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Jetsetting Flickr user Jwilly collected an impressive set of rooftop penthouses, gardens, pool houses and more around downtown Manhattan, creating a beautiful set of wealthy excess, oftentimes hidden from view from the normals who are walking tens of stories below. Follow along with his sequel sets, Rooftops in Tribeca / LES and Rich People Rooftops NYC Part II
Fresh-cut apples, ready-made pie crust, sugar, cinnamon, oh, and lots of crispy bacon fried in butter. Sounds lovely! Some daring food pornists took it to themselves to recreate the myth of the Bacon Apple Pie and put it’s edibility to the test. Was it edible? Did it send anyone to the hospital a few hours later? Yes and no it seems!
Want to try and bake one on your own? Follow the photo diary and see if you can recreate your own Bacon Apple Pie. Godspeed and may your intestines forgive you the next morning.
A beautiful collection of archived photos from the Los Angeles Herald Express, dating from 1936 until 1961, giving us a striking look into local crime, scandal and even dog adoption ads. Ah, the good old days, when even tabloids had style. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library, who are archiving some of the most amazing photos I’ve seen and presenting them online.
Photos to the left, Mrs. Nancy Keith (top), holding photos of her missing children in 1948 and Mrs. Lola Titus (bottom) being dragged into court kicking and screaming to hear herself judged legally insane after she was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for shooting nightclub operator Mark Hansen in 1948. She was committed to an insane asylum as punishment for her crimes.
Many of the hundreds of photos are NSFW, as some document some pretty gruesome crime scenes. Office workers consider yourself warned!
A lovely slideshow of the space shuttle Discovery being prepped for staging and liftoff.
Everyone with a digital camera has had photos that just had to be deleted. Blurred, boring, out of frame, blinking strangers, the list of reasons is endless. Now, instead of deleting them outright, revive them, by contributing your photos to Deleted Images, a group dedicated to bringing undesired snapshots back to life. What may be junk to you, may be art to others.
Contribute: Deleted Images
Artist, muralist, wandering vagabond and admitted petty-thief David Choe was recently contracted out to decorate the Facebook offices with his signature brand of ADD-inspired street art and luckily a friend tagged along to document the process. Though I can’t say Choe’s style of art would inspire one trying to work in an office environment, I guess it does give Facebook the chance at a little .com-style eccentricity.
Few photos and link to more after the jump..
Fotoausflug is a German site who collects and creates lovely photo panoramas of German cities and sights. Thankfully, they had the patience to collect over 1400 individual photos to create an interactive JAVA panorama of the surface of Mars over a 5 month period of time during the Marsian winter. The photos have been slightly enhanced, boosting contrast and the sky has been extrapolated to fill the illusion of a Marsian atmosphere (which is why there is no Sun).
See more: Interactive McMurdo Panorama
Artist Chris Jordan has recently unveiled his brilliant art series “Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait”, where he takes a look at American culture via consumption statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of some object, such as 15,000,000 sheets of office paper (which is actually 5 minutes of America’s paper usage) and 106,000 aluminum cans (30 seconds of canned drinks consumption). The images are striking, putting statistical data on overconsumption in an easily identifiable and visual context. Jordan’s caveat however, is that viewers attempt to see them in person, where their scale is better experienced than through JPEGs displayed on a screen.
See much more: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portait gallery
So imagine you’re living in Portugal, find a nice abandoned farm (for over 15 years) which you decide to purchase and live out your days on a sunny porch, watching whatever crop you decide to plant grow. Then say you decide to tour the property after you’ve moved in and come upon a large, decrepit barn which was padlocked shut with rusty locks. You cut the locks, open the doors and find one of the most exciting collections of abandoned vintage automobiles discovered in awhile, sitting there on your property. 100+ extremely dusty, some rusty, some full of pigeon crap, vintage and collectible cars ranging from the early 1900s to what looks to be the late 60s or early 70s. The collection includes a nice batch of vintage Lotus’, some beautiful Porsche 356s and a huge collection of Datsuns. Upon opening the door I would have passed the fuck out. Then woke up, jumped around a little and instantly started spending what will be a very long life restoring beautiful classic automobiles, pulling out and washing down a new surprise everyday.
See more: Man buys abandoned farm, finds surprise
Insanely breath-taking, a handful of tourists headed to somewhere that must have been pretty fucking cold and found a remarkable site. What appears to be a tidal wave, frozen solid as it *appears* to be pushing it’s way through the ice. Guess it’s good these photos were taken, cause in a few more years we won’t be seeing things like that anymore.
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