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The Baby Batman Characters - My Modern Metropolis
Sheila Lukins, the author of the iconic 1980s cookbook 'Silver Palate Cookbook' has died after a short battle with brain cancer. Slashfood
"Harvey Pekar's been mining the mundane for magic for more than 30 years in his autobiographical American Splendor comics. Now he has teamed with SMITH and four remarkable artists — Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor — to create his first ongoing webcomic series."
Allison Chipak and her husband, Kevin Fay, recently spent nine days in New Orleans—four of them traveling on their own, and five as volunteers with the St. Bernard Project. Their goal: to help rebuild homes that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina four years ago. Fay wrote about his experience in St. Bernard Parish; Chipak documented some of the destruction and decay that remains in a haunting slideshow.
Moldover's new CD, over 3 years in the making, not only delivers gorgeously diverse music with meaning and musical mastery, it completely redefines what it means to 'play an album'... Moldover's CD packaging itself IS a new musical instrument! The CD is mounted on a custom designed circuit board, intricately patterned and powering a 'light-Theremin'.
These vivid color photos from the Great Depression and World War II capture an era generally seen only in black-and-white. Photographers working for the United States Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) created the images between 1939 and 1944.
They may resemble pandas, buffaloes and camels - but these animals are actually poodles, all competing for the title of top dog at 'creative grooming' shows across the U.S.
Tell Laura not to cry, my love for her will never die.
Demetri Martin is one our favorite comedians. Known for his palindromes, weird charts, odd songs and helmet hair, Martin never ceases to amuse. Lots more posters here
THE size of your pay packet may be important, but so is its purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities.
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The Wagenburg Story, a photo story about alternative lifestyle in a German trailerpark.
Eight people, six dogs, seven cats, three pigs, the sheeps Pauline and Mrs. Krause, two goats, two guinea pigs, the rabbit Erika and five chickens with one cock live together in the trailer park. More Here
What a marvel the first photographic images must have been to their early-19th-century viewers — the crisp, unassailable reality of scenes and events, unfiltered by an artist’s paintbrush or point of view.
And what an opportunity for manipulation. It didn’t take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.
Photo: David King Collection, London
While it may not enjoy the most glamorous of reputations, quilting is making a comeback: in 2010 the V&A will launch one of the finest quilting exhibitions in the world and introduce a brand new audience to the craft.
The resource towns along the west coast of Canada—those that have survived, and those that haven’t—tell a story of land’s end, as a place and as a possibility. In 1999, Christopher Grabowski, a documentary writer and photographer, read an article in the Globe and Mail, reporting that “the Department of Fisheries and Oceans withheld a major study of economically devastated West Coast fishing communities and then released a sanitized version, omitting the criticism contained in the original report.” He packed his notebook and camera and set out for the west coast of Canada, north of Vancouver, a vast, rugged mosaic of islands, peninsulas and waterways at the edge of the continent. There he travelled from place to place—usually by water, because no roads can be built there—and talked to people in towns and villages whose world had changed profoundly, almost overnight. That trip turned out to be the first of many over the next ten years. More here.
Fist Full Of Fur from Ummm Productions
For many years bartenders got away with mixing rum and Coke, vodka and tonic, Apple-tinis, and the vile Red Bull mixed with anything, calling them cocktails, and the public accepted this. The past few years, however have given way to the term Mixologist; glorified bartenders who specialize in the resurgence of the classic, proper cocktail as well as many new classically inspired concoctions. The popularity of Mad Men has undoubtedly been a major catalyst in the cocktail revolution, and personally I couldn’t be more grateful.
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CRUMB: I went through that whole thing too; maybe I'll draw God as a black woman. But if you actually read the Old Testament he's just an old, cranky Jewish patriarch. It's a lot of fun doing Genesis, actually. It's very visual. It's lurid. Full of all kinds of crazy, weird things that will really surprise people.
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