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natgeofound:

Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

laughingsquid:

Callinectes Douglassi, Giant Stained Glass Crab Sculpture at Baltimore Washington International Airport

(via rdarmas)

laughingsquid:

The Exceptional Expressions of Espresso by Pop Chart Lab

thefrogman:

And original I made for Slacktory.

Metro doesn’t just run from one part of town to another; it bridges some enormous gaps in income around the D.C. region. Median annual household income along the subway system ranges from $147,630 around the Friendship Heights station on the Red Line to $31,735 in Congress Heights on the Green Line. These figures are from the American Community Survey’s 2011 5-Year Estimates. Each number represents an average of the median household incomes for all populated census tracts within a half mile of the station. (This was inspired by a New Yorker project that mapped income inequality on New York subway lines.)

-Read more at: Washington City Paper 

npr:

Brazil’s largest city is more about business than art. But a new crop of creators — who work in media as different as crochet, graffiti and mini-poems — is trying to change that by sprucing up public spaces.

via In Gritty Sao Paulo, Artists Take To The Streets

Photo: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro / NPR

natgeofound:

With a harbor view, a teataster samples from cups spread upon a table in Baltimore, Maryland, September 1964.
Photograph by Bates Littlehales, National Geographic

laughingsquid:

Chart of Charts

laughingsquid:

Mod Men, Photo Series Exploring How the World of ‘Mad Men’ Would Look in the 21st Century