Photo Of The Day

Scaled up model villages. Weird, but kinda cool.

I was sure I recognised the places in Thames Town...

They managed to make it look far better than the British did with their modern villages.

Ha, that is awesome/creepy.

haha, neat..

Thames Town looks like Poundbury, the royal exercise in misty eyed nostalgia destined to repeat the mistakes of the past.

http://i.imgur.com/1gEMUCP.jpg

The bottom of an ice burg that rolled over

edit: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110223-new-zealand-earthquake-glaciers-icebergs-world-christchurch/ related to the earthquake

Crane operator at TVA's Douglas Dam, Tennessee.
June, 1942

**Alfred T, Palmer / Farm Security Administration **

Fuck. Yes. There's a whole archive of these. All of them jaw droppingly nice.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsachtml/fsowhome.html

http://extras.denverpost.com/archive/captured.asp

I come back to these from time to time, and they blow me away every time.

have a look on the Library of Congress' flickr

From Steve McCurry's latest blog post

http://stevemccurry.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/stolen-childhoods/

^ I just saw that, some moving images

*A soviet battery of 152-mm howitzers firing on the defenders German troops. Belarus, the summer of 1944. *

Emmanuil Evzerikhin

There's some nasty shit going on in Turkey right now. An increasingly oppressive Islamist government is taking away Turkish peoples' civil liberties. Protests are raging over the Police brutality toward the people who were protesting peacefully.

Kin hell

More pics, from the BBC now, here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22740038

..from here.
Should be in the 'news' thread, but as I think that photo is rather impressive I posted it here while we're at it.

was reading about this yesterday in the paper they didn't mention the shutting down of public transport and the mass of people walking in to protest. cheers Tina K nice read.

The story:

http://defnesumanblogs.com/2013/06/01/what-is-happenning-in-istanbul/

Brace yourselves, the Turkish Riot Cop memes are coming

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From the Guardian - Things Come Apart by Todd McLellan

I feel a bit ashamed that my initial emotional response to this image was "fucking 'ave 'em".
#MySubconciousLacksNuance

I feel a bit ashamed that my initial emotional response to this image was "fucking 'ave 'em".
#MySubconciousLacksNuance

My initial emotional response to this image was "fucking Instagram".