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Video Quartet, by Christian Marclay (via Vimeo)

I’ve only ever seen this once, several years ago at the Seattle Art Museum. The whole thing is 14 minutes. I must have watched it four or five times.

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This “Ansel Adams’ Theme Song” stands out as the most absurd, uh, “interpretation” of Adams’ “historic” legacy. More than legendary photographer, Adams attains super-heroic status. Sample lyrics:

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A piece of photographic history is up for auction if anyone has a a few hundred thousand euro they’ve been saving for a rainy day (starting bid is €200,000; it is expected to fetch [ READ MORE ... ]

Bookbook - Twelve South

Laptop cases that look like old, old books. I’m not sure what to think …

“It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” (David St. Hubbins, This is Spinal Tap)

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This week’s Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling is doubly awesome: it’s an edition of the recurring “Super-Fun-Pak Comix” (a favorite of mine; mostly hysterical meta-jokes about comic strip cliches) and [ READ MORE ... ]

Ah, the internet. Home to all sorts of wild speculation and misinformation. Photography history rarely has a part to play in the crazier claims, but I happened upon this doozy (see screen capture at left) [ READ MORE ... ]

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Dayton Castleman’s “Bread Bird” is “an inquiry as to whether birds would eat bread in the shape of their own. In this case, Chicago pigeons would not.”

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Well, I didn’t see this one coming. Lady Gaga has been named a “Creative Director” at Polaroid and, according to reports, “co-branded Polaroid and Lady Gaga products are slated to be on store [ READ MORE ... ]

“Founded on the belief that everything in life would be better with a little more Nic Cage”, Nic Cage as Everyone presents the National Treasure: Book of Secrets star as, well, everyone.

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Tacita Dean’s Weihnachtsbaum is the twenty-second Christmas tree commissioned by Tate Britain, and is described beautifully by the Guardian’s Johnathan Jones as “unpretentious, melancholy, exact”. Very, very well put.

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Blake Andrews recently executed a perfect “Triple Lindy” over at his blog B (Rumblings from the Photographic Hinterlands …) with this post on the current New Topographics (reunion?) (anniversary?) [ READ MORE ... ]

“A Parallel Image” is an electronic camera obscura, made by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Franz Büchinger. It is an interactive sculpture which can capture and display images. On one side is [ READ MORE ... ]

Beautiful, smart, and funny posters by Exergian celebrating popular and iconic television shows. The Monk poster is borderline hilarious.

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