In between blowing things up and participating in mayhem some of our favorite characters have to occasionally put down their weapons and deal with mundane chores and issues as depicted in this photo series by Daniel Picard.
I’ve always thought of being in love as being willing to do anything for the other person—starve to buy them bread and not mind living in Siberia with them—and I’ve always thought that every minute away from them would be hell—so looking at it that [way] I guess I’m not in love with you.
- A 17 year old Jackie Kennedy's break-up letter to her Harvard boyfriend R. Beverley Corbin Jr. Corbin passed away in 2004 at age 79.
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. The trouble is, I don’t know which half.
- John Wanamaker, 19th Century.
If you had told these two back in 1979 (when they were still friends before Jay Leno reminded all of us that business is business and the only one you should look out for is yourself) that they would someday be replaced by people named "Jimmy Fallon" and "Stephen Colbert" they would have laughed you off the stage.
Just an average night in 1994 when Madonna, Sting, and Tupac chilled out in a restaurant in Tribeca.
This photo of Larry David sitting court side next to some other celebrities at a recent Knicks game is amazing. While the other celebrities sitting next to him are laughing it up, Larry David's expression is a more accurate reflection of what the fans that day were feeling because the Spurs that day absolutely dismantled and crushed us.
A delivery truck driver accidentally backed into a $300,000 Ferrari in New York City last week to create this unintentional symbolic representation of the income gap in this country.
This portraiture from approximately 1900 may be the oldest known selfie ever taken.
And here's one taken sometime in October 1914 by the Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna.
World Series MVP David Ortiz celebrating with the biggest champagne bottle I've ever seen.
We've all heard about Stonehenge located across the pond, but did you know we have our own more superior 100% ALL AMERICAN version here in the good ol' U.S. of A? In Alliance, Nebraska (population 8,491) Jim Reinder, as a tribute to his father, built a replica of Stonehenge except instead of stones he used vintage American cars
Carhenge is a replica of England's Stonehenge located near the city of Alliance, Nebraska on the High Plains. Instead of being built with large standing stones, as is the case with the original Stonehenge,[1] Carhenge is formed from 38 vintage American automobiles.
There is also another one made out of styrofoam in Virginia called...Foamhenge. Clap clap clap.
This is the insane home-based workstation that GIF creator extraordinaire Tim Burke, a former professor of communications and speech who lectured on media theory and now Deadspin.com contributor, works from and where he quickly pumps out GIFs of noteworthy highlights (or lowlights) from various games. He spends approximately 100 hours a week here and monitors dozens of games simultaneously. He is able to view and record from 28 sources at once thanks to his 10 monitors which are then split into eight or more mini-screens.
In the understatement of the year Burke explained, "I am not able to do many other things."
His wife's response to all this: "I’ve done a lot of personal growth this past year."
[Insert GIF here of her rolling her eyes.]
Browse some pictures from my life over the past few weeks, such as the one above where I couldn't resist joining the other hordes of Banksy groupies at one of the artist's more recent stencils. This one can be found on the corner of 79th and Broadway because nothing screams counter culture street art audience like the Upper West Side.
Before he became famous as the head coach of the Miami Heat, coach Erik Spoelstra was just a lowly video coordinator as seen above. The position originally wasn't even guaranteed beyond that initial summer in 1995 when he started working in this role.
Two years later he was promoted to assistant coach/video coordinator. Then in 1999 he became an assistant coach/advance scout. He ascended to the top coaching position in April 2008 and also became the first ever Asian American to do so in not just the NBA but also of all four major American sports (football, baseball, basketball and hockey).
The dude also clearly found the fountain of youth at some point.
Also, in case any of you reading this is under the age of 21, what Spoelstra is posing with in this photo is something called VHS cassettes.
Maybe someday when our civilization goes by the way of the Roman Empire, historians will point to this $91,500 t-shirt by Hermes as the beginning of the end.
Accompanying a March 23, 1958 article in the New York Times pondering the then rapidly approaching reality of putting people in space was the above photo of a pilot...and a cat.
The picture's caption: "A kitten floats out of the hand of Capt. Druey P. Parks, inside an F-94C jet plane at 25,000 feet. The speed of the plane, flying a calculated arc, counterbalances the pull of the weighlessness that a space man will experience."
There you have it. Science. With a cat.
In the July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, there on the upper right corner on page 61 was an amusing single panel cartoon by Peter Steiner. A lot of the New Yorker single panel cartoons are amusing and often quite clever, however none of them would quite beat Peter's for its cultural impact and legacy as the magazine's most popular cartoon. Here's a follow-up conversation with the cartoonist about what he's been up to since those early days of the Internet.