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Waiting Topless.
A photo-essay on topless waitresses at a coffee shop in Maine. (NSFW)
via:Kottke 
june 2009 by funkaoshi
Teen and Transgender Comparative Study.
"In the images in White’s series, both figures are blossoming into womanhood, though each along a different path. As observers, however, we have been taught to view the subjects in much the same way: with sheer terror."
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june 2009 by funkaoshi
Spam by Elliott Burford.
An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.
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may 2009 by funkaoshi
Five Ways to Start a Conversation About the New Star Trek Film.
A spoiler-ridden, but interesting, critique of the new Star Trek film.
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may 2009 by funkaoshi
Bikini Bailout.
"As the economy drives more people to audition for a few pool party jobs, our writer braves the long lines in hopes of getting a little swimsuit stimulus."
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march 2009 by funkaoshi
The first one's the hardest.
About how the font Router came to be, and an interesting look at font design.
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march 2009 by funkaoshi
"Don't Forget..."
Artists paste photoshop interface elements on top of airbrushed advertising.
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january 2009 by funkaoshi
Dotter Dotter.
3D representations of old 2D nintendo games.
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january 2009 by funkaoshi
Letter from Iceland.
A good overview of how a country goes bankrupt. (And a good example of why privatization and deregulation is crazy stupid.)
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november 2008 by funkaoshi
'Hoop Dreams' film players remain friends.
A follow up story on the two stars of the 1994 documentary Hoop Dreams.
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november 2008 by funkaoshi
YouTube: Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect.
Obama is planning on doing weekly 'fireside' chats via YouTube. This dudes transition team is stellar. Gobama!
Obama  via:Kottke 
november 2008 by funkaoshi
Great moments in post-modernism: More Money, More Problems.
I'm not sure if this dude is reading too much into the song/video or not.
music  video  post-modernism  biggie  via:Kottke 
october 2008 by funkaoshi
Annie Gets Her Shot.
"Four of the most memorable Annie Leibovitz shots—of Mick Jagger, Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Queen Elizabeth II—gain added power from the stories behind them, shedding as much light on Leibovitz’s portrait-making process as on her subjects."
photography  via:kottke 
september 2008 by funkaoshi
Switched At Birth.
"On a summer day in 1951, two baby girls were born in a hospital in small-town Wisconsin. The infants were accidentally switched, and went home with the wrong families. One of the mothers realized the mistake but chose to keep quiet. Until the day, more than 40 years later, when she decided to tell both daughters what happened. How the truth changed two families' lives -- and how it didn't."
story  via:Kottke 
september 2008 by funkaoshi
Mystery on Fifth Avenue.
Who doesn't like a scavenger hunt?
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june 2008 by funkaoshi
Monocle: design notes.
Well worth a read if you are at all interested in web design.
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april 2008 by funkaoshi
An Interview with George Clooney - On Career, Sex And Politics.
\"We find out what happens when George Clooney Googles George Clooney.\"
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march 2008 by funkaoshi
What I\'ve Learned: Michael J. Fox.
\"I was never big on lunch boxes and all that stuff, and I look at it now and think, God, how much money I turned down. Oh, fuck, I\'d do it in a heartbeat now.\"
funny  interesting  via:kottke 
december 2007 by funkaoshi
YouTube: Simpsons: Homer Picture A Day.
Funny, but more so if you\'ve seen the original.
video  funny  simpsons  via:Kottke 
december 2007 by funkaoshi
The Laptop Club.
Little children make paper laptops. Cute.
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november 2007 by funkaoshi
What Does Iraq Cost? Even More Than You Think.
\"The ironic legacy of the war to end all proliferation will be more proliferation.\"
war  iraq  america  via:Kottke 
november 2007 by funkaoshi
Disparities.
On the Jena Six and the American \"justice\" system.
America  Law  via:Kottke 
october 2007 by funkaoshi
Through a Lens, Darkly.
\"During the historic 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 26-year-old journalist Will Counts took a photograph that gave an iconic face to the passions at the center of the civil-rights movement—two faces, actually: those of 15-year-o
VanityFair  segregation  america  via:Kottke 
october 2007 by funkaoshi

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