Comments(0) I forget who Mike Monteiro is, or why I follow his twitter feed. But I like him. And I remember John Gruber of Daring Fireball turned me onto him—so I don’t think I’m wrong. But I am often.
We have the hottest first couple in the history of ever. http://flic.kr/p/7JDsym
—Mike Monteiro’s twitter
Check out the wordy disclaimers on flickr. Can’t blame ‘em, I guess.
Comments(0) Derek Erdman’s photos from the 2009 Gathering of the Juggalos. (For the uninitiated: More info at Wikipedia, and the official website.) I don’t know whether to laugh… cry… or blow my brains out.
Click here for the photos.
Comments(0) Comments(0) Night timelapse movie showing successively a Moonbow (=’rainbow’ from Moon light) and a classical rainbow and their motion with time as Moon and Sun change their position in the sky. Video made in Torres del Paine national park, Patagonia, Chile. Time lapse by Stéphane Guisard (www.astrosurf.com/sguisard).
Comments(0) Comments(0) Comments(0) Great high-res pics of the LHC at The Big Picture.
Comments(1) Disarming photography of Billboards looming, shot from underneath, by Branislav Kropilak. Reminds me of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Check out his other collections while you’re at it. Especially Landings and Garages. (Thanks, Tommy.)
Comments(0) I’m a frequent visitor of MacDesktops.com, and I’m getting tired of boring, bird’s-eye photos of leaves on the ground. It’s been done a hundred times over and every single one looks alike—obviously. The cliché is hardly limited to MacDesktops; every wallpaper posting site has a handful of leaves photos. Furthermore, didn’t a now-ancient iteration of the Mac OS – System 7.5? – include a desktop picture of leaves on the ground?
A few other annoying trends:
• Close-up photography of flowers
• Unremarkable skies
• Fields of flowers
• Sloppy or pointless nature photos
• Pictures of a window (or windows) in the middle of a bare wall (what’s up with these, anyways?)
• Pictures like this (seriously, what’s the point?)
On second thought… I confess. The photos of windows bother me more than the leaves on the ground. It’s always a plain wall – stone, wood, or what have you – and a window smack dab in the middle. Sometimes the window is purposefully off-center, I admit, for that extra touch of artiness. Either way, I’ve seen more than a number of these. But why?
