Sleep Letters

BARTEL side project, Sleep Letters, put out a digital version of the upcoming 7″ today. Quite different than the BARTEL approach to things, but nonetheless interesting! FREE. Listen here.

DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s

As the 1960s came to an end, the rapid development of the American postwar decades had begun to take a noticeable toll on the environment, and the public began calling for action. In November 1971, the newly created Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a massive photo documentary project, called DOCUMERICA, to record these changes. More than 100 photographers were hired not only to document specific environmental issues, but to capture images of everyday life, showing how we interacted with the environment and capturing the way parts of America looked at that moment in history. By 1974, more than 80,000 photographs had been produced. The National Archives has made 15,000 of these images available, and I've spent much of the past week combing through those to bring you these 46 glimpses of America in the early 1970s, with an eye toward our then-ailing environment. [46 photos]

Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant loom over a home located across the Kanawha River, near Poca, West Virginia, in August of 1973. (Harry Schaefer/NARA)

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bibliophage \BIB-lee-uh-feyj\, noun;

1. An ardent reader; a bookworm.

The Lunar Cycle

The Great Lunar Cycle, a new print Aaron Thong. Love it.

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11/11/11

It’s 11/11/11. Here are some of the pictures I took today:

a few more photos of the day can be found at photos.bestape.net.

photos taken on 10/10/10 can be found here: http://blog.bestape.net/post/1381021142/101010.