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Photo of The Day: August 8, 2012

Stranded
A child sits on a post on a flooded street in Manila. More than one million people in and around the Philippine capital battled deadly floods amid relentless monsoon rains. 

PHOTO OF THE DAY ARCHIVE

hypergeography:

kopczyk

itsfullofstars:

International Space Station Star Trails

Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit relayed some information about photographic techniques used to achieve the images: “My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then ‘stack’ them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure.”

sfmoma:

installator:

“Kent, our Exhibition Design Manager (far right), remembers installing “Intermission” the last time it appeared on our walls as part of Hopper’s third Whitney retrospective, which traveled to SFMOMA in 1982! — at SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).” [From March 23, 2012]

This photo is from when Hopper’s “Intermission,” an exciting recent acquisition, was installed for the first time as a part of SFMOMA’s permanent collection. #bigmoment

newyorkersunposed:

By Alberto Reyes

comicbookcovers:

Spygal #1, cover by Phil Noto

justdance2425 wrote:

    “Being a girl, I have my favorite brands of makeup. One brand, Benefit, has released a comic book called Spygal and it’s an official Marvel comic. It was special edition, only could get it by buying $25 worth of product I believe. Could you bring up some stuff on what it was about and the cover please? “

   Gladly.

   Interesting cross promotion. I’ve seen Nascar and NBA and various other cross-promotional comics, but never one that crosses comics and beauty products. Most of the other efforts I’ve seen have come off poorly, wedging Spider-Man or Wolverine into un-inspiring advertising copy.

  This looks like a more fully realised vision, and Phil Noto is a top notch artist, so that’s a plus.

  Does anybody have this, and if you do, is it any good?

kelledia:

‘All processes are impermanent,
Which are the dharma of birth and death.
Having ended birth and death,
   Nirvana is delight!’

             - words of the future Maitreya Buddha,
               spoken by Shakyamuni Buddha

Sutra of Maitreya Buddha

(via dancingdakini)

davidseger:

Guitar Wolf - Summertime Blues
dir. Garth Jennings 

celluloidshadows:

A production artist creates the matte painting used as a backdrop for the 1973 George Roy Hill film “The Sting” starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Click the pic to watch the re-release trailer for the movie following its Academy Awards Best Picture win.

subtilitas:

Caruso St. John - Thomas Demand show at Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, 2009.

(via kureator)