Here Comes The Sun

"Here Comes the Sun" is a song by George Harrison from The Beatles' 1969 album Abbey Road, it's also one of Harrison's best-known Beatles contributions alongside "Something" and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". The year 1969 was a difficult one for Harrison: he was arrested for marijuana possession, he had his tonsils removed, and he had quit the band temporarily. Harrison stated in his autobiography:

"Here Comes the Sun" was written at the time when Apple was getting like school, where we had to go and be businessmen: 'Sign this' and 'sign that'. Anyway, it seems as if winter in England goes on forever, by the time spring comes you really deserve it. So one day I decided I was going to sag off Apple and I went over to Eric Clapton's house. The relief of not having to go see all those dopey accountants was wonderful, and I walked around the garden with one of Eric's acoustic guitars and wrote "Here Comes the Sun".

As Clapton states in his own autobiography, the house in question is known as 'Hurtwood'.

Harrison died of lung cancer on 29 November 2001. Here is a blog post inspired by one of his famous's songs "Here Comes The Sun" to tribute to George Harrison.

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Tribute to Richard Avedon

Photos inspired by the work of American Photographer Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) and a photo of his exhibition at the SFMOMA.

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Tribute to the 'Miracle Tree'

The waterfront of Rikuzentakata, Japan, was home for 70,000 pine trees before the tsunami struck last year. Only one of them survived after the disaster and became a living symbol of hope. But now surrounding saltwater will eventually take it's life, so a $27-million effort to cut down, preserve, and reassemble the tree as a monument is planned.

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Rarely Seen Photographs from the September 11th Attacks

11 years ago digital cameras were not as common as they are today. They were expensive or bulky and took low quality photographs. There were also very few ways to publish your photographs online for many people to see. Contrast that to today where anyone that owns a cellphone has a decent quality still picture camera and can post an image online in front of thousands of people within seconds after capturing it. When the events of 9/11 took place there was a flood of photographs taken by professional photographers and members of the press, but you didn’t see many featured photographs that were taken by everyday people because of the limitations on technology and the internet at the time.

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Neil Armstrong, The First Man On The Moon, in Pictures

The official NASA portrait of Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission.

Armstrong leads out his crew, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, to the rocket on July 16 1969.

The Saturn V rocket that launched the Apollo 11 mission blasts off at Cape Kennedy.

The Apollo 11 crew: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Eugene, or 'Buzz', Aldrin.

Armstrong speaks to a technician during a suiting at the Kennedy Space Centre shortly before the moon mission.

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