Bottoms Up

French photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze captures a unique perspective of Hong Kong’s skyscrapers.

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Nice find by Jens Schott Knudsen.

Scene in Cairo

I like this clever piece of political art by by Egyptian street artist “El Teneen.” See more examples from the streets of Cairo by other artists here.

One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Wave

Zak Noyle photographed this surfing expedition to Indonesia. Dede Suryana is the surfer in the first photo and Bede Durbide in the second.

Here’s a revolutionary idea: we should probably figure out a better way of disposing our trash.

Louis Agassiz in an Earthquake

A statue of Louis Agassiz, a prominent naturalist and geologist, on Stanford’s Zoology building fell during the 1906 earthquake that hit San Francisco. This was the reaction on campus:

People came running from the quad with such sober faces, but when they saw him they couldn’t help laughing, and one fellow went up and shook hands with him.

Stanford President David Starr Jordan later wrote, “Somebody-Dr. Angell, perhaps-remarked that ‘Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.’”

Amazingly only his nose was broken in the fall.

Today this looks like a contemporary art piece one would find at Art Basel or The Armory Show.

What’s Bugging Jackson Pollack?

Among the splatter of paint by Jackson Pollack is this fly that found it’s final resting place in the artist’s work “One: Number 31, 1950.”

R.I.P. = Rest in Paint.

First Photo of the Boston Marathon in 1904

Here’s the first known photo which was taken in 1904 of the Boston Marathon.

Sammy Mellor is shown leading at 22 miles of the 8th running of the Boston Marathon. This amazing photo shows wonderful detail of children, bicyclists and horse-drawn carriages accompanying the leader. Its a shame Sammy dropped out of the race shortly after this picture was taken.

See more photos from the marathon’s history here.