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Question: Is it art if the photographer never actually took the shot?
Photographer Doug Rickard, the son of a retired preacher, traveled each and every alleyway and business loop in America through Google Street View for two solid years to collect these unintentional stills — a selection of 80 from over 15,000 — each with a mix of apathy and empathy Rickard describes as “the inverse of the American Dream.” His work bears witness to invisiblized strati, a fading visual American poetry, and inch after inch of the American hinterlands, paradoxically cocooned by progress, as seen by nine-dimensional mounted cameras on Google vans endlessly traversing the nation.
The most moving thing, perhaps, about Rickard’s lens is its pained acknowledgement that not one stone remains unturned, and the age of adventure has closed — hopefully, and quite wholly, to be replaced by something beyond the physical.
(Source: acehotel, via markcoatney)
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If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in keeping Tumblr humming along, here’s a great overview courtesy of Blake Matheney.
For all you developers and code geeks…
(Source: mattlehrer)
Polish artist Paul Marcinkowski has turned his body into a walking infographic.
I see a potential conflict between the permanence of tatoo art v. the dynamic nature of information.
(via newshour)
Mad Men Promotes Fifth Season With Minimalistic Teaser Poster
Mad Men returns. Start chilling your martini glasses and stock up on good scotch.
Camino Documentary Tour 2011, a set on Flickr.
Just a few shots from my trip to Spain. I walked over 100 kilometers of The Camino de Santiago.
“I wanted a happy culture. So I fired all the unhappy people.”
—A very successful CEO (who asked not to be named)
America in Primetime: PBS
What an amazing piece of public television. Watch this.
“America in Primetime is structured around the most compelling shows on television today, unfolding over four hours and weaving between past and present. Each episode focuses on one character archetype that has remained a staple of primetime through the generations – the Independent Woman, the Man of the House, the Misfit, and the Crusader – capturing both the continuity of the character, and the evolution. The finest television today has as its foundation the best television of yesterday.”
The four-part series premieres Sundays, October 30-November 20, 2011, 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET on PBS.
(Source: pbs.org)
"As time goes on, you’ll understand, what lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. and what time can’t solve, you have to solve yourself."
— Haruki Murakami (via soubresaut)
(via underthesamesofa)
Enjoyed a fun night at the Foodzie HQ event tasting great food and making new friends.
(Source: flickr.com)
