A view of the famous Aleppo Citadel from which Assad’s forces are launching artillery onto the surrounding areas.
Ahmed Deeb // Egypt Independent
View more from the photojournalist embedded with the rebel Free Syrian Army here.
Shuttle’s Boosters Recovered in HD
NASA has released the first ever up-close, high-definition video of Kennedy Space Center’s solid rocket booster (SRB) recovery ships retrieving SRB segments from the Atlantic Ocean following a space shuttle launch. The unprecedented video is from the launch of the most recent shuttle mission, STS-133, Discovery’s final flight, on Feb. 24.
Following each space shuttle launch, crew members of Liberty Star and Freedom Star pull the spent boosters out of the ocean and return them to Hangar AF at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Once they are processed, the boosters are transported to Utah, where they are refurbished and stored, if needed.
<3 NASATV
Manhatta // Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand
Title cards are excerpts from Walt Whitman poems in the following order:
City of the world! (for all races are here)
City of tall façades of marble and iron.
Proud and passionate city
-paraphrasing City of Ships
When million-footed Manhattan
unpent descends
to her pavements
-paraphrasing A Broadway Pageant
High growths of iron,
slender, strong,
splendidly uprising
toward clear skies
-paraphrasing Mannahatta
The building of cities,
— the shovel, the great derrick,
the wall scaffold, the work
of walls and ceilings.
-paraphrasing Chants Democratic 3 (Leaves of Grass 1860 edition), now Songs for Occupations
Where our tall-topt marble and iron beauties range on opposite sides
-A Broadway Pageant
City of hurried and sparkling waters,
City nested in bays.
-paraphrasing Mannahatta
This world all spanned with iron rails
-paraphrasing Songs of the Exposition
With lines of steamships threading every sea
-paraphrasing Songs of the Exposition
Shapes of the bridges,
vast frameworks, girders, arches
-paraphrasing Song of the Broad-Axe
On the river the shadowy group,
the big steam tug
closely flank’d on each side
by barges
-paraphrasing Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Where the city’s ceaseless crowd moves on, the live long day
-Sparkles from the Wheel
Gorgeous clouds of sunset!
drench with your splendor
me or the men and women
generations after me
-Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
It would be a pretty great life if I could carry around a small Hitchcock in my bag all the time.
“Officials in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, want to outfit their downtown commercial area with the special lights, typically used by beauticians to check out a person’s skin quality. The idea is that these devices will reveal all the pimples and blemishes of teenage loiterers, who will then freak out under the communal judgment of their peers and scatter like cockroaches back to their homes”.
Pink Lights, Talking Cameras, and High-Pitched Squeals: The World’s Weirdest Anti-Loitering Technologies by John Metcalfe // The Atlantic
Trayvon Martin Case: 911 Audio Released Of Teen Shot By Neighborhood Watch Captain
SANFORD, Fla. — Police have released audio 911 tapes in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed teenager killed by a neighborhood watch captain while walking…
Sometimes I feel overly-paranoid for avoiding large sections of Florida even though I live here. Then cases like these remind me that no one in power will care if I get shot for being black. Sure, this could happen anywhere. But, some places definitely have a power structure that allows racists to get away with murder. I mean, christ, how the hell do you shoot someone on the street in self-defense yet claim to have never left your car?
(Source: brashblacknonbeliever)
Net by Julio López Saguar on Flickr.
Cologne 2008
"If you want to be a duchess, be a duchess. If you want to make love, hats off."
