Photographer: Lin Zhipeng

So are the rest of the 64 photos by 64 photographers.

Wow.

Evidently Verizon has a little problem with their new FIOS service. They seem to burn down a majority of the houses they install it in.

Not that I want my house burned down.. but I can’t wait until this comes to my area. Plus by then they should be able to get it installed with maybe just minimal smoke damage.

Me, originally uploaded by Steven Is R.

This is one of my random “Pictures that catch my eye” for the week, or the day, or whatever interval I tend to post these things.


There are so many reasons why this picture is amazing.
See if you can find one.

Recently I came across this picture taken by Philippe Halsman, in 1948. I was amazed with the photographers ability to pull something like this off in 1948 where technology was a lot more limited than today. Reading about his thoughts behind this shot were equally as amazing.

note: cat lovers may not want to read on…haha

The photograph is Halsman’s homage both to the new atomic age (prompted by physicist’ then-recent announcement that all matter hangs in a constant state of suspension) and to Dalí’s surrealist masterpiece “Leda Atomica” (seen on the right, behind the cats, and unfinished at the time). It took six hours, 28 jumps, and a roomful of assistants throwing angry cats and buckets of water into the air to get the perfect exposure.

But before settling on the “Atomicus” we know today, Halsman rejected a number of other concepts for the shot. One was the idea of throwing milk instead of water, but that was abandoned for fear that viewers, fresh from the privations of World War II, would condemn it as a waste of milk. Another involved exploding a cat in order to capture it “in suspension,” though that arguably would have been a waste of cats.

Be sure to read and look at the other pictures
from the original article “13 Photographs that Changed the World”.

This one is called Shadow on the Moon by the very talented Isto and Ica be sure to check out their other stuff!