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Tue, 01 May 2012 03:12:05 -0400

What’s it gonna be

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:23:00 -0400

What’s it gonna be

anothereview: Alfred Eisenstaedt A man standing in the...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:02:25 -0400

anothereview:

Alfred Eisenstaedt

A man standing in the lumberyard of Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing. 1939

artlog: Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works For Me!...

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:00:19 -0400

artlog:

Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works For Me! True/False, 2011
Photo courtesy of the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

Photographer Ed Westcott was the only person allowed to...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:30:49 -0400

Photographer Ed Westcott was the only person allowed to photography the Oak Ridge reservation during the Manhattan Project. Aside from documenting the operations of the project, he spent a lot of time capturing everyday life within the 70,000 acre top secret city.

apophatic:

Photos from inside Oak Ridge, the government’s top-secret town

andrewromano: Garry Winogrand photographs the 1960 Democratic...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:06:55 -0400

andrewromano:

Garry Winogrand photographs the 1960 Democratic National Convention:

The 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles was crammed with the political superstars of the day — John F. Kennedy, Adlai Stevenson — as well as key staff members like Andrew Hatcher. Garry Winogrand took pictures of all of them, but his primary interest was elsewhere. ‘‘He photographed the life, the back corners, the audience,’’ says Leo Rubinfien, a photographer who is curating a retrospective of Winogrand’s work opening at SFMOMA next year. ‘‘The people watching the parade, not the parade — that was how he worked.’’

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Hilltop, Seattle

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:04:32 -0400

Hilltop, Seattle

Pasadena, California 1963. Elliot Erwitt

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:08:08 -0400

Pasadena, California 1963. Elliot Erwitt

Puget Sound & Olympic Mountains

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 02:09:00 -0400

Puget Sound & Olympic Mountains

Denny Regrade, 1909 - Seattle, WA The Denny Regrade project was...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 03:19:32 -0400

Denny Regrade, 1909 - Seattle, WA

The Denny Regrade project was the removal of Denny Hill which ran east from First Avenue between Pike Street and Denny Way. From 1902 to 1911, the hill was sluiced into Elliott Bay by pumping water from Lake Union using hydraulic mining techniques, in a series of regrades along Pike and Pine Streets, Second Avenue, and the massive Denny Regrade No. 1 which regraded everything remaining between Fifth Avenue and the waterfront.

Source: Seattle Municipal Archives Photograph Collection

life: April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated. On...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:41:03 -0400

life:

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated.

On April 4, 1968, LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky and writer Mike Silva, on assignment in Alabama, learned that Martin Luther King, Jr., had been shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The two men jumped into their car, raced the 200 miles to the scene of the crime, and there — to their astonishment — found that they had unfettered access to the hotel’s grounds; to the abandoned buildings from which the rifle shot likely came; to Dr. King’s room; and to the bleak, blood-stained balcony where the civil rights leader had fallen, mortally wounded by an assassin’s bullet, mere hours earlier.

Unpublished: Outside of room 306, Theatrice Bailey, the brother of the motel’s owner, sweeps blood from the balcony.

See more photos here.

(Henry Groskinsky—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

occupyallstreets: Senior Citizens Owe Billions In Student Loan...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:23:00 -0400

occupyallstreets:

Senior Citizens Owe Billions In Student Loan Debt

New research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York shows that Americans 60 and older still owe about $36 billion in student loans, providing a rare window into the dynamics of student debt. More than 10 percent of those loans are delinquent. As a result, consumer advocates say, it is not uncommon for Social Security checks to be garnished or for debt collectors to harass borrowers in their 80s over student loans that are decades old.

That even seniors remain saddled with student loans highlights what a growing chorus of lawmakers, economists and financial experts say has become a central conflict in the nation’s higher education system: The long-touted benefits of a college degree are being diluted by rising tuition rates and the longevity of debt.

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Fremont Rocket, below the belt

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:56:05 -0400

Fremont Rocket, below the belt

The hedgeCapitol Hill, Seattle

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:48:00 -0400

The hedge
Capitol Hill, Seattle

Architect and MIT Professor Constant-Désiré Despradelle designed...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:21:00 -0400

Architect and MIT Professor Constant-Désiré Despradelle designed the 1,500 foot stone tower which was planned for Chicago’s Jackson Park.

The giant tower, which he referred to as an “altar,” would support a beacon light at its apex and have an amphitheater at its base, wherein leaders could impart “inspiring words” to assemblies in the room he called a “sanctuary.”

Source

archimaps:

Projected Beacon of Progress tower around 1900, Chicago

npr: The view of Massachusetts Avenue - from our perch here at...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:19:12 -0400

npr:

The view of Massachusetts Avenue - from our perch here at NPR. (Becky Lettenberger / NPR) (Taken with instagram)

tarnoff: “The terrible rush of metropolitan life: those busy...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:19:22 -0400

tarnoff:

“The terrible rush of metropolitan life: those busy New-Yorkers,” (1915). Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery.

In December 1866, Mark Twain left San Francisco for New York. Like generations of transplanted Westerners then and since, he found life in the big city a little disorienting. He described his feelings in a letter to the San Francisco-based Alta California.

There is something about this ceaseless buzz, and hurry, and bustle, that keeps a stranger in a state of unwholesome excitement all the time, and makes him restless and uneasy, and saps from him all capacity to enjoy anything or take a strong interest in any matter whatever - a something which impels him to try to do everything, and yet permits him to do nothing. He is a boy in a candy-shop - could choose quickly if there were but one kind of candy, but is hopelessly undetermined in the midst of a hundred kinds. A stranger feels unsatisfied, here, a good part of the time. He starts to a library; changes, and moves toward a theatre; changes again and thinks he will visit a friend; goes within a biscuit-toss of a picture-gallery, a billiard-room, a beer cellar and a circus, in succession, and finally drifts home and to bed, without having really done anything or gone anywhere. He don’t go anywhere because he can’t go everywhere, I suppose. This fidgety, feverish restlessness will drive a man crazy, after a while, or kill him. It kills a good many dozens now - by suicide. I have got to get out of it.

todaysdocument: Galloping into Spring Supervisor Burgess and...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:59:47 -0400

todaysdocument:

Galloping into Spring

Supervisor Burgess and Ranger Cooke Trying Out the Civilian Conservation Corps Constructed Hobby Horse, Douglas Fir Forest Camp, Mt. Baker National Forest, 1936.

Spring break

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 01:13:17 -0400

Spring break

Prestigious addresses, Capitol Hill style

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:12:00 -0500

Prestigious addresses, Capitol Hill style