Not worried (day at the museum)
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This still happens
A woman feeding an elephant outside Dreamland at Coney Island. Photograph by Wallace G. Levison. Brooklyn, New York, September 1904.
Mascoutah Kennel Club dog show. Dogs from both continents. George Ford Morris, 1901. (Library of Congress)
Blizzard, the pup in Antarctica / photograph by Frank Hurley, ca. 1912 (State Library of New South Wales collection)
Critters Captured In A Split Second
(Joel Sartore/National Geographic)
For Joel Sartore, it’s a race against the clock to photograph as many animals as he can — before it’s too late. Check out more of his photos and listen to the story at The Picture Show.
-Emily
Capricorns are goats.
Goats are climbers.
Against all odds.
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(Reblogged from onehundreddollars)
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are god.
Will paint for bamboo
Image description: Picasso or Panda? Giant panda Tian Tian get his paws dirty with non-toxic water-based paint at the National Zoo. Painting is one among many activities that fall under Animal Enrichment—a program that provides physically and mentally stimulating activities and environments for the Zoo’s residents.
Art produced by many of the Zoo’s mammal and bird residents will be available for purchase at the National Capital chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) Art Show, which will take place spring 2012.
Photo by Smithsonian’s National Zoo
Out standing
npr:
“What is important to me, as a photographer, is to create a body of work that leaves viewers with an emotional understanding of a place and the people there,” said Robb Hill, 42. “I was never going for empirical facts, even though this is the one place on the planet I know better than anywhere.” (via In Indiana, a Hometown Soon to Change - NYTimes.com)
Full disclosure: Robb Hill’s other (better?) half works with us here at NPR.org
Depends on how you look at it
npr:
This is just not right. No. — Tanya
life: The November 17, 1958 issue of LIFE found naval researchers testing the effects of being upside-down for prolonged periods of time on animals in an attempt to learn about the disorientation astronauts would likely experience on space flights.
The research included using magnets to affix animals to the ceiling. Unsurprisingly, one key finding of the study was that the adorable kitten was “extremely fatigued” by the experience of walking upside-down.
Here, in celebration of LIFE’s 75th anniversary, LIFE.com presents the most wonderful and, in some cases, the most thoroughly bizarre science and technology photos ever to appear in the magazine.
Who’s there?
From the artist: This is preface illustration for the book “Rebels (Vampires and Witches)”.
Absence of a particular visible monster makes a suggested presence far more sinister, far more frightening, because viewer fills the darkness with his own fears. There is something/someone behind that doors looking back at us.
I painted this in oils on half-chalk ground on linen glued to a panel, size 9x13″.
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