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Emerald City Comicon

Con is over and I’m finally back at home recuperating. Sorting through photos was a good way to keep myself occupied in line, but I’ve still got a few hundred more shots to weed through. So far my ECCC folder has about a thousand images in it so this may be a little while.

Photos to be posted include… Tyler Hoechlin Amanda Tapping Jewel Staite Marina Sirtis Anthony Mackie Clark Gregg Orlando Jones

…along with a few shots of our fantastic moderators for the weekend, Grant Imahara and Clare Kramer throughout these sets.

I’ll be putting everything up on flickr first, but will also be posting selected ones here, so keep an eye out!

Mt. St. Helens

I’ll have limited copies of this in print at VanCAF17 this weekend, come see me at table D-11! 

Dallas Stars @ Vancouver Canucks || 16 March 2017

Bo Horvat, incoming.

you wanna see some badass shit from the early 20th century?? The Lumière brothers created the first full color photograph… in fucking 1903! So these dudes dyed potatoes (in red, blue, and green), mashed them down into just pure fuckin’ starch, and used these dyed potato starches as filters to block out/let in certain wavelengths of light. They coated one side of a glass plate with the starches and sensitized the other side with a mixture of gelatin and light sensitive materials (silver nitrate) and loaded these plates in their cameras.. This is a really simple explanation of the process and I may have missed some things A few of my favorite autochrome photos:

Sand Tufas

You could be forgiven for thinking that the otherworldly rock formations in these pictures come from another planet, or from a sci-fi movie perhaps. But they’re actually called sand tufas and they come from right here on earth.

A tufa is a peculiar form of calcium carbonate, and they’re created when calcium-bearing freshwater springs well up through alkaline lake water (which is rich in carbonates). The carbonate and calcium combine and, over centuries, these elements form unusual spires, towering columns, and strange cauliflower-shaped mounds which can reach heights of up to nine metres (30ft). Tufas can only form underwater, and they’re only exposed when lakes are drained or dry out over many years. Check out this collection of pictures compiled by Bored Panda to see these curious formations for yourself.

Via + image credits

Hayley Atwell & Grant Imahara @ emeraldcitycomicon 2015, Seattle

The Worlds of our Solar System

the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)

Surrealist Garden Las Pozas in México

“Magic happens at Las Pozas. Just like in work by Salvador Dalí, at Las Pozas art portrays one thing as another, invents a reality put in place of conventional, official, socially acceptable reality. More than painting a picture or sculpting an object, they produced an atmosphere, a privileged place.” ~ Irene Herner

Nestled in the thick jungles of San Luis Potosí, Mexico, Edward James discovered the perfect setting for staging his life’s masterpiece. A surrealist labyrinth unfolds amid waterfalls and ponds—natural and man-made—that prepare the mind for immersion into a dream world. With buildings that evoke nonsense, doors leading nowhere, stairways to the sky and concrete flowers that sprout beside real ones, one man’s dreams are realized and reality is displaced by fantasy.

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The camera that filmed the first landing on the Moon.

(Smithsonian Air & Space Museum)