July 18, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
This is the first time I’m seeing a black and white image of the Earth taken from Apollo 11 and I think it is my new favorite photo of home. Does anybody know the NASA image ID to this particular image? I’m having a hard time finding it in full-res (although The Big Picture has a slightly larger version on display).
June 12, 2009 @ 11:00 am
Reulf from Charlesque on Vimeo.
Reulf is a student video project from the University of Paris VIII directed by Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Klipfel & Jean-François Jégo. In the short, several CGI characters walk around Paris and literally paint some color onto the bland black-and-white city. Cute. :)
March 2, 2009 @ 10:25 pm
I find the March 2009 issue of WIRED magazine very attractive. It’s rare nowadays to see such a bold take on a magazine cover, especially one that uses nothing but black and white when all other magazines are trying to pump as much color into their covers as possible. I haven’t had time to sit down and read the contents, but I hope to real soon. For now, I’m just liking the cover design. Good decisions all around.
October 14, 2008 @ 8:53 am
The United States Geological Survey, the scientific agency within the United States government that studies the landscape of the U.S. and its natural resources, has a photo library online of their image collection. The photos date back to a time when the U.S. was drastically different than it is now as people then ventured into unknown territory and settled there. Some of the photos date back to the late 1800’s (about the time the USGS was formed).
Go on over there to check out their vast image library with breathtaking photos of the American landscape.
February 2, 2008 @ 12:59 am
I didn’t know that there was a color video of the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse. I’ve seen the other black and white newsreels of the bridge’s collapse, but for some reason, seeing it in color is just more satisfying.
Apparently, the widely circulated videos of it in black and white are largely due to news stations at the time copying the original video (which was shot with 16mm Kodachrome color film) in black and white.
Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for reasons that are quite obvious, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge only lasted 4 months before collapsing into the water below it.
I’ve included the black and white newsreels below, in case anybody was interested.
The narrating in this newsreel is spectacular! Haha.
Another old newsreel, also with great reporting.
