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The US National Archives have made a large chunk of their Documerica project from the 1970's available on Flickr. In the wake of the Nixon-created Environmental Protection Agency, the project set up to document the environmental state of the US at the time - with Koyaanasqatsi-esque results.

Via WIRED

Star Wars On Earth - great set of photos from Cédric Delsaux over at WorldFamousDesignJunkies

More info has emerged on the forthcoming third LP from Band of Horses, Infinite Arms, due to arrive on May 18th. The satisfyingly familiar cover is by Christopher Wilson, who's portfolio looks like a peek inside my iPod.

Looks like old favourite Sub Pop have got the heave-ho however, with the release coming via Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia.

Nothing makes for a lazy blog post quite like a new set of photos from The Big Picture. Here's New York City AND Las Vegas from above.

superheroes at war on Flickr

alright, it's not quite the Lego/iPhone hybrid we've all been waiting for (no? just me?) but this app does a good job of Legoising your pics

Polaroid's dead? Long live ... Polaroid! here's the PIC 1000, in a nice wood-style box

Here's part 1 of 3 from The Big Picture's photo round-up of 2009.

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

UPDATE: If that's not enough, here's the whole 00s.

Spoon have unveiled the cover for new album Transference, and this time they're using a photo from chimp favourite William Eggleston.

Via Stereogum

another lo-fi digital camera with built-in super 8 stylings (and no sound!) - the Digital Harinezumi

Tons of surveillance up from me and Marmot's recent NYC op. Highlights include the tailing jumbo (above), plus numerous dead (landmark) record shops.

looks like the rumours of Polaroid's death might be slightly premature - a group of fans got together as The Impossible Project and have revived the idea:

"The Impossible Project inspires Polaroid to re-launch Instant Cameras
We are pleased to herewith announce a history making cooperation between Polaroid and The Impossible Project:

As we have created quite some buzz about Analog Instant Photography over the past 12 months, the Polaroid licensee - The Summit Global Group - now can't resist any longer and announced at a press conference on October 13th in Hongkong that they will re-launch some of the most famous Polaroid Instant Cameras.

Therefore they are commissioning The Impossible Project to develop and produce a limited edition of Polaroid branded Instant Films in the middle of 2010.

The Impossible Project is proud and excited that its ambitions and all the relentless work that has already been invested are now becoming the foundation for Polaroid's comeback as a producer of Instant Cameras.

Large-scale production and worldwide sale of The Impossible Project's new integral film materials under its own brand will already start in the beginning of 2010 - with a brand new and astonishing black and white Instant Film and the first colour films to follow in the course of the year."

another entry in the pointless-but-fun files - Spell With Flickr which pulls letters off Flickr and writes words for you with them

after a few days wading through the Indiana vaults here at Chimp Towers, our crack team of archaeologists has finally located the first documented entry in one of our longest on-going surveillance projects: yes, here's a dead TV, somewhere on Haste Street, Berkeley circa 1993. that's right kids, we're not new to this, we're true to this... join our Dead TV group over on Flickr

Sufjan Stevens hasn't quite finished his project to record an album for every State in the US, but that doesn't mean he's slowed down his work rate. The next album The BQE is "a grand creative franchise-incorporating movie, symphony, comic book, dissertation, photography, graphic design, and a 3-D Viewmaster® reel" based on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway - a road in New York. It's all out in October, and is an all-instrumental affair

Nice collection of photos of discarded mattresses at Street Mattress. Maybe we should think about a Dead TV spin-off?