Consistently Infrequent.
Chase Heavener 2009 Year in Pictures
What is this, two post this year for Chase? He’s probably gonna get some sort of an ego from this, but I’ll be damned if he doesn’t take great photos.
Every year Chase pulls together his favorite photos from the year, makes some sort of video and puts them up on the web. This year he took it an extra step, printed out his favorite forty at Mama Sauce Print Shoppe. Signed um and gave um out at gifts. It looks as if he might have forget to print, probably the best of the eighty tho.
Chase Heavener 2009 Year in Pictures.
Chase Heavener 2008 Year in Pictures.
Expo ‘70 Japan – Stumped
Canada’s Color Bending Spinners.
A short while ago, I chased a link on Coudal to a Life database of images on Google from Expo ‘70 in Osaka, Japan — Asia’s first World Exhibition.
Not being one to shy away from an internet adventure, I casually clicked on the other images surrounding and wholly shit, was I in for it. Done-deal, I was in deep. And that’s when I was sucker-punched with the image of the stump sculpture. That one that sent me off, having to find out more.
The Stumps are from the British Columbia’s Pavilion. The overall theme of the 1970 Expo was Progress and Harmony for Mankind. The theme of the B.C. Pavilion was described as “The Vastness of Our Country, The Diversity of Our People and the Dynamics of Change involve us constantly in Discovery” and had 25,035,000 visitors during the exposition. Source: Canadian Heritage site.
Designed by legendary architect, Arthur Erickson and shot by Larry Burrows, it was awarded Best Pavilion by the Architectural Institute of Japan. The fact that this was the winning exhibit, I would have imagined there to be more information about the design readily available. There’s barely a mention of it on the architect’s site. Never-mind the complete lack of imagery. This photo of people on the stumps and this image from The Rotarian are the only other images that I was able to find. At the 54 second mark of this video, there is a grainy 8mm shot of the towering stack of stumps. From that pulled back angle, it looks as though they could reach more than 200 feet.
Although I wished I found more details about The Stumps, while searching I came across plenty of extra, amazing imagery and information …
Polaroid SX70 by Charles and Ray Eames
A great short film by the Eames’ for one of my, as well as most, all time favorites the Polaroid SX70.
Winter Time Lapse
A good Thursday afternoon watch. Amazing time lapses by Brad Kremer.
The World’s Most Iconic Photos
A picture might be worth 1×1,000 words but, Iconic Photos adds to this and delivers some amazing commentary and back stories to some of the world’s most important photos.
Go… enjoy, learn, embrace and share.
Life of a Gypsy
Like most, I like to go on Google’s Life database and do random searches for different stacks of images. Tonight, after I posted the Gypsies on Two Wheels post, I went pokin’ around for some gypsy photos. Hands down, has to be one of the best collections of images on there. This one is worth your time, trust me.
Annalemma: Now Fulfilling Your Wildest Dreams
Great, now that I have your attention, I’d like to take this interweb-moment to tell you about the new Annalemma site. Friend of us here at The BS Command Post, Chris Heavener has been up to some tricky business down there at the Annalemma HQ. He’s taken that special space on the web and did it up for a Saturday nigh out on the town.
Now, why don’t you follow this over to the all new Annalemma and poke around the new features. Yes, tell your friends and their parents.
*Wildest dream fulfillment not guaranteed to all customers.
The Pen Story
What a better way to start your morning than finding an amazing link to a video like this from your buddy Kirk.
To create the stop motion for this advert, 60,000 pictures were taken, 9,600 prints were developed and over 1,800 pictures were shot again. With no post production, this clip is a face melter when you try and wrap your noggin around what went into the creation.
Black Rain
Pretty sure Chase is going to freak out when he sees this one. Because it pretty much just blew my mind.
“Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME’s, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.” {via}
L.O.C.: America from the Great Depression to WWII
Well, this might be old news to some but, this one completely blind-sided me about 2 hours ago. The Library of Congress’ color photograph library. This 1,600 image collection features subjects such as small towns, military, the men and women of America, and so much more: Color Photographs from the FSA-OWI 1939–1945. More of my favorites are posted over at The BS Report.