Photo of 3 by Henri Cartier-Bresson via inneroptics

Beastie Boys and Billy Idol doing the Vulcan thing. Back in the day, yo. Via dirtypreston

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archiemcphee:

Yesterday we all gasped at the news that Roger Ebert had passed away. It’s difficult to express our feelings of loss and even harder to convey the tremendous influence Ebert has had on us throughout our lives. As a journalist, as a film critic, and as a person he was, in a word, awesome.

Artist Terry Border of Bent Objects (previously featured here) created this simple and moving tribute to the late, great Roger Ebert and we think it’s pretty awesome too.

And so, in memory of Roger Ebert and as a sign of appreciation for the impact he had on us and our gratitude for his presence in our lives, today is officially Thumbs Up Day on the Geyser of Awesome.

A beautiful, simple perfect tribute to Ebert and his iconic thumb.

danny-kaye:

Four of show business’ biggest stars performed on the Jack Benny radio program and delighted listeners with a rendition of a song Benny wrote himself. March 6, 1952, are Danny Kaye, Frank Sinatra, Groucho Marx

Sinatra, Groucho, Danny Kaye and Jack Benny gathered round a microphone—those we’re the days indeed!

weird awesome face-morphing gif. Via insanitiki:

Sometimes… teeth are gross. This, is one of those times.

Johan Lorbeer is a German artist concerned with phenomena of perception. His performances are caught on the borderline between image and presentation and they perturb us through their apparent incompatibility with our spacial experiences. Via 2headedsnake & sweet-station.com

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Photo of Argentinean surrealist Leonor Fini and a proximate manequin by Henri Cartier Bresson, 1932, via theremina

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More writers notebooks of yore: Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Jack Kerouac, and Ernest Hemingway. Via likeafieldmouse:

Famous Notebooks

1. Mark Twain - “He had his leather bound notebooks custom made according to his own design idea. Each page had a tab; once a page had been used, he would tear off its tab, allowing him to easily find the next blank page for his jottings”

2. Charles Darwin - “The notebooks were filled with memorandum to himself on things to look further into, questions he wanted to answer, scientific speculations, notes on the many books he was currently reading, natural observations, sketches, and lists of the books he had read and wanted to read. But the progression is far from orderly: the entries are chaotically arranged and wide-ranging; they jump from one scientific subject to the next and are interspersed with notes on correspondences and conversations. He would rest the notebook on his desk and write horizontally down the page with a pen, and, like Isaac Newton, he would sometimes start in from both ends of the notebook at once and work towards the middle.

3. Jack Kerouac - The notebook entry reads: 

“Ginsberg — intelligent enuf, interested in the outward appearance & pose of great things, intelligent enuf to know where to find them, but once there he acts like Jerry Newman, the photographer anxious to be photographed photographing —— Ginsberg wants to run his hand up the backs of people, for this he gives and seldom takes — He is also a mental screwball

*(Tape recorder anxious to be tape recorded tape recording) (like Seymour Barab anxious to have his name in larger letters than Robert Louis Stevenson, like Steinberg & Verlaine Rimbaud Baudelaire”

4. Ernest Hemingway - The notebook entry reads:

“My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway

I was born on July 21, 1899

My favorite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White.

My favorite flower is lady slipper and tiger lily.

My favorite sports are trout fishing, hiking, shooting, football and boxing.

My favorite studies are English, zoology and chemistry.

I intend to travel and write.”

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My latest post for laughingsquid features video of a startlingly Fast Striptease from 1942 by Georgia Sothern, aka The Human Dynamo. And some awesome vintage posters featuring her to boot. Have a great weekend!

Lou Reed original slacker.

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Ezra Klein gives a quick primer on Paul Ryan’s budget. And how, amongst other things, he doesn’t explain how he can pay for most of his trillions in tax cuts. Short version: we’ll just take the money from the poor.