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“A friend of mine also recounted this quote that he heard Mr. Kelly say at the listening party...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:14:47 +0100

“A friend of mine also recounted this quote that he heard Mr. Kelly say at the listening party for the new chapters of Trapped in the Closet:

“People ask me, Kels, why do you keep on using the same backing track? Why don’t you change the backing track?”

“Breathe in. Just take a deep breath [BREATHES IN]. What is that? What is that? That’s air. That’s the air we’re all breathing. Just breathe that in. We need that to survive. That backing track is the air that those characters are breathing. Without it, they would die.”

Sam Amidon interviewed two years ago at Captain Obvious

One of my favorite new blogs chronicles the work of Vivian...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:14:47 +0100

One of my favorite new blogs chronicles the work of Vivian Maier, a French nanny in Chicago whose amateur street photography from the 1950s-70s was recently uncovered when John Maloof bought a locker full of more than 40.000 medium format negatives at an auction.

Evan Quigley, Untitled

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:14:49 +0100

Evan Quigley, Untitled

El Perro del Mar, Change of Heart

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:14:48 +0100

El Perro del Mar, Change of Heart

Before Photoshop made it possible to combine any two images, photographers had to make do with...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:14:46 +0100

Before Photoshop made it possible to combine any two images, photographers had to make do with double exposures, often unintentionally creating genius. (via Square America, again. More images below the jump)

Square America also offers a brief series of stereoscopic pics...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:14:46 +0100

Square America also offers a brief series of stereoscopic pics reconstructed into animated GIFs, creating strangely three-dimensional images of the past.

Yet more from Square America, spotted in their Polaroid...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:14:51 +0100

Yet more from Square America, spotted in their Polaroid slideshow.

A countertop encrusted with Lego bricks, I so need this. (via...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:14:37 +0100

A countertop encrusted with Lego bricks, I so need this. (via @DougCoupland, via The Cool Hunter)

More from Square America, this time from their tribute to that...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:45:54 +0100

More from Square America, this time from their tribute to that most unheralded photographer of the past century: the photobooth.

Found image from Square America’s In God’s Country...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:44:53 +0100

Found image from Square America’s In God’s Country slideshow.

(via bonjour,lindsay)

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:44:54 +0100

(via bonjour,lindsay)

Andre Agassi: I Wore a Wig in 1990 French Open...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:43:39 +0100

Andre Agassi: I Wore a Wig in 1990 French Open Final

“‘Every morning I would get up and find another piece of my identity on the pillow, in the wash basin, down the plughole,’ he writes. But after the wig fell apart in the shower the night before the Paris final, his brother helped him clamp it together using about 20 clips. Agassi writes: ‘Of course I could have played without my hairpiece, but what would all the journalists have written if they knew that all the time I was really wearing a wig? During the warming-up training before play I prayed. Not for victory, but that my hairpiece would not fall off. With each leap, I imagine it falling into the sand. I imagine millions of spectators move closer to their TV sets, their eyes widening and, in dozens of dialects and languages, ask how Andre Agassi’s hair has fallen from his head.”

(via Towleroad)

Stunning Russian poster, more here.

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07:46 +0100

Stunning Russian poster, more here.

Group of workers harvesting tea. Greek women, Chakva; between...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:07:58 +0100

Group of workers harvesting tea. Greek women, Chakva; between 1905 and 1915. Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress). (via Captured Photo Collection » Color Photography from Russia in the Early 1900s)

Halloween in 2009, according to Chris Ware (read the whole story...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:07:22 +0100

Halloween in 2009, according to Chris Ware (read the whole story at the New Yorker)

Serbian tattoo skills courtesy of Nemanja Knezevic, and...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:17:46 +0100

Serbian tattoo skills courtesy of Nemanja Knezevic, and BOOOOOOOM!

Bas Princen has a great eye for otherworldy and absurd landscapes and structures under...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:17:46 +0100

Bas Princen has a great eye for otherworldy and absurd landscapes and structures under construction. (via BOOOOOOOM!)

Michael Wolf scours the Google street view of Paris, capturing...

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:17:46 +0100

Michael Wolf scours the Google street view of Paris, capturing Parisians caught unawares. (via andrewromano)

Things to do in Berlin, pt. IV The Thomas Demand show at the...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:17:46 +0100

Things to do in Berlin, pt. IV

The Thomas Demand show at the Neue Nationalgalerie preserves the mystery of the artist’s elaborate paper reconstructions by not revealing the story behind these locations. Thus, what may look like a cherished place from the artist’s past could just as well be the site of a heinous crime. The pairing with texts by Botho Strauß is less successful, since the accompanying paragraphs sometimes get bogged down in pointless narratives or, what’s worse, Teutonic philosophizing.

Things to do in Berlin, pt. III The New York Times tipped me off...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:17:49 +0100

Things to do in Berlin, pt. III

The New York Times tipped me off to a low-rent but highly exciting show of social realist painting from ye olde communist Russia. Thematically organized but fluorescently lit and stuffed to the brink, the walls of the Jeschke-Van Vliet Gallery still yield great pleasures. Admittedly, many of these pleasures are ironic in the sense that some of these patriotic paintings look like Diesel ads, but the sheer volume of works on display cannot help but communicate something of real life behind the Iron Curtain. (first three pics via Cherries and Sparrows)