Images
Chartjunk
Guest post by tf
As of November 7th, Le Monde has changed its look. The new format makes greater use of color photos, eliminates the short resumés that used to precede articles, and provides a cleaner appearance in general. Readers in France have argued one way and the other about whether the paper is more ergonomic […]
Exotica
Guest post by tf
The will to exoticize is often flagrant in Paris. This is a window display from an agency of a large French travel chain:
It seems to me one part Josephine Baker, whose 1926 banana dance remains a popular image here, and one part sorceress, from the popular 1998 animated film Kirikou and the […]
Big Eyes
Amazing, one of the most famous photographs in the world, and I had never seen it before.
(via Jonathan Dresner at Frog in a Well)
{china, Education, Photographs, photography, photos, Project Hope, 中國}
Taiwanese Food
I’m glad to have discovered this wonderful gallery of Taiwanese food by Taiwan Tiger. It is a project I have always thought of doing myself, so there is now one less thing I have to do.
There are even more pictures of Taiwanese dishes in the taiwanfood flickr tag, but Taiwan Tiger has more commentary. It […]
Google Home
A large satellite image of home via Google Maps Wallpapers:
Click for a larger view, with the train stops marked.
Also, via the Map Room, the Literary Map of Manhattan is up on the NY Times web site.
{7 train, Google, jackson heights, maps, wallpaper}
Sin Ciné
I was surprised by Sin City. I thought I would be bored by the story but enjoy the visuals. After all, so much had been made about how brilliantly (and literally) Rodriguez had adapted the imagery of Frank Miller’s comic book to the screen.
My experience was the opposite: I enjoyed the narrative, which (despite its […]
Flickrology
Last year, when I was offered the opportunity to teach a course on anthropology and photography at Haverford College, I immediately knew I wanted to do something with Flickr. I even wrote to the folks at Flickr to see if they would offer free “pro” accounts to my class for the semester. They politely declined. […]
Fetish
This is just too weird to ignore.
Scroll down for the punch line.
(via Kevin Drum)
{bush, bald, photos}
Uncensored
Detail from Amusement park - Baghdad, copyright Thorne Anderson
Iraq Uncensored is an online exhibit of the type of photojournalism that doesn’t get much play in the mainstream press:
For months on end, these seven independent photographers and filmmakers have worked exclusively in Iraq documenting US troops and Iraqi civilians, resistance fighters and child laborers, imprisoned women […]
Fish tank
Here is my first foray into video blogging, a strange toy fish tank I saw in Chinatown. I took it with my digital camera, which has a video capture mode.
(Click image to play streaming video. If it doesn’t work, use this backup link.)
{video blog, vblog, fish tank, china town}
An anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, 
