Also from core77, but even better than the paean to foil, is this. Also includes tips on making your own images. ARen't they gorgeous?

Fifteen families from around the globe show off their weekly food shop. Photographs by Peter Menzel from the book "Hungry Planet". Fascinating.

Okay, this is deeply weird. It's also long (5 mins), and at 50-odd MB takes a while to download - but it has a certain aggressive, hypnotic attraction to it.

Basically, this... person... grew crystals directly onto film, and projected the result. It's odd. People with epilepsy, or a tendency to hear voices in random noise, should probably not try it. For the rest, just make sure the volume on your PC is at fairly low.

Since Sao Paolo city passed radical new restrictions on the size of billboards in the city, new Cold War-style surveillance aerials have sprouted up across the city. Or at least, that's what it looks like from Tony de Marco's photoset. You can feel the sudden silence descend, and the aerial-like quality of the former billboards only serves to heighten the impression of a sudden, breathless, attentive silence descending.

via core77, via boingboing, via the whole freakin' internet.

(via BLDGBLOG)

BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh interviews Simon Norfolk, a photographer, apparently.

Which is nice.

And would be the end of the story, but the photos themselves are incredibly compelling, and the stories they tell fascinating. Maybe as a result of his former career as a photojournalist, Simon concentrates on war - not the 'guy on a ridge in a turban watching a very, very far away explosion', but the air-conditioned supercomputers which design and simulate nuclear warheads, and the vast and silent arrays of surveillance aerials (check out the photos of Ascension Island, fantastic!) - and at the other end of the scale, the buildings that have been chipped and scarred by generations of bullets and shells. Not to mention the worn staircases of Auschwitz. It's an incredibly interesting interview, too. Highly recommended.

(via Bruce Sterling's blog)

Wow. Look, it's Saturn! Seen from the wrong side!



Some pretty awesome composite images from NASA's Cassini probe are catalogued here. Apparently, this view of the planet backlit by the sun shows us rings that we never knew Saturn had, but you can go look at the catalogue for the proper sciencey stuff. For pure aesthetic attraction, this one is my favourite.

Via BDLGBLOG:

Just come across these photos from Thomas Weinberger. His subject matter might seem grim, but the results are almost luminescent, as if Heaven were an abandoned industrial site. Pesumably it's done with heavy dodging (is that right?), or some cunning overexposure - whatever, the result is certainly unusual.