Jamie Livingston life documented

The filmmaker and musician Jamie Livingston
, has shot a Polaroid photo every day of his life from March 31th 1979 until the day he died on October 25th 1997 (his birthday).
6,000 photos stills amassed and have been scanned and put online with Jamie Livingston's Polaroid collection but the original page has been quickly taken down by the host...




Source: mental_floss

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The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Sorry but i can't tell it more to you about this book wich seems really well, just a link for more sample ...








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317 Dutch posters

One more time, grain edit make a great post about an amazing online Dutch poster gallery. 317 Dutch posters signed Wim Crouwel, Otto Treumann, Pieter Brattinga, Otto Treumann, Willem Sanberg, Ben Bos, Jan van Keulen and others.
Here some sample:



Source: grain edit

. Nago

Let's count dogs



Source: ANPQuaterly

Snuff

Have sex with 600 hundreds guys is a good way to enter into the legend of the porn industry. This Chuck Palahniuk's novel deals with the queuing Mr 72, Mr 137 and Mr 600 stories.

Waiting for the book, we enjoyed the promotion movies that were made for the occasion.



Source: Complex via X-Prime

Purple Anthology

Art Prose Fashion Music Architecture Sex

Purple fashion magazine release a selection of 15yo publication in hard cover, written by Olivier Zahm & Elein Fleiss, edited by Rizzoli.

"Purple revolutionized fashion photography in the nineties by commissioning fine artists to shoot fashion editorials. What resulted was a raw, improvisational aesthetic, which continues to exert its power today. Many of our most promising artists contribute to Purple’s pages, including Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, John Currin, and Vanessa Beecroft. (...)"


. Purple

Flight of the Conchords - Ladies of the world

Video for "Ladies of the World" from the self-titled LP on Sub Pop Records and the HBO series Flight of the Conchords.



. Flight of the Conchords

N.E.R.D. - Everyone Nose

The new N.E.R.D. video "Everyone Nose" is based on LastNightsParty concept: night & party girls... Check out the video and some 35mm pics from the shooting:






Clic here for more 35mm behind the scenes.

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. LastNightsParty

Rouge à lèvres feat Foreign Beggars - Hit that Gash!

Rouge à lèvres (Grems, Le4romain, Disiz, killersound, john 9000 & Dj Géro) meet Foreign Beggars (UK), the result is called "Hit That GASH!".
Directed by Tonytruand.



. Rouge à lèvres
. Foreign Beggars

Eva Mendes by Steven Meisel

Steven Meisel photographed Eva Mendes for the May 2008 Italian Vogue.
The photo serie to the retro 60's atmosphere, looks like a tribute to Sofia Loren by postures and striking.



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Lots of Bots

Preview of "Lots of Bots" making of, a picture book for the Pixar film WALL-E.
Realised by Kiki Thorpe (Author) & Ben Butcher (Illustrator), released May 13th.






Source: GrainEdit, images + interview

. Ben Butcher

Francesca Tallone

The Brooklyn-based photographer has been published in Surface Magazine as part of the 2006 Avant Guardian portfolio.
Here some sample of the 120mm format pics, you can see most of its delicate work on the website.




Source: theFashionSpot

. Francesca Tallone