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Burning Man, “an annual art event and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance,” is about to take place again this year in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. In the meantime, John Curley is already out in the desert capturing the moments, people and atmosphere before it all begins.

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"Stunning Flickr set of interchanges in Japan” by Ken Ohyama. [via jordanclaire on twitter]

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Photo of a sign by Artist General taken by Andrew Mager in San Francisco.

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This is a brilliant combination of pixel art and street art.  The photo was taken by Annamarie on 9th Street west of 2nd Avenue in New York City. If you have information about the artist, please tell us in the comments.

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In art school, I kept all my receipts for art supplies for several years in folders and boxes, thinking I would do something with them one day. Turn them into an art piece, attach them into a long paper trail documenting my consumption. Something. I love Kate Bingaman-Burt‘s solution: “I draw something that I purchase everyday. I also draw my credit card statements.” You can see her drawings at her Flickr collection or at her blog, Obsessive Consumption.

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Hunto’s Sonny Angel toys like hiding in the couch.

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Domo helps Thomas Marban with his new Apple toy. So nice of him.

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Photo of a woman aircraft worker by David Bransby, June 1942

Today Flickr launches The Commons, starting with a pilot program with The Library of Congress. According to The Library of Congress blog, “out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist. The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over. We want people to tag, comment and make notes on the images, just like any other Flickr photo, which will benefit not only the community but also the collections themselves.” The hope is that this “is a model that other cultural institutions would pick up, to share and redistribute the myriad collections held by cultural heritage institutions all over the world.” Read Flickr’s blog post.

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