2012-12-31
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Astronaut Takes Amazing Self Portrait in Space, (via meatrobot):
[Taken by] Aki Hoshide, [this] self portrait brings into one frame “the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture.”
As seen on Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Oddly, what grabbed me was the sensor flare around the sun in the top left.
2012-04-24
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Two more photographs of escalators (both by Harry Gruyaert) from the Magnum collection, as posted to Slate as part of their series on walking.
2012-01-07
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I’m a sucker for the “looking up” genre, and this one’s particularly nice because of the nested shadows and reflections. Photograph by Jeffrey Meyers.
2011-08-02
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Mmm Skyscraper, I love you • 24gotham:
Another shot of the Lever House I featured yesterday. This shot standing in the courtyard looking up with a 12mm.
Photograph: Devyn Caldwell.
2010-12-26
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I have no idea where this came from originally; it seems to have shuttled around the ffffound/tumblr/imageblog ecosystem for ages, although I think the earliest post on Tumblr was by ahole. Anyway, it’s a power of two on a train with interesting (if not entirely to my taste) typography, so here it is.
2010-05-22
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Weekend readers’ pictures: Curves (another from the Guardian’s galleries).
It’s by Rita Gries, who writes: ”A stained glass window reflected in the pool at the Piscine, an art déco swimming-pool converted to a museum, in Roubaix, France”
2009-05-21
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Dr James Chon of Swinburne University of Technology in Australia shows off the optical recording set-up that could see data discs carrying 300 times more storage capacity than standard DVDs (from BBC NEWS | Day in pictures)

![Astronaut Takes Amazing Self Portrait in Space, (via meatrobot):
[Taken by] Aki Hoshide, [this] self portrait brings into one frame “the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture.”
As seen on Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Oddly, what grabbed me was the sensor flare around the sun in the top left.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e2ad58794749754e0272dbf1d73d64dd/tumblr_mfw55se31d1qz66rro1_500.jpg)





