January 2010
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Eat your heart out, Hans Christian Andersen →
Very impressive paper cutouts. Very!
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Vivian Maier, photographer →
Discovered this blog via @marks. Amazing images, but an even more amazing story behind them. I hope a book is written about her.
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What I Keep →
Moving collection of photos. Here’s the photographer’s description:
This work explores ideas of class, race, ownership, value, cultural identification and faith. I collaborate with members of The Church Under the Bridge in Waco, Texas, a non-denominational, multi-cultural Christian church that has been meeting under Interstate 35 for sixteen years. Many of the people have had...
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This is the magic of the Internet →
The post is brief. Read the comments to see the magic unfold.
Now I want to read the works by Buck Wray, the Balloon Man of Kovalam.
Thank you to Bruce Lawson (@brucel) for facilitating this amazing conversation.
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William S. Burroughs' stuff →
marks:
The apartment that American writer William S. Burroughs inhabited while he lived in New York has been preserved since his death in 1997. Photographer Peter Ross took some photos of some of the…
Wow. These things really do tell stories.
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Look into the past →
Lovely idea to take old photos and photograph the same spot - with the old photo - many years later. A cousin did that for my uncle for a birthday present. It’s a beautiful idea.
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Guerrilla Public Service
An artist put up a needed road sign on a busy Los Angeles freeway. It stayed put for 8 years, 3 months, and 15 days until the authorities made an official new road sign - that included the artist’s changes.
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"I haven't put on weight. Your eyes are fat." →
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxcVyBRecE
Tango 2.0. Oh dear! (Don’t try this at home, kids) (The split was a killer.)
http://www.catsforgold.com/
Who can resist cats for gold?
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Watchsocialhallucinations finds such lovely tidbits all the time. This one caught my attention in particular - it’s as though the hands themselves represent parkour:
parkour motion reel illustrated with technical pen,frame by frame. looks good
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