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Las apocalípticas fotos de los incendios en Rusia nos han recordado el Moscú (y algunas otras ciudades americanas) post-apocalíptico que representan los paisajes de Vladimir Manyuhin y que esta pasada primavera se difundieron de manera contagiosa por las redes rusas. Os recomendamos ampliarlas. En su mayoría reproducen lugares claramente identificables de Moscú, y prueban la fuerza con que se ha desarrollado una nueva estética de las ruinas durante la pasada década. Hoy no podemos dejar de verlas con una perspectiva del todo nueva. The apocalyptic photos of the fire in Russia call to mind the post-apocalyptic Moscow (and some American) cityscapes by Vladimir Manyuhin which in this spring spread over the Russian net as wildfire. You are recommended to enlarge them. Most of them represent well identifiable sites in Moscow, and it demonstrates the force of the new ruin aesthetic of the last decade with how fresh eyes we can look at them in this way. 
Spring • Primavera 
summer • verano
autumn • otoño
winter • invierno.
Day • Día
and night • y noche.
Sunrise in Moscow, August 8, 2010. From the Telegraph.
Amanecer en Moscú, 8 de agosto de 2010. Del Telegraph.
magyarul - Liquid Lights
One of the things I love about steampunk is that it blends opulence -- antiques, velvet, dark saturated colors -- with industrial roughness. These lights by Tanya Clarke are a good example -- she combines recycled plumbing pieces with hand sculpted glass drops and lights the whole thing with LEDs.
Whimsical and fun!
Find more at Liquid Light. - PosterText
Have you seen this neat project? Peter Kao wrote in to tell me he uses the entire text of a document to create a piece of art relevant to the document itself. Guess the classic books below and go check out the rest.
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- Sandisk CF cards might be fire-resistant, but the Canon 7D not
Petra Hall, a pretty awesome wedding photographer in Sweden, first posted this incredible story on the Digital Wedding Forum, and she kindly gave me permission to repost it here.
the Canon 7D might be rugged, but it isn’t entirely fire-proof …
Petra’s fiance, Erkki, recently bought a new (used) car, just before a planned vacation. They had intended on cruising in the MG convertible and just enjoy the sports car in the summer. They were going to just drive around and take some photographs of the scenery.
The weekend before their vacation started, Erkki was on his way home from work when something in the car exploded and the car caught on fire. Huge flames engulfed the entire car. Erkki’s Canon 7D (with a 24-105L) was inside the car, as well his MacBook Air laptop. Everything went up in flames – the car; the camera & lens and the computer. Luckily no-one was harmed.
Since the car was imported from the UK, the insurance for it hadn’t taken effect yet. Therefore nothing will be replaced that went up in flames.
Here’s how the camera looks like now.
It’s going to hurt.
You might want to look away in case you’re the sensitive type …
A computer techie managed to get the hard-drive safely out of the computer, so Erkki could copy all the images that he’d taken since he got the 7D last winter.
The best part of the story though is that the 7D did keep a secret inside its melted body …
The CF card was completely unharmed!
Not a blemish on it. It didn’t even have that smoky smell. Opening the CF card door was a bit tricky, and it doesn’t look like the CF card door is going back on again. But all the images were recovered, and Petra even thinks it might possible to use the memory card again!
Do you think though that Canon might accept this as a repair under warranty?
- giha woo: constrained ball
'constrained ball'
'constrained ball' is a drawing aid created by korean product designer giha woo.
once attached to the pen, this device helps to draw straight lines without using a ruler.
normally, a ball point pen rolls freely in accordance with the ball located at the tip of
the pen. however, this writing tool prevents winding lines by helping to move
the ball in one direction only. using the installed measuring wheel indicated on the
product, users can draw the exact desired line length in both a horizontal and vertical
direction, as well as strokes in 45 degree angles.
the mounting area is made with a flexible rubber material helping it adhere to the attached pen.
measurement of line is indicated on the product
- Just one I stumbled across:...
Just one I stumbled across: http://cocoonlove.tumblr.com/post/814926233
Submitted by Christian Ross.
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