Young Guns
Following the August’s London massacre events… Award-winning UK photographer Josh Cole made awesome photos of active street gang members from around the UK. These pictures were published in The Independent on Sunday Magazine, The Creative Review’s photo annual in 2008 and were nominated for the 2009 AOP Awards. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Cats of War
A Somali government soldiers mans a position inside Bakara market on August 8, 2011. Residents of Somalia’s war-torn capital fled fighting Monday after remnants of extremist Shebab rebel forces, who pulled out of Mogadishu at the weekend, battled with government troops overnight. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated rebels – who had controlled around half of Mogadishu – abandoned their positions in a surprise withdrawal on Saturday. Fighting late on Sunday took place in several locations in the south and north of the city, as African Union-backed government troops set up bases in former Shebab strongholds. (MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Men Fish Near Black Sea Resort of Sochi
A woman sunbathes as men fish on a lake outside the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, on Aug. 7. (Mikhail Mordasov / AFP – Getty Images)
Two Men Try to Recover After Drinking Too Much in India
Two intoxicated men rest as it rains in Kolkata, India, Aug. 6. (Bikas Das / AP)
Solar Storm Threatens to Slam Into Earth, Spectacular Flares Detected by NASA
Solar blasts of energy from the sun began reaching the Earth on Friday and could disrupt some communications, according to scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Storms are brewing some 93 million miles away and three solar flares erupted on the sun starting Tuesday, touching earth’s magnetic field on Friday in the form of fast-moving “solar wind” and is blowing by the Earth. (NASA / NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center / IBITimes) Continue reading »
Tasting The Rainbow: The Ants Whose Multi-coloured Abdomens Show Exactly What They’ve Been Eating
Ring of colour: An ant’s transparent abdomen shows the colour of the food they have eaten. (Mohamed Babu / Solent News & Photo Agency) Continue reading »
What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?
Some of us might like to reinstate this food guide from World War II because butter has its own food group. (National Archives, Records of the Office of Government Reports)
Food. We love it, fear it, and obsess about it.
We demand that our Government ensure that it is safe, cheap, and abundant. In response, Government has been a factor in the production, regulation, research, innovation, and economics of our food supply. It has also attempted, with varying success, to change the eating habits of Americans.
From the farm to the dinner table, explore the records of the National Archives that trace the Government’s effect on what Americans eat. Continue reading »
ConQuest of Mythodea, the Largest Role Playing Event
The ConQuest event is the largest interactive festival of that kind. Year by year in summer, the Brokeloh Manor near Hannover. More than 7000 participants from Europe, the US and other places in the world meet up with over 1000 fully trained and supplied extras. The event staff, holding 250 persons, over 120 tons of props and equipment change the manor and more than 60 hectars of fields, forests and else into the fantastic and mystical world of “Mythodea”. (PETER STEFFEN/AFP/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Obama Cupcakes: Yes, We Eat!
Cupcakes bearing the likeness of U.S. President Barack Obama are displayed at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum on Obama’s 50th birthday August 4, 2011 in Washington, DC. On Obama’s 50th birthday, the replica Oval Office at Madame Tussauds was decorated with party balloons, streamers and presents, while the figures the Obamas, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Oprah Winfrey were outfitted with party hats and noisemakers. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Photo of the Day: Entire Crew of Sinking Ship Rescued from Peril at Sea
In this photo provided by the Indian Ministry of Defense shows a Seaking helicopter from the Indian Navy hovering over of the sinking ship MV Rak Carrier off the coast of Mumbai on August 4, 2011. The Panama-flagged MV Rak Carrier, a 220-meter (722-feet) long vessel transporting 60,000 tonnes of coal from Indonesia to India, sank off the coast of Mumbai after its 30-strong crew were rescued when it began taking on water in stormy seas. The MV Rak Carrier went down about 22 nautical miles from India’s financial and entertainment capital, just hours after it made an emergency distress call. (MINISTRY OF DEFENCE/AFP/Getty Images) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Mayor Crushes Illegally Parked Mercedes with a Tank in Vilnius, Lithuania
Arturas Zuokas, the 43 year old mayor of Vilnius drives over a car parked illegally on a main street in Vilnius city center with a military vehicle, August 2, 2011. The mayor took the drastic action after becoming infuriated with motorists parking their luxury cars illegally around the city. (Vilnius City Municipality via AP) Click image to zoom.
All Out Advertising
A man in his underwear and a tie holds a sign at Dupont Circle in Washington, DC, as part of a drive by a men’s clothes store to collect used men’s clothes for at-risk people transitioning into the workforce, August 2, 2011. (AFP: Nicholas Kamm)
Packing the Beach Like Sardines in Spain
People sunbathe on the packed Gandia Beach in Valencia, Spain, on Monday, Aug. 1. August is the main holiday month in Spain, with thousands of people expected to visit the Mediterranean coastline over the course of the month. (Ruben Frances / EPA)
Photo of the Day: Crazy, Brave or Oblivious?! Cow Navigates a Field Full of Crocodiles.
According to photographer Robert Mooney, who took the photo in The Pantanal, a tropical wetland in Brazil, the cow appeared to walk directly towards the crocodiles after wandering away from its herd in search of food. He said that he, “was amazed the cow dared to stroll among the crocs with such apparent ease.” (Robert Mooney / Solent News & Photo Agency) Click image to zoom.
Photo of the Day: Beach Shower
A woman takes a shower on a temporary beach on a bank of the Moskva river opposite Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow as the city suffers through a heat wave. (Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP/Getty Images)
Feed Fail
A quiet trip to the new Eco Island playground in Jupiter on Thursday takes an unexpected turn for John Edwards, 12, (right in first frame) and Peyton Banks, 12, as a goose breaks through a normally docile pack of mixed birds and chases after Edwards and Banks to establish territorial dominance. The boys were not harmed and soon returned to continue feeding the birds as walkers passed by, smiling at the antics. (Brandon Kruse/The Palm Beach Post) Continue reading »
Censorship Tells the Wrong Story
New print campaign for press freedom, hosted by Reporters Without Borders, called “Censorship Tells the Wrong Story”. Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Summer Child
A girl on her father’s shoulders looks through a maze of sunflowers during a sunflower festival in the town of Nogi, Tochigi prefecture, Japan. A total of some 200,000 sunflowers welcomed guests for the summer festival, an annual draw for the small town. (Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images) Zoom.
Writing Your Name in Sand Big Enough to be Seen from Space
You need about 2 miles of sand to carve your name big enough and a crew of hired hands to dig. But a billionaire sheikh from Abu Dhabi, Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan, has done just that. As seen from a satellite in this image taken from Google maps, the name Hamad is clearly seen from space. On Google map. (Google maps / DigitalGlobe / GeoEye) Continue reading »
Photo of the Day: Spectacular Photos of World’s Largest Fish Whale Sharks Seen Almost Swallowing Dive
A diver was almost swallowed by a whale shark while he was staring into the mammoth jaws of the largest fish in the world that feed mainly on plankton. The breathtaking photograph was captured by photographer Mauricio Handler in the waters of Mujeres Island in Mexico. (Mauricio Handler/handlerphoto) Zoom.
Real Pink Cat Found in China
A man discovered a pink-coloured stray cat roaming around the community where he lives. Yao Xianhai, from Lanzhou in western China’s Gansu Province, said he didn’t believe his eyes when he first spotted the pink kitten. “I thought I had a blurred vision, but I then realised it was truly pink.” No one has come forward as yet to claim the stray. (Quirky China News / Rex Features)
