Friday, June 8, 2018

40 Years of Photographing Street Art

How do we archive works of art that are inherently temporary? For four decades, Martha Cooper has used photography to memorialize and record public works of street art and graffiti.

Read full article here...
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/martha-cooper-40-years-of-photographing-street-art-around-the-world

See more of Martha Cooper's photos here....
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2017/04/20/martha-cooper-solo-exhibition-reveals-many-unseen-action-shots/

https://www.instagram.com/marthacoopergram/?hl=en

https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/3kbnmv/documenting-the-70s-golden-age-of-nyc-graffiti-culture

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Three Videos to Warm the Soul X

When We Were Knights
https://vimeo.com/167054481

HuF NYC
https://vimeo.com/176817356

Stylo G x Jacob Plant “Bike Engine”

https://vimeo.com/183252171

Monday, May 28, 2018

An American Drug Lord in Acapulco

How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless cartels

Excerpt: ....a few weeks later, one of Barbie's assistants was pulled over by the police on the way to a carwash in Mexico City. Two officers jumped out of their black truck, guns drawn. "Freeze, motherfucker!" they screamed. They demanded to know where Barbie was. "Where is that son of a bitch?" one officer said. "Don't bullshit, or I'll cut off your balls and feed them to you."

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE....
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/an-american-drug-lord-in-acapulco-20110825

Sunday, May 27, 2018

When Einstein Visited Japan

“On the exquisiteness of the Japanese woman, this flower-like creature—I have also remained reticent; for here the common mortal must cede the word to the poet.”

Read more here...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/albert-einstein-visited-japan-180968737/

How “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons” Changed TV Forever

The debuts of “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons,” like the debut of "Citizen Kane" or Bob Dylan's ‘electric’ performance at the Newport Folk Festival, expanded the boundaries of genre and medium. Television, comedy, and American culture have permanently changed.

Read more here...

https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2014-1989-and-the-making-of-our-modern-world/how-seinfeld-and-simpsons-changed-tv-forever/

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Comforting Myths

"By the standards of the European industrial world, we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe."

Read full article here...

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/comforting-myths/

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