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Great Sphinx, Egypt (1921)
Photograph by Donald McLeish. National Geographic Society.
L’apprenti faussaire, Adolfo Kaminsky, 1965
”A sweet-looking Japanese girl who, one day, decided to take self-portraits..of herself levitating. She can be spotted in and around Tokyo, equipped with her SLR and her self-timer. When she feels the moment strike, she presses the shutter button down and then, quite literally, “jumps” into place. What I love most about her shots is that they don’t feel forced. Natsumi has a way of making us feel as though she naturally levitates throughout life. When I asked her how others react to her jumping around Tokyo, here is a funny story that she shared. “One day, when I was jumping at a famous sightseeing spot in western Tokyo, workers at a souvenir shop were frightened by how I was jumping. They were whispering things like ‘Is the girl mentally ill’ and ‘Do we need to call the police?’ “So I stopped jumping and apologized to them by saying, ‘I am taking jumping photos for my wedding party’s slide show.’ Their faces turned bright red, and they said things like ‘Oh dear!’ and ‘Congratulations!’ and even ‘Keep jumping!’
haha i love the one where she’s sneaking into the place w/ the ‘no entry’ sign
because it explicitly implores people not to walk in
A Glimpse Into New York’s Lovely Abandoned Subway Station.
The forgotten City Hall station was the original terminal of New York’s subway system. It opened on the evening of October 27, 1904, along with 27 other Interborough Rapid Transit (I.R.T.) stations up to 145th Street on the west side. The inauguration began with a private ride conducted by Mayor George McClellan and ended with a fascinated public standing in awe of the strange new technology.
Read more. [Image: John-Paul Palescandolo and Eric Kazmirek]
frozen pond | japan ~ kent shiraishi photograph
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This photo of Albert Einstein holding a marionette version of himself is pretty awesome, as is the wonderful anecdote that accompanies it:
Harry Burnett, one of the three famous Yale Puppeteers, took this photo in 1931 at Cal Tech in Pasadena, CA, where Einstein was teaching. It was during this period that the Yale Puppeteers were working in their theatre, El Teatro Torito, on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, CA. That was where Einstein saw his puppet likeness perform and he was quite amused:
“He reached into his jacket’s breast pocket, pulled out a letter and crumpled it up. Speaking in German, he said, “The puppet wasn’t fat enough!” He laughed and stuffed the crumpled letter up under the smock to give the puppet a fatter belly. This is a wonderful photograph that Harry treasured. Harry Burnett also kept the letter in a frame and loved to retell the story and at the end give his pixish [sic] laugh.”
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This photo of Albert Einstein holding a marionette version of himself is pretty awesome, as is the wonderful anecdote that accompanies it:
Harry Burnett, one of the three famous Yale Puppeteers, took this photo in 1931 at Cal Tech in Pasadena, CA, where Einstein was teaching. It was during this period that the Yale Puppeteers were working in their theatre, El Teatro Torito, on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, CA. That was where Einstein saw his puppet likeness perform and he was quite amused:
“He reached into his jacket’s breast pocket, pulled out a letter and crumpled it up. Speaking in German, he said, “The puppet wasn’t fat enough!” He laughed and stuffed the crumpled letter up under the smock to give the puppet a fatter belly. This is a wonderful photograph that Harry treasured. Harry Burnett also kept the letter in a frame and loved to retell the story and at the end give his pixish [sic] laugh.”
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Richard Heeks - Popping Bubbles
A few weeks ago we posted about an awesome forest shaped like a guitar that had been planted by an Argentinian farmer in memory of his late wife. Today we discovered another monumental symbol of love expressed with trees:
Unless you happen to be passing overhead, you’d never know that the rolling Gloucestershire countryside has been keeping a very romantic secret for the past 17 years. Mr. Winston Howes, owner of a 112-acre farm near Wickwar, Gloucestershire, married his wife Janet in 1962. In 1995, after Janet’s sudden death due to heart failure at the age of 50, Winston decided to create a lasting tribute to his lost love. He planted thousands of oak saplings in a six-acre field right beside his farmouse, leaving an open heart-shaped area in the middle, the point of which faces Janet’s childhood home.
The trees have since grown into a lovely forest all their own and the heart into a mature meadow. What makes the heart-shaped meadow even sweeter is that it cannot be seen from the ground. The secret heart is only accessible via a trail that leads up to its tip.Mr Howes, 70, said: ‘I came up with the idea of creating a heart in the clearing of the field after Janet died. I thought it was a great idea – it was a flash of inspiration – and I planted several thousand oak trees. Once it was completed we put a seat in the field, overlooking the hill near where she used to live. I sometimes go down there, just to sit and think about things. It is a lovely and lasting tribute to her which will be here for years.’‘We planted large oak trees around the edge of the heart then decided to put a hedge around it too. The heart points towards Wotton Hill, where Janet is from. We plant daffodils in the middle that come up in the spring – it looks great. I go out there from time to time and sit in the seat I created.’
The heart remained a family secret until it was unintentionally discovered by a hot air balloonist, Andy Collett, 42, from nearby Wotton-Under-Edge, who was recently passing overhead:Andy said: ‘I have my own balloon and am quite a regular flyer, but this was the most amazing sight I have ever seen from the sky. It was a perfect heart hidden away from view – you would not know it was there. You can just imagine the love story.’Photos by Adam Gray
Visit Dailymail.co.uk to view more of Adam Gray’s photos of Winston Howes’ secret and enduring tribute to his late wife.
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