- Whoa!!! Google Streetview and Google Books now come in 3D (if you have 3D glasses stashed in your desk, like I do!). Click the dude with the 3D glasses above to check out a view of the Smithsonian Castle in 3D.
- Grand Paris! La Tour Eiffel under construction, and a giant 26-Gigapixel panorama of the city [via Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities and Effie Kapsalis, SPI].
- BAGnewsNotes asks, why did Muscovites not take more picture and video of this week’s subway suicide bombings (as compared with the citizen journalism of say, the Iranian elections)?
- "The things people do to be judged more kindly can be so hard to look at." The NY Times Lens blog features a slideshow of work by Zed Nelson, who photographs the global beauty industry and body alteration.
- Ridiculous, condescending, and pretty fascinating. How professional models (and new automobiles) were photographed in the 1940s, from the Prelinger Archives over at archive.org:
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