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Michael Kenna Photographs
Michael Kenna Photographs
Beautiful photographs, at once empty and full. This set is called "Silent World" by whoever put this page together, but I can't find any reference to that collection on Kenna's website, so I think this is a fan mashup.
·trinixy.ru·
Michael Kenna Photographs
Zenpho: One hundred ambient tones
Zenpho: One hundred ambient tones
"One hundred ambient tones is a collection of short ≈40sec ambient audio snippets designed to be listened to in 'random' or 'shuffle' ordering. The transitions between tracks, chosen randomly by your machine on playback, become the focus."
·archive.org·
Zenpho: One hundred ambient tones
We Made This: De-branding cigarettes
We Made This: De-branding cigarettes
"the Department of Health is considering plans to force tobacco manufacturers to sell their cigarettes in plain unbranded packets." "They'd be taking one of the most carefully branded products in the world, and de-branding it. And since they've already banned tobacco advertising, cancer sticks don't really have much else left except their branding. They'd be stripping them back to just their name, taste and cost."
·wemadethis.typepad.com·
We Made This: De-branding cigarettes
Harper's: Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
Harper's: Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
A great profile of the author, who wrote "No Country for Old Men". "At its root, McCarthy's fiction arises from the tragedy of all wild creatures, of whatever is begotten, born, and dies, the tragedy of autonomous life in a world increasingly circumscribed by a rage for order and captivity. More than merely human. It is the tragedy of warm blood itself, of blood and time."
·harpers.org·
Harper's: Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
Flickr: Smithsonian Institution: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Flickr: Smithsonian Institution: Chandra X-ray Observatory
"The Chandra X-ray Observatory, which was launched and deployed by Space Shuttle Columbia on July 23, 1999, is the most sophisticated X-ray observatory built to date. The mirrors on Chandra are the largest, most precisely shaped and aligned, and smoothest mirrors ever constructed. Chandra is helping scientists better understand the hot, turbulent regions of space and answer fundamental questions about origin, evolution, and destiny of the Universe. The images Chandra makes are twenty-five times sharper than the best previous X-ray telescope."
·flickr.com·
Flickr: Smithsonian Institution: Chandra X-ray Observatory
Ars Technica: 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
Ars Technica: 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
How the two astronomical numbers most often thrown out by the intellectual property lobby are utterly bogus. Interesting: "When someone torrents a $12 album that they would have otherwise purchased, the record industry loses $12, to be sure. But that doesn't mean that $12 has magically vanished from the economy. On the contrary: someone has gotten the value of the album and still has $12 to spend somewhere else."
·arstechnica.com·
Ars Technica: 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
Vanity Fair: The 25 Best News Photographs
Vanity Fair: The 25 Best News Photographs
In honor of *Vanity Fair’*s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors flexed their list-making muscles to determine the 25 best of everything—from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners. Herewith, the top 25 news photographs.
·vanityfair.com·
Vanity Fair: The 25 Best News Photographs