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    I didn’t think the danger of slipping and falling in a parking lot could get any more severe. Then I saw this.

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    I’m now pretty much in a hallucinogenic state induced by lack of sleep and over-stimulation but it was an exciting day and an exciting week. 

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    One of the skate world’s best-kept secrets is the ultra-collectible but hard to find SKATE BOOK. A 350+ page hardcover “mag,” from the minds of skaters SALMAN AGAH and MIKE BALLARD, the refreshingly formatted quarterly periodical is a welcome departure from the copycat skate mags that could once call themselves cutting-edge.

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    Richard Jones told The Associated Press that Grace Mugabe, 43, ordered a bodyguard to hold him down and then attacked him herself on Thursday near the Shangri-La hotel on Hong Kong’s Kowloon peninsula.

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    Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang

    Escape From North Korea
    Defection is daunting. So is starting a new, free life.

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    Sometimes it takes the worst to see people at their best. For Bobby Model, a photographer who has worked for this magazine and a world-class climber, the worst happened two years ago while traveling in Cape Town, South Africa, with his sister, Faith. A concrete block crashed through the windshield and struck his head, causing massive brain injuries. Doctors doubted he would survive. Though never solved, the case was investigated as an act of random violence. That’s the darkest side of humanity.

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    From STACY PERALTA the director of DOGTOWN & Z BOYS and RIDING GIANTS

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    Mary Ellen Mark has the rare ability to make her empathy visible. I believe, but cannot prove, that this is rooted in how she connects to her subjects. The photographic artifact is proof of that connection. This is not rooted in photographic skill or artistry—Avedon did not have it, nor does Penn, and I very much admire their work. Robert Bergman does, as did Diane Arbus.

    Working for Mary Ellen was a rich experience on at least two levels: First, by expecting serious attention to the work at hand she made me a better printer (and a better photographer). Second is the not insignificant pleasure of working with good photographs.

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  • Photojournalist and World Press Photo 2006 winner Finbarr O’Reilly answered questions sent to him live yesterday in a feed setup by Reuter’s. Really worth a listen as he’s well spoken, tells what it’s like to be a photojournalist in conflict areas with great anecdotes and answers the following questions

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    We continue to watch amazing photographs of the U.S. Airways Flight 1549 crash and rescue pour in.

    The star of the early coverage is a Florida tourist named Janis Krums of Sarasota, Florida, who was on one of the ferry boats in the Hudson River in New York when the plane crashed. Krums posted a photo from his iPhon

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    One of our favorite books of last year was a small self-published paperback called All Most Heaven. The book documents two years of Santiago Mostyn’s life as has he traveled across America.

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    Gary Knight says he wanted dispatches to be “highly portable,” so each issue is a blocky little book 5 ¾ X 7 ¾ inches, small enough to fit in a camera bag, briefcase, or jacket pocket. The magazine, which has published lengthy photo essays by Yuri Kozyrev, Antonin Kratochvil and others,  is distinguished by its modest, plain brown paper cover.

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    Everything is Terrible explain their utterly perfect name: “The way I see it, there can only be great movies and terrible movies. Mediocre movies are the absolute worst. The fact that our name ends in an exclamation point is because we love the fact that the world sucks. We want to rub our faces in it.” Or, if you prefer more of a battle cry, “Terrible, which is everything! Therefore everything is worthy and thus every quality of everything is Terrible! Hence forth and so one making everything Terrible!”

    Here are some of my favorites so far – all featuring really creepy men.

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    Dying patients navigate the end of life with the help of the Baylor University Medical Center palliative care team. Photos and video by Sonya N. Hebert

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    On Sunday, I covered the first day of searching for 6-year-old Adji Desir. He was last seen outside of his grandma’s home in Farm Workers Village in Immokalee, Fla. — a migrant town about 40 miles outside of Naples. They have kept searching with no leads.

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    Around my town of Huntington Beach, a couple of pretenders to the Aryan throne did arise. There were gangs with names like SFU, which is perhaps the most original gang name ever, since every city has at least 3 under the same name, and the Huntington Beach Skins. They weren’t as organized though as the Metzger gangs. To me they seemed like amateur hour. I mean for Christ’s Sake, they didn’t even have any stickers to hand out. How the hell can you run a racist group without stickers?

    Then the “Battle of St. Simon Jude Fair” happened. In fairness to the WAR and AYM skins, the H.B. Skins were very minor league, especially for a White Pride/Power type outfit. After all, their leader was a Hispanic kid, and one of the number ones was a Jewish dude, who had a swastika tattoo, and was nicknamed “Cornball”. With people like that running the gang it was obvious they would self implode before ever being a real threat to us.

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    Quake Live, the upcoming free in-browser version of Quake, is sending out beta invitations to the service. Users are directed to beta.quakelive.com

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    Duncan Family Portrait, Tennessee 2008, photographed by Lucas Foglia from his Re-Wilding project. [Re-wilding: the process of creating a lifestyle that is independent of the domestication of civilization.]

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    Here’s a little peek at a page from Robert Crumb’s forthcoming Book of Genesis, a literal adaptation from the first book in the Old Testament. It’s been years-in-the-making

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