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This woman in Houston, Texas argues that people who can't communicate in English should be deported. That's not an awful idea, I'm starting to think, based on the typo in her sign. But where would we send her? (See also: "Get A Brain! Morans") [SF Chronicle] (Image by Houston Chronicle)
Lurn To Speek English, Morans!
This woman in Houston, Texas argues that people who can't communicate in English should be deported. That's not an awful idea, I'm starting to think, based on the typo in her sign. But where would we send her? (See also: "Get A Brain! Morans") [SF Chronicle] (Image by Houston Chronicle)
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By artist, zinester, and illustrator Nicole J. Georges, who is writing a memoir, "Calling Dr. Laura."
Something to Remember as the Weekend Approaches
By artist, zinester, and illustrator Nicole J. Georges, who is writing a memoir, "Calling Dr. Laura."
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Norwegian black metal rockers aren't like their shifty white-trash American counterparts. While you were drinking Coors and listening to Slayer in your dad's van, dudes in Norway were burning churches and thinking about Satan. Photographer Peter Beste spent seven years following and documenting the subculture and just published a photo book, True Norwegian Black Metal.
For Norwegian Black Metal Rockers, God is In the Details
Norwegian black metal rockers aren't like their shifty white-trash American counterparts. While you were drinking Coors and listening to Slayer in your dad's van, dudes in Norway were burning churches and thinking about Satan. Photographer Peter Beste spent seven years following and documenting the subculture and just published a photo book, True Norwegian Black Metal.
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In the harbor of Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City, there's a statue. It differs from the Statue of Liberty in New York in two respects: the landmark's name is the Statue of Happiness; and it contains at its heart... a beating heart, chained to the exterior walls. The makers of Rockstar's hit game are twisted—and brilliant. (More pictures at Games Radar.)
The Beating Heart Of Lady Liberty
In the harbor of Grand Theft Auto's Liberty City, there's a statue. It differs from the Statue of Liberty in New York in two respects: the landmark's name is the Statue of Happiness; and it contains at its heart... a beating heart, chained to the exterior walls. The makers of Rockstar's hit game are twisted—and brilliant. (More pictures at Games Radar.)
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This photograph of the Eastern Seaboard, taken from the International Space Station, shows New York City at the center, spreading tendrils along the Long Island Sound and down to Philadelphia. Like smog, light pollution is beautiful—when viewed from a distance. (NASA's Earth Observatory via Kottke)
The City That Glowed In The Dark
This photograph of the Eastern Seaboard, taken from the International Space Station, shows New York City at the center, spreading tendrils along the Long Island Sound and down to Philadelphia. Like smog, light pollution is beautiful—when viewed from a distance. (NASA's Earth Observatory via Kottke)
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Nostalgists for urban violence can pretend they're Niko Bellic, the immigrant hardman who stumbles through the crime-ridden version of New York City in the latest version of Grand Theft Auto. Or they can adopt the perspective of another Serb, photographer Nikola Tamindzic, who has staged yet another scene of blood and nakedness on the sidewalks of the Lower East Side. More photographs at Home of the Vain.
Lower East Side, Wednesday Night
Nostalgists for urban violence can pretend they're Niko Bellic, the immigrant hardman who stumbles through the crime-ridden version of New York City in the latest version of Grand Theft Auto. Or they can adopt the perspective of another Serb, photographer Nikola Tamindzic, who has staged yet another scene of blood and nakedness on the sidewalks of the Lower East Side. More photographs at Home of the Vain.
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First Google Maps' "streetview" captured a drug deal. Now the accidental Big Brother has found something even funnier: A bike tumble in Australia. From all of us in New York, to whoever you are Down Under: Ha-ha. [via Kensington Victoria]
Embarrassing Moment Captured For The Internet To See
First Google Maps' "streetview" captured a drug deal. Now the accidental Big Brother has found something even funnier: A bike tumble in Australia. From all of us in New York, to whoever you are Down Under: Ha-ha. [via Kensington Victoria]
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Those communist-era magazines seem so quaint, if one forgets the dull horror of the system that produced them. Russia's Soviet Museum carries an excellent online collection of the usual propaganda posters and photographs—and these images of Soviet Union magazine, in which the strategic rockets are daintier than the women's fashion. [via Metafilter]
Soviet Union magazine
Those communist-era magazines seem so quaint, if one forgets the dull horror of the system that produced them. Russia's Soviet Museum carries an excellent online collection of the usual propaganda posters and photographs—and these images of Soviet Union magazine, in which the strategic rockets are daintier than the women's fashion. [via Metafilter]
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Lafayette Street, New York City, 6:30pm. It's finally warm enough for lighter clothes. (More nightlife photos from Nikola Tamindzic at Home of the Vain.)
Spring Is Finally Here
Lafayette Street, New York City, 6:30pm. It's finally warm enough for lighter clothes. (More nightlife photos from Nikola Tamindzic at Home of the Vain.)
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Perhaps this vintage movie poster for XXX film "Male Service" (1966), will remind you of the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle takes Betsy, played by Cybill Sheperd, to a Times Square grindhouse for their first date. Betsy: "Taking me to a place like this is about as exciting as saying to me 'Let's fuck.'" Travis: "I can take you to other movies." [via X Rated Collection]
"A Fact of Society Never Before Filmed"
Perhaps this vintage movie poster for XXX film "Male Service" (1966), will remind you of the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle takes Betsy, played by Cybill Sheperd, to a Times Square grindhouse for their first date. Betsy: "Taking me to a place like this is about as exciting as saying to me 'Let's fuck.'" Travis: "I can take you to other movies." [via X Rated Collection]
First Pictures Of De Niro's New Hotel
Robert De Niro has finally unveiled his new Tribeca hotel, the Greenwich. Pictures from Vanity Fair. As always, the actor, playing concierge, inhabits the role.
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It's so refreshing to see a happy newsroom, for once. Pictured here, under a headline acknowledging the Washington Post's six Pulitzer prizes, cheering journalists. Except the photo is from the Post's rival, the New York Times, which only won in two categories. Graciousness has its limits.
Wrong Newsroom
It's so refreshing to see a happy newsroom, for once. Pictured here, under a headline acknowledging the Washington Post's six Pulitzer prizes, cheering journalists. Except the photo is from the Post's rival, the New York Times, which only won in two categories. Graciousness has its limits.
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Books don't command the respect they once did in the former Soviet Union. [Livejournal via Coudal Partners]
Abandoned Library
Books don't command the respect they once did in the former Soviet Union. [Livejournal via Coudal Partners]
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To mark the award to Jean Nouvel of the Pritzker prize, here's a reminder of the French architect's plan for an extraordinary skyscraper in Midtown. By winning the Pritzker, the equivalent of a lifetime's achievement award in the profession, Nouvel has improved the chances of the proposed 75-story tower for the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street. The architect's first great building, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, resembled a high-tech recreation of a Sultan's palace; this double spire looks like it jumped from the set for The Fifth Element, missing only the flying yellow cabs darting between the buildings.
May The Pritzker Bring Nouvel To Midtown
To mark the award to Jean Nouvel of the Pritzker prize, here's a reminder of the French architect's plan for an extraordinary skyscraper in Midtown. By winning the Pritzker, the equivalent of a lifetime's achievement award in the profession, Nouvel has improved the chances of the proposed 75-story tower for the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street. The architect's first great building, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, resembled a high-tech recreation of a Sultan's palace; this double spire looks like it jumped from the set for The Fifth Element, missing only the flying yellow cabs darting between the buildings.
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Last in this week's series of gloomy New York panoramas, this image is a still from Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, a movie remarkable (only) for its painstaking special effects. The spire of Empire State Building, now festooned with communications antennae, was originally designed with a docking port for dirigibles, a fantastic conceit only realized in Sky Captain's alternate New York.
A Zeppelin Never Docked On The Empire State Building
Last in this week's series of gloomy New York panoramas, this image is a still from Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, a movie remarkable (only) for its painstaking special effects. The spire of Empire State Building, now festooned with communications antennae, was originally designed with a docking port for dirigibles, a fantastic conceit only realized in Sky Captain's alternate New York.
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A gorgeous aerial view of Gotham, the computer-generated city of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
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Gotham Sunset
A gorgeous aerial view of Gotham, the computer-generated city of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.
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Not everybody's so impressed by high dynamic range photography. The relatively novel technique, which produced the gloomy Gotham cityscape we published yesterday, can also be used simply to pump up an image with color. Cheesy. Nikola Tamindzic's first nightlife pictures for Gawker made heavy use of filters in Photoshop, the standard photo manipulation software. But the photographer has gradually weaned himself off Photoshop and eschews HDR programs such as Photomatix. Here's a panorama of downtown New York (from Nikola's Home of the Vain portfolio site) using traditional means.
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The Pit
Not everybody's so impressed by high dynamic range photography. The relatively novel technique, which produced the gloomy Gotham cityscape we published yesterday, can also be used simply to pump up an image with color. Cheesy. Nikola Tamindzic's first nightlife pictures for Gawker made heavy use of filters in Photoshop, the standard photo manipulation software. But the photographer has gradually weaned himself off Photoshop and eschews HDR programs such as Photomatix. Here's a panorama of downtown New York (from Nikola's Home of the Vain portfolio site) using traditional means.
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