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good hope

this popular ‘hoax’ was wrongly attributed to a hacker, who had reportedly managed to modify the data in google ‘street view’

in fact it is a ‘user upload’ to the ‘panorama view’ photo layer in google earth: a funny little UFO flying over ‘cape of good hope’ south africa… i tried to find it on google but it appears to have been removed… the coordinates are as follows 34°21’12.33″ S, 18°29’24.02″ E

ok.. it’s summer time i know, it’s a bit quiet online and there aren’t many good stories around this week :)

m / 28-07-2011 11:48 - tags: , , ,  

…and hardly anyone here

…photography is great at representing the hardware of the war machine,” he told his good friend and writer Stephen Mayes, a month before he died. “But the truth is that the war machine is the software, as much as the hardware. The software runs it, and the software is young men. I’m not so young anymore. But I get it. That’s really what my work is about…

the very last twelve, poignant pictures shot by british war photographer ‘tim hetherington’ just before he was killed whilst working in libya last april, have been published by newsweek this week…

m / 26-07-2011 13:50 - tags: ,  

crowd control

…commissioned as a crowd study during the Celebration of Light Fireworks show in Vancouver to illustrate how the crowd forms and disperses over the course of the day… (via ‘thijs van exel’)

m / 25-07-2011 08:42 - tags: , , ,  

unfold

some stunning work from photgrapher bertil nilsson who is also releasing his first book undisclosed later this year…

(via the CR blog)

m / 21-07-2011 14:53 - tags: , ,  

flash on the beach

beautiful title sequence from 2010, made with magnetic ‘things’ by nando costa (via emilio de haan)

m / 21-07-2011 13:15 - tags: , ,