“NASA has snapped its most amazing self-portrait yet of the Curiosity rover on Mars, showing the robot posing with its ultimate destination: a huge Martian mountain.
The new view of Curiosity on Mars is actually a mosaic of dozens of high-definition color photos taken by the rover between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. The image shows Curiosity surrounded by the tracks of its wheels, with the 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) Mount Sharp rising into the sky in the distance.
NASA featured the latest Curiosity portrait as its image of the day Thursday (Dec. 27) after releasing the photo earlier this month.” From Space.com
Here is a remarkable photography project using garbage dumpsters as pinhole cameras. The city of Hamburg has allowed it’s trash collectors to drill small holes into these portable bins that are loaded with large sheets of light sensitive paper. And the results are often quite stunning!
From their Flickr page -
Hamburg´s garbagemen portrait their city in the Trashcam Project – with their garbage containers. Standard 1.100 litre containers are transformed to giant pinhole cameras. With these cameras the binmen take pictures of their favourite places to show the beauty and the changes of the city they keep clean every day.
The Trashcam Project was developed by Christoph Blaschke, Mirko Derpmann, Scholz & Friends Berlin and the Hamburg sanitation department. Special thanks to Hamburg based photographer Matthias Hewing (www.matthiashewing.de/) for his professional advice and the challenging lab work with the giant negatives.
Garbageman Hans-Dieter Braatz is taking a picture with a 1.100 litre garbage container transformed into a pinhole camera. It will take 2 minutes of framing and one hour waiting. Picture taken by Mirko Derpmann with a fuji gw690 on Fuji Velvia.
The Speicherstadt in Hamburg photographed with a garbage container by
Hans-Dieter Braatz, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann. Shot on a 106×80 cm sheet of ilford multigrade with an hour exposure time.
The skyline of the Hafencity in Hamburg photographed with a pinhole garbage container by garbageman Hans-Peter Strahl, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann. Shot on a 106×80 cm sheet of ilford multigrade with six minutes exposure time.
Garbageman Roland Wilhelm takes a picture of himself and his trashcam with a second trashcam. Photographed with a pinhole garbage container by Roland Wilhelm, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann at the site of Hamburg´s wase collecting service. Shot on a 106×80 cm sheet of ilford multigrade with six minutes exposure time. Please show some respect for Rolands fantastic ability to not move.
The Marco Polo Tower photographed with a 1.100 litre garbage container by Michael Pfohlmann, Christoph Blaschke and Mirko Derpmann. Shot on Ilford Multigrade with 10 minutes exposure time.
And here is a video, in German, explaining the project.
All this reminds me of Alex Colville’s painting, Pacific.
This fellow has evolved to where he now occupies the potential last chapter of history where the only options are waiting and suicide. He is the typical postarctic human no longer required to take action or even consider it. It’s a nice day, and there may be some more, who knows?
Among the most widely circulated manipulated Hurricane Sandy images was this storm cloud imposed on the Statue of Liberty (image from snopes.com)
While Gouvea parasitically stumbled about New York, a host of other photographers posted images that were not quite so voyeuristic, but they also were not utterly “authentic” representations of the storm. The Tumblr page Is Twitter Wrong? posted images of the storm that were clearly manipulated; snopes ridiculed several of the most obviously photoshopped images; The Atlantic posted a series of images emblazoned “real,” “fake,” and “unverified”; mashable posted many of the same images; and the Wall Street Journal’s Metropolis blog ran an article “Caution: That Hurricane Sandy Photo May Not be Real”.
Follow me, o reader, as we wander into one of the most bizarre landscapes this planet has to offer. This is a train cemetery located a few kilometers outside of Uyuni, a smallish city in the south of Bolivia.
The setting is wide open spaces, deep blue skies and clouds rolling in and out faster than wild horses, ever changing the colors and the contrasts. Young couples come here to find a little privacy away from peering eyes. Small groups of people play the most classic of games: hide and seek. Children of all ages clamber up, down, into and out of these hundreds of rusting locomotives and cars, many of which are well over 100 years old.
The wider picture. This sad, litter-strewn landscape is what the train cemetery looks like from just a few steps away.
Very easy to imagine that this is what the endgame of humanity will look like, except this may be the optimistic version. We ran out of fuel and our garbage is everywhere. Pure poetry. And all watched over by rusted machines of loving grace. (apologies to Richard Brautigan).
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Headed down to Place des Arts with John on Tuesday afternoon to protest Law 78. Jean Charest’s true colours are coming out on this one, pulling a Stephen Harper droolstorm (outlawing all opposition) with the most anti democratic law ever produced in Quebec. I love the energy of this generation, they are calm, happy, but determined. Don’t let the media fool you into believing that one asshole throwing a rock through a window should discredit 250,000 peaceful people. There has probably been less damage done in 100 days of protesting in Montreal than one Stanley Cup riot. Don’t Fuck With Quebec, indeed!
Fire took about an hour for firefighters to master
By KATHERINE WILTON, The Gazette February 14, 2012
MONTREAL – Thick smoke covered much of southwest Montreal mid-day Tuesday after a fire began about 10:20 a.m. behind the Kruger fibre-recycling plant, not far from Highway 20.
The blaze started in bales of crunched-up cardboard boxes stored outside the plant at 5845 Place Turcot, said operations chief André Paquette of the Montreal fire department.
About 100 bales of cardboard boxes – of a total of about 500 bales on site – were ignited.
“It is a spectacular because of the amount of smoke,” Paquette said.
It took 40 to 50 firefighters about an hour to get the blaze under control.
There were no injuries.
The cause of the fire is not known, Paquette said.
Mop-up began about 1 p.m.
He estimated material damages at about $20,000, based on a value of $200 a bale.
Twenty five years ago on April 26 the number four reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power facility exploded. The town of Pripyat, less than two miles from the plant, now sits abandoned, slowly consumed by returning forest. (Sergey Ponomarev/AP)
Residents bathe amongst tsunami devastation in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)
A vendor jumps from the top of one overcrowded train to another on January 23, 2011 as thousands of Muslims return home after attending the three-day Islamic Congregation on the banks of the River Turag in Tongi, Bangladesh. The congregation, held each year since 1966, is among the world’s largest religious gatherings. (Pavel Rahman/AP)
My motivation is empathy for the victims and shame of being myself a part of the problem. I feel so sorry and so bad about what we are doing to all the other species we share the planet with. We have no right to be so disrespectful and so cruel. I personally can't just go on with life as if everything was okay. So I try to do what I can.
Filmmaker Patrick Rouxel
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