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Zak Noyle photographed this surfing expedition to Indonesia. Dede Suryana is the surfer in the first photo and Bede Durbide in the second.
Here's a revolutionary idea: we should probably figure out a better way of disposing our trash.
A statue of Louis Agassiz, a prominent naturalist and geologist, on Stanford's Zoology building fell during the 1906 earthquake that hit San Francisco. This was the reaction on campus:
People came running from the quad with such sober faces, but when they saw him they couldn’t help laughing, and one fellow went up and shook hands with him.
Stanford President David Starr Jordan later wrote, "Somebody-Dr. Angell, perhaps-remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.'"
Amazingly only his nose was broken in the fall.
Today this looks like a contemporary art piece one would find at Art Basel or The Armory Show.
Among the splatter of paint by Jackson Pollack is 
Here's the first known photo which was taken in 1904 of the Boston Marathon.
Sammy Mellor is shown leading at 22 miles of the 8th running of the Boston Marathon. This amazing photo shows wonderful detail of children, bicyclists and horse-drawn carriages accompanying the leader. Its a shame Sammy dropped out of the race shortly after this picture was taken.
See more photos from the marathon's history here.
Submitting your federal income taxes only required 4 pages of paperwork in 1913. You could take deductions arising from losses sustained in shipwrecks.
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Nope, it isn't Forrest Gump.
In 1963 designer Harvey Ross Ball was "commissioned to create a graphic to raise morale among the employees of an insurance company after a series of difficult mergers and acquisitions. Ball finished the design in less than 10 minutes and was paid $45 for his work. The State Mutual Life Assurance Company (now Allmerica Financial Corporation) made posters, buttons, and signs adorned with the jaundiced grin in the attempt to get their employees to smile more."
I quite prefer the crudeness of Ball's smiley face over the evolved version that we see today. :)
From the time capsule, here is the November 1977 issue of Vogue which included an editorial starring characters from Star Wars. The fur is objectionable and a manifestation of the dark side.
You can buy this issue here.
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During my flight back to New York City the other day I watched "Hitchcock" (2012) starring Anthony Hopkins in the eponymous role. It was a terrific film that explored the tumultuous dynamic between the director and his wife Alma Hitchcock during the making of "Psycho." Coincidentally, soon after seeing this film, I came across this photo of Alma cheerfully posing in front of their fridge stocked with a wax bust of Alfred.
Carmelo Anthony went into video game mode last night and dropped 50 points in a Knicks victory against the Heat. Afterwards he changed into Terry Richardson.
Photographer Kevin Tachman takes an overexposed approach to capturing Seoul Fashion Week and the end result is cold, yet wonderful.
In June 9, 1997, Radiohead performed at Irving Plaza after the release of their album OK Computer. The band's guest list was a veritable Who's Who of that era.
To promote its online tutoring business, The Tutor Crowd is correcting spelling and grammatical errors on graffiti dotted across London.
To express their support for gay rights during this week's gay marriage hearings at the Supreme Court, many Facebook and Twitter users changed their profile image to the red and pink "equals" sign.
The large LGBTA organization Human Rights Campaign, which was the first to display this soon to be iconic symbol, collected their favorite variations and progeny of this image.
The latest in LA from Hanksy, the street artist who shares my love of puns (previously).
Alternative film titles considered by Stanley Kubrick for what would finally be released as "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb."
Strangelove's verbose title makes me wonder what film has the longest title. Thanks to Google and this list, apparently Kubrick's movie ranks number 140. Ranked number one: "Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3." Thanks but no thanks.
With the approval of its owners, an abandoned ship in north Wales has been reborn as a rusty tabula rasa for graffiti artists. Standing seven-story tall and 137-meter long, the "the Duke of Lancaster," a former luxury cruise liner during the mid-twentieth century, has turned what would now be a sore for sight eyes into an artistic draw.