1972 (c) Annie Leibovitz
from the current American Photo magazine excerpting Leibovitz’s new photobook At Work. This relationship of sorts (and this shot) is covered in the film Gonzo, produced by Alex Gibney (Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side) and one of the best documentaries of the year (trailer below).
Any idea [...]
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Queen - Thank God It’s Christmas
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Last night in the Wrangelkiez of Kreuzberg about 20 black-jacketed anarchists stone-bombed a luxury apartment complex, destroying 12 glass panes before running off to Görlitzer Park. Something similar to that happened a few months ago down the street from my flat where a neo-modernist apartment building was just nearing completion, the stone-throwers busting up several [...]
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The Vegetable Orchestra is an expansive, collective type band from Vienna that plays, yes, instruments constructed entirely from vegetables. And it’s not just novelty either. It’s real, serious and tuneful music they produce. They seem to take the project quite seriously as perhaps only an Austrian can. You’d likely not believe how great a carrot [...]
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It’s a tragic lack, but I know next to nothing about Englishman Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical Berlin Stories (or Goodbye to Berlin), which like no other book formed the image of the German capital for the English-speaking world, writes TIME magazine’s Stephanie Kirchner. (Not sure why the article’s URL contains ‘2007′; it was published [...]
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Google’s ongoing Street View project has turned scarily comprehensive as it fans out across the earth. They just doubled their U.S. coverage yesterday. What’s possibly next? Google Ocean Floor? This is the building (”Edwards”) where I lived my final year of college. Top floor. Those were the days.
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Berlin Street View isn’t up online [...]
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It was unfortunate that Amy Winehouse was too strung out to do the theme for the new James Bond movie, A Quantum of Solace. It was decidely less unfortunate when I heard the replacement, this banging jazzy snarly song from Jack White and Alicia Keys. I love it. The melody has been my Ohrwurm all [...]
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I was pleased today to see my inbox graced with Issue #6 of The Bear, a new “English-speaking” pdf newspaper made by Berliners for Berliners (did I just rip that off from FUBU?). The Bear is published every other Thursday and, especially for a free pdf, is quite impressive and a welcome, and perhaps only, [...]
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Assuming he also believes keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
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