Not as awesome as the 1940s NYC pictures I posted this weekend, but still awesome! Here, via the Atlantic, are 1940s pictures from Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus.

Charles Cushman took color photographs of New York City in the early 1940s, the Daily Mail posted a lot of them. They're so great. Click through to love them.





Via @FelixSalmon / Stellar

Belgian photographer, Anton Kusters, spent 2 years photographing a Yakuza family in Japan. Pretty unique pictures because the Yakuza aren't generally keen on being photographed. More pictures from that project here. And a couple years ago, the Guardian had a slide show, too.

Via Brain Picker / Stellar

I always wanted to know what would happen if a truck carrying printer cartridges crashed, and it happened in my relative backyard!

Approximately 16,000 pounds of ink cartridges from the Flint Group, an Indianapolis-based company selling printing and packaging products, was bound for a newspaper company in Portland, Maine. Red, blue, and yellow ink cartridges were inside the truck, but Ferson said there is no evidence the yellow ink was released.

Via Wired

The 2010 photo retrospectives have begun, but for my money, the photo of the year is this picture of a monkey saving a puppy from a gas pipeline explosion in Nanjing, China.



We can all agree on this one, right?

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Update: Just found out the picture isn't from this year. It might be a monkey saving a puppy, but it's from 2006. I don't care. It should be the picture of EVERY year.

This fantastic collection of subway photos from 1970's and 80's New York City are great to look at.

“I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day.” In “Subway”, passengers of the city’s subterranean world are portrayed in detail, revealing the interplay of its inner landscape and outer vistas, set against a gritty, graffiti-strewn background and displayed in tones that Davidson describes as “an iridescence like that I had seen in photographs of deep-sea fish”.

This was all over Tumblr the other day. It's via them.

Lugar Común (Common Place) is a photo project matching women and their maids "designed to disrupt our acceptance of established social hierarchies". The project put 50 sets of maids and employers from Argentina, Chile, and Colombia in similar outfits and poses. Pretty cool project.



Thanks, Kerry

This picture from Scott's Photo of the Day site is pretty awesome. Reminds me of the John Cougar Mellencamp song, Pink House. Ain't that America?

I also like how big the sky is. Do yourself a favor and subscribe.

This nice picture from Scott is available at Level & Tap

From Keith Loutit, the guy who brought you the Metal Heart demolition derby tilt-shift that went around last year, here's Mardi Gras. Awesome.