Dafen Oil Painting Village
The Chinese town of Dafen in the Guangdong province is renowned for its resident artists who specialize in replicas of famous paintings: “It is believed to be the largest mass producer of oil...
View ArticleTony Hawk’s First Skateboard
Tony Hawk will be donating his first skateboard (seen above via his Instagram) to the Smithsonian Museum as part of “Innoskate…a major public festival that will celebrate invention and creativity in...
View ArticleWhen the Past Meets the Present
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: A guy walking around Tel Aviv with a picture from the classic scene in Basic Instinct encounters Sharon Stone herself.
View ArticleKate Upton
GQ shares a couple photos from Kate Upton’s first go-see back in June 2010 before she Dougie’d her way into fame.
View ArticleShit Bloggers Wear
Shit Bloggers Wear: Somewhat charming sketches of the latest trendy must-have items among “fashionistas.”
View ArticlePotemkin, Ireland
The G8 summit is taking place right now in Northern Ireland and to impress its powerful visitors the small town of Enniskillen cleaned itself up but not without some controversy whereby “much...
View ArticleRoc-A-Bob-Kraft
Putting aside his New England allegiances, New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft recently attended the 10 year anniversary party of Jay-Z’s 40/40 club in New York City. Photographer: “Copy me and make...
View ArticleJack Kerouac: Poet, Football Player
I missed this little bit of trivia in high school poetry class. Jack Kerouac was once a star fullback on his high school football team before he broke his leg while a freshman at Columbia University...
View ArticleChildren’s Dream Chairs in Real Life
A classroom of seven and eight-year olds at St John’s Church of England Primary School in Kingston, Surrey were each given a piece of paper and told to draw their dream chair. Two of the drawings were...
View ArticleI Used to be Just a Guy. Now I’m Jimmy Wales.
Via the New York Times Magazine’s latest profile on Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia pictured above in 2001, the same year that Wikipedia launched.
View ArticleScene in New York
Kottke spotted this commentary on New York City’s bike share program. I suspect that this is the work of Poster Boy.
View ArticleFrom the Archives
Wilt Chamberlain as a 17-year-old senior at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia in 1954. He would later move on to become a somewhat adequate basketball player.
View ArticleMonsters TBD
Chris Sasaki, a character designer at Pixar shared a bunch of his concept art of various monsters for his company’s new film Monsters University. The film did okay at the box office.
View ArticleThom Browne Street Fighter
Upscale designer Thom Browne’s latest upcoming line appears to be largely inspired by M. Bison. [Via]
View ArticleUpdate
Some say that pictures speak louder than words. Then again those people might just really hate writing. In any case, here are some recent photos from my life.
View ArticleWoody Allen’s Screening Room
Photo by Terry Richardson of Woody Allen’s film screening room. I feel like we got a little glimpse behind the proverbial curtain.
View ArticleHeartland of America
If you’ll permit a little bit of juvenileness here, I got a chuckle out of this catch spotted by a photographer I follow as he flew over somewhere near Denver. AMERICA.
View ArticleRock and Rap All Night
From the Internet archives here is Tupac presenting with KISS at the 1996 Grammys. Or you know, “back when music was GOOD back in my days.” – Old man sitting on a rocking chair on his porch.
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