True dat.
The Geograph Project aims to collect geographically representative photographs for every square mile of Great Britain and Ireland.
This national geography/photography project asks the people to submit photos of their neighborhood and help build a photo-mosaic of the whole county.
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Peter Chinn, the show’s producer, used a combination of three-dimensional ultrasound scans, computer graphics, and tiny cameras to capture the process from conception to birth.
The foetus at bottom's a dog in case you're wondering.
We don't generally do advertising on this blog (advertising being the art of getting people to buy stuff they then store in their garage), but this eco-homage to Hieronymus Bosch caught our hungry eye.
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At 1,500 years old and 300 feet tall this titan in California's Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park has the most complex crown scientists have ever mapped.
Taken by Michael Nichols, this photomosaic is composed of 84 images using three cameras, a robotic dolly, and a gyroscope. Nat Geo sent him to spend an entire year hiking 2,000 miles from Big Sur to the Chetco River in Oregon photographing redwood trees.
His mission was to capture the majesty of some of the tallest trees on Earth, some of which have been standing for two thousand years.
The result is the first-ever full length portrait of a giant California redwood.
So, can you find the five people in this picture?
Technical assistance: Ken Geiger, NG Staff; Nathan Williamson; Walter Boggs, David Mathews, and Kenji Yamaguchi, NG Staff; Jim C. Spickler; Giacomo Renzullo; Marty Reed, Steve Sillett, and Marie Antoine, Humboldt State University.
Sure, as an act of civil disobedience I'm risking a $5,000 fine and six months in prison (under U.S. 18 U.S.C. 331) for this line I penned and have been printing on every bank note that passes through my hands, but it's a chance I'm willing to take.
Go ahead, stamp this on a Jackson and send the world a message.
I cannot be put back together again.
Warning: This hidden camera footage filmed undercover at the Hy-Line Hatchery in Iowa by Mercy For Animals offers a disturbing glimpse into the cruel and industrialized reality of modern hatcheries.
Might want to think 'cage-free organic' before you reach for that dozen.
Hats off to the more than 4,000 pupils who gathered at Dockweiler State Beach in California to create a message about protecting the ocean from litter and urban runoff.
Now that's a field trip to remember.
Hard to believe trees this massive ever grew on our planet, but they did. For scale, notice the lumberjack by the door at left.
And they used hand saws.
Hmmm. There might be something to this global warming thing.
Blatant self-publicity here: regular New Yorker's body-painted to illustrate the effects of starvation.
So sue me.
Sebastian Gollings Photography
Perhaps the most striking thing about this image is its failure to shock––a flooded London seems all too credible.
It was, in reality, created to raise awareness among G8 summit attendees about rising ocean levels.
In an anti-government demonstration protesting the suppression of free speech in Jakarta, Indonesia, a student had his lips stitched together.
Call it silent political statement.
Nakedness as a political statement has been gathering momentum in recent years and this anti-fur demonstration in Barcelona brought dozens of activists together to draw attention to the entirely unregulated Chinese fur market.
Naturally Europe is more advanced than the US in its anti-fur sentiment––on any Winter day NYC is littered with over-perfumed old ladies wearing mink––but thankfully a more informed younger generation rejects such dated fashion.
Please send this link to anyone you know who wears fur. No longer will they be able to claim ignorance.
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