• Jon Whittaker

Two members of the Georgia Animal Rights and Protection were arrested this afternoon during a rally at Emory University. The group gathered at the science center to demand the Yerkes National Primate Research Center release Wenka, a 58-year-old chimpanzee who's reportedly lived at the center for half a century and is still used for research and testing, to an animal sanctuary. CL reader (and occasional CL photo contributor) Jon Whittaker submitted photos and writes:

"Emory/Yerkes Research facilities chimpanzee, Wenka, turned 58 today after being at the research center for over 50 years.

Georgia Animal Rights and Protection (GARP) group assembled for a demonstration and protest today at Emory's Stonegate main entrance for Wenka's release to a chimpanzee sanctuary as well as to cease further experiments on the other primates at Yerkes.

After an hour of peaceful protest and passing out literature, two of the members from GARP chained a sign blocking the Stonegate entrance and before Emory police could remove the sign with bolt cutters the 2 members chained, shackled, and padlocked themselves to the 2 towers of the entrance gate, blocking any incoming traffic.

Another hour passed before Dekalb County Police, assisted by Emory Police and management, used bolt cutters to remove the [two] women from the towers and placing them under arrest.

The other protesters continued on for about another hour before dispersing without further incident with police."

UPDATE, 6:06 p.m.: An Emory spokeswoman sends along comment:

"Two animal rights protesters who hung a banner across the main entrance gate of the Emory campus and chained themselves to the banner, blocking access to the campus, were arrested for criminal trespass today. This happened after they declined a request from Emory Police to remove themselves and the banner from the roadway.

Emory and the Yerkes Research Center are devoted to the care of Wenka, the oldest chimpanzee at Yerkes. Wenka has been a key participant in the Center’s National Institute on Aging-funded grant to compare how humans, chimpanzees and rhesus monkeys age.

The knowledge Yerkes researchers are gaining from Wenka and other animals at the center is invaluable in helping humans live longer, more healthful lives. Yerkes researchers will continue to build upon their solid foundation of scientific advancements, and the center will continue to provide experts to care for all of its animals."

More photos after the jump.

• Joeff Davis

Check out our video below of our Summer Guide cover shoot set to the music of Atlanta surf rock band "El Fossil." The shoot took place at a friend of CL's pool near Toco Hills and featured local photographer Matt Miller — he's covered in tattoos — and other volunteers. We shot the cover and inside photos in about two hours. By the end everybody was shivering.

CL's Dustin Chambers shot and edited the video.

• Dustin Chambers

This week's Time and Place photo was shot at 8:35 p.m., May 13, 2012, during a recent gloATL performance at the Fourth Ward Skatepark. The sky glowed as dusk settled in, the lights of the skatepark brightly illuminated every spill and tear on the gray concrete. The performance started with a lone dancer in a blood-red swimsuit standing on her toes with a hunched back. A myriad of iPad screens diagonally cut through the frame displaying a companion video piece to the performance. As I started to frame the photo, the iPads began to glow and the crowd noticed the lone hunched dancer, too, and began to creep closer.

I like this photo not because of what it makes me feel, it honestly doesn't make me feel all that much. There is no moment and the only emotion depicted in the photo is read from the posture of the performer. To me, the photo is more like a painting or a still life, a convergence of color and shape.

• Rip Kirby, USF Coastal Research Lab, Tampa FL
• Ultraviolet light shows where dispersed oil (orange blotches) from the Deepwater Horizon accident absorbed into the legs of a graduate student who knelt underwater on a Florida beach

You knew this was coming: a way to hold your iPod or iPhone when you have no pockets. And the answer to why Facebook is so popular.

Someone is finally suing microblogging platform Tumblr for copyright infringement. If the newspaper business had been this bold 10 years ago we might still have journalism careers.

Does this turn you on?

Ever wonder what a pellet going through an M&M would look like?

In honor of gay marriage: pictures of gay couples.

Rare gorillas never before seen are captured on video. And guess what? It's not that interesting.

I wish I had seen this before I went to the beach last weekend (see above)

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photographer Horst Faas died May 10. He won his first Pulitzer for his Vietnam War photographs

• Photo by Chad Radford
• The Straight Jacket monster truck catching some serious air in Vidalia, GA.

See more photos from the 35th annual Vidalia Onion Fest.

• Goddard Space Flight Center
• An eruption shot off the east limb of the Sun

What does the sun look like?

A Los Angeles Times photographer talks about covering the LA Riots.

What if you break a $300,000 figurine when you are on an assignment for Creative Loafing?

My favorite dog video .

Another uniquely American story: imagine this causing a heart attack.

Finally, photos of people who have been abducted by aliens

• Joeff Davis
• In a brutal UFC fight Che Mills got beaten badly by Rory MacDonald last Saturday at Philips Arena.

This week's Time and Place photo was shot at 11:33 p.m., April 21, 2012, during the Ultimate Fighting Championship fights at Philips Arena. I was allowed to photograph from the closest possible proximity to the matches. My elbows actually rested on the "Octagon," the UFC's name for the fenced-in ring where gladiators battle. From that perspective I got an insane view of the sport's brutality and the rise in the audience as the violence climaxed. I was struck by the intensity of the pain that fighters experienced — but also by the intimacy between them. I chose this photo for the print edition's Time and Place section because I felt it captured both of those realities.

Check out a gallery of my images from the fights. And check out a video we made during the UFC workouts in which fighters talk with me about God, the Roman Empire, and what they eat for breakfast.

• Joeff Davis

This week's Time and Place photo was taken at 7:05 p.m., April 13, 2012, at 250 Spring Street in the AmericasMart, Building 3.

During one of the runway fashion shows at the Atlanta Apparel event, I decided to check out a view from the highest floor possible. I was rewarded with this magnificent vertigo perspective. I wrapped my camera strap around my neck a few times and leaned over the ledge as far as I could and tried to make pictures. The whole time I worried I would drop my camera and kill someone below. Or fall to my death. The lines and circles and the way it all came together in a single moment when the models would walk to the edge of the stage captivated me.

The building was designed by John Portman, a world-class architect who’s credited with helping to define Atlanta’s skyline (and, by some critics, destroying the city’s street life).

More photos after the jump

• Dustin Chambers
• Tentacle of unknown origins shot on North Avenue Saturday afternoon

Scientific proof that texting is so distracting you would not even notice a bear in front of you while texting

Awesome lightning photo

In case you forgot, we are still at war in Afghanistan

Would you pay $15,000 for this red t-shirt?

This guy should have gotten paid more

I hate to post an old add but this cracks me up every time

Penguin photos from space

Last week was the anniversary of the L.A. riots the original video of Rodney King being beaten is as heavy then as it is today