the prime minister is IN

brunnhilde

2007-03-23T17:49:00.001-04:00

totally dig this lady's style.

busby berkeley

2006-12-05T14:52:00.000-05:00

hypnocat!

2006-11-06T22:58:00.000-05:00

courtesy of the Marty Rosenberg Online Museum of Doodles

found on my hard drive at work :: part 4c

2006-08-23T17:19:00.000-04:00

mincing knife, from the Chinese Historical Society of Southern CA collection at the USC Archive.

found on my hard drive at work :: part 4b

2006-08-23T17:18:00.000-04:00

opal ring, from the Chinese Historical Society of Southern CA collection at the USC Archive.

found on my hard drive at work :: part 4a

2006-08-23T17:15:00.000-04:00

doll's hand, from the Chinese Historical Society of Southern CA collection at the USC Archive.

found on my hard drive at work :: part 4

2006-08-23T16:58:00.000-04:00

i'm starting to remember what all this stuff is. this is part of a glass bowl artefact (ca 1880-1933) that was found near LA's Union Station. lots of other cool stuff mostly having to deal with Southern CA in USC's digital archive.

found on my hard drive at work :: part 3

2006-08-23T10:46:00.000-04:00

okay, i actually remember this. photos from the Mars Rover "Spirit."

found on my hard drive at work :: part 2

2006-08-23T10:40:00.000-04:00

this is more like it.

found on my hard drive at work :: part 1

2006-08-23T10:24:00.000-04:00

i don't know either.

obligatory 6.6.06 post

2006-06-06T14:49:00.000-04:00

stereograph, Devil's Canyon geysers, 1867

to view the stereograph without a stereoscope, cross your eyes while looking at the image. slowly relax them until the two images slide together, giving you a 3-D image. subjects are photographed by two cameras 2-2.5" apart, the approximate distance between a person's pupils.

a drawn stereograph. very cool.

raising suspicions with my google searches

2006-06-05T15:57:00.000-04:00

schematic series no. 7

2006-05-31T17:34:00.000-04:00

narrow gauge railroad cars

schematic series no. 6

2006-05-31T17:33:00.000-04:00

British hardware

schematic series no. 5

2006-05-31T17:17:00.000-04:00

Sauer 38H 32

schematic series no. 4

2006-05-31T17:13:00.000-04:00

Commodore C1084S

schematic series no. 3

2006-05-31T17:12:00.000-04:00

beef cuts

schematic series no. 2

2006-05-31T17:10:00.000-04:00

Thai theatrical dress

schematic series no. 1

2006-05-31T17:03:00.000-04:00

Yakovlev Yak

muscle vikings!

2006-05-26T14:14:00.000-04:00

does it bother anyone else that their skin is the same color as the curtains?

man, the 50s (or 30s, or 40s. whatever.) were a weird time

2006-05-26T14:08:00.000-04:00

Howard Hoffman and The Vikings at Radio City Music Hall

salt ponds, san fransisco bay

2006-05-12T12:08:00.000-04:00

scientists believe this is what the earth will look like when the oceans dry up. they predict that the planet will slowly turn pink as a build-up of salt on the surface of the earth causes the surface iron to rust and halophyllic bacteria to grow, similar to the coloration of these salt ponds.

unintentionally great design

2006-05-11T18:26:00.000-04:00

dave czaplak, budding graphic savant.

industrial series part 5

2006-05-11T18:21:00.000-04:00

okay, i think this is out of my system.

industrial series part 4

2006-05-11T16:05:00.000-04:00

refinery, texas.

industrial series part 3

2006-05-11T16:01:00.000-04:00

power plant, niederaussen, germany.

industrial series part 2

2006-05-11T15:57:00.000-04:00

refinery at night, czech republic.

industrial series part 1

2006-05-11T13:13:00.000-04:00

oil refinery, new orleans.

"what in the fuck is that horn for?"

2006-04-28T11:16:00.000-04:00

"...the helix-shaped tusk of the narwhal, or “unicorn” whale has proved to be an extraordinary sensory organ... Measuring up to 2.7 meters or about 9 feet long, the tusk is traversed by up to 10 million nerve pathways. These pathways connect the outside of the tusk to a central core of nerves leading to the animal’s brain... the tusk’s sensory system may be capable of detecting changes in temperature, pressure, salinity and other factors that may help a narwhal survive its Arctic environment."

monodon monoceros

2006-04-28T11:12:00.000-04:00

freakin' narwhals!

southern egypt.

2006-04-28T10:52:00.000-04:00

"West of Lake Nasser, Southern Egypt, August 23 and November 4, 2000. Over the past two years, four lakes have been created from Nasser's excess water, bringing new lakes to this part of the Sahara for the first time in 6000 years. (Source NASA)"

home on the range.

2006-04-28T10:49:00.000-04:00

rocky mountain high.

russian snowmen.

2006-04-20T20:02:00.000-04:00

more seafood.

2006-04-20T20:01:00.000-04:00

another disgusting spread of cephalopods ready for consumption. just for you.

maybe don't look at this if you're eating lunch.

2006-04-19T16:49:00.000-04:00

just totally awesome.
source: http://www.photo.net/japan/tsukiji-fish-market

goats! in motherfucking trees!

2006-04-17T13:26:00.000-04:00

a scenario almost as frightening for the human race as when dolphins grow legs, lungs and opposable thumbs.

update: apparently goats climb trees to reach otherwise unaccessible food, especially in very dry areas. this is common in morocco, where goats climb trees to eat small olive-like fruit, whose pits are used to make oil. farmers follow the goats around and collect the pits, which the goats can't digest, when they are ultimately ejected from the goat - whether through the mouth or through the "other end." yum!

trees on Mount Zao

2006-04-14T16:18:00.000-04:00

koinobori

2006-04-12T18:16:00.000-04:00

wherein this blog becomes a photo dump for shit i think is fun to look at.

a little something from me to you.

2006-04-05T17:39:00.000-04:00

just to get things started on the right foot. image courtesy of Her Skylerness.