NASA joins flickr, soon will have DSLR photos of spaceship crotch

Five days ago NASA dumped some photos onto a Flickr Commons account, at http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons/:





So far only 180 photos. The Flickr blog says "Their Commons account will feature photos from across the agency’s many locations and centers, chronicling the history of space and lunar missions, and the people and places of the organization," so maybe they will be adding more.

NASA already shares lots of photos at http://nasaimages.org and of course the now like 90 years old APOD but the more limited, curated selection in the Flickr account makes it more approachable.

Curation is everything when it comes to disseminating media now; after Wikipedia was created it was proven maybe that just putting all the world's knowledge online improves how we get information but not how information gets to us. Curation is the new creation.

Still on the subject of internet photos

This image appeared on my screen today with the AP caption I have reprinted below

Sixty nine year-old Ethel Jones poses with her .38 caliber snubnose revolver behind the glass door window she shattered when she fired three shots at a burglar who broke into her Decatur, Alabama home Monday, August 30, 2010. An 18-year-old suspect was taken to Huntsville Hospital with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.(AP)

It was very reminiscent of this photo which I remembered having just seen on Melisaki:



"Nellie with Gun" by Stan Healy from Melisaki. Melisaki seems to post photos that are scanned from books to his own computer which is why there is relatively really great accreditation.

I was still a bit puzzled though. Researching "Nellie with Gun by Stan Healy" very briefly, I didn't find anything except the blurb for a book that may or may not contain that photo: "Missoula newspaper photojournalist Stan Healy produced thousands of photographs in his lifetime. Healy is praised for his unique ability to capture a story and do it with an artistic aesthetic that is captivating."

From the Weberspace: 9.1.2010

This is a really really exceptionally well-curated photo-tumblr named Melisaki

It has a lot of great selections from professional photography of the second-half-of-20th century which is usually invisible to the internet's view of history:





And last-decade stuff which I am always like "where the hell has this awesome photo been??"



And fucked-up collages



and lots of naked women, as stipulated in the Tumblr terms of service