The Sophisticates #16
This week:
- Paying Tolls (1:04)
- Professional Street Photographs (10:10)
- Year-Round Girl Scout Cookies (20:24)
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TweetSome amazing fireworks displays, just in time for the 4th of July. Have a happy holiday!
(And for those of you watching fireworks this weekend, here’s a helpful guide on how to snap equally dazzling photos).
Hans Langseth (1846 - 1927), a.k.a. King Whiskers, holds the record for the world’s longest beard at 18 feet 6 inches long
All three of us need goggles like that.
nypl:
Toilers in the Westinghouse Lamp Division Research Department perform the firsts tests on “the largest mercury vapor lamp ever built” in this photo from our 1939-40 World’s Fair collection.
More than 60 years later, some similar research and development went on right in our own Science, Industry and Business Library, when Ground-Lab co-founder, Justin Downs, was developing another record-breaking lamp.
Samuel Clemens being awesome, per usual.
Mowing lawns today. In some ways it’s disheartening to be working as a physical labourer after getting a degree, but considering all I’ve accomplished and will accomplish, I like to take advantage of the opportunity, to introspect, to be reminded that life is dirty and real. Or nasty, brutish and short, depending who you ask. It’s also a great opportunity to stare at things, to study light; I spend the day making mental photographs.
Whoa!
Photos of the day
U.S. Army soldiers from the 2nd Platoon, B battery 2-8 field artillery, fire a howitzer artillery piece at Seprwan Ghar forward fire base in Panjwai district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, June 12, 2011. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)
Whether fashion is a key part of your life or not, The Sartorialist is an impressive artist nonetheless.
life:
LIFE.com 2011 Photo Blog Awards: THE SARTORIALIST
“It seems odd, but you know it’s almost like going out there and letting yourself fall in love a little bit every day.”
