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Lake Huron from the Southwest, 2010 by Becky Beasley

via Office Baroque Gallery

Frozen Adelie, Antarctica, 1912 / photograph by Frank Hurley (by State Library of New South Wales collection)

from the First Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Floating Daisy Docks, Chicago, Illinois

by Alex MacLean

waste from a paper products factory in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (J. Henry Fair)

via Discover Magazine

ice in Siberia (Jim Denevan/Shawn Davis)

via the ANTHROPOLOGiST

by Idris Jhan, 2004

via TRIANGULATION BLOG

Russian peat harvesters from Ryazan

via English Russia

reminds me a bit of machinarium

Cuts & Patches (Linda Pollak)

A few years ago, I was struck by the way in which what seemed to be defunct small manhole covers were fit into granite sidewalks in downtown Manhattan. Without knowing their function or name, I called them “cuts and patches,” in reference to their shared properties: a hole cut into pavement, with a patch over it. What interested me about these artifacts was the narrow channel incised in the paving, which acknowledged, framed, and situated the hole, articulating it as more than a casual disruption in the ground. The outline of the channel varies: some are like teardrops or balloons or hair-do’s, some like little pitched roofs, some like targets. Some float in the middle of the sidewalk, others reach the curb. Some are amazing, with a lightness of spirit that is not usually associated with infrastructure.

via Urban Omnibus

Hollis Bennett – Landscapes

via PUBLIC SCHOOL

a kingfisher after a fish (by Charlie Hamilton)

via Visual Science | Discover Magazine