Slideshow of antique natural history museum dioramas

Our pal Ben Cosgrove at LIFE posted a gorgeous slideshow of ye olde natural history museum dioramas. Seen above, an 1898 "Beisa Antelope Oryx diorama" by taxidermist Carl Akeley, from the collection of the Field Museum. "Wild Dioramas Back In The Day". Via: Boingboing

Gala y Salvador Dalí

(Dedicated to Gala and Salvador Dalí). LINK: Youtube

Audrey Hepburn Slideshow - Daydream Believer

Audrey Hepburn Slideshow - Daydream Believer. LINK: Youtube

Amazing Pictures of the Icelandic Volcano Eruption

The Daily Telegraph has compiled a 31-image slideshow of amazing photographs of the volcano currently erupting in Iceland. Scientists aren’t sure why electrical discharges are visible during some volcanic eruptions, but:

One theory is that that the spewing magma bubbles or particles of volcanic ash are themselves electrically charged, and by their motion create separately charged areas.

Link, Via: Geekologie | Photo: US Environmental Protection Agency, Via: Neatorama

Eggs by the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

This is my wonderful video to the amazing song Eggs by the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. LINK

Irving Penn Dies at 92: Pioneer of Modern Fashion, Portrait and Still-Life Photography

Irving Penn, a renowned master of American fashion photography whose more simple aesthetic, combined with an often startling erotic sensuality, defined a visual style that he applied to such varied subjects as fashion design, celebrity portraits and everyday objects, many of them now-famous photographs owned by leading art museums, has died at the age of 92. In 1943, Penn started contributing to Vogue magazine, becoming one of the first commercial photographers to cross the schism that had separated commercial from art photography. He did so in part by using the same technique no matter what he photographed: isolating his subject, allowing for scarcely a prop and building a work of graphic perfection through his printing process. Art critics considered the results to be icons, not just images, each one more artistically powerful than the person or object in the frame. LINK, Via: Youtube

"Richard Hawley - Our Darkness [The Photographs of Irving Penn]"


Readers can read more about the life and accomplishments of Irving Penn in The New York Times here, and in The Los Angeles Times here.

Reader’s can access a wonderful audio-slide show of Irving Penn’s series entitled The Small Trades, which is presently on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum here.

June Carter slideshow / Wildwood Flower

Pictures of June Carter, featuring the song ''Wildwood Flower'' sung by Reese Witherspoon. LINK: Youtube

A Must See Slide Show of Salvador Dali

© 2006 - Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation - All rights reserved - Legal notice - Privacy - Copyright. Be sure to go to this LINK and watch this. It is awe inspiring.

Update: Slide show of Damages from the Tornado in Minneapolis, Mn

Portland Avenue in South Minneapolis was one of the worst spots in the city hit by the sudden tornado. PHOTOS BY PHILLIP WERST.

Go to this LINK to see the slide show.

Slideshow of the making of the Atomic Punk show car

Coop says: "Nice clip of in-progress shots of Aaron Grote's retro-futuristic 60's-style bubbletop custom car, the Atomic Punk. As cool as the final product is, it is even more impressive when you see its beginnings as the rusty ass-end of a '59 Plymouth!"

Rod & Custom feature. LINK: Boingboing

Then and Now

Unfortunately we all have to grow old one day. LINK to slideshow.

Albino Animals

An updated collection of Albino Animals for your viewing pleasure. w/ slideshow photos. LINK