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Iconic Façades

September 26, 2011 @ 11:04 pm

Photo: Ayumi Sakamoto My new favorite blog right now is probably Iconic Façades. It’s a blog about architecture (mostly in NYC but also occasionally elsewhere) and it gives some excellent history and background on each subject. And on the plus … Continue reading →

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Mastergram: using Instagram filters on iconic and historical photos

September 6, 2011 @ 8:47 pm

Photo: Hiroshi Sugimoto Tim just sent over this link to a website called Mastergram that takes iconic and important historical photos and puts Instagram filters over them. Are they better? Worse? Do they make them more interesting to the non-photographic … Continue reading →

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The evolution of the World Cup ball

June 4, 2010 @ 2:18 pm

The New York Times has an awesome interactive slideshow showing the changes that the World Cup football/soccer ball has gone through. Take a look at that 1970 Mexico ball. It’s so damn iconic that it has gone on to represent … Continue reading →

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The next President and his men

December 10, 2008 @ 12:36 pm

Photo: Charles Dharapak/Associated Press I like this picture because it is more or less symmetrical (the flags, the folded hands of Gore and Biden, the lights above the men at the table) and it is super-American looking. I mean, here … Continue reading →

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