June 20, 2010

Photography: Augmented reality, vintage strobism, & more

• The StreetMuseum iPhone app overlays the 19th century on top of current London. [Via]
• Monochrome:
  • Strobe photography pioneer Harold Edgerton captured Stonehenge at night by using “a 50,000 watt-second flash in the bay of a night-flying airplane 1500 feet above the ancient monoliths.” I’d really like to see a larger version. [Via]
  • Dig the otherworldly black & whites of Zoltán Vancsó.
• Kirill Kuletski shows that salt mines are good for you (really!). [Via]
• The Big Picture commemorates the eruption of Mount St. Helens, 30 (!) years ago. (I vividly remember sifting through ash in a Chicago museum at age ~5.)