The oldest living things in the world

La Llareta #0308-23b26 (up to 3,000 years old, atacama desert, chile)

Welwitschia Mirabilis #0707-22411 (2,000 years old; namib naukluft desert, namibia)

Underground Forest #0707-10333 (up to 13,000 years old; pretoria, south africa)

The oldest living things in the world (OLTW) is a project in process by the american photographer Rachel Sussman in which she searches, visits and photographs "continuously living organisms 2000 years old and older". She also says: 'I am trying to create a means in which to step outside our quotidian experience of time and to start to consider a deeper timescale." It's also interesting to just read about this different living things as they all are somewhat odd and extraordinary. You Rachel Sussmans TED talk about this project here.

bradley pitts

work by bradley pitts. see more here.

[all bradley pitts. 2006. from the series one roll of weightlessness. top to bottom: ascension (35 mm) weightless moment #16. akinetopsia (16mm) film still. ascension (35 mm) weightless moment #27.]

aspen mays

work by aspen mays. see more here.

[all aspen mays. 2009. top to bottom: einstein rainbow 9. the future of the future (spaceman). boom!]

bradley pitts

work by bradley pitts. see more here.

[all bradley pitts. top to bottom: untitled (speed of lights) (video still). 2006. hand meditation (video still). 2004. aural dislocation sketch no. 2 (photo by gail sherman). 2005.]

archive • marc levoy

marc levoy is a professor at stanford whose "current interests include light field sensing and display, optical microscopy, and computational photography - which refers broadly to computational imaging techniques that extend the capabilities of digital photography". a lot of interesting images in his papers. see more here.

[all from marc levoy.]

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joe winter

joe winter's 'xerox astronomy and the nebulous object-image archive' is"an installation in two parts: 1) a central kinetic sculpture and 2) the presentation of the image archive the sculpture produces. the first part places an office photocopier at the center of a mechanical model of the universe. in this model, a group of desklamp-esque arms orbit robotically, maneuvering light sources above the bed of the copier, the system's observation and recording device. by continually documenting, through photocopies, the paths of the orbiting objects, the copier produces images suggestive both of various forms of scientific vision (astrophotography, sonography, etc) and paranormal/hoax photography." see more here.

[all joe winter. from the series xerox astronomy and the nebulous object-image archive.]

superior search term • virtual reality

today's suggested term is virtual reality. have fun with the search results right here.

[all found via image search for virtual reality. top to bottom: want 2 cyber? via nootnatdit.net. a 3D virtual reality via mathworks.com. virtual reality can improve memory via medicineworld.org.]

archive • NASA langley research center multimedia repository

this site has really compressed, digital, glitchy videos of NASA crash testing. watch them here.

[all from NASA langley research center - multimedia repository.]

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toril johannessen

work by toril johannessen. see more here.

[all toril johannessen. from the series variable stars. 2009.]

archive • texas healthcare postcards

this is a weird batch of postcards of medical buildings in texas. "comprised of over 1,000 postcards and photographs from across texas depicting images of health facilities, including hospitals, medical institutions, and residences of medical practitioners. these images range in age from circa 1904 to 1985." more here.

[all from john p. mcgovern historical collections and research center at the houston academy of medicine.]

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annielaurie erickson + everett lawson

annielaurie erickson + everett lawson build the cameras that produce these images. as they explain: "we have invented a variety of retinal membranes and manual photo imaging devices able to capture fleeting moments remaining on the retina often unperceived by the conscious. subjective and objective realities are called into question, the predominance of perception being comprised of memory, psychology, and experience are drawn forth to confront the complexity of the visual world directly challenging our view of objective reality, perception, and the interpretation of the conceptual."see more here.

[all annielaurie erickson + everett lawson. untitled.]

christoph keller

from christoph keller's 'inverse observatories.' "keller makes use of the observatory contrary to its true function: it is not the universe that is observed, rather the observation itself." see more here.

[all christoph keller. from the series inverse observatories. 2007.]

sean higgins

work by sean higgins. the images were culled from nasa's photo archive and then digitally manipulated to transform documentarian images into a fictitious narrative. see more here.

[all sean higgins. top to bottom: co-conspirator. mistakes were made.]

archive • repeat photography of glaciers

these photos are from the national snow and ice data center. they are called "repeat photography of glaciers" and anybody can submit. there are more here and another site called double exposures that has aerial versions of the same subject matter here. this is also similar to the third view project.

[all from the national snow and ice data center.]

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michael vahrenwald

michael vahrenwald's great project photographing doctor prescribed depression therapy light boxes entitled "winter landscapes". see more here.

[all michael vahrenwald. from top: new horizons, 2006. color cube, 2006, sunlight, jr., 2006.]