“Remember These Days” is a beautiful story about Walter Backerman, a third-generation seltzer man in New York City. I could listen to this guy talk all day.
Walter the Seltzer Man has gotten a fair amount of publicity, including this blog post at The New York Times, which includes a delightful correction at the end.
As advertised, and against all odds, epic. If you see only one Slinky-on-a-treadmill video this year, make it this one. The soundtrack is what makes it art. Seriously, this is fantastic.
L.A. is fun, palm trees are cool, and Bruce Davidson is a great photographer. So here you go.
(via Photo Booth: Video: Bruce Davidson and the Trees of Los Angeles : The New Yorker)
“The Carpenter” at Vimeo. All HD video should be this good.
(Source: vimeo.com)
The movie “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” has been out for a while now, but if you’re like me and haven’t seen it, you’ve missed a badass opening title sequence. So here it is.
(Source: vimeo.com)
Neat little promo for art.com’s iPad app.
The third Made By Hand mini documentary is out: It is titled The Beekeeper and tells the story of a local NYC farmer called Megan Paska.
Lovely.
Death is so final. It’s like turning off a light switch. Your mind is going a mile a minute, hoping … but that’s where reality sets in again, she’s gone. …
You try to live your life like you used to, and the used to isn’t there. It’s gone. …
It’s like the devil is sitting on your shoulder. Flip him off and keep going and say, “Get outta my way, because I’m gonna keep going.”
James Gregg, my co-worker at U-T San Diego, won a Picture of the Year International award for his bull-riding video, “Dance with the Devil.” Cool!
What a five-year-old thinks about famous logos
“A turkey that’s very colorful, like a rainbow.”
“That is on a control that you use to control the TV at Ryan’s house.”
“Baby toys. Those look like baby toys.”
Priceless.
via Kottke
Welcome! My name is Mark Dodge Medlin. I'm an editor and former journalist living in Los Angeles.
I make photos, many of which I also post here.
I like to draw.
I work for a big, famous hospital.
Ask me anything. I'm especially good at state capitals.
During an anti-terror and security drill, South Korean soldiers take their...
Left, photograph by Thomas Prior, Untitled, 2013. Via. Right, photograph by Pawel Dudziak, The King
Profound graffiti spotted on Market Street.
(San Francisco, CA)
