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The 50 States Project brings together a photographer from each of the 50 States. Over the course of one year each photographer will represent the State where they live. Every two months the photographers are sent an assignment by e-mail, and they have two months to produce one image in response. The first assignment, (“People”), was sent in January 2009. The second, (“Habitat”), was sent in March. By the end of the project there will be 300 images from across the US.
Since I live in Chicago, here is the Ilinois photo for “People”:
"Home of Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich After Impeachment, January, 2009" © Brian Ulrich
Delaware:
"Untitled" © Chad States
Michigan:
"Joe Diesel, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 2009" © Peter Baker
New Jersey:
"Bride to Be in Limousine" © Juliana Beasley
A chilling and disturbing photo essay from Boston.com:
Gun battles, assassinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels, and reprisals have resulted in over 9,500 deaths since December 2006 – over 5,300 killed last year alone. President Barack Obama recently announced extra agents were being deployed to the border and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda – overshadowed now by spiraling drug violence and fears of greater cross-border spillover. Officials on both sides of the border are committed to stopping the violence, and stemming the flow of drugs heading north and guns and cash heading south. (34 photos total)
A police officer walks on packages of cocaine in Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport on the Pacific coast, Monday, March 23, 2009. Colombian police had seized 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container of vegetable grease bound for Mexico. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A member of the Army watches the incineration of fourteen tons of drugs in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 2, 2008. (J. Guadalupe PEREZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Shoes used for smuggling marijuana are displayed in the Drug Museum at the headquarters of the Mexican Ministry of Defense in Mexico City March 9, 2009. High precision rifles, a diamond and gold encrusted mobile phone, clandestine laboratories for drug processing and many more items that once belonged to drug traffickers are displayed in this private museum used by the military to show the soldiers the lifestyle of the Mexican drug lords. (REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez)
USB Finger
After a motorcycle accident, software developer Jerry Jalava got himself a removable prosthetic finger with a USB memory stick inside. As stated on his site: “…when I’m using the USB, I just leave my finger inside the slot and pick it up after I’m ready.”
USB Finger
Check out his Flickr set for more photos.
For the love of God, someone please feed Lindsay Lohan. All celebrity gossip and opinions aside, these photos just do not look healthy. The images are artistic and great, but I couldn’t help but be struck by her unhealthy physique.
Lindsay Lohan Photo c/o Hedislimane.com
Lindsay Lohan Photo c/o Hedislimane.com
Fall Foliage, Trees in a Forest Preserve, originally uploaded by dbur4900.
After many days being cooped up with a winter flu bug, this photo makes me long for warmer weather. This photo was taken last fall in an IL forest preserve.
Barack Obama on Flickr on TIME
I love Flickr (see my photos), and there are some great Obama shots from TIME Magazine on the Flickr blog.
Here’s one of my photos from the rally in Grant Park the night he was elected:
Obama Grant Park Rally
