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These four photos aren’t from a Worth1000 competition, they’re just some of the striking images of Thailands ongoing, slow-moving flood hitting Bangkok.
See if you can guess the captions before checking out the full gallery.
Forgive me some gallows humor, but sometimes a smile is the best weapon against despair. Texas may be in the middle of its biggest ever recorded wildfires, but that didn’t get this water tower down. Here it is, despite the futility of its existence, putting on its happy face.
You can see more stark photos of our present of environmental collapse at the Austin American-Statesman’s photo blog, but remember the example of this lone piece of infrastructure, gifted to us from the past; the power of nightmares may have ruled our lives since the 1980s, but the future can belong to those who buy into it with a currency of optimism; it’s there waiting for us, we just have to take ownership of it.
via Bruce Sterling
From Gentle Apocalypse, via @Dymaxion.
…is the title Tim Maly gave to this photo of the recent Space Shuttle launch, taken by Trey Ratcliff:
That’s just edge of the reactor plant, taken from Martyn Williams’s posterous blog. More photos there and a translation of an appendix released from the investigation into this tragedy; key sentence being: “We did not consider the effect of disastrophism.”
From nejlon (Several more images there), via @liamosaur
Photographs and written words, The Italian Machine Project is Salgood Sams’ homage to his father, Lionel Douglas.
Back in 1979 Lionel Douglas crashed a motorcycle he was testing. Unlike many others he trashed he didn’t walk away that time.
In his short life, aside from being my father he also did his best to live up to his name and sign [leo]. There’s been past efforts to publish his work, but they remain obscure. Always felt it was down to me to do it now. I’ve had his papers for some time, and a trunk full of negatives. Been meaning to do something with them – it’s taken time, opportunity, and ultimately my own brushes with mortality to get my ass in gear.
The site is called THE ITALIAN MACHINE PROJECT. The why of the name explained here.
On the site you’ll find his words as well, but at this stage it’s dominated by his photos. Here’s a few highlights. The shots link through to sets of photos they come from. I’m going through them more or less in chronological order, so these are all taken around 1969
New pictures will be uploaded, so check back to the Italian Machine Project often.
A NASA spacecraft watching the sun has caught a dazzling view of a solar eruption that launched a vast tendril of magnetic plasma into space.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the sun tentacle, which scientists call a solar prominence, on March 19 as it erupted into space with a rounded, twisting motion.
From Space.com, click through for a video of the tentacle flare.
via Alan Baxter
A woman passes by a sign on a fire station, displaying the local time, temperature and radioactivity level data, in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on March 16, 2011.
Just one of many awesome images from The Atlantic’s gallery of photos capturing the 25th anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.
via Justin Pickard
French street artist JR presents the evolution of his art projects here in this recording of his TED Prize wish:
There’s a serious amount of ThereIsNoThey‘ness to his work and I hope his new insideoutproject is even more successful in achieving these goals.
The exhibit features ~EvidencE~, besides several other talented photographers. If you find yourself in Toronto (or are lucky enough to live there), the exhibit opens the 20th of March and runs through to July.
The aurora australis provides a dramatic backdrop to a Scott Tent at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on July 14, 2009. (Click thru for higher rez)
Source: Unknown. Mike Hedge. Click through for higher resolution.
Via OM2 Photography’s photostream. Special thanks to Chris “Ruz” for the link!
