A rare and revealing look at the iconic band through a series of intimate, never-before-seen photographs taken during The Beatles’ three U.S. tours.
The photos were taken by The Fab Four’s tour manager, Bob Bonis, who carried his Leica M3 camera everywhere, capturing pockets of wonderfully candid private moments tucked beneath the band’s overscheduled, overexposed public selves.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
The Lost Beatles Photographs: The Bob Bonis Archive, 1964-1966
Noma Bar's Negative Space Illustrations
Noma Bar classic: Negative Space — an anthology of Bar’s most compelling work from various high-profile magazines, commenting on some of today’s most pressing sociopolitical issues with the artist’s signature provocative subtlety.
Thanks Bruce!
50 Easy April Fool's Day Pranks
4. Put food coloring in the hand soap dispenser.
3. Put an ad in the paper for a garage sale at someone’s house beginning at 6 a.m.
2. Buy some underwear, write a co-worker’s name in them, then leave them on the floor of the office bathroom.
1. Install the Blue Screen of Death screen-saver on someone’s computer.
3. Put an ad in the paper for a garage sale at someone’s house beginning at 6 a.m.
2. Buy some underwear, write a co-worker’s name in them, then leave them on the floor of the office bathroom.
1. Install the Blue Screen of Death screen-saver on someone’s computer.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Cocktail Chemistry: Parsing The Bloody Mary
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| A visualization of the flavors in a typical bloody mary |
With gas and liquid chromatography, Da Costa isolated the wide variety of compounds that give the bloody mary its unique flavor. The drink covers much of the taste spectrum: sweet, salty, sour and umami — the savory taste of glutamic acid.What's worth taking away from this? Good tomato juice is a must but cheap vodka is okay and a Bloody Mary must always be served very cold.
Bloody Mary aficionado, Ernest Hemingway, agreed, "He jotted down at the bottom of his recipe, "Whole trick is to keep it very cold."
Shots - Health Blog : NPR - Via
Fallen Angels
My friend Prodigal has posted some of his lovely photos on his blog. This one was taken at a tiny temple between Tanjore Trichy in India. The figures are offerings to the deities.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Ducked and Covered
This early 1980s film by the Australian Board of Civil Defence tells how to live through a nuclear holocaust.
Ducked and Covered: A Survival Guide to the Post Apocalypse from Nathaniel Lindsay
Via Kuriositas
Ducked and Covered: A Survival Guide to the Post Apocalypse from Nathaniel Lindsay
Broken into four chapters, the film guides wary survivors through the trials that will await them in the post apocalypse. From post-apocalyptic fashion and unique uses for surplus human skulls, to becoming a local warlord and avoiding radioactive mutants, there is something for all dwellers of the wastelands.
The Pathology of Inactive Life
Interesting use of the famous historical illustrations of Andreas Vesalius’ De Humani Corporis Fabrica at Street Anatomy. I fear I have Chronic Computerosis and Deskorheea as well.
Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
National Geographic‘s Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) tells the riveting story of how the two-wheel wonder pedaled forward the emancipation of women in late-nineteenth-century America and radically redefined the normative conventions of femininity.
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| Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.” ~ Susan B. Anthony, 1896 |
Via Brain Pickings
Thanks Bruce!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Prince Harry, George Clooney and More Famous Best Men in Weddings
Prince Harry threw his brother William a stag night, George Clooney stood up next to Richard Kind, and Sinatra supported Sammy Davis Jr. View photos of stars in the wedding party at The Daily Beast
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| Howard Hughes and Cary Grant |
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| William Holden and Ronald Reagan |
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| George Clooney and Richard Kind |
100 Worlds Project | Sculptures by Ron Miriello
100 Worlds Project is an exhibition of globe-inspired sculptures made by Ron Miriello, in collaboration with a community of craftsmen, makers, photographers and amici.
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| A 1950s aerospace caliper transformed into a globe armature in the hands of a talented metalsmith. |
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| When welder Seth Collins offered me his worn saw blade he said, “ I think there’s one of your worlds wound up tight in here.” |
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| Why had I been keeping a Canadian 5-pin bowling ball, a plumb bob and a gear chase I found at the Black Hole in New Mexico? |
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Regrets, I’ve had a few (but not too few to mention)
The research has just been published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science and was carried out by psychologists Mike Morrison and Neal Roese who used random dialling to call people and survey them about a troubling regret.
Darkness and Cherry Pie
That duplicitous terrain was captured in a map drawn by David Lynch himself, meant to set the scene for ABC executives about to see the series’ pilot episode. As a type, this map is indebted to the adventure book endpaper map (4) and, more generally, to any hand-drawn itinerary: it sacrifices accuracy for detail, enhancing the elements of the landscape that are relevant to the story.
Via Strange Maps
‘Monterey Pop’ film maker Richard Leacock R.I.P.
Leacock also filmed this interview with film icon Louise Brooks.
LULU from Django's Ghost on Vimeo.
Matthew Cusick's Map Collages
Link to the artist's page.
Mumbai Skateboards
Tobias Megerle came up with the idea to let a dozen Mahim woodcarvers from Mumbai to produce their own traditional skateboards. The results are beautiful.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
I'm terribly busy
I work for a Member of Parliament and we are now in the midst of a federal election campaign. I will be working dreadfully long hours and will try my level best to provide you with the service to which you've become accustomed :-). Be patient my friends - it's just a few weeks.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Grieving For My Dog
Lee was everyone’s favorite dog in part because she didn’t make it easy for you to like her. She was stubborn and needy and scared of almost everything: kids, loud noises, basketballs and footballs, dancing — any sudden movement, really — and cats. She wouldn’t fetch. She barked, loudly, when people were having sex. When friends came over she would insist on being petted and if they stopped she would nudge them with her head, sometimes so hard that people who were holding glasses of wine spilled it on themselves.
Stories like this one make me sad. Why is it that I so love reading them? Am I mad?
More at NYTimes.com
More at NYTimes.com
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Last Expo
Poor little paintings! An artist spent time creating them; perhaps they hung in someone's living room and were gazed on with affection. Now they're trash.
Link - Via It's Nice That
Taxi Driver/ the Godfather
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| DeNiro Taxi Driver Contact Sheet (1975) Steve Schapiro |
In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola started work on The Godfather, one of the most acclaimed films ever made. Steve Schapiro, then a 37 year old established photojournalist whose clients included Life, Look, Time, Newsweek and film studios, was hired by Paramount as the special photographer for the film. This title gave Schapiro unprecedented access to one of the most stellar casts ever assembled, photographing whichever film scenes he chose, capturing the memorable moments often cited when referencing this film, including the whisper and Marlon Brando with the cat.More at Steve Schapiro - Via gmtPlus 9 (-15)
Happy National Puppy Day!
We had multi generations of Cavalier King Charles Spaniels and loved them dearly. The two below look like Violet and her son Dash, the love of my life.
Via The Hairpin
Don't get pompous with me
Having recently been interviewed for Rolling Stone in 1996, an angryHunter S. Thompson writes a heated letter to his good friend and long-time collaborator, illustrator Ralph Steadman, and threatens to sever their relationship. Steadman's sturdy response is golden.
Oct20'96
Owl Farm
Dear Ralph,
It never occurred to me that Jann was going to publish those ugly, denigrating cartoons you spit out a few months ago about my internal organs. I thought you had sent them to me as just another one of our shared hideous jokes. How the fuck did Jann get his hands on them?
In any case, I'm about to sever all relationship(s) with him -- and with You, if necessary -- if he prints that pasty bag of insults in RS. You might enjoy that Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas "celebration" in New York next month, but you'll enjoy it without me. Maybe you can do a cute cartoon about vultures feeding on my (absent) carcass.
Well.... your FAX isn't working tonight, so I can't send this stuff thru to you. Very clever, Ralph. But if yr. (admittedly) artistic cartoons of me appear in RS this week, you and I have had our last Scotch together.
Thanx for the laughs. Yrs,
Hunter
Joan Crawford,Pepsi Mogul
Better late than never: Joan Crawford, Academy Award winning actress, was born March 23, 1905. Before her death in 1977 she had time to serve on the Board of Pepsi Cola, as documented by formidable photographer, Eve Arnold…
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Pure Water Vision
DUBRAVKA VIDOVIC
LOREDANA MANTELLO [ Website ]
EcoArt uses art as a platform for drawing attention to the environment and surrounding issues. Their altruistic endeavor aims to inspire creativity that will raise awareness through various events and exhibitions, such as their current show Pure Water Vision. Featuring a collection of works from the ten finalists of the Acea EcoArt 2010 Pure Water Vision competition, artists explore the relationship between man, water and the environment through photography, video, painting, sculpture or performance.
Via Cool Hunting
Japan’s Child Friendly Nuclear Cartoon
I'm not sure what to think about this.
Via Cakehead Loves Evil
From now on I'll call it fuel.
I wonder how much wine I'd need to get me through a couple of hours of blogging - I'd better have an extra glass to make sure I don't run out of energy.Link - Thanks Bruce (not that I need encouragement)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Spin Without Sin
"A new exercise class, Pole Fitness for Jesus, is inviting Christian women in a small Texas town to spin without sin for the Lord.
'God gives us these bodies, and they are supposed to be our temples and we are supposed to take care of them,' instructor Crystal Dean told ABC affiliate KTRK-TV. 'And that's what we are doing.'"
A Marine map and Description of the Northern Lands and of their Marvels
From Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus - the earliest comprehensive history of Scandinavia, written and illustrated byOlaus Magnus, published in 1555.
Via Uncertain Times
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