Visual Loft: 03/21

March 31, 2021

Hasselblad, GoPro

Long before GoPro developed the chest mount for its camera, NASA had come up with such an idea for the Hasselblad cameras used during the Apollo 11 expedition.

Hasselblad

GoPro

Laguna de Sánchez: before, after

This is how the region used to look like and how it looks like now amid the fires.

Kuwait 1991, Arteaga 2021

Steve McCurry, Kuwait (1991)

Arteaga, Coahuila (2021)

There have been a number of fires in the mountains of Coahuila and Nuevo León back home. It's out of control, thousands of hectares have been destroyed, people relocated, fauna has died.

March 30, 2021

New Prussia: German order after World War I

What would had happened if Germany had won World War I?

Amid the war, in February 1916, Life magazine published a map of how North America could look like. On its cover!

It's amazing how the imagination of the editors renamed the geography. It's worth perusing the map.

Enjoy!

Lil Nas produced 666 pairs partially filled with human blood (a joke) and today sold each pair for 1,000 dollars. It took him less than a minute to sell all of them! But Nike sued him: Satan doesn't align with the brand.

March 29, 2021

Bocca della veritá, Aztec calendar

March 28, 2021

Denni Parkinson, Pamela Anderson

Denni Parkinson with Richard Branson

Pamela Anderson with random model

March 27, 2021

Suez, Iceland

Suez canal blocked by large container ship Ever Given. Thousands of cargo ships have been delayed.

At the same time, a huge amount of Icelanders are blocking the road that goes up to the active volcano Geldingadalur. In 2010, thousands of flights were cancelled due to ashes coming out from another volcano in Iceland.