Image courtesy Phil Nesmith By midnight tonight, photographer Phil Nesmith needs to have raised $2,000 to fund his mission to the Gulf Coast. Once there, Nesmith will use a wet collodion photographic process (read: old-ass-looking photography) to document what he finds. With $2,000, he can haul his gear, his glass, and a portable darkroom there to make the images. But with 9 hours to go, Nesmith has already raised $3,370 — and now he’s…

The Atlantic’s James Fallows points us to this Google Earth-powered tool from Paul Rademacher that allows users to overlay the size of the Deepwater Horizon spill over any metropolitan area. Placing the image of the spill over the D.C. metro area provides a stunning look at just how big this disaster really is. In this case, Rademacher, who works for Google Earth, points out on his site that it is very hard to imagine the…