One of my photos from ages ago, when I used to shoot models. This was shot on real black and white film, and developed by me in an actual dark room. I believe this was on Agfa 50 ISO film which was fantastically expensive but lovely, for any of you other old-schoolers out there.

The grain is intentional, for any of you used to the digital world — the whole idea of the photo was the distinction or lack thereof between the world and the body. Or some other pretentious shit like that; anyway, I like the photo even after all these years.

Great photo. From here.

Here you can see the history of automation, in one graph.

From here. Notice how recessions cause mail volume to fall, thus mail per employee. Automation in the postal space is only medium difficulty, so it’s a good proxy for the “average” job. By this very limited measure, productivity is now a little over three times higher per employee than in 1930.

I like this picture of Maria Kirilenko.

Those arms.