I feel pretty late to the game on this one but I’ve been entranced by the photographs of Vivan Maier. Vivian was a French national and nanny to families in Chicago. She was also a recluse: flickr user johnmaloof bought a lot that of negatives and film (between 30-40,000 unprocessed photos) that he started processing. Her work is an fantastic look at the world by an outsider. Her photos are beautiful and well worth browsing, savoring and then browsing again.

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Flickr user Scenery and Fish took an f.75 x-ray lens and mounted it to some macro extensions so it would mount on his Nikon. The wide open aperture gives everything this wonderful ethereal dreamy look. (via Peta Pixel.

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This NY Times article spotlights photographer Darcy Padilla. Padilla recently won the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for her work documenting the life (and recent death) of Julie Baird, a young woman she encountered in 1993 while photographing doctors and social workers at San Francisco AIDS clinic. The Julie Project is an amazing piece of long term photojournalism. This work is the power of photography: it is a moving documentation of the human struggle, of our struggle to be human. It is hard going but worth going through. I look forward to tomorrow’s update to the project.

Edit: It looks like that update has been pushed back to the first of November.

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Rather than beating myself up troubleshooting my current gallery woes I’m waiting for an imminent update to my site software which will solve it. In the meantime check out these photos by Dulce Pinzón documenting immigrant workers dressed up as superheroes on the job. In addition Dulce documents where they hail from and how much they send back home to their families. (Found via PetaPixel.)

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Just wow. Colin Rich sends up a couple of hacked point and shoot cameras in a homemade weather balloon to a height of over 23 miles. Some amazing photos of the earth from space and a well produced video of the flight and construction to boot. (via PetaPixel)

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It’s art! Lovely photographs combining science and photography.

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I discovered this article last evening over at PetaPixel. A Dutch man, Fotoopa (Dutch for ‘photo grandpa’) has built a laser triggered macro rig to capture insects in his backyard. Technological geeky goodness! His winter work, high speed water figures, is a series of brilliant colors and shapes.

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We constructed the tree yesterday but the day got away from us and we didn’t have the leisure time to decorate it (much to my daughter’s disappointment). This evening though we spent some time hanging all the ornaments (or rehanging them from the band of at that ended at the top of her reach) on the tree including the traditional Christmas Bat. Christmas is coming but it shouldn’t stress anyone out. I am looking forward to enjoying some of my families Christmas traditions and specials.

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Today was a fantastic day: the day jobs was 8 hours of victory (and in social work that is a Big Thing), I had delicious lunch, good training, I got to deliver two new kitties to their new home, eat my wife’s delicious chili and cornbread and at the very end of the day see my all time favorite band in concert. I first saw Great Big Sea on my honey moon a little more than 11 years ago and thanks to the generosity of a friend I was able to enjoy them in person with my wife again. A day topped in awesome sauce indeed!

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Two things, the first irritating:

So I've been all excited because I get to leave the Calendar here at the Inlander behind and move on to slightly less boring production and art duties along with some exciting art duties (eventually). The new girl was supposed to start today, show up at 10 am and hash out some schedule conflicts that would supposedly start with the new semester at EWU (class from 10 am-1 pm). Of course this is what actually happened: Her mother showed up at 10 am to inform Michael (the A&C Editor) that Laura has class from 10 am-1 pm and would be unable to make it today nor in fact take the job at all — it gets better though — she then proceeded to give Michael her resume and cover letter and ask if we would hire her instead. Needless to say the answer was no. The answer would have been no if she had shown up on her own and not been trying a bait and switch ploy with her daughter. WTF?

Thing two brought a small amount of joy back into this depressing soul crushing defeat ridden day. Or y'know: whatever. It's this