Her portraits have the air of a caught shot, while in fact being the fruit of a long experience, a period of waiting while trust is built. They include Joan Crawford wrestling with the “iron” girdle; Andy Warhol lifting weights astride a toilet; Dietrich from the legs up

from the Eve Arnold obit.  She applied that eye as a photojournalist as well…

Cohn and McCarthy

as the full gallery on the Magnum site shows.

Treasures on the Turnpike

bmw z8

Along the requisite Ferraris…

and Alfas

this BI photo gallery features some sweet VeeDubs

and a supervintage Cadillac

. And as for the BMW Z8 way up there…. yes please thank you.

Wonderful series of nighttime arial views of the world’s great cities

mattlehrer:

russanddaughters:

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for another wonderful year.
With love, from everyone at Russ & Daughters.
The shop is closed today, for the holiday, but we’ll return to regular business hours tomorrow (Friday, November 24) and through the weekend. (Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.)

Oh man

mattlehrer:

russanddaughters:

Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for another wonderful year.

With love, from everyone at Russ & Daughters.

The shop is closed today, for the holiday, but we’ll return to regular business hours tomorrow (Friday, November 24) and through the weekend. (Monday - Friday 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.)

Oh man

Yahoo’s still #1 in Display…

At least according to Darren Herman’s reckoning.  Using ZenithOptimedia’s 2011 digital marketing figure of $64B, that put’s y-bang at just under 10%.  With broadcast and cable hanging on to share of spend by a fingernail, the “beleaguered  portalin a great position to grab even more branding dollars.

display ad dollars

Last week brought an additional milestone: Kickstarter backers have now pledged more than $100 million to projects. To put this in some context, the 2011 fiscal year budget for the National Endowment for the Arts is $154 million. At the current pace of more than $2 million in pledges each week, Kickstarter backers are pledging more than $100 million a year.

stuff like this makes me very happy

One Million Backers » The Kickstarter Blog — Kickstarter

Just… wow.

(via fred-wilson)

(via gregcohn)

The comedy is a somewhat topical this week, at least for the first 2:30 minutes. Oh the amazing things you can do with a personal computer!  This is a b2b ad for the apple lisa from 1984.  No wonder Steve personally oversaw all marketing as CEO 2.0.

Lived Different.

Lived Different.

(Source: apple.com)

Meant to post this last week as part of the Friday Funnies series.  It’s up there with the recently posted Ojai taxidermist spot.  Surely to be parodied on SNL at some point this season.  Hat tip to The Consumerist.