Photo break: Do girls really like a man in uniform?
May 15, 2009 in Photo break
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Camelot 2.0
Apr 30, 2009 in Photo break
This post could also be titled “I really wish they brought back the West Wing”
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The Secret of Life on Earth movie download 
All photos from the official White House Flickr stream.
Photobreak: He's getting married in the morning
Apr 22, 2009 in Photo break
In tribute to my good friend Paul B. who’s getting married this weekend.
Don’t be nervous buddy. We got your back.
But if you do get nervous, we’ll carry you in.
Photo Break: Flying was better back then
Mar 31, 2009 in Photo break
This one is a no-brainer. Flying was probably slower, less safe and more expensive back in the 1950s and 1960s but at least it was more humane. You’re not getting crammed in with screaming babies, inconsiderate louts and god knows who else.
Also, for some odd reason, everyone dressed up to fly. No sitting next to a schlub in trackpants and a stained t-shirt. I could do without the cigarette smoking though.
Powder move The Comebacks movies
Mystery flight to the Bahamas, Alfred Eisenstaedt
Photobreak: The newsstand
Mar 24, 2009 in Photo break
Top: British broadcaster David Frost at a newsstand (1968)
Bottom left: Newsstand in New York (1944). Click for a full-size version.
Bottom right: Newsstand in New York (1935). Click for a full-size version.
Photo Break: Woody Guthrie
Feb 20, 2009 in Photo break
Nocturna dvdrip Woody Guthrie on the New York City Subway, 1943.
Click for a full-size version The Bellboy full movie .
I blowed into New York town,
And I looked up and I looked down,
Everybody I seen on the streets
Was all a running down in a hole in the ground.
I follered ‘em. See where they’s a going.
Newsboy said they’re tryin’ to smoke a rat out of a hole.— From Talking Subway, by Woody Guthrie Mad Cow trailer
And if you want a little musical accompaniment to go with that. Here’s Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy bringing to life a Guthrie original. Have an amazing day.
Photo Break: Here is New York
Feb 11, 2009 in Photo break
A Continuous Lean points out this lovely photo series of New York My Big Fat Greek Wedding film in the 1930s from the New York Public Library.
Suitable for Murder hd Nutcracker: The Motion Picture film 
The Pornographer download The photos pair nicely with E.B. White’s 1948 essay, “Here is New York.”
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born there, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size, its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter–the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these trembling cities the greatest is the last–the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York’s high strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company….
Check out the whole set on Flickr.
Photo Break: Inaugurals past
Jan 21, 2009 in Photo break
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JFK at one of his Inaugural balls. Jan. 20, 1961.
From Google’s Life archive.
Photo Break: Oh, Great White City
Jan 14, 2009 in Photo break
Yes. That’s the administration building from Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition in 1893. The Ninth Gate divx
Featured in Sufjan Steven’s song “Come on! Feel the Illinoise”
Also the star of Erik Larson’s very fun and awesome book The Devil in the White City
Photo Break: A bit of Vancouver, a bit of Toronto
Jan 10, 2009 in Photo break
The Crew divx Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film psp
Both photos from the Tilt-Shift Miniature Fakes Flickr pool. Click on them for full-size versions.