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This blog is on vacation. I've been watching films all day in São Paulo International Film Festival and will keep on doing that for two weeks. Back on November, 4.
See you.
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The Complete List from the TIME magazine of ALL-TIME 100 Novels. Time critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. How many I read from the list? Well... let's talk about how many of those books I saw the film versions (and many that I didn't know that were based on books). Don't forget to take a read of some reviews. (via kottke)
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Military Posters of 20th century: an excellent site with hundreds of posters. In this site you can find biggest in WWW collection of Military Posters: Russo-Japanese war, WW1, WW2, Civil Wars in Russia and Spain, Cold War. (via andreaxmas)
American Society of Magazine Editors Unveils Top 40 Magazine Covers of the Last 40 Years. I liked the choice of the winner, but not so much the other covers chosen. Here are the first 10:
1. Rolling Stone – Jan. 22, 1981 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono laying in bed
2. Vanity Fair – Aug. 1991 – Nude pregnant Demi Moore
3. Esquire – April 1968 – “The Passion of Muhammad Ali”: Ali with arrows in his body
4. The New Yorker – March 29, 1976 – Drawing of New York from Hudson River and rest of the country to Pacific Ocean
5. Esquire – May 1969 – Andy Warhol drowning in Campbell’s soup can – “The decline and collapse of American avant-garde”
6. The New Yorker – Sept. 24, 2001 – 9/11 – Twin towers drawing in all black against a gray skyline
7. National Lampoon – January 1973 – “If you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog” – Man pointing gun at terrified dog
8. Esquire – October 1966 – “Oh my God – we hit a little girl.”
9. Harper’s Bazaar – Sept. 1992 – Linda Evangelista holding up the letter ‘A’ in magazine’s title: “Enter the Era of Elegance”
10. National Geographic – June 1985 – Afghan girl – “Haunted eyes of an Afghan refugee’s fears”
(via TV5)
Update: the other link didn't work, so I replaced it.
in Culture, Design, Media, News
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Grand Illusions the site for the enquiring mind.
With optical illusions, scientific toys, visual effects, and even a little magic. Funny things to look, games and articles. (via All about nothing)
in Art, Curious things, Science, Science, Toys
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Some links about tags and tagging.... tags.... Did I say that I love tags? Well, I love them.
- Danah Boyd made a neat list of links about it: articles on tagging (help?).
- Google Adds Tagging: Google has silently added a Bookmarks feature to My Search History, enabling you to quickly tag and comment any web page you’ve visited. (via Waxy)
- One more social bookmarking tool: BlinkList | Your personal start page and social bookmarking engine - BlinkList is Social Bookmarking merged with People Powered Search
and Expert Recommendations... all wrapped in an elegant interface (via Lifehacker)
- Tagyu Tagyu suggests tags for your content. Give it a URL or some text, and it will give you some suggestions for tags. (via Waxy)
- Two articles from Wired News: Tips From Top Taggers and Tag, You're It: Best Bookmarker.
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From Guardian Unlimited, Picture perfect:
Since the 1970s, Canadian photographer Jeff Wall has worked as if he's a cinematographer, using a cast and crew to create large-scale, dramatic images that can take more than a year to get right. But he also likes to take intimate, documentary shots. He tells Melissa Denes why they are two sides of the same coin
The interview is here, some of his works here, here, here, here (selected one of the "Works in Focus" links) and here. And some more information about him on this and this site.
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Japanese Girl Info hosts hundreds of early 1900's postcards about Japanese ladies and geishas. (via Suzanne G.)
in Photography, Photography, Vintage
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Polly Chandler: lovely shots in black and white and colours. The images of "Color" gallery are great, but I liked a lot the Gallery pictures, like this. (via Vadiar)
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The French artist Alain Sechas makes some fantastic sculptures, works with neon and paintings. My favourites? I liked of all the cat sculptures. (via wmmna)
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Toogle Image Search - The most comprehensive image buggery on the web.
Toogle is a Text version of Googles Image Search. Currently it creates images out of the very term that was used to fetch those images, later we will endeavour to create images out of the search terms entered by users past and present.
Try also Woogle - Words in pictures, based on Google Image Search. (via dadanoias)
If you liked the Voodoo kitchen knives you will probably like the Wine Guy:
(via Apartment Therapy)
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Fractal Recursions: galleries with hundreds of beautiful fractal images and fractal animations created by Jock Cooper. I'm almost sure that Optical Illusions will enjoy this amusing site. (via Neatorama)
A brief interruption on my work, of fixing the old entries, to present to you Famous Women In Slips. Three galleries with pictures of gorgeous women, most of them actresses in movies images, in slips. BTW, the quality of the images isn't so good, but it is a nice link as reference. (via IWR)
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History of Produce Crate Labels: Before produce growers and distributors started using cardboard boxes to ship their goods to market in the 1960s, fruits and vegetables were (and occasionally still are, by smaller growers) shipped in inexpensive wooden crates and adorned with beautifully crafted labels. And a very nice gallery with hundreds of Antique Produce Crate Labels. (via neurastenia)
Moist Towelette Museum is one more good example that people collect anything that you can imagine. (via Slashfood)
Related post: Packets Collections.
in Weird, Weird
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Sorry Gotta Go: audio sound files to help you When You Absolutely, Positively Have to Get Off the Phone. Don't you know how to use them? Turn up your PC's speaker volume so it can be overheard over the phone. Be sure your computer's speaker volume is not set on "mute". A volume of 2/3 to 3/4 of maximum works best. Then, play, and be ready to say "sorry, gotta go!"
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Old Korea in pictures: a collection of old pictures and drawings of Korea, most of them from Seoul and Pyongyang. (via Plep)
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Don't worry, there isn't a blogging meme to post pin-up links on Wednesdays. It's just an excuse that I created to post more links, because there are always more pin-up links:
Great American Pinup the site of this New York gallery with works of 24 great pin-up artists, including Rolf Armstrong, William Medcalf, Walt Otto, Gil Elvgren, Harry Ekman and Walt Otto. Some NSFW illustrations.
Daley Illustrations Art Gallery has been owned and operated for 34 years by Bill Daley, a leader in developing and maintaining interest in the illustration art field. A neat gallery with book covers, works of famous pin-ups artists, Hilda (Duane Bryers’s busty redhead pin-up) and other collections of illustrations, including clowns (be careful, clowns are always creepy). Read also the interview with Bill Daley, the Pinup Man. (via Drawn!)
Pinup Paradise: hundreds of illustrations from 34 artists, photos of pin-ups models and articles. A great work by Ted from TackyTimes. BTW, many NSFW images.
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