Jeremy Fish

This is soooooo amazing. Respect!
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The Longest Draw

Capturing the nuances of expression in the human face is no simple feat. However, Swedish illustrator Jenny Mörtsell does so with a skilled and delicate hand.
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Nate Boguszewski

Documenting American life in candid, often revealing fashion, photographer Nate Boguszewski looks to tell complex stories in the space of a single frame. "One thing that delights me in any shot I take is ambiguity, the lies that a framing can craft," Boguszewski says. "A bit of confusion for the viewer—and sometimes for me—goes a long way in storytelling." That ambiguity is prevalent in much of his work. But he also captures subjects whose faces beam with blatant response, whether it's sadness or anger, confusion or great joy. Much of his work has a grimy Americana feel, an aesthetic Boguszewski attributes to the years spent watching his native city of Pittsburgh flounder. Formerly the art director at Deek magazine, in recent years Boguszewski has shot for Swindle, Next American City, and Philadelphia City Paper.
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10 Best Songs About Cars

10. Chuck Berry - No Particular Place to Go. Chuck Berry made a whole career out of singin' about fast cars, pretty girls and having fun, and all three themes play prominently in this classic from 1964 in which young love is thwarted by a malfunctioning seat-belt. Same thing happened in a Camaro we once owned.

9. Rush - Red Barchetta. Lyricist and drummer extraordinaire Neil Peart is a hardcore motorcycle fanatic, but he's clearly spent some time behind the wheel. This track from 1981's Moving Pictures perfectly captures the imagery of tearing up the countryside in a vintage Ferrari.

8. Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55. The national anthem of Gearhead Nation and a song that only sounds good blaring through a pair of 6x9 speakers. Bonus points because the video for this track, from 1984's VOA, featured a Ferrari.

7. The Beach Boys - 409. Everyone cites Little Deuce Coupe, but for our money, this B-side to 1962's Surfin' Safari is the best of the Boys' many car songs because nothing says "bad ass" like a mid-60s Chevy with lousy brakes and an obscenely large engine putting out 425 horsepower.

6. Ween - El Camino. Only a band so lovably weird as Ween would memorialize a car so lovably weird as the the El Camino - and do it in a song with a flamenco flavor. Extra points for references to those other great American cars with Latin names, the Toronado and the Cordoba. Brilliant, just like the rest of 1990's GodWeenSatan - The Oneness.

5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Crosstown Traffic. A great song that uses a car as a metaphor, in this case for a girlfriend who's tying ol' Jimi down -- "just like crosstown traffic, all you do is slow me down." This track from 1969's Electric Ladyland is packed with metaphors, our favorite being "tire tracks all across your back, I can see you've had your fun." Ouch.

4. Golden Earring - Radar Love. We've all been there - driving all night, hands wet on the wheel, half-past four and shifting gears. This classic from 1973's Moontan is perfect for hauling ass on an open road in the dead of night. It's been covered by at least half a dozen band including, regrettably, White Lion, but the original still sounds great after 35 years.

3. Drive-By Truckers - Daddy's Cup. The old line about real musicians having day jobs could just as easily apply to auto racers, and this song from 2004's The Dirty South perfectly conveys what it's like to have grease under your nails, racing in your blood and dreams of glory in your head.

2. Sir Mix-A-Lot - My Hooptie. When you get right down to it, songs about bad-ass cars are as big a rock-n-roll cliche as sunburst Les Pauls. On 1989's Seminar, Sir Mix-A-Lot gave a shout-out to heaps. What makes it great is how easy it is to relate to: "Lifters tickin', accelerator's stickin', somethin' on my left-front wheel keeps clickin'." Sounds just like a Camaro we once owned.

1. Prince - Little Red Corvette. This song isn't really about a Corvette, it's - spoiler alert! - about a one-night stand. Prince wasn't the first to use a car as a metaphor for a woman and he won't be the last, but his catchy tune from the album 1999 will always rank among the best.

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Photo by Flickr user Count Rushmore.

LIFE + Google = History

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.
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Ramus Mogensen

Rasmus Mogensen is an interesting danish photographer I found a link to on QBN.
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Groovy IKEA

A promotion for furniture in an unusual way; control the movement of characters by sound, try singing into your mic.
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Chain Gang

Surf's Up

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Mobile Your Life

JM Summer Tour

Channel Hopper is a five disc 'best of' compilation from the 2008 Summer Tour. It contains one version of every song performed on the tour, totaling at 45 tracks, and 4 and a half hours of music.

Every show of the Summer 2008 tour was listened to in order to make the selections across these five discs. Once performances were selected, the lossless 'masters' were then re-mastered to create consistency across all of the audio. This included fade in/out of crowd noise and the mastering of audio levels. These re-masters were then kept in lossless, and encoded into mp3 once all of the tracks were complete.

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We Should Do It All

WSDIA is a Brooklyn, New York-based graphic, interactive, and architecture multi-disciplinary design studio. WSDIA designs, develops and mediates interactive, print, motion and architecture projects for a diverse group of clients in a wide array of professions.


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True!

A timeless classic!

Romain Laurent

This is a "WOW" photographer: Romain Laurent from Paris.

Jose Parla

Artist, born, 1973. Miami Florida,

Studied painting at the Savannah College of Art & Design, in Georgia and the New World School of the Arts.

Parla is now touring the world with solo shows in Japan, Australia, UK, and the US as well as working on collaboration projects like the New Grand Tour in China.

Parla lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Christian Zuzunaga

It is strange to think that not too long ago there were no such things as pixels. Before the invention of photography, artificial pixels (short for PICture ELements)simply did not exist. It wasn’t until the personal computer hit the mainstream did the word “pixel” become widely known outside of geeks, video/photographers and the CIA. Now that several generations of designers have never known a world without pixels, it was expected that this single common component of an image would find its way onto non traditional objects. Cristian Zuzunaga, a graduate from the UK’s Royal College of Arts, has designed this Pixel Couch that will be produced by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat and sold through Moroso. I wonder what it would look like from far away.

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Subliminal Messages

I love Helvetica, but I don't know if this is me:

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