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The documentary The Loving Story premieres February 14th on...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:19:53 -0500

The documentary The Loving Story premieres February 14th on HBO.

burnedshoes:

© Grey Villet, April 1965, The Lovings, King and Queen County, Virginia

Richard and Mildred Loving with their children Peggy, Donald, and Sidney in their living room.

The Loving Story, opening at New York’s ICP this week (Jan. 20 – May 6, 2012) is a revelation, an undiscovered gem. In 1958, when Richard and Mildred Loving got married, it was an astonishing act of bravery and defiance: an interracial couple in the era of the Ku Klux Klan and Bull Connor - of firehoses and police dogs and lynchings; the Birmingham bombings and Freedom Rides were still to come. And yet here, in the midst of all the mayhem and hate, are a white man and a black woman casually interwined, so comfortable in their own skin that they are oblivious to onlookers; their armor is their love.

The compelling thing about the Lovings is that they are exquisitely ordinary. Only a photographer who can make himself invisible could capture that. There was never anything fancy about Grey’s pictures; they stripped people to their essence.

(read more here and here; thanks to chagalov for the la lettre link!)

chenhila: So this happened in Queen Anne this week during...

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:43:00 -0500

chenhila:

So this happened in Queen Anne this week during Seattle’s big snowstorm…

ataraxiaa: Shit Seattle People Say When It Snows

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:58:30 -0500

ataraxiaa:

Shit Seattle People Say When It Snows

Capitol Hill, Seattle

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:57:00 -0500

Capitol Hill, Seattle

newyorker: The Master from Flint Hill: Earl Scruggs Some...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:39:19 -0500

newyorker:

The Master from Flint Hill: Earl Scruggs

Some nights he had the stars of North Carolina shooting from his fingertips. Before him, no one had ever played the banjo like he did. After him, everyone played the banjo like he did, or at least tried. In 1945, when he first stood on the stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and played banjo the way no one had ever heard before, the audience responded with shouts, whoops, and ovations. He performed tunes he wrote as well as songs they knew, with clarity and speed like no one could imagine, except him. When the singer came to the end of a phrase, he filled the theatre with sparkling runs of notes that became a signature for all bluegrass music since. He wore a suit and Stetson hat, and when he played he smiled at the audience like what he was doing was effortless. There aren’t many earthquakes in Tennessee, but that night there was.

- For our Culture Desk blog, Steve Martin writes about banjo legend Earl Scruggs: http://nyr.kr/yyCvax. Click play to listen to Flatt and Scruggs’s famous Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

View from the Volunteer Park Water Tower, some 110 steps above...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:14:00 -0500

View from the Volunteer Park Water Tower, some 110 steps above road pavement at the base

Photo by Robert Kosara

npr: Mitt Romney’s Chair Holder Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty...

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:05:40 -0500

npr:

Mitt Romney’s Chair Holder

Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images

Random Acts of Chaos: Underreported Stories of 2011: More Soldiers Commit Suicide Than Died In Combat

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 18:01:14 -0500

Random Acts of Chaos: Underreported Stories of 2011: More Soldiers Commit Suicide Than Died In Combat:

joshsternberg:

At the end of January 2011, the U.S. military released stats that raised some eyebrows, but not nearly as many as it should have. Congress.org reported that there were 434 reported suicides by personnel in active duty in 2010, but when we include the Air Force and Marine…

Why hello, new hometown.

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:52:34 -0500

Why hello, new hometown.

Photo

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:27:00 -0500

Photo

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:21:00 -0500

After five years and seven months in Charlotte, I’m...

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:52:00 -0500

After five years and seven months in Charlotte, I’m leaving for the West Coast. Here’s a little photographic goodbye in three episodes.

Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 10:13:22 -0500

Yelping with Cormac: Urban Outfitters:

yelpingwithcormac:

Union Square - San Francisco, CA

Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM

Three stars.

And they come there in great numbers shuffling into that mausoleum that was built for them like some monument to the slow death of their world and among those tokens and talismans of that faded empire…

wonderfulambiguity: André Kertész, Woman in Window Looking Down...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:45:31 -0500

wonderfulambiguity:

André Kertész, Woman in Window Looking Down Air Shaft, 23rd Street, New York, 1970

Good ol’ fish flavor and the new and improved everything...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 13:55:00 -0500

Good ol’ fish flavor and the new and improved everything you found on the floor including hairballs flavor (“crunchy outside”)

For those in need of additional...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:14:14 -0500

For those in need of additional rotundity:

cabbagingcove:

Mme. Demorest’s Spiral Spring Bosom Pads

[They] do not fail to secure the entire approbation of those who require some artificial expansion to give rotundity to the form…

…sent by mail, securely done up, post-free, on receipt of price. No measures required.

Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly. April 1855.

fuckyeahmanuscripts: Walt Whitman’s list of synonyms as he...

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:07:07 -0500

fuckyeahmanuscripts:

Walt Whitman’s list of synonyms as he began to write Abraham Lincoln’s elegy, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.”

(via the new, and very much worth seeing, Lists of Note)

obitoftheday: Obit of the Day: “Bad Light” Atherton James...

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:40:27 -0500

obitoftheday:

Obit of the Day: “Bad Light” Atherton

James Atherton always wanted the unique angle. He was willing to sacrifice the perfect environment to get the best shot. (Other photographers gave him his nickname for his apparent disregard for light.) Sometimes this got him into trouble. The above photo was not taken by Atherton but taken of Atherton. Once again trying to capture that unusual look Atherton took to the stage during a speech by President John F. Kennedy to try and capture a “Hail Mary” shot - one taken without looking through the viewfinder. When Kennedy’s press secretary saw what happened he was livid but JFK when he saw the photo in the paper, cut it out, signed it and sent it to Atherton with a note: “Two men at work.”

Atherton, who took pictures for Acme (which became part of UPI) and the Washington Post retired in 1990, after five decades which included covering every president from Truman to Nixon.

He also covered the civil rights movement. His iconic image of that period was taken on August 29, 1963 during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which is best known for Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech. Atherton attached his camera to a bamboo pole, hoisted it over the shoulder of Lincoln’s statue and took this:

Amazing what a different angle can illustrate.

Mr. Atherton was 83.

(Main image is courtesy of the Post via the Atherton Family. The second image is copyright of Atherton/UPI.)

Santa and some 22 relatives

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:24:00 -0500

Santa and some 22 relatives