The Acrobatic Fly

Points of View

Missy Prince

Cameron Price

Paul Octavious

Iván Sanjuán

The Nazca lines, US style.

"In the desert 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles is a suburb abandoned in advance of itself—the unfinished extension of a place called California City. Visible from above now are a series of badly paved streets carved into the dust and gravel, like some peculiarly American response to the Nazca Lines."

Link.

Please Vote For Me

Wuhan is a city about the size of London located in central China. It is here that director Weijun Chen has conducted an experiment in democracy. A Grade 3 class at Evergreen Primary School has their first encounter with democracy by holding an election to select a Class Monitor. Eight-year-olds compete against each other for the coveted position, abetted and egged on by teachers and doting parents.

Elections in China take place only within the Communist Party, but recently millions of Chinese voted in their version of Pop Idol. The purpose of Weijun Chen's experiment is to determine how democracy would be received if it came to China.

Galleries

I created a few galleries on flickr this past week, mostly relating to themes I have toyed with on this here blog. You can see them all here. I hope you like them.

Black Hole Tour

file under science-fiction

Umi-bōzu

"Umi-bōzu are giant black bulbous beings that live in the sea. Sometimes they have glowing eyes and a beak, and other times they have no facial features at all. To survive an umi-bōzu encounter at sea, one should remain quiet and look in the opposite direction. Speaking or looking at the creature may send it into a rage — and that usually ends in tragedy." link

Ants + Time-Lapse

Cloud Factories

Cloud Factories.

Deadly Doilies

Laura Splan's doilies:

"The design of each doily is based on the structure of a different virus." Pictured above from top to bottom are Influenza, HIV and Herpes.

previously

Yosemite Horsetail Fall

"Horsetail Fall, located in Yosemite National Park in California, is a seasonal waterfall that flows in the winter and early spring. The fall occurs on the East side of El Capitan. There are a few days every February where this fall is lit up by the setting sun and reflects a bright orange."

Alternative image.

Not to be confused with the Yosemite Firefall, which looks exactly the same but is completely different.

via reddit

Clouds over Denver

Looks like the citizens of Denver, Colorado, got one hell of a sunset sometime in 2008.

See the hole set of pictures by april cakes here.