Images collected a year ago in Burma. This country has only just opened up to the outside world (read: no McDonald’s yet). A selection of the photos were published with a short photo-essay in
Newsweek/DailyBeast.
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August 10, 2014Flurrish – Times Table
August 3, 2014Jason H. Moore, Ph.D @moorejh · Jul 5
MT @randal_olson #visualization of the hardest parts of the
multiplication table #math #edchat
http://www.flurrished.co.uk/blog/2013/07/03#the_hardest_times%20table
MT @moorejh @randal_olson #viz of hardest parts of the times table; note, difficulty of 10*11
http://www.flurrished.co.uk/blog/2013/07/03#the_hardest_times%20table http://pic.twitter.com/hAeVd49XZX
http://www.flurrished.co.uk/blog/2013/07/03#the_hardest_times%20table
The Photogs Who Risk Jail to Capture Crumbling Cold War Relics | Magazine | WIRED
July 21, 2014Photogs Who Risk Jail to Capture Crumbling #ColdWar Relics
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-cold-war-relics-three-photographers-are-documenting-before-they-disappear #Urbex #placehackers as archivists for massive US effort
Seph Lawless photographs abandoned malls in his book, Black Friday.
June 23, 2014MT @teicherj: Photog @seph_lawless goes inside abandoned American #malls http://t.co/PnAminJ8EB http://t.co/YAZd5iJfu6 No new ones since ’06
Compare: How London Looks on Google vs. Paintings From the 1700s | Wired Design | Wired.com
June 21, 2014How #London Looks on $GOOG v #Paintings From the 1700s: Not too different! Fun to see this timetravel on a real visit
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/03/stunning-comparison-london-using-google-street-view-centuries-old-paintings
The ten images include a few central London, including:
Westminster Abbey, 2 near Trafalgar Sq, Covent Garden Market, the Strand & Bank Jct (coordinates 51.513433°N 0.089045°W)
Other similar write-ups:
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/25/london-paintings-google-street-view-canaletto-1 http://www.businessinsider.com/modern-london-with-historic-paintings-2014-2 http://imgur.com/a/jdIM0
Also, from @geocodedArt :
Paintings matched to location, w/StreetView: FR, UK, IT,
US DE NL http://goo.gl/2D97Jm . Or w/mobile http://goo.gl/oRZpQw
The Sleeping Habits of Geniuses — New York Magazine
June 15, 2014MT @Bruce35dc The sleeping habits of #geniuses. Great #graphic shows Darwin as an outlier http://nym.ag/1xzycDl pic.twitter.com/ArW5CBmuhL
http://nymag.com/health/bestdoctors/2014/genius-sleeping-habits-2014-6
WWII Nazi Bunkers Stand the Tests of Time, Vandalism and Livestock | Raw File | WIRED
June 14, 2014#Photos of crumbling remains of the 3rd Reich: #WWII Nazi Bunkers Stand… + Hitler’s Airport
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/hitlers-airport/358626 http://www.wired.com/2013/02/world-war-ii-bunkers-jonathan-andrew