mayor with pac-man

March 11, 1982: Mayor Dianne Feinstein accepts Atari’s donation to Save the Cable Cars, and has to talk to Pac-man.

more photos: Great moment in Cable Cars. sfgate, 26.07.12.

summer class pause

steve and jenn. summer 2010 at ucsd. photo by me.

follow my photography tumblr, where I slowly upload my good photos.

dianneyee.tumblr.com

equalization

"I think the bicycle has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world," feminist pioneer Susan B. Anthony said in 1896. "It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. The moment she takes her seat she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood."

Same goes for blacks and other minorities.

Now everyone—women, minorities— need to catch on and get on their bikes again.
But this time not get a general "feeling of freedom", but freedom from cars/oil/megacorporations/modern day evils.

jenni vartiainen

Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer

Tampereen Yo-talon bäkkärillä 26.11.2010, by Kalle Björklid

a piece of oakland's hidden history

The Athens Athletic Club was where the East Bay's civic and business elite devoted time to exercise, relaxation, and fellowship. The building came down in 1977. The Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building now occupies the site.

oakland, postcard history

postcard from old oakland

oakland, postcard history

public market

seattle, wa., 11.10.2010. by rukes.

to look or not to look

copenhagen cycle chic

st petersburg bike nights

copenhagen cycle chic

Market Street in 1906

The video below is titled "A Trip Down Market Street" and it's true to its name, a 13 minute trip from 8th Street down Market Street to the Ferry Building just days before the great quake of 1906. You'll see a vibrant metropolis full of cars, bikes, horses, cable cars and people traversing Market St. The detective story behind the film clip is almost as interesting as what it contains. (Please note that there are rolling frames and a slight stall in the early part of the film which end at the 1 minute 40 second mark.)

read more on sfgate

gravel

marc riboud

Man Painting the Eiffel Tower, 1953: I walked up the tower, maybe one hour of walking. Some people ask me, "Did you ask the painter for permission?" I said, "My goodness, no. To talk with them was to risk slipping and falling down." I've always been shy and I've always been trying to ignore the people I was photographing, so that they ignore me. I'm trying always to take a better picture than the one before but I was not sure of this one. I didn't think after I shot the picture that I shot something interesting. I learned from Cartier-Bresson what's called "geometry in photography." It's not dependent on what you'd call a good photograph, but good geometry.

Antiques Dealer in Old Beijing, China, 1965: This turned out to be my best icon. As a print it has been put at the highest price. It was in 1965 with my first wife who was American. She wanted to visit this antiques shop. Maybe I spent 25 minutes with her there. She was interested in buying some seals to put on letters. I kept saying, "Don't buy. It's too expensive." I wasn't pleased that we spent so much time there. She left after buying nearly half a dozen of these antique seals. We divorced. She got the seals. I got the pictures.

marc riboud
photographer of the golden era, 16.03.2010 sfgate

Marc Riboud Photographs: through May 1 at North Gate Hall, UC Berkeley.

closed sundays. (510) 642-3383. www.journalism.berkeley.edu.

the american school system

Iowa State University Library, University Archives

Item 130338, Fleets and Facilities Department Imagebank Collection (Record Series 0207-01), Seattle Municipal Archives.

dear texas: please shut up. sincerely, history. mark morford, 17.03.2010, sfgate.
texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences. 12.03, ap. (1052 comments)

u.s. history textbooks could soon be flavored heavily with texas conservatism. 15.03, yahoo news.

facing up to our ignorance: , 11.03, slate.
diane ravitch: the death and life of the great american school system (02.03 – #1 in edu theory books)

this shit's actually quite serious.

bath time

snowy river

Snowy River - 1:22 p.m. - Midwest I was flying back from the East Coast over the weekend and had a stop-over in Minneapolis on the way to SFO. About a half hour out of the airport and 25,000 feet up I started shooting the scenery out my window, burrr. I don't think we have much to complain about here in the Bay Area when we get a small rain storm. Camera settings: Canon 5D MkII, ISO 200, 1/100, f/22, 24mm lens.

Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle

outtakes by sfgate photographers

neighborhood walk

photos by r.bauce

sunrise

by Doug Winsor

Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry in “The Legend of Nick Detroit,” Punk Magazine, Issue 6, October 1976

hanging

reblogged from libraryvixen

courthouse wedding

suzy + matt, misha ashton photography