Author: Trent

  • Flight Patterns

    Flight Patterns

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    Amazing photos by Richard Barnes of starling flocks over Italy in today’s New York Times Magazine: Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds — or at least the double nature of our relationship to them — recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass.…

  • Maiden India

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    From The Observer: When Britain’s hardiest metal band played their first Indian gig, Ed Vulliamy joined them and their fans for a frank discussion of war, economics – and music Whereas a Maiden audience in Europe tends to be what Valerie Potter of Metal Hammer magazine calls ‘a family outing, father and son perhaps’, the…

  • i am 8 bit

    i am 8 bit

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    Check out this amazing plush Donkey Kong designed for the I Am 8 Bit show, found on Michelle and Amanda’s The Girls blog, which showcases their work as The Girls Productions Amanda Visell and Michelle Valigura are always posting great work on their blog. You can see more cool videogame artwork at the I Am…

  • NoTxt #9

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    Featuring Josh Brown, Andy Martin, Scott Bort, Jorge Javier Lopez, Jonathan Hanson, Francesa Dotta, Yeulmaus, Lars Borges. Check it out here.

  • 2007 Pulitzer Winners

    2007 Pulitzer Winners

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    Back to good news in the photojournalism world: The winners of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes were announced this week. The Pulitzers are the top awards in newspaper journalism. The award for Breaking News Photography was awarded to Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty for the photo above, of illegal settlers being removed in the West Bank.…

  • New Works by Banksy

    New Works by Banksy

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    Some new pieces from one of today’s greatest art prankster Banksy are up at Banksy’s website. Thanks to Juxtapoz for the notice. I’ve been meaning to review Banksy’s book Wall and Piece for months now. The man is a genius. One of my favorite artists of all time. Here.

  • The Press Photographer's Year

    The Press Photographer's Year

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    The winners of the UK photojournalism competition, The Press Photographer’s Year, including their Photograph of the Year (seen here), by Sean Smith of The Guardian. As they say: Designed for press photographers by press photographers. Sponsored by Canon cameras, the acknowledged industry leaders, The Press Photographer’s Year will be the definitive awards for the outstanding…

  • Grindhouse Gang

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    From LA Weekly, a conversation with Quentin Tarantina, Robert Rodriguez and the masters of grindhouse films (Richard Rush, Bob Clark, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Allan Arkush, Lewis Teague, and George Armitage): TARANTINO: I have to tell you that, of course, everyone talks about the George Romero movies when they talk about the zombie genre. But hands down,…

  • Anger as hostages sell stories to highest bidders

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    From The Observer: Colonel Bob Stewart, a British commander of United Nations forces in Bosnia, told the Sunday Times that the MoD had turned a military disaster into a media circus. ‘The released hostages are behaving like reality TV stars,’ he said. ‘I am appalled that the MoD is encouraging them to profit in this…

  • Megan Whitmarsh Interview

    Megan Whitmarsh Interview

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    From the art site FecalFace (which is not what you think- just a stupid name), an interview with one of my very favorite artists: You may know her for her comic books, her handmade wallets, her paintings or all of the above. With misfits, embroidery, yetis, tiny industries, enjoy and explore the world made by…

  • McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants Say

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    From The New York Times: The delegation arrived at the market, which is called Shorja, on Sunday with more than 100 soldiers in armored Humvees — the equivalent of an entire company — and attack helicopters circled overhead, a senior American military official in Baghdad said. The soldiers redirected traffic from the area and restricted…

  • Gavin Watson's photographs of UK Skinheads

    Gavin Watson's photographs of UK Skinheads

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    From Simon Garfield’s piece, “Getting Under Their Skins,” on UK skinheads, in the Observer: ‘I was so intense about being a skinhead, to me it was final,’ says Gavin Watson, a former skinhead from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. ‘Anybody who grew their hair for work or their girlfriend was severely mentally impaired. I would be downtown…

  • Bigfoot

    Bigfoot

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    From Juxtapoz: Bigfoot’s solo show, Survival In The Modern World, opened last Saturday, March 24th, at Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City/LA, CA. This collection includes a wide range of styles addressing the singular theme of the man and myth known as Bigfoot. The gallery has a comprehensive photoset of all the works in the…

  • MP3 Truffles: Hurt Me Hurt Me But the Pants Stay On

    MP3 Truffles: Hurt Me Hurt Me But the Pants Stay On

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    WFMU’s Beware the Blog: This week’s favorite find is Teezar. Who are Teezar? Well, if you take Joe Stumble’s word for it, they are the best hard rock band you never heard of, a pair of trailer-living nerds from Missouri whose album “Bakkstage Pass” not only invented the L.A. glam scene, but hip-hop as well.…

  • Don McPhee, 1945-2007

    Don McPhee, 1945-2007

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    All too often newspaper photographers just vanish. As the witnesses of history we are rarely written into it. And we often like it that way. We want to be invisible. Photographer Don McPhee passed away after a long career with the English newspaper The Guardian. There is a great slideshow of his work narrated by…

  • Anna Nicole Smith Finally Reaches Target Weight

    Anna Nicole Smith Finally Reaches Target Weight

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    The Onion: Former stripper turned Playboy Playmate turned reality-TV star Anna Nicole Smith has overcome her longtime struggle with obesity, at last reaching her target weight of 125 pounds, sources said Monday. “Anna’s been through a lot,” said Florida Circuit Court Judge Larry Seidlin, who became visibly emotional as he spoke to reporters. “But I…

  • The dark heart of the new South Africa

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    Guardian-Observer: Foreigners think we’re nuts coming back to a doomed city on a damned continent,’ Rian Malan once wrote about Johannesburg, ‘but there is something you don’t understand: it’s boring where you are.’ When I go to meet Malan, South Africa’s most controversial and charismatic writer, in his home city, I see the force of…

  • High School Kidnapping Charges

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    From Jim’s myspace blog: Let me start off by saying that my Dad always thought Trent Nelson was a bad influence on me. I am not sure why. He was really the only person I hung out with that did not drink or do drugs. He loved my friend Billy Hicks who I used to…

  • Calvert DeForest, cult status as oddball on Letterman show

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    Mercury News: Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry “Bud” Melman on David Letterman’s late night television shows, has died after a long illness. Mr. DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, Letterman’s “Late Show” announced Wednesday. He made dozens of appearances on…

  • Straight Edge slayer recounts chaos of fatal Halloween night

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    Salt Lake Tribune: More than eight years have passed since Colin Reesor fatally stabbed an unconscious boy during a Halloween night riot between Straight Edge gang members and others, but Reesor still doesn’t understand his actions. “I’m a coward, I guess,” Reesor said Tuesday during his first hearing before the Utah Board of Pardons and…