Two Photo Sets: Burning Man and Underwater People

First, a look at the #lifechanging Burning Man festival. The captions are great (“Pippin chats on the phone with God on September 1, 2013,” “The Temple of Whollyness is burned on the Playa”), as is imagining a day in the life of a Reuters stringer living the classic American nightmare of Sober at Burning Man. [The Atlantic]

Then, from photographer Wayne Levin, a phenomenal set of black and white film photographs of swimmers and fish underneath churning waves: every photo is otherworldly, luminescent, ominous and surprising. [Juxtapoz]