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The SR-71, here shown in its A-12 variant, is the most beautiful design object of the 20th Century. It was a burst of raw vision, literally conceived within a dream, and built with the lovely precision of a Faberge egg. Fragile as an egg, it’s skin consisted of hundreds of intersecting geometric panels, [...] Currently going for about a thousand bucks, one identical pair of photos of Theodore Kaczynski, courtesy of our government. The Library of Congress keeps bringing the heat of history to Flickr’s Commons. For the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression, they’ve loaded up a cannon load of stereographs, analglyphized them and blasted them across the bow of the internet. So dig up the old red & blue shades and enjoy [...] I know he promised to keep us out of Flickr, but he went ahead and joined anyways. The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library has unleashed 634 images of Wilson-era photographic fury into Flickr’s Commons. Images range from crazy flagfish postcards like the one above to lots of WWI stuff, including this excellent horse & [...] I’ve posted about this before, but the Smithsonian has been just keeps piling on the awesome in the Gottlieb Jazz Photos Flickr set. They’re up to over 1500 images in the set now, nearly double my last peek, and they continue to be amazing in every possible way. If you haven’t lost a [...] OK, this is kind of a “Dad Joke” of a post, but it’s really just another excuse to direct folks over to The Selvage Yard to see more of Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr, to bad girls in black and white. The Selvage Yard remains one of the best blogs about style, fashion, [...] Flickr user Sirkullay/Una Feral just uploaded a set with a derailed circus train’s worth of vintage tattooed lady photos. Enjoy! Once again the Library of Congress has delivered a death touch of awesome to Flickr’s Commons. This time it’s 700 tintype and ambrotype portraits of civil war soldiers, many of whom have awesome beards (and, tragically, all too many who were too young to even grow one). These are all from the Liljenquist [...] Torrance-based Flickerite and global traveler Brandon Shigeta is in Asia at the moment and has the most beautiful set up, Mobile Vendors, which I believe was taken entirely in Thailand. He’s shooting with a 5D MkII, so the quality, colours and everything else is just [...] Via The OC Art Blog. I got to know Jerry when we exhibited the artists of The Legacy Project as the Ghosts of El Toro exhibition at Angels Gate, back in 2005. Jerry was very much at the center of the group’s energy, an incredibly smart and thoughtful fellow who as an educator [...] |
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