NASA finished uploading all Project Apollo photos to Flickr – an astounding 14,223 Photos organized by mission and Hasselblad film magazine. Here’s more information about how NASA used Hasselblad on the lunar missions. The scans are very high resolution, and unencumbered by copyright (as a government work product).
I’ve learned you have to be careful when you get lost in an idea. As an artist, you have to get a little lost. Otherwise you won’t discover anything interesting. But you have to avoid getting so lost that you’re unable to walk away and keep exploring. This isn’t to say artists should avoid things just because they’re illegal — one of our most important responsibilities is to challenge every kind of social norm. But I would advocate balance. Even if you’re operating in a legal gray zone, it’s essential to spend time reflecting on your own ethical boundaries, and considering the ramifications of your actions.
Kodak has a new installation at the George Eastman House through September 16th entitled See: Untold Stories a survey of photography from the earliest efforts in the 19th century to the most recent techniques and aesthetics. Supporting this installation they have created six videos highlighting six different photographic processes: the Collodion Process, the Albumen Print, the Woodburytype, the Daguerreotype, the Platinum Print, the Gelatin Silver Print. The first four are below with a special extra featuring the Tintype process.
Musical artist Moby has a new-ish photoblog Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog, you can also check out his Flickr page.
In coastal engineering, a tetrapod is a four-legged concrete structure used as armour unit on breakwaters. The Tetrapod’s shape is designed to dissipate the force of incoming waves by allowing water to flow around rather than against it, and to reduce displacement by allowing a random distribution of Tetrapods to mutually interlock.
New shore protection innovations have shown that there are better methods that are less obtrusive and more environmentally friendly than concrete armor structures. Alternate placements of sand and mix sediments and modifications of incident wave conditions through the use of reefs are examples of those.
