The Radium Dance by Jean Schwartz

The Radium Dance by Jean Schwartz, originally uploaded by pantufla.

Big Ben during EH Benjamin Ealovega_MG_64

Big Ben during EH Benjamin Ealovega_MG_64, originally uploaded by Earth Hour Global.

A year of sunsets

A year of sunsets, originally uploaded by krazydad / jbum.

from Krazydad / jbum. Great idea!

"A year of sunsets

Flickr has a lot of sunset photographs. Too many, some would say.

To build this graph I collected just a few of them, by searching for photos that have been tagged “Sunset”.

I collected only 100 photos from the hundreds posted each day of the preceding 365 days, so that the photos are evenly distributed across the past year. There are over 35,000 photos shown in the graph.

I positioned each photo horizontally according to the day it was taken, and vertically according to the hour it was taken.

By making each photo translucent, I created a “hot spot” which shows when the most photos were taken, each day of the past year.

The bright band shows the approximate time of sunset for each day. You can see that as the year progresses, the time of the sunset changes.

The deepest dip in the band corresponds to the summer solstice (about June 22), and the highest part of the band corresponds to the winter solstice (about December 22).

This is the second time I’ve graphed the curve of the sunsets using Flickr sunsets. The first time, over a year ago, I used all the photos then available, which produced a more inconsistent looking graph.

Uploaded by krazydad / jbum on 7 Nov 06, 9.47PM PDT."

Time

Time, originally uploaded by Paula Wirth.

The nude girl and the abbot; eating at a table in a bedroom

The nude girl and the abbot; eating at a table in a bedroom, originally uploaded by Kintzertorium.

Sea serpent visitors

Sea serpent visitors, originally uploaded by nha.library.

The Sea Serpent was visited by all of Nantucket in the summer of 1937.

Image number: A24-2c

Uploaded by nha.library on 7 Jan 09, 9.14AM PDT.

Oscilla (by Alberto Forero)

Oscilla (by Alberto Forero), originally uploaded by pantufla.

Vrouw 19e eeuw (affiche tentoonstelling) / Women 19th century (exhibition poster)

Vrouw 19e eeuw (affiche tentoonstelling) / Women 19th century (exhibition poster), originally uploaded by Nationaal Archief.

Miss Ben Yusuf Announces a Private View of Photographs at Her Studio

Miss Ben Yusuf Announces a Private View of Photographs at Her Studio, originally uploaded by pantufla.

Zaida Ben-Yusuf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zaida Ben-Yusuf (1869-1933) was an American portrait photographer. Ben-Yusuf was born in London to an Algerian Muslim father and a German mother of Algerian descent. She immigrated to New York in 1897.

Ben-Yusuf was noted for portraits of the wealthy, fashionable, and famous Americans of the period. In 1891 the Ladies Home Journal featured her in a group of six photographers that it dubbed, "The Foremost Women Photographers in America." [1] A photo essay of a trip she took to Japan was published in the Saturday Review.

In 2008 the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery mounted an exhibition of Ben-Yusuf's work, aiming to "recover" the work of an artist who had fallen from memory. [2]

www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/zaida/index.html

Uploaded by pantufla on 5 Mar 09, 10.35PM PST.