If you’ve ever seen Donald Trump’s combover flapping in the wind, you know how satisfying it is to see unflattering images of political candidates. Sure, laughing at their expense isn’t the most noble of human instincts, but it is fun.
Irish photographer Mark Duffy revels in that with Vote No. 1. His series, and subsequent book, shows Irish politicians as they appear on campaign signs, impaled by the nails and zip-ties affixing them to posts and fences. It’s a strange, slightly grotesque, and thoroughly entertaining look at politics.
Check out more photos and read about Duffy’s project.
From NASA astronaut Jeff Williams’s flyover image of Australia to the ASTER image of the eruption of Nicaragua’s Momotombo volcano, these are the Space Photos of the Week.
Look at the cuteness that is the Fennec Fox. Look at it. Underneath all the cuteness, the fennec fox is actually a remarkable little desert specialist.
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Instagram Rabbit Hole: Falling Men and Beautiful Light
This week Nick Ballon (@nickballon) takes us down the Instagram Rabbit Hole. Ballon is a documentary and portrait photographer based in the UK. He’s made several beautiful projects centered around Bolivia as well as commissioned works. After tumbling down the rabbit hole, he landed on Stefan Ruiz (@stefanruizphoto) a Brookyln photographer who makes gorgeous portraits.
Take a tumble down this week’s Instagram Rabbit Hole and discover the five amazing feeds we discovered.
Since 2014, Trevor Paglen has exhibited a sculpture he and his collaborator Jacob Appelbaum call the Autonomy Cube, a minimalist 1.25-foot block of almost invisibly translucent, 1.5-inch-thick acrylic that houses a custom-made Wi-Fi router. When any gallery visitor connects to that router, it redirects their data over the encrypted and anonymized Tor network.
But it also simultaneously serves as a Tor relay—one of the thousands of volunteer computers that bounce the traffic of Tor users through layers of encrypted proxies to make the software’s anonymizing properties possible.
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The US border with Canada is the longest in the world, stretching more than 5,500 miles across the continent with just 100 or so checkpoints.
Andreas Rutkauskas spent three years photographing this border for his series Borderline. His images are less a survey of the border and its checkpoints than an exploration of its most remote corners.
Check out more photos and read about Rutkauskas’ project.
Doing some home improvement, but you’re hoping to avoid a trip to urgent care? These apps will help you with those DIY projects.
(Source: Wired)
A rocket really just needs two things: mass to eject and something to push that mass out. So, that’s your introduction to rockets. And using those simple ideas, you can make a rocket using a soda bottle.
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The Kola Superdeep Borehole was for 20 years the deepest hole in all the world, and it remains one of the oddest battles of the Cold War.
Russian photographer Sergey Novikov is fascinated by the region and its Soviet past. For his ongoing series Kola Superdeep, he visited Nikel and Zapolyarny, the two towns closest to the borehole. He found them to be gloomy, depressive places shrouded in gray clouds and punctuated by smokestacks. “Nothing seemed to have changed since the 1970s. You saw the same shadows on the street as back then.”
Check out more photos and read about Novikov’s project.
Three years after that first devkit came out, the Oculus Rift proves that virtual reality is not a phase. This is the first real step into the world of VR.
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