Horn or Ivory

natgeofound: Leaping skills make Doberman pinschers into great...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:25:41 -0400

Leaping skills make Doberman pinschers into great “police dogs.” Rushville, Indiana, December 1941.
Photograph by Willard Culver, National Geographic

HI BABY

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:23:58 -0400

HI BABY

vintageruminance: Sigourney Weaver

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:45:36 -0400

vintageruminance:

Sigourney Weaver

natgeofound: Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:29 -0400

natgeofound:

Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State Fair in 1938.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

headlikeanorange: A tarsier (Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero - BBC)

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:21 -0400

headlikeanorange:

A tarsier (Bill Bailey’s Jungle Hero - BBC)

livelymorgue: April 27, 1984: The Lightning Loop at Great...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:34:06 -0400

livelymorgue:

April 27, 1984: The Lightning Loop at Great Adventure in Jackson Township, N.J., appeared above an article about attracting older crowds to amusement parks. Marketers hoped that by making the new parks “discreetly educational,” with better food or “designer merchandise,” that they might appeal to “an older, calmer, more sophisticated generation.” Food-wise, “the parks are experimenting with everything form pita bread sandwiches to lobster. … Older patrons, the rationale goes, are interested in a ‘dining experience’ rather than a quick snack.” Photo: Bob Glass/The New York Times

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Sun, 19 May 2013 21:31:07 -0400

Madonna by Chris Shaw.

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:38:05 -0400

Madonna by Chris Shaw.

ucresearch: In 1958, still a decade before the moon landing,...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:47:08 -0400

ucresearch:

In 1958, still a decade before the moon landing, Engineering made UCLA the first university with an astronautics program. This prototype of a space suit was designed in 1961.

picturedept: Tamara Staples was a shy young woman with a camera...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:46:46 -0400

picturedept:

Tamara Staples was a shy young woman with a camera when her Uncle Ron invited her to come with him to a chicken show.

The Fancy, as chicken breeders call such gatherings, are the pinnacle events for breeders looking to show off their prize poultry.

Staples, taken by the elevation of the common bird to runway supermodel, hatched an idea that day to return with her camera to another show and photograph what she’d seen.

Twenty-some-odd years later she is still consumed by the birds and explores them in her new book, The Magnificent Chicken: Portraits of the Fairest Fowl.

In an era when chickens are celebrated in pop culture, hipster hot-sauce bottles, and backyard farming, Staples describes her project as unique in showing how chickens can be more than just food.

The bearded Belgium D’uccle Mille Fleur Bantam Cock in the first image and the others that follow, seen here through Staples’s camera lens, appear proud and aware.

thepredatorblog: I’ll be posting just hyenas all day...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:46:22 -0400

thepredatorblog:

I’ll be posting just hyenas all day today.

Photo by singita

pharaohhearts: iloveyoulikealot: Little Richard

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:46:05 -0400

pharaohhearts:

iloveyoulikealot:

Little Richard

Cover illustration for Structures by Michael DeForge.

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:45:08 -0400

Cover illustration for Structures by Michael DeForge.

cavetocanvas: George Catlin, Wounded Buffalo Bull Surrounded by...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:07:38 -0400

cavetocanvas:

George Catlin, Wounded Buffalo Bull Surrounded by White Wolves, 1832-33

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:

George Catlin sketched this scene on the Upper Missouri River in 1832. While he insisted that his images were accurate documents of what he saw, it is clear that Catlin’s artistic eye led him to edit his compositions. Here he chose to position the buffalo so that its rounded form echoes the hills in the distance.

Catlin was horrified at what the wolves had done to the bull, noting that the animal’s eyes “were entirely eaten out of his head—-the grizzle of his nose was mostly gone—-his tongue was half eaten off, and the skin and flesh of his legs torn almost literally into strings. In this tattered and torn condition, the poor old veteran stood bracing up in the midst of his devourers …”

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Wed, 15 May 2013 22:48:19 -0400

ucresearch: Happy Mother’s Day! Here’s a great photo of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:01:35 -0400

ucresearch:

Happy Mother’s Day!

Here’s a great photo of UCLA’s Anna Fisher: the first mother in space.

From Petit Buffon Illustre by R. de la Neziere. via Agence...

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:16:14 -0400

From Petit Buffon Illustre by R. de la Neziere.

via Agence Eureka

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Sun, 12 May 2013 23:47:27 -0400

natgeofound: Apprentice air traffic controllers train with...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:43:13 -0400

natgeofound:

Apprentice air traffic controllers train with model aircraft at Andrews Air Base in Maryland, March 1957.
Photograph by Robert F. Sisson and Donald McBain, National Geographic

thepredatorblog: thelovelyseas: by dwlitchfield well hello...

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:43:07 -0400

thepredatorblog:

thelovelyseas:

by dwlitchfield

well hello sweetie pie, what cha doin?