoptères. 1972 (via theincompletenesstheorem)

Broad Street, London, in the 1970s. Photograph by Tony Bock.

Atomic Gardening, by isavibes (via). Photography by Frank Scherschel for Life Magazine.

More at Pruned:

After WWII, there was a concerted effort to find ‘peaceful’ uses for atomic energy. One of the ideas was to bombard plants with radiation and produce lots of mutations, some of which, it was hoped, would lead to plants that bore more heavily or were disease or cold-resistant or just had unusual colors. The experiments were mostly conducted in giant gamma gardens on the grounds of national laboratories in the US

The internal view of an emergency water cistern in San Francisco, by Robin Scheswohl. Photograph via Burrito Justice, which includes more information on the emergency cistern system, along with more engineering photography from around the Bay Area.

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.)