archive for April, 2009

swine flue / flying slums

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

one of the biggest idiots of our times, ryan air’s Michael O’Leary who has an opinion on just about everything is quoted by the german news website Spiegel online to have claimed that the swine flue ‘only affects people living in slums in mexico and asia’ and that ‘people flying short haul in Europe this […]

floating sand snake

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

for some reason this photo had escaped my attention when i first viewed it back in march on the big picture’s edition covering the drug war in mexico. fortunately it’s animal-like beauty did catch Bryan Finoki’s eye over at subtopia, who calls it the sand dragon: what looks like some creature from a science fiction […]

dark fibre

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

in march we spend a week in bangalore with jamie and the darkfibre crew. we had flown there to take pictures of them while they were shooting for dark fibre (more pictures will become available later). dark fibre crew at work on the rooftop terrace of a IT office building in south bangalore it was […]

‘Spain saves white negro from sure death’

Monday, April 13th, 2009

over the last couple of days there has been a disproportionate amount of attention for a albino migrant named Moszy who, back in march, arrived together with 60 other a African migrants on the Spanish island of Tenerife. Moszy, who is said to have fled his native Benin where he was frequently abducted and used […]