Public Radio International (PRI)

picturedept:

Remembering 9/11/2001 (via Newsweek)

(via theatlantic)

shortformblog:

Hipsters renting backyards for $100/hr. in NYC: “In this Wednesday, July 25 2012 photo, a group of people hang at Timeshare Backyard on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The city’s lone timeshare backyard allows New Yorkers to invite up to 30 guests for two hours at a time and comes with grills, lounge chairs and trashy magazines.” (photo by Mary Altaffer/AP; ht @ProducerMatthew, @AntDeRosa)

Timeshare backyard! Brilliant.

ncpr:

Flutter flutter

Swallowtails at Rich Lake, near Newcomb, New York.

[Picture: Ezekial Vaughn, NCPR Photo of the Day]

wnyc:

The MIT of Israel: A Look at Cornell’s Partner on the Roosevelt Island Tech Campus
Cornell University won a bid to build a $2 billion graduate school in New York City earlier this year – but it didn’t do it alone. The Ivy League school partnered with an Israeli-based public research university — the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, sometimes called the MIT of Israel… Read More

huffingtonpost:

“For pure spectacle, it’s hard to top the imagery of the Space Shuttle gliding through the skies of San Francisco, Washington and New York, creating powerful juxtapositions with America’s most cherished and symbolic landscapes, monuments and landmarks. I imagine there’s an e-book’s-worth of symbolism here and I’m curious to hear what you read in these photos. For myself, however, I can’t look at the Shuttle seeming to thread its way in and among the New York cityscape without recalling those other scenes burned into my psyche and America’s brain, of airliners — angels of death — flying low through the town in remarkable proximity to homes and histories and essences of power and critical nerve centers, and finally, unimaginably…. 

Against that background, how soothing and cathartic these visuals are. Laid over eidetic memories of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, like cataracts now in the country’s inner eye, these gentle and curious photographs bind themselves to our best “where were you when!?” questions, and the symbolism of some of America’s most exciting and proud feelings, recollections and national moments (first man to orbit the earth, Friendship 7 splashdown, first man on the moon, our romance with JFK and his with space, and on and on).”

Do photos heal?

Michael Shaw: Space Shuttle in the Skies of Manhattan: The Healing

shortformblog:

Tall tale: Today, One World Trade Center is set to become NYC’s tallest building, topping 1,250 feet in height and standing taller than the Empire State Building. While the building isn’t done yet, it’s a pretty symbolic sight. (photo by Julio Cortez/AP)