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Gorey Be Damned: Sticky Nightmares Drawn On Post It Notes

Gorey Be Damned: Sticky Nightmares Drawn On Post It Notes

'When I have time I draw Monster drawings on sticky notes. It's a little window into a different world made on office supplies' - John Kenn Mortensen  ...
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Photos Of A Typical Saturday Afternoon In London Ohio 1938

Photos Of A Typical Saturday Afternoon In London Ohio 1938

In 1938, Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a photographer with the Farm Security Administration, took a Saturday ...
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It Can Happen Here: Four Times Authors and Artists Warned Us about Fascism in America

It Can Happen Here: Four Times Authors and Artists Warned Us about Fascism in America

  To define it simply, fascism is a brand of authoritarianism in which a dictator ...
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Dr Reed Bontecou’s Stunning Pictures Of Wounded Civil War Veterans

Dr Reed Bontecou’s Stunning Pictures Of Wounded Civil War Veterans

How do we see war veterans of war? In the US Civil War (1861-1865) Dr ...
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What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? Ads from 1958-1974

What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? Ads from 1958-1974

At it's height in 1972 Playboy magazine had a circulation of over 7 million copies ...
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Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

Jack Kerouac’s 39 Rules for Writing Prose

  Don't fret. It took Jack Kerouac all of three weeks to write On the ...
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Joseph Faber’s Freakish Talking Head Haunts Uncanny Valley In 1846

Joseph Faber’s Freakish Talking Head Haunts Uncanny Valley In 1846

  In August 1846, Joseph Faber, a German-born scientist and mathematician, stood in London's Egyptian Hall. Punters ...
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Stacked: Outstanding Photos Of Post-War Berlin Housing Estates

Stacked: Outstanding Photos Of Post-War Berlin Housing Estates

  In Stacked, Copenhagen-based photographer Malte Brandenburg discovers a surprising lack of conformity amongst post-war housing estates ...
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21 Swedish Posters For 1930s Hollywood Movies

21 Swedish Posters For 1930s Hollywood Movies

These Swedish posters of Hollywood films feature work by designers Eric Rohman, Gösta Åberg and ...
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Sybille II: Watch An Artist’s Tribute To Zits Erupting Like Creatures In A Jacques Cousteau Film

Sybille II: Watch An Artist’s Tribute To Zits Erupting Like Creatures In A Jacques Cousteau Film

  In 1999, Wim Delvoye released the experimental art film Sybille II, in which he captured shots ...
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Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

Charles Bukowski’s Letter To The Man Who Helped Him Escape Slavery To Become A Full-Time Writer

In 1969, at age 49, Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin made him offer: quite your job and I'll pay you $100 a month for life to write. ...
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20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

20 Superb Mid-Century Advertising Trade Card Postcards

  Via William Bird's collection
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    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

    Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

      These portrait photographs of Russia's ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the city Christopher Hitchens called "an apparent temple of civilization: the polished window between Russia and Europe... the ...
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    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

    Ephemeral, disposable, they served only one purpose—to let someone know "I'm here. I'm thinking of you" - Pablo Iglesias Maurer ...
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    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

    "I get a thrill when they’re kneeling there, between my knees and they’re looking up at me. And I want them to call me Mr Hill, not Benny. ‘Is that all right for you, Mr Hill?’ That’s lovely, that is, I really like that,” I asked him why and he said, “Well, it’s respectful...”’ - Benny Hill ...
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    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s Sublime Polaroids‎ (And Free Films)

    Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroids‎ (1979 - 1984) show us thoughtful and dreamy visions of his native Russia, featuring his family, his dog, his home, his garden, views from trips to Italy and a 'selfie'. Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) is the revered film director of whom Ingmar Bergman said, “Tarkovsky ...
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    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    The First Naked Kiss On Camera: Eadweard Muybridge, Sex And Murder

    Eadweard Muybridge (9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904) was not into smut and eroticism. His rapid-fire sequential photographs of two naked women kissing served to aid his studies of human and animal movement. It was in the interests of art and science Muybridge secured the services of two women, ...
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    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Photos Of Siouxsie Sioux and The Banshees From The Late 1970s

    Siouxsie Sioux (born Susan Janet Ballion on 27 May 1957) found fame with Siouxsie and The Banshees, the band she so-created with Steven Severin. Many pictures of Siouxsie Sioux and the rest of the group and their friends were taken by photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of Nils Stevenson, who managed ...
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