Link Love: 2/26/2010

by Catherine Shteynberg on February 26, 2010

Incredible! New photos of some of the 5,000 new deep sea creatures discovered by the Census of Marine life have been released, including this hirstute crab.
In honor of our most recent click! story by Lois Banner about Marilyn Monroe: a long-lost Life mag piece on Marilyn, including more pics from the famous Seven Year Itch photoshoot.
Incredibly awful and moving photo documentary piece by Eugene Richards from a series he did for The Nation exploring the personal devastation of the Iraq war, and which also recently won a World Press prize. [via BAGnewsNotes]
In honor of African American History Month, Prof. Gerald Boerner has been doing some interesting profiles of African American photographers and photographers whose work has focused on black communities over at his blog.
NMAH’s Shannon Perich highlights some beautiful radiographs from the Smithsonian’s collections over at NPR's Picture Show. They reminded me of (and are the precursor to) Satre Stuelke’s CT scans of everyday objects posted some time ago at the NY Times. [via Effie Kapsalis, SPI]
The Winter Olympics are almost finished! Celebrate winter sports with this set from the University of Washington on the Flickr Commons [via Susannah Wells, SPI]
Wow! All kinds of flipbooks, most of them vintage and some of them animated . . . (click below)

Tags: Flickr Commons, Science, click! photography changes everything, Politics/Government, Film/Video, Entertainment, Link Love

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That hirsuta crab kinda reminds me of the fringe pants often worn by competitors on Dancing with the Stars: http://ewpopwatch.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/brooke_fringe.jpg

Susannah February 26, 2010 at 9:18 am

I think my favorite image from the University of Washington Libraries, Winter Sports set would have to be this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uw_digital_images/4307548516/!

Susannah February 26, 2010 at 9:22 am

Susannah, I'm falling out of my seat laughing about the fringe pants! That's one of the only seasons of Dancing with the Stars that I watched and I remember those pants well. Thank you again, by the way, for the rec of the UW set on Flickr...

Catherine Shteynberg, Smithsonian Photography Initiative February 26, 2010 at 1:15 pm

Amazing creatures the crab looks like a spider, Thank you for the post Mike

Mike Weiss May 20, 2010 at 1:38 pm

That has got to be the most amazing looking crab that I have ever seen. Apparently the hairy pincers contain filamentous bacteria that are used to detoxify poisonous minerals in the water.

Jeanette

Digispace November 18, 2011 at 10:49 am

Hi Jeanette- I know! I was completely floored by this crab when I initially saw it. Can you imagine coming across it in the ocean? That's fascinating that the hairs have such an incredible and specific function--it's gotta look that way for a reason :)

Thanks for dropping by!

Catherine Shteynberg November 18, 2011 at 11:38 am

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