The Haunted Pod Village of San-zhi
Carrie has some pictures of The San-Zhi Pod Village in northern Taiwan. It was abandoned, but no one seems to know why. There's also a gallery at FILE Magazine.
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FILE Magazine Rediscovered
FILE Magazine is something I've mentioned before, but it's also something I have to say I've forgotten about. They've got an RSS feed, so there's really no reason for me to forget them. Anyway, my recent trip to the site led to finding some pretty interesting projects:
- The Illuminati Young people illuminated by electronics.
- Night Aerial Photography
- Workspace Photos of workspaces. You'd think the photos would have no focus, since workspaces can be quite messy, but these photos have great composition that wonderfully captures where you work.
- On Coal and Appalachia
The High Cost of Keeping Clean
A Wal-Mart in Taylors, SC is filthy, as shown by Flickr user "Filthy Wal-Mart". Without getting into political bashing of Wal-Mart, I must say I'm not surprised that this could happen at a Wal-Mart, given the apparent mistreatment of it's employees.
100 Photographs that Changed the World
Not to be outdone by some random blog with 13 Photographs that Changed the World, Life Magazine has published a gallery with, count them, 100 Photographs that Changed the World.
If you ask me, the 13 Photographs is a much better read, since it's descriptions are much more insightful.
Stopping the Arrow of Time
The Diego family goes through a private ritual every 17th of June. No, it's nothing like that; instead they take a photo of everyone in their family, thus stopping the arrow of passing time. Thanks to Jody Ferry for the link.
Stopping to be nerdy a minute, I can't help but relate those pictures to those in an Eigenfaces library.
Capturing Gaza's Hell
"I want to show the daily life of the people of Gaza, through their personal environment." Time photographer, Alexandra Boulat, on the challenges of documenting an ongoing conflict.
