Archive for June, 2008

Tough life being a fashion photographer: Models…murder

“Sometimes reality is the strangest fantasy of all.” Yeah, that’ll be running around photographing skinny models for a living…
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on [...]

Tonnes of cocaine seized on the way to Mexico

Five tonnes of cocaine have been seized in Panama and Mexico. Panama has seized a total of 11 tonnes in the past 30 days while the Mexican government has been forced to deploy 30,000 troops in recent times now that drug traffickers have got too much for police…a bit like Jamaica.
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Photograph: Reuters

Before the Macbook Air

There was the Apple LISA II (1984)…only 60 pounds!

66 drives

Here’s something completely random. A series of ‘vector portraits’ featuring people in their cars…doing stuff. Kissing, reading, some even driving.
According to the photographer, a guy named Andrew Bush, all the images were taken between 1989-1997 ‘while travelling 50 to 70 mph in Los Angeles and other parts of the Southwestern United States’. Groovy.
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Shaft in Africa: How to end human trafficking

“Shaft is back where he’s never been before, in the mutha country like a black tornado.”

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