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Transport Accident Commission Victoria – “The Ripple Effect – ‘Everybody hurts when you speed’”

August 1, 2010

Krazy Kat club – Shorpy Photo Archive

June 3, 2010

If you haven’t already, check out the Shorpy Historic Photo Archive a consistently excellent source of interesting photos. The below photo was taken in 1921 at the Krazy Kat club in Washington.

And remember kids, our iPhones may be pretty cool but we’re nowhere near our grandparents until we’re up a tree drinking gin on a summers day.
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“Exit Through the Gift Shop” – A Banksy Film

January 21, 2010

Filmmaker Terry Guetta and Banksy have somehow managed to sneak a film about the artist into the Sundance Film Festival as ‘Untitled’ only revealing it to be a documentary about street art and it’s controversial figurehead today, three days before the first screening.

http://www.banksyfilm.com/

Update: The trailer is now up.
Update 2: The music is by Geoff Barrow!

Kingston, Pennsylvania, circa 1900. “Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines.”

January 18, 2010

From Wikipedia:

A breaker boy was a worker in the United States whose job was to separate impurities from coal by hand in a coal breaker.

La Moustache – “H2oil”

December 10, 2009

Bomb It: Kenor and Kode Time Lapse

November 20, 2009

Just finished watching Bomb It and I highly recommend it. This is an excerpt from the film with Kenor and Kode.

Terry Richardson: On The Snapshot

October 2, 2009

Richard Mosse – “Mazda Capella, Sunni Triangle, Iraq 2009″

September 16, 2009

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Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary interviewed by Andrew Denton

September 3, 2009

Genuine Nerd Toby Radloff

September 1, 2009

Hally Pancer

August 18, 2009

via American Suburb X
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Milton Glaser

August 7, 2009

Pieter Hugo – “Nollywood”

August 6, 2009

via Today and Tomorrow
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Joseph Szabo – “The Kids Are Alright”

July 21, 2009

via Have No Idea and the Guardian
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A scene from Thom Andersen’s film-essay masterpiece Los Angeles Plays Itself

July 7, 2009

Richard Feynman

July 3, 2009

Clay Shirky on Social Media

June 10, 2009

via Fimoculous

Hillman Curtis – Mark Romanek interview

June 2, 2009

A lot of the time I don’t like Mark Romanek or his work, other times I cannot stand him or it. Then there are still other times when I think he’s brilliant.

Rip: A Remix Manifesto

May 5, 2009

via Fimoculous

Rosenwach Wood Water Tanks

April 23, 2009

via the New Shelton wet/dry

G.M.B. Akash – “Child Labor”

April 21, 2009

via Cynical-C
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Andrew Winning

April 16, 2009

What strikes me most about this photo is the apparent overwhelming proportion of photographers to rioters.
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John Berger’s “Ways of Seeing” – Episode 1

March 24, 2009

This is the best thing about first year Art School. I prefer the book, but apparently it started as a Television series.

Interview with Milton Glaser

March 15, 2009

Margaret Bourke-White – “Margaret Bourke-White working atop the Chrysler Building”

March 14, 2009

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