seeing & being seen

Todd Forsgren White-crowned Sparrow, 2006 and Black-capped Chickadee, 2005

Catering to my well-documented weakness for ornithology/photography interplay:

Bowdoin alum Todd Forsgren’s series of birds caught in mist nets.

Via my uncle, a fantastic repository of old logging photographs, from which I gleaned a few:

I’m a few days behind on this, so the milestone has surely already been left in the dust, but Flickr recently reached its *2 billionth photo.* That is a fair chunk of pixel action.

Via TechCrunch, an elegant method to browse other numeric Flickr watershed moments: type in the URL http://flickr.com/photo.gne?id=XXXXXXX (Xs as photo number).

Flickr’s 777777th photo, aka 035_14A, by Drudacris27

Flickr’s 314159625th photo, aka IMG_1448, by Fontaine&Charles

If such dizzying pixel proliferation makes your head spin, it is worth noting that Facebook’s 4.1 billion photos is, well, twice that.

Disclaimer: the following is not strictly photo-related.

Mind the crack … a visitor looks at Doris Salcedo’s Turbine Hall installation. Photograph: Anton Hammerl/PA

In the I-am-loving category: the Tate Modern’s new installation by Doris Salcedo - a monumental fissure across the floor of the gallery. Google images here. All fine and dandy, apparently, until a few oblivious art viewers are swallowed whole trip. Better yet, however, are the the snide/self-consciously clever titles proliferating across the art pages of various newspapers:

Art lovers fall victim to Doris’s crack

Tate ‘crack’ has Londoners falling over themselves

Is the Tate Modern’s Art All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

Tate Modern’s crack claims first victims

Art lovers fall into Tate’s crack

Dana Warp mill basement playground

Even I could not resist.