Archive: August 24, 2008
joyce-yelena-bike

It was a beautiful day this past Saturday, and Joyce, Yelena, and I spent a part of it biking around New York City and parts of Brooklyn. We were part of thousands of people in NYC who enjoyed the last Summer Streets for this year. I’d say it was pretty successful and definitely pretty awesome [...]

canon-50d-front

The rumored successor to Canon’s 40D has been leaked by a Chinese website or MediaTemple (depending on who you believe). The new digital SLR camera, called the EOS 50D in America, is pretty impressive in specs. Photography Bay has posted a test shot of a rally car at ISO 1600 from the 50D and it [...]

iron-taken-apart

Check out this set of disassembled house appliances by Brittny Badger. This series of photos was part of her senior thesis at Hartford Art School this past year. I love the rearrangement of all of the parts from each appliance. It really shows me that some appliances are a lot more complicated than I think [...]

The people over at Quiet Library have put together this parody of Usain Bolt celebrating his fastest time ever at the Olympics. It is said that during the 100-meter race at the Olympics, Bolt could have gotten a faster time if he hadn’t slowed down towards the end once he realized he was the winner. [...]

In Australia, apparently all it takes to get into a lot of clubs is a DJ bag and some cool shades (oh, and some really outrageous outfit). [via] Man, I know I say this all the time, but I really do miss Australia.

milstein-aircraft

Wow, you have to check out the photography of Jeffrey Milstein, specifically the ones in his Aircraft series. Milstein takes photos of airliners (and some helicopters and blimps) in such a way that you see their entire shape as a sort of abstract form in the sky. It’s pretty wonderful to see a plane in [...]