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Mattress King Territories | The Onion - America’s Finest...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:57:25 -0800

Mattress King Territories | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source

Somalia — Photo Gallery — National Geographic Magazine Yet amid the exoskeletons of banks and...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:47:00 -0800

Somalia — Photo Gallery — National Geographic Magazine

Yet amid the exoskeletons of banks and cathedrals and luxury hotels overlooking a glimmering coastline that once buzzed with pleasure boats, an awful truth dawns. Mogadishu was never like other African cities. Mogadishu was a spectacular city.

"This mestizo culture includes influences from Spanish Extremadura and Andalucia, African influence..."

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:22:26 -0800

“This mestizo culture includes influences from Spanish Extremadura and Andalucia, African influence due to the arrival of slaves from Madagascar (Malgache slaves), the Chinese coolies that migrated from Canton to work the rice fields and replace the slaves; and also Roma Gypsies who came as pirates looking for pearls or as incongite Spanish horsemen.”

- Piura - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A winning pedigree if I’ve ever heard one. Also, added to the list of place I would go if I could go places.

I’m finding it almost impossible to believe news reports...

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:12:25 -0800

I’m finding it almost impossible to believe news reports like Is Madagascar plunging deeper into political crisis when the accompanying photos are of DJ turned coup leader Andry Rajoelina. This latest New Yorker portrait is particularly fresh faced.

I want to read more about Malagasy identity. The whole Afro-Asian, Bantu-Malay thing is fascinating. According to Wikipedia Malagasy language shares 90% of its grammar and vocabulary with a small Dayak subgroup from Borneo.

bordemagazine: Sitio web y portfolio del fotógrafo Christopher...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:50:11 -0800

bordemagazine:

Sitio web y portfolio del fotógrafo Christopher Herwig.

Appropriately, the first show I am able to go to in months is a secret Constantines show a couple...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:09:57 -0800

Appropriately, the first show I am able to go to in months is a secret Constantines show a couple blocks from my house.

2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:31:14 -0800

2009 in photos (part 2 of 3) - The Big Picture - Boston.com

My flavors.me profile. I’m not actually sure what it is...

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:40:21 -0800

My flavors.me profile. I’m not actually sure what it is except it doesn’t seem to allow you to do anything ugly.

Octopus grabs coconut and runs

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:39:36 -0800

Octopus grabs coconut and runs:

towerofsleep:

(via pterodactyls)

I had octopus for lunch.

fullofwhitehotrage: holy shit most awesome job in the world

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:27:58 -0800

fullofwhitehotrage:

holy shit most awesome job in the world

you need to follow this photography blog

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:59:31 -0800

circumpolarnavigation:

samesies:

KATHERINE SQUIER

CHARLIE ENGMAN

done

cameronr: Secret Mommy - Woody Allen, David...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:40:22 -0800

cameronr:

Secret Mommy - Woody Allen, David Koresh

mentalbeast:

Featured song in Episode Six of Mental Beast

The Eggnog Experience will be available for free download on December 17th.

Secret Mommy is irrefutably great.

things change a little

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:05:00 -0800

things change a little

glynnis: CPR Track by Fred Herzog

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:01:48 -0800

glynnis:

CPR Track by Fred Herzog

glynnis: Black Man Pender by Fred Herzog I reblog most things...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:06:15 -0800

glynnis:

Black Man Pender by Fred Herzog

I reblog most things Fred Herzog, also most things Vancouver Chinatown. I spent the last fifteen minutes trying to find that exact storefront on SV.

(via mikehudack) A photo purported to be that of a dead man is...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:46:00 -0800

(via mikehudack)

A photo purported to be that of a dead man is now a two-block black hole in Street View.

Street View has proven incredibly useful for me in getting around and in enhancing my knowledge of the city; it’s also tragic and unsettling.

Last week I street-viewed my old apartment in the Netherlands, looked at my open window and felt a deep nostalgia. I then spent the next hour reliving bicycle rides beside canals, and discovering places I never explored even when I lived nearby.

Street View demands an emotional response; it’s a vast database of fleeting dramatic moments. Our brains are programmed to create narratives and we do, incorporating the anonymous pixel-faced characters into subtle stories about a place.

Mundane searches for restaurants or laundromats become tragedies more compelling than any reality-television.

via neatorama.cachefly.net

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:59:17 -0800

via neatorama.cachefly.net

thepublics: Cape Town Diary The World Cup, it is everywhere...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:34:19 -0800

thepublics:

Cape Town Diary

The World Cup, it is everywhere said, will market South Africa around the world, create jobs and be highly beneficial to the country’s development. In fact, it will be very much for the delectation of the well-off. At least in ancient Rome the poor got to see the chariot races and gladiatorial contests, but there is little chance of the same happening here. In practice, one may be sure, it will be the new elite who will flock to the games in their Mercs and BMWs. It is quite common in South Africa for higher civil servants or mayors and councillors from poor areas to award themselves trips to the Olympics or other such international events, often taking hundreds of hangers-on with them, all paid for from the public purse. There is little doubt that the World Cup, being local, will see more of that sort of thing than ever.

- R.W. Johnson, a long-time Liverpool supporter, lives in Cape Town. He recently lost his left leg. Luckily he is right-footed.

Dude, that’s a photo of Johannesburg.

fuckyeahtoronto: The Odeon Carlton before 1972 (demolished...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:34:06 -0800

fuckyeahtoronto:

The Odeon Carlton before 1972 (demolished 1973) Architect Jay I. English
The Odeon Toronto opened in 1948, and was described as the “Showplace of the Dominion”. It was an enormous theatre with two spacious lobbies on the main floor and another one on the balcony level. Up the magnificent staircase at the first landing was a restaurant overlooking the lower level. It was equipped with a Hillgreen-Lane 3Manual/19Ranks organ which was opened by Al Bollington.

It was part of the Odeon building which housed the offices of Odeon Theatres Canada. It’s name was changed to the Odeon Carlton in 1956, and it premiered some of the biggest films of the day. For years it showed reserved seat roadshow films such as “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Oliver”. It also was home of James Bond movies for several years and even had a few Cinerama movies starting with “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” in 1963.

Sadly, in later years it could no longer attract the big crowds and it’s last attraction before closing in 1973 was “White Lighting”. It was offered to the city of Toronto for one dollar as a performing arts centre, but they passed saying it didn’t have enough room for a backstage area. It was a real loss for movie lovers and for the city of Toronto.

It was demolished later that year and replaced with an apartment building. Ironically, next door Cineplex Odeon opened a nine-screen art house, also called the Carlton, so the name still lives on.

At first I was like, “he totally doesn’t know” and then I was like, “damn I’m slow, of course he (or she) knows.”

The second Carlton closed today for good.

I took a chance on a record today at the Scarborough Buy The...

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:43:51 -0800

I took a chance on a record today at the Scarborough Buy The Pound because it had the word “megamix” on it. Turns out it’s various remixes of this track. So happy.