James David Saul

theswingingsixties: Nancy Sinatra, 1967.

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:31:14 -0400

theswingingsixties:

Nancy Sinatra, 1967.

90s90s90s: Hackers (1995) Dream dev team

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:36:24 -0400

90s90s90s:

Hackers (1995)

Dream dev team

Panorama of Hudson River from Bear Mountain

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:16:00 -0400

Panorama of Hudson River from Bear Mountain

This.

Fri, 04 May 2012 21:00:21 -0400

This.

Keith Haring

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:54:21 -0400

Keith Haring

R.I.P. Adam Yauch.

Fri, 04 May 2012 20:45:29 -0400

R.I.P. Adam Yauch.

You know what’s missing here…

Thu, 03 May 2012 20:35:40 -0400

You know what’s missing here…

Photo

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:21:46 -0400

I wish I knew what train this was. Probably something on the...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:31:25 -0400

I wish I knew what train this was. Probably something on the IRT.

procedencia:

Stanley Kubrick

Life and Love on the New York City Subways

Passengers reading in a subway car

1946

1 train HOT DOG MAN.

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:48:00 -0400

1 train HOT DOG MAN.

Something bad happened here… #nofilter #harlem #nyc ...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:17:22 -0400

Something bad happened here… #nofilter #harlem #nyc (Taken with instagram)

The most technologically-advanced Lana Del Ray spinning gif...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:33:16 -0400

The most technologically-advanced Lana Del Ray spinning gif deserves its merit. This is such a weird meme.

my-little-underground:

This meme will never get old.

“A great day in Harlem” bild-und-ton: Red Allen,...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:43:54 -0400

“A great day in Harlem”

bild-und-ton:

Red Allen, Buster Bailey, Count Basie, Emmett Berry, Art Blakey, Lawrence Brown, Scoville Browne, Buck Clayton, Bill Crump, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge, Art Farmer, Bud Freeman, Dizzy Gillespie, Tyree Glenn, Benny Golson, Sonny Greer, Johnny Griffin, Gigi Gryce, Coleman Hawkins, J.C. Heard, Jay C. Higginbotham, Milt Hinton, Chubby Jackson, Hilton Jefferson, Osie Johnson, Hank Jones, Jo Jones, Jimmy Jones, Taft Jordan, Max Kaminsky, Gene Krupa, Eddie Locke, Marian McPartland, Charles Mingus, Miff Mole, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Pettiford, Rudy Powell, Luckey Roberts, Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Rushing, Pee Wee Russell, Sahib Shihab, Horace Silver, Zutty Singleton, Stuff Smith, Rex Stewart, Maxine Sullivan, Joe Thomas, Wilbur Ware, Dickie Wells, George Wettling, Ernie Wilkins, Mary Lou Williams & Lester Young

CYBERSURFER

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:04:15 -0400

CYBERSURFER

dirtyolenewyork: Subway boombox boys..Where are they now? the...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:31:38 -0400

dirtyolenewyork:

Subway boombox boys..Where are they now?

the beats

Having a second cup on this rainy Sunday morning in NYC. My...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:39:10 -0400

Having a second cup on this rainy Sunday morning in NYC. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law are driving in from Harrisburg this morning. Wish it were nicer so we could take them to the Conservatory Garden in Central Park.

ngpopgun: Brooklyn Gang Series, Bruce Davidson...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:29:00 -0400

ngpopgun:

Brooklyn Gang Series, Bruce Davidson 1959

mid-century thug life realness at Jay St.

Happy weekend everyone!

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:04:14 -0400

Happy weekend everyone!

thewelltempered: NYC Subway map circa...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:03:51 -0400

thewelltempered:

NYC Subway map circa 1972

http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical.html

IT’S ALMOST LIKE THE WEEKENDER. Also, this is breathtaking.

vicemag: Why Is Coachella Repeating Itself? Reviewing this...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:42:42 -0400

vicemag:

Why Is Coachella Repeating Itself?

Reviewing this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the New York Times, writer Ben Ratliff struggles to formulate why the experience was so boring. In the first sentences of his review, he concedes that the three-day festival is, and always has been, nothing but business; a little down the page, he acknowledges that “more than ever, the sets felt like jobs with a bit more self-promotional energy.” Despite its purely commercial motives, he claims that Coachella used to have an “aura” that is now gone. Searching for what has been lost, he settles on a journalistic commonplace: innocence.

The argument takes an interesting form. Ratliff isn’t saying that the festival’s organizers or performers have lost their innocence along the way, nor is he stupid enough to suggest that they ever had any innocence to lose. The festival, as he says, has always been about dollar bills. Ratliff’s beef is that, this year, the entire festival will be repeated in the exact same order next weekend. For him, this repetition robs the festival of the illusion of spontaneity that, once, made the audience “feel innocent.” When he complains that “innocence” is “projected onstage rather than felt by the audience, as part of the music’s artifice,” the ideal structure of the festival becomes clear. The mercenaries of showbiz are supposed to execute their orders in cold blood, thereby allowing us ordinary suckers to feel blameless and clean.

According to this way of thinking, innocence properly belongs to the crowd of spectators who have paid $285 each for a pass (or a little less for one-day tickets). In exchange for their purchase, they get to feel a toddler’s awe as performers bestow “acts of generosity” upon them in the form of spectacular gestures. Presumably, the suckers are not only innocent in the sense that they get to experience childlike wonder, but they are also rendered temporarily innocent of the knowledge that they are paying to look at a spectacle that is cynically orchestrated by entertainment conglomerates. Everyone knows it’s a shitty ripoff, but when they see “a balloon rising into the vast desert sky,” they can forget.

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This Vice article on Coachella has some great points about Tupac the hologram and the music industry, but it’s also Vice and they’re sippin’ on a little bit of that haterade.