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Twenty-something Chicagoan streaming her consciousness on Twitter, working for beer, resident documentarian, self-proclaimed internet junkie & reblogger of clever infographics, [mostly] vegan, bike commuter, unofficial event planner, poor foodie, lover of maps, Lady About Town aka The Anhalt
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Look, Ma! No hands!
1931
Two construction workers at the corner of two steel beams point to left while constructing the Empire State building.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Empire State building. The Empire State building was the world’s tallest building from 1931-1971.
#construction #photography #dirty thirties
Someday I will have money for a camera of this caliber. And it’s hot. (If you’re into old SLRs like I am.)
New Fuji Camera Is Both Retro and Cutting Edge via laughingsquid
#wishlist #cameras #photography #fuji #retro
Stanley Kubrick’s Gritty Images of 1949 Chicago: Noticed this floating around the internet today but only now getting a chance to check it out (via stickermug)
#chicago #photography #kubrick #history
It’s called “Then and Now” from your high school yearbook. (This work is fun to look at but nothing original.)
Random act of dopeness:
Photographer Irina Werning’s “Back to the Future Series” where she re-creates old-school photos 30 years later with the original people who took them.
#photography #nothing new #unoriginal #art #high school #yearbooks
#pin-ups #art #photography #erotica #classic #illustration
Time to dust off the toys and get back to that thing I used to love so dearly.
#Pentax #vivitar #argus #slr #photography #hobby #documentation #old cameras
A topic that has always intrigued me… And there’s some really gorgeous photography to boot!
Toxic Tour of Northwest Indiana from the Chicago Reader
#chicago reader #northwest indiana #photography #society
More SNOWTORIOUS B.I.G action on Flickr, kids.
#snOMG #snowtorious BIG #snowpocalypse #chicago #blizzard #photography #snowed in
#breweries #beer #photography #exploration #new orleans #stella artois #belgium #berlin #hamm's #detroit #iron city #pittsburgh
I love the eerie beauty of certain aerial photographs.
“Eleven percent of the world’s fresh water goes to make paper,” Fair says. “How wild is that?” In a waste-treatment pond at a Louisiana mill that manufactures paper towels, circles form around aerators that churn the water to speed digestion of organic byproducts.
Click here to see more of J. Henry Fair’s series of aerial photographs of industrial sites.
Don’t even get me started on fucking paper towels.
(via theweekmagazine)
#photography #industry #louisiana
