Famous photographers and their cameras. That’s William Eggleston holding the Leica.

Merry Xmas! (via xplanes)

Jason Kottke has been doing a great job tracking 2000s Best Of lists. And to be honest, you could devote a whole blog to those. I’ll do some lists of my own in due time, but this one I did enjoy: Movie Posters of the Decade. (via Natalia on Facebook)

Love this xkcd. While teaching practical use (i.e. video editing) to kids who often reason and behave as if the computer is a black box with elves, fairies, unicorns and glitter inside, I’m always trying to offer a glimpse of the real beauty: Layer upon layer of progressive abstraction that allows for billions of very simple elements, such as what are basically on-off switches, to create something incredible complex, for instance a dramatic chipmunk.

Gerard Van der Leun found a stash of photos of Los Angeles taken by Ansel Adams in the early 1940s. I love the pulp magazines in the front. (via Kottke)

An impressive gallery of bankrupt and closed-down shopping malls. (via BoingBoing)

The excellent Basic Sounds blog (move over, VVORK!) links the NatGeo International Photography Contest winners.

Wow. A carefully composed car accident. (via Pedro Quintas)