The Field Museum is on Flickr, too!  It's quite the party.


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November 4th seems so close and so far.  If you need a reminder on why:

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0810/callie-bp.html

Oh, whatever.  Here are some photos of my roommate's clumsy cross-eyed cat:


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Old news: The Library of Congress has a Flickr account! And I am going to post pieces of it-like this 1943 photo of workers leaving shipyards in Texas (which is even better in its original size):


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Photographer Captures America's Best-Kept Secrets
By Jenna Wortham
Taryn Simon photographs some of the most top-secret, highly restricted areas in the world. Her latest book, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, took four years to assemble as the photographer gained access ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of goin as Katharine Hepburn (in some role or another) for Halloween. I wanted to be Martha Gellhorn, but then I would spend the entire night describing her as "Hemmingway's third wife" to random drunk college students, and that just doesn't seem right. (Let me rephrase: I still want to be Martha Gellhorn, but that is more than a one- ( Read more... )

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I've been reading the Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn.

I first met her through this article in Salon:
If Martha Gellhorn had not existed, George Cukor would have probably invented her.  Born into an affluent St. Louis family in 1908 and educated at Bryn Mawr (where she was two years behind Katharine Hepburn), Gellhorn went on to become one of her ( Read more... )