I love stumbling across collections of old photographs, and this series depicting the streets of London in 1876-1877 is really cool. The photos were posted on the Flickr stream of the British Library of Political and Economic Science and give us a glimpse into what life was like in 1870s London.  As far as I can tell, people took beards way more seriously back then, which, as a bearded man myself, I can respect.  Also, in one of the pictures,...

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If you didn’t know, this past weekend was the closest the Moon gets to the Earth all year, and it also happened to be a full moon.  This phenomenon is known as a Supermoon. I was pretty excited about it, and to be honest, was a little disappointed.  It wasn’t overly super from my vantage point, not like last year anyway.  But I mean, it’s the Moon, so it’s always going to be cool.  Below are some photos of the...

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It’s been a hectic couple of days, and I’m about to head out of town for my brother’s college graduation (congrats, Dylan!), so I only had time for one post today.  BUT, it’s pretty awesome. The video below is of a new camera feature Blackberry and RIM have developed that allows you to travel back in time a couple of seconds to grab images of a person who may have blinked during the photo.  It’s a great technology...

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I live in the Midwest, so I tend to take beautiful scenery and landscapes for granted, but photos like these make me do a double take and remember to enjoy the sites around me when I can.  Photos like these always give me the impression that they’re the first frame in a scene in a movie that is on pause, and any moment they may come to life. No luck in that regard with these, but they’re still quite amazing the way they...

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Below are some fantastic historical photos of New York City from the New York Historical Archives.  I don’t know what it is about old photographs, but they make me feel connected to the past somehow, as if it suddenly becomes real when I can see the faces and places. These are particularly cool photos, as many of them show the construction of bridges and buildings we’re so used to seeing nowadays.  For some reason I never think...

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This photo series by Jacob Sutton is really bizarre / awesome.  It’s a bit cliche to say that photos are ‘haunting’ – but I don’t know any other way to describe these underwater portraits. They’re very ghostly and ominous, yet at the same time feel serene.  I go back and forth between trying to decide if the girl just drowned or perhaps if she’s just slipped into a dream.  Cool effect, I wish there...

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