These photos are from this year's International Camping Festival held on Mount Wugongshan in the Jiangxi province of China and attracted over 15,000 camping enthusiasts.
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In 1974 attorney Dale O. Cox, a season ticket holder of the Cleveland Browns sent the above complaint and giving notice to his team.
The reply below sent by the Browns' 28-year-old general counsel, James Bailey is the best thing ever.
The Cleveland Browns would finish the season that year 4-10. Also both attorneys turned out to be graduates of University of Michigan Law School.
Telegram from Martin Luther King, Jr to Sammy Davis requesting Frank Sinatra's help. Sinatra and the Rat Pack were vocal in their support of desegregation in Nevada hotels and casinos and would not perform at venues that practiced segregation.
A couple months later on April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated.
There's a lot of fascinating anecdotes in this recent provocative Business Week article on Jeff Bozos, but one interesting tidbit in the article is the screenshot of the original Amazon.com website back in 1995.
While we're on the topic, stay inside our Internet time machine to see what other popular websites looked like when they first appeared on the world wide web.
Google (with the exclamation):
Ebay (with the literal headline. It's an auction. On the web. Auction Web.):
MySpace (Awkward....):
Twitter (Creator of this logo has NOT stepped forward to claim credit):
New York Times (:
Yahoo:
Lastly, I shut down the site a long time ago and most of the images are no longer cached, but courtesy of the Wayback Machine, here is a screenshot of my original blog on Xanga back in 2004:
A collection of some vintage ping pong related photographs collected by Alec Soth.
The perplexed "what the hell am I supposed to do with this" look on the girl pictured above is great. Today I could see this same ping pong table being displayed at the Armory Show as some contemporary art piece.
Artist Gillian Wearing asked strangers on the street to write whatever was on their mind and then photographed the result for her 1992-1993 series "Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs That Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say."
The artist's last name is apropos methinks.
I saw Alfonso Cuaron's "Gravity" this past weekend along with the rest of New York City it seemed if the crowd and buzz in the theater was any indication. I enjoyed it, but I didn't find it quite the cinematic tour de force that everyone else is proclaiming. Some critics have referred to the film's conveyance of a sensation referred to as "overview effect" that astronauts sometimes experience. The film does have its breathtaking moments. One particular scene had me gasp, but in the end I thought "Gravity" sank under its own weight and is simply just an entertaining disaster flick. In terms of the director's body of work, I thought "Y Tu Mamá También" was far more impressive .
Speaking of space, following the successful launch of the Apollo 11 mission in the summer of 1969, the New York Times published a correction (see above) in its July 17, 1969 edition.
Banksy has been running around New York City the past week doing what he does best including updating "few pieces of citizen graffiti a Broadway makeover, slapping the phrase "The Musical" after tags that say "dirty underwear," "OCCUPY!" and "PLAYGROUND MOB.""
As expected his pieces have been quickly drawing a crowd, but this local resident was already at work scrubbing evidence of Banksy's visit to the "dirty underwear" tag at 204 Bushwick Avenue. When told it was a by a famous artist, the man responded "I should build a wall around it and start charging money."
Yes, he should. This is what they did in Park City, Utah to one of Banksy's stencils. They added a protective encasing around it.
[Insert comment here about the ironic intersection of commerce and capitalism, street art, fame, gentrification of New York City and link to this amazing relevant sighting.]
This was Al Capone's cell at the now defunct Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia where he lived for 8 months. It was described by the Philadelphia Public Ledger in August 20, 1929 as follows:
The whole room was suffused in the glow of a desk lamp which stood on a polished desk.... On the once-grim walls of the penal chamber hung tasteful paintings, and the strains of a waltz were being emitted by a powerful cabinet radio receiver of handsome design and fine finish...
Say what you will about him, but his lamp game was real strong.
While growing up in Anchorage, Alaska I would often stare at the mountain you see picture above. It's officially called Mount Susitna but more popularly known among locals as The Sleeping Lady for its resemblance to a woman resting on her side in deep slumber. The tale told to every Alaskan child is that only the safe return of her warrior husband from battle would awaken her from her sleep.
Wikipedia has a list of other mountain ranges around the world that also shares Mount Susitna's "The Sleeping Lady" nickname.
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James H. Hare snapped this picture from a balloon of Manhattan in 1906. Some corners of the Internet believe that this may be the first aerial photo of downtown Manhattan.
Love this old Gap ad (note the terrific socks and sandals look) featuring the creators behind Myst which was one of the most influential games and digital experiences of my childhood. In this retrospective piece in Grantland on this seminal game I think this is the truest statement:
Without Myst there's no Grand Theft Auto V orAssassin's Creed — but I'd also argue that there's no late-night bottomless Wikipedia rabbit hole. Maybe Myst didn't change how we approached computer games, but rather how we approached computer lives.
One of my fondest memories was playing this game on a Macintosh Quadra and trying to unlock the puzzles with my dad on quiet weekends.
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Ed Ruscha, "Not a Bad World, Is It?," 1984.
In this short ESPN interview with Mark Turmell, the man behind NBA Jam reveals a little handicap he coded against the Chicago Bulls when playing his beloved Pistons.
If there was a close game and anyone on the Bulls took a last second shot, we wrote special code in the game so that they would average out to be bricks. There was the big competition back in the day between the Pistons and the Bulls, and since I was always a big Pistons fan, that was my opportunity to level the playing field.
I like this photo looking at Manhattan from DUMBO with Tom Fruin's stained glass water tower art installation in the foreground.
"Butter Knife" by Derek Paul Boyle.