September 21, 2007

The Golden Ratio

Golden ratio?

Golden Ratio    the golden ratio

Fibonacci Chicken Soup     Golden Ratio - 1.618

When a single, intangible concept suspiciously manifests itself systematically in things living and inanimate, I take a mental this-must-mean-something note. Sometimes I get goosebumps. Ok, now I’ve said too much.

I’ve been obsessed with phi (aka The Golden Ratio) for a few years now. One garden-variety, rainy-day bookstore visit left me with this ink drop in my brain. Even after I’ve turned off my radar to the uber-referenced rose or nautilus shell, I still find myself cornered with those brief, unassuming moments when math seems to jump out of the woodwork and say “gotcha!”

Photos from Froots, leslie stroope, D.mental, brennheit bakst, and inkyfingerz.

Posted by Maya Baratz
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September 19, 2007

A wee bit o’ gold

Avast, mateys! The yammering from the crew quarters for a way to yer sort groups on the groups page has been heard! Ye can sort ‘em now by activity or alphabetically, as ye fancy. Lookee here:

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And another thing for ye, me buckos, and this’ns no gimcrack! Look to the starboard side of the slideshow bilge and ye’ll find a thing or two ye haven’t seen before.

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Clicky there on “options” and “help” and ye’ll be pleased as a grog soaked buccaneer!

Posted by Eric Costello
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September 19, 2007

Here, there be Dragons!

Also available in: 한글

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Avast, me hearties! Enough of yer kittens and babies — for one day and one day only we’ve boarded Explore and ye’ll only be seein’ photos that we pirates think are interesting. If we hear any complain’ from ye scallywags, ye’ll be walkin’ the plank!

Pirate booty from MangoPOPTART.

PS, “Arrr!” marks the spot.

Posted by Heather Champ
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September 18, 2007

After the storm

After the storm

If Monument Valley isn’t on your life list of places to photograph, then it should be. Really! The austere beauty of Southern Utah/Northern Arizona is truly a sight to behold.

Photo from Tampen. See more photos in his Red rocks set.

Posted by Heather Champ
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September 14, 2007

Rome’s La Notte Bianca

Sparkles

Notte Bianca

Luci ed (1) ombra

See more photos tagged with “nottebianca2007” or in the Rome White Night 2007 group pool or via the map.

Photos from Stranju, Diego Pi and florestano.

Posted by Heather Champ
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September 14, 2007

Ouch!

Some of our servers are ailing this AM. We’ve taken the site down to see if we can nurse them back to health! Hopefully this will not take long; we’ll keep you updated here!

Update: we should be back up shortly. A NIC on a storage box just needed to be smacked around a bit.

Update: and we’re back! Apologies for that.

Posted by Eric Costello
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September 14, 2007

umbrella

16fps chic

under the rain

Shanghai Street #3   tea   Inde, Ladakh, Reunion des bonnets rouges

See more photos in the umbrella group or view photos tagged with “umbrella” or in our umbrella clusters.

Photos from velco, carlos jm, zerodegrees, bensan9 and Calinore.

Posted by Heather Champ
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September 13, 2007

L’Shanah Tovah

May you have a sweet year

AMEN and SHANA TOVA y'all

Wishing you a good and sweet year.

Photos from Bonnie Shulman and lay d lay.

Posted by Heather Champ
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September 13, 2007

Welcome A380

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The brand new Airbus A380 visited Hong Kong last week. Despite the bad weather, people were up early to get a closer look at the airplane.

Photos from lukas.jenkner, stfbfc and Chris Chu.

Posted by Heather Champ
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September 11, 2007

Russ Morris on KQED’s QUEST, tonight!

Rusty    Fender

Mic & laptop

One of our favourite Through the Viewfinder photographers, Russ Morris (rustman) will be featured on QUEST tonight (you can catch the episode here) as part of new feature “Your photos on QUEST.”

QUEST is a TV, radio, web, and education series by KQED that explores science, environment and nature in Northern California. The QUEST producers are huge Flickr fans and have posted over 600 photographs - over 35 sets so far - to go with their TV, radio and web stories in their first season. Check out their group for more info.

Photos from rustman.

Posted by Heather Champ
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