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35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography

1981: Collapsed bubbles from an annealed experimental electronic sealing glass

2003: Filamentous actin and microtubules (structural proteins) in mouse fibroblasts (cells)

Wired: 35 Years of the World’s Best Microscope Photography

Battleship Island – Japan’s rotting metropolis

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These days the only things that land on Hashima Island are the shits of passing seagulls. An hour or so’s sail from the port of Nagasaki, the abandoned island silently crumbles. A former coal mining facility owned by Mitsubishi Motors, it was once the most densely populated place on earth, packing over 13,000 people into each square kilometre of its residential high-risers. It operated from 1887 until 1974, after which the coal industry fell into decline and the mines were shut for good. With their jobs gone and no other reason to stay in this mini urban nightmare, almost overnight the entire population fled back to the mainland, leaving most of their stuff behind to rot.

Today it is illegal to go anywhere near the place as it’s beyond restoration and totally unsafe. The Japanese Government aren’t keen to draw unwanted attention to this testament to the hardship of the country’s post-war industrial revolution either.

The punishment for being caught visiting Hashima Island is 30 days in prison followed by immediate deportation. But the other week, after getting up before sunrise and cutting a secret deal with a local fisherman, some friends and I landed on Hashima Island.

Vice: Battleship Island – Japan’s rotting metropolis

(via The Agitator)

Sundance: Dushku Developing Mapplethorpe Biopic

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“Eliza Dushku has more going on than just her much-talked-about starring role in television guru Joss Whedon’s new upcoming series, Dollhouse.

The Bring It On beauty just told me she’s co-producing a movie about the life of Robert Mapplethorpe, the late photographer who caused national headlines with his controversial homoerotic work.

“Literally this week after quite some time, we finalized the deal with the Mapplethorpe estate,” Dushku told me at Gatorade’s G-Gym at Sundance’s Village at the Yard. Dushku’s brother, Nate, will star as Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in 1989 at age 42.”

(via E!online)

(Related: “Black, White and Grey: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe” via SangFilms)

Night Visions: The Art of Urban Exploration

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Troy Paiva has a new book out of gorgeous urban exploration photography.

Troy Paiva’s web site

Troy Paiva’s Flickr

(via Grinding)

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