Photo Of The Day

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Cross post from the polo forum. Polo in front of St. Pauls at RideLondon. Photo credit Dave Tappy.

We may as well enjoy it full size

True. Thanks.

Great set of photos, Spotter. The B52 shots are awesome, and scary.

Alaska

Sebastiao Salgado

From a diorama on the Old West in the National History Museum in Washington D.C. part of which showed buffalo driven off the side of a cliff. Seeing more in that small symbol than museum designers had ever intended, the artist selectively snapped a black and white photograph of part of the scene and defined, with the powerful poetry of America itself, not just the brutal decade in which he was living (and dying), but the evil that had led up to it.

David Wojnarowicz

what's that been used for? (in popular culture, an album cover or something)

what's that been used for? (in popular culture, an album cover or something)

It was used for the cover of the U2 single "One" and its video methinks.

Why would you drive buffalo off a cliff?

because they're assholes

That made me do a snort.

Why would you drive buffalo off a cliff?

It's how some native american tribes used to hunt buffalo I thought?

Indeed.

Aha. I thought it was yet another white man stupidity taking place

It could also of been used by the douche bag 'muricans to hunt the buffalo to near extinction...

Didn't usually involve guns (mostly took place pre-gun) so wouldn't appeal to the typical usonian.

Ahem....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.50-90_Sharps

Didn't say that guns weren't used to kill bison, just that the jumps pre-dated guns.
They fell out of favour post-gun.
Location, location, location.

[ insert hipster meme here ]

Still. Bison are tasty.

Guns don't kill bison - trappers do.

A spectator, left, makes another spectator trip and fall as he runs alongside second place Tejay van Garderen of the as he climbs Alpe-d'Huez pass during the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France. (Pascal Guyot via Pool photo) #

Not quite 'of the day' but still...

I'd like to buy the guy who stuck his foot out a beer.

The bodyless woman appears to have given him a shove in the right direction too