The history of industrial New York is deeply etched along the banks of this waterway separating the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Today it is among the most polluted creeks in the nation owing to a legacy of industry dating long before the environmental movement. With 4 miles of protected shore line, extensive rail connections and proximity to Manhattan, Newtown Creek was a natural place for industry to thrive in the mid-19th century. The former salt marsh transformed into an industrial canal and soon was home to some of the dirtiest businesses in the city. Oil refineries, glue factories, tanneries and copper refineries sprouted up along the creek into the 20th leaving a toxic legacy that lingers underneath the ground. > by Noah Devereaux
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a journey into horribleness, not recommended for the faint-hearted or fragile-minded.

Pour la réalisation de son film web, «The Flying Project», Feiyue a donné carte blanche à deux des membres de «Span-Kidz», un collectif artistique regroupant vidéastes et graphistes. Les jeunes réalisateurs Julien Vray et Srinath C. Samarasinghe ont mis en avant la définition même du nom FEIYUE : Flying Forward, synonyme de « voler et traverser ».

theflyingproject.com

customer having fun on AMAZON

My 6 year old son Liam is colourblind so this is a nice little glimpse of his daily reality… kind of..

Ishihara by Yoav Brill
- Winner of the 2010 Haifa film festival for best animated film.
- To be featured in the Animated Encounters Festival in Bristol, with the support of the British Council in Israel.

A well written and executed, corporate film spoof from Optimus the for 2010 AICP-Midwest Conference

“These standards are constantly monitored…”
“…and these monitors are constantly monitored.”
“The logo molecules travel to the brain”
“…All this is included in the logonom lifetime 2 year service”

Frustrant.

Jon Pylypchuk :

lion boy

tiger girl

donkey girl

shark boy

by jamie campbell

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from Buff Diss

great prints by artistic duo Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr
“The explosions form a series of sculptures in action. There is an element of surprise in making an action sculpture, similar to when we used to develop our own black and white films.”

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Mulberry Street – 1900 – Library of Congress

Mulberry Street – 2010 – google Street view

Canal Street – 1900 – Library of Congress

Canal Street – 2010 – google Street view

ooooh..
Some buildings are still there. But, yeah.. not the same vibe.
Sad really.

1010global.org

found on flickr

ménage de mon desktop.
source, je ne sais où.

film stills from everything is going to be alright by Guido Van der Werve, The Netherlands.

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Dans le salon de Joseph Pousseu. Fonctionnaire, il dirige le service de promotion de la Femme après avoir été pendant professeur pendant plus de 30 ans. Il est membre du Rotary Club de Douala. Il a fait construire sa maison dans le quartier de Ndog Bomg, autrefois à la campagne, et aujourd’hui banlieue de Douala. Avec l’augmentation des prix de l’immobilier, il serait incapable de faire construire ici aujourd’hui (Douala)

Adonis chez lui mime sa tentative de suicide. Très croyant, il a été répudié par l’église évangéliste qu’il fréquentait car un ami l’a accusé d’homosexualité. Il alors essayé de s’électrocuter en découpant le fil de ce ventilateur. Hétéro, il milite dans une association de défense des gays, mais pense malgré tout “qu’être gay est un péché” (Douala)

A 4h du matin Christine prie avant le début de sa journée. Elle travaille comme assistante sociale dans le service Sida de l’hôpital de Yaounde. Son mari, autrefois banquier, a été licencié il y a 10 ans et depuis tient une boutique près de la maison. Il ont pu devenir propriétaire car au départ de son mari, la banque a soldé leur crédit immobilier (Yaoundé)

Guy Désiré dans son jardin regarde son fils essayer de capturer une poule. Il doit la livrer à un client ce matin avant d’aller au travail, dans l’école primaire dont il a la direction (Buea)

Immeuble d’habitation dans le quartier de Bonanjo (Douala)

Publicité pour la bière Amstel près de Buea.

Joseph Pousseu dans son bureau de chef de service au sein du ministère de la promotion de la femme.

by luis Gispert

An other world.
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The mountains are the icons of Switzerland.
To reach some of these idyllic places, it is necessary to drive through the Rhône plain.
However, only a few people knows what the plain looks like and what is going on there.
A highway is passing through the valley, so nobody stops there.
The industrial landscape, which is characteristic of the valley, isn’t attrac- tive at all, at least at first sight.
Nevertheless, most of the inhabitants of the area are living down there.
- – > more of the serie Horizonville here

Lavina 2004 – still in progress. Valais, Switzerland.

Avalanches > self explanatory
- – > more of the serie here

Work by Yann Gross

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By Denmark base photographer Kim holtermand > represented by Wonderful Machine

QCC

Mickey mouse

Donald Duck

Armoff

Art series that simulates the comic between the abstract, surreal and the sculptural.

by UK based photographer JIM GREEN

by helvetictoc

Computer scientist Alan Mislove at Northeastern University in Boston and colleagues have found that these “tweets” suggest that the west coast is happier than the east coast, and across the country happiness peaks each Sunday morning, with a trough on Thursday evenings. The team calls their work the “pulse of the nation”.
Over 300 million tweets were analysed, each of which was awarded a mood score based on the number of positive or negative words it contained. For example, “diamond”, “love” and “paradise” indicate happiness, whereas “funeral”, “rape” and “suicide” are negative. “Dentist” is fairly neutral.

The researchers calculated the average mood score of all the users living in a state hour by hour and so created a timed series of mood maps. They morphed the maps so that the size of each county reflected the number of Twitter users living there.

The mood of the nation at midday and 11 pm EST

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In 1979 Philip Glass wrote a series of short vocal and instrumental pieces for Sesame Street called “Geometry of Circles.”

great find by philbrewer