Michael Jackson’s inspirations for some of his dance moves. [via Boingboing]

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On June 24th Sonia Zjawinski posted a piece for The New York Times’ Personal Tech section: Flickr as an Interior Decorating Tool. In it she both celebrated the number of excellent photographers that can be found in the flickr community but also seemed to advocate using those photographers’ images to decorate one’s home. No mention [...]

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South Indian Film Posters A short video showing an old offset press and a large collection of shots of posters on walls in Bangalore, India. Oh man, I love this stuff, what a great taste of both Bollywood and Indian graphic design. [via Coudal Partners Blended Feed]

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YouTube Reporters’ Center YouTube has a new channel where professional journalists post tips on covering stories and more. Here’s Nicholas Kristof on covering a global crisis.

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Persepolis 2.0 A graphic story about the Iranian elections based on the graphic novel, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. [via Boing Boing]

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Newsha Tavakolian An intimate view of life in Iran by Iranian photojournalist Newsha Tavakolian. Incredible images. [via Lens Culture]

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Man Modifies Pickup To Run On Wood, Waste From the first time he saw Emmett “Doc” Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the “Back to the Future” movies, Dave Nichols has always wanted to make a vehicle run on garbage. Two decades after the trilogy, the 42-year-old home builder and auto [...]

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Craig Hickman has a new photo series up: Complex Numbers. Excellent work, as always.

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Gates buys Feynman’s “Messenger” lectures to become freely available for public I just found this post and watched the first four of seven youTube segments of this first lecture and it’s fantastic. Richard Feynman was a character who enjoyed giving lectures on the history of science in his thick New York accent, telling amusing anecdotes [...]

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William Neill has a wonderful essay with images at The Luminous Landscape: Meditations in Monochrome. Incredible work. [via Gary Sharp]

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Jackson Estate Has Piles of Assets but Loads of Debt This is a fascinating piece and as more comes out about the complex mess that was Michael Jackson’s life this piece of it will become messier. However, as this piece states, Michael Jackson was a shrewd businessman even as his personal life was out of [...]

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The Big Picture: Recent scenes from the ISS. An incredible collection of aerial images of earth from the International Space Station. My fav is #24, the tidal channels near Iran’s Qeshm Island. Wow.

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Behind the Scenes: Photographing Michael Jeffrey Henson Scales’ session with a young Michael Jackson and his brothers.

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What’s in Pogue’s Travel Bag? Literally. Great discussion of what a serious “road warrior” takes on the road. His “kit” is a lot simpler than what I used to carry and he makes no mention of a hard disk backup of his MacBook Air which I would never leave home without if I were presenting. [...]

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Nova: Ape Genius The PBS show Nova had an incredible show on last night about the limits of higher cognition in apes like chimpanzees and bonobos. At some point this show should be online at PBS Video so it can be seen online. This one’s worth watching.

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The New York Times, Lens has a nice profile of the photographer Shawn Rocco: Dial “P” for Photo. Shawn does a lot of his work with a Motorola E815, a cell phone camera. His site is: Cellular Obscura, Exploring the world with the Kodak Brownie of the digital age, or in other words… yes, these [...]

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Fraud on eBay I sold one thing on eBay, for a friend, we did very well and that’s the only thing I’ve ever tried to sell. During that sale we had bites from hacked accounts and all kinds of phishing expeditions to get me to ship the thing we sold before payment. I have to [...]

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Sacramento Bee, The Frame: Hindu pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine. This is a spectacular collection of images by Mukhtar Khan of a religious pilgrimage in Indian controlled Kashmir.

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Behind the Scenes: New, but Seasoned Three (excellent) new photographers at the New York Times: Jenn Ackerman, Jessica Ebelhar, Justin Maxon.

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Photo Journal: Inside Yangon, Myanmar. Yangon was the capital of Myanmar until the government moved it about 320 km to Naypyitaw in 2005. The economic crisis and neglect of the military junta has left much of the city in disrepair. I can feel the dampness, decay, heaviness. I can smell it. This is great photography.

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