sure, eating local is a nice way of feeling sustainable if you live in southern california. you take a little extra time in your whole foods examining your avocados before you place them in your canvas bag, hop on your fixed gear and ride away. but if you live in barrow alaska, the northernmost settlement in the US, eating locally means you’re eating whale blubber- and a lot of it.

jonathan harris’ the whale hunt is one of the most unique and compelling websites I have come across. the shear beauty of the photographs would be worth visiting on their own, but the interface and the method of documentation is really incredible. the amount of photos taken during a specific interval is determined by what is heart rate was at that point- the higher his heart rate, the more photos taken. while there are obvious moments where you’d expect an observer’s heart rate to be high (when a whale is pulled onto the ice by a village of people by hand), there are other moments where you wouldn’t expect a high heart rate that adds an incredible personal touch to the story.