sardine hunt in south africa

Sardine hunt in South Africa on the BBC’s Nature’s Great Events on PBS now.

unrealized moscow

Unrealized Moscow – images of unbuilt bombast.

plush uterus safety recall

Plush uterus safety recall.

crash j g ballard

From the BBC, here’s a short film called Crash! (1971) Director: Harley Cokliss Writer: J.G. Ballard Starring: J.G. Ballard & Gabrielle Drake.  J G Ballard wrote the novel Crash, and David Cronenburg made a feature length movie of it in 1996.

Ballard is preoccupied with cars as the embodiment of 20th century life, how they isolate us and turn us into voyeurs, the violence of life on the road.  There is a long passage on his fixation with how a beautiful woman gets into and out of and walks around a car.

From the Cokliss film:

I think the key image of the 20th Century is the man in the motor car.  It sums up everything:  the elements of speed, drama, aggression, the junction of advertising and consumer goods, the technological landscape, the sense of violence and desire, power and energy, the shared experience of moving together through and elaborately signalled landscape.

airplane crashes

Here are pictures of the Turkish plane crash in Amsterdam.

More here of the jet that went down in the Hudson river last month.

These images are quintessentially modern by the issues they raise:  anonymity, technology, grief, time, voyeurism, news.

bucket monument

Momument to the Unknown Washerwoman, Luxembourg by Pravdoliub Ivanov.

I found this on Rocketboom blog.

the sleeping bear

The Sleeping Bear sleeping bag.

From the designer:

This is a greatest sleeping bag. You can wear it to sleep when you go camping. It is safe that no bear will attack your camp and eat you? Or you just want to wear it, and then scare your friend when he(she) wake up in the morning.(a good idea!) Well made and Cool! By artist Eiko Ishizawa.

deranged penguin

Deranged penguin from Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World. 

A lone penguin leaves his colony at the sea edge and walks inland toward the mountains and mainland – to certain death according to the filmmaker.  Why?  It reminds me of Ford Madox Ford’s Scapegoat, in the sense that there is an ostracism going on whether or not self imposed.

This is Herzog’s new film, sure to be a good one.

moom

Here’s a site that lists museums and galleries and collections called – transparently – The Museum of Online Museums.  It has the biggies like Musee D’Orsay, the Rijksmuseum, the Met’s Timeline of Art History, but also smaller collections.  Some standouts include:

Helsinki Design Museo

 The Museum of Bad Album Covers

Gallery of Improvised Prison Escape Tools

Vintage Japanese Robots

at work

At work – The Big Picture – Boston.com

Big pictures of people working from around the world – China, Germany, France, Bulgaria, Korea.

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