A memo from record producer Teo Macero to Columbia/CBS Records executives prior to the release of Miles Davis’ groundbreaking album, Bitches Brew. I don’t have faintest idea why there aren’t more Miles Davis sketch comedy routines in this world. [via thehighdef]
Nick Bilton got the scoop: “In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobile-centric photo-sharing network, according to people who work at the company but asked not to be named as they [...]
The more recent cover New York Magazine features an incredible photo by Iwan Baan showing the blackout in lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy. It’s a perfect bookend to the recent cover by Bloomberg Businessweek. Baan’s photo of lower Manhattan is difficult to stomach.
I can’t quite place my finger on what I love about this photo, but there’s something very-”Being John Malkovich” about it. Attributed to Harry Burnett while Yale Puppeteers were working in their theater, Teatro Torito, on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California, circa 1931. The photo was taken by Harry Burnett at Cal Tech in [...]
From the BBC: “Gregoire Bouguereau (France) won the Behaviour: Mammals category with this image of cheetah cubs chasing a Thomson’s gazelle calf that their mother had caught but not killed. At first, the cubs took no notice of the calf lying on the ground. But when it struggled to its feet, ‘the cubs’ natural predatory [...]
From Abraham Piper: Buttons the Jack Russell and Kitty the Kitten are both residents at the Battersea Cats and Dogs Home in London. Buttons was rejected by her mother because she was the runt of the litter and Kitty was brought in by the person who found her alone when she was a day old. Usually dogs and [...]
“A farmer sprayed milk on policemen during a protest against falling milk prices outside the E.U.’s headquarters in Brussels, where agricultural ministers discussed its policies at an emergency meeting.” It sort of looks like Dale Earnhardt Jr. was taking a break from NASCAR races to help with the protest, doesn’t it? [via clusterflock]
In Focus has a panoply of photos from this year’s National Geographic Photo Contest. There are so many great photos curated by the site and even more on the contest page, that it is hard — nay impossible — to select just one. Here are three that grabbed my attention. Crater Lake Storm at Sunset “A thunderstorm [...]
