white noise of everyday life

Mount Everest 1953

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Fri, 24 May 2013 17:24:44 +0000

Next week marks the 60th anniversary of the first known successful ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norga

To mark the occasion the Royal Geographical Society has an exhibition of photos from the climb at the Oxo Gallery in London

Below is one of my favourite photos, a shot of the expedition’s base camp on the Khumbu glacier.

As an aside, this great article from the National Geographic shows that life on the mountain is very different now with hundreds of climbers queuing to reach the summit, causing huge risks to themselves and others, and leaving massive amounts of waste.

Gregory Crewdson

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:14:43 +0000

My Friday photograph this week is by Gregory Crewdson

The photograph is also the cover art to one of my favourite albums, Yo La Tengo’s And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out.

Nate Larson, Marni Shindelman

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Wed, 15 May 2013 20:31:45 +0000

Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman:

“We use publicly available embedded GPS information in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and make photographs to mark the location in the real world. Each of these photographs is taken on the site of the update and paired with the originating text. Our act of making a photograph anchors and memorializes the ephemeral online data in the real world and also probes the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks. We select texts that reveal something about the personal nature of the users’ lives or the national climate, while also examining the relationship to physical space and the ways in which it influences online presence. This portfolio was completed in August 2011 as a site-specific commission for Third Space Gallery, Saint John, New Brunswick.”

Chris Hadfield

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:40:58 +0000

For the past few months Canadian astronaut Commander Chris Hadfield has lit up Twitter with his tweets, videos and stunning images taken from the International Space Station (ISS) as he orbited the earth. In doing so he has opened up the work of the ISS to nearly a million followers. Tonight he will return to earth after five months in space.

One night last month Hadfield posted a wonderful photo of earth and then just a few minutes later I was able to watch the ISS pass over our house.

Twitter will be slightly less interesting from tomorrow.

Vincent Catala

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:15:07 +0000

Vincent Catala is a very accomplished photographer who lives and works between Rio de Janeiro and Paris

via Peanut Butter Thoughts

Miles Davis by Jan Persson

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:50:49 +0000

My Friday favourite photo this week is Miles Davis by Jan Persson.

Ben Thomas

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:54:13 +0000

In his series Accession Ben Thomas cleverly manipulates cityscapes and urban landscapes.

Christophe Jacrot

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:02:52 +0000

Amazing photos of New York in the blackout that followed the terrible storm of 31 October. By Christophe Jacrot.

His photos of various cities in the rain and snow are worth looking at too.

Ken Kitano

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:11:05 +0000

Japanese photographer Ken Kitano‘s series “Our Face” is made up of multiple photographs of people, grouped under themes according to location, profession, and gender, and then overlaid on top of each other.

35 Esoteric Buddhist Monks of the Shingon sect studying at KOHYA Mountain Special School in Wakayama, Japan

42 member of baseball club at OHMI High School in Shiga, Japan

60 female students of Tarami Kinkai Junior High School in Nagasaki, Japan

23 Mulsim women in burqas in Nairia, Bangladesh

Friday photo: Captain Bruce McCandless

whitenoiseofeverydaylife — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:19:23 +0000

Each Friday I feature my favourite photos.

This week’s is a stunning image of Captain Bruce McCandless II floating more than 300 ft away from the space shuttle Challenger. The photo was taken in 1984.