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✖ Via The Thought Experiment: Sharon Tate in Esquire, December 1967. Photo by William Helburn

Excerpt from the magazine:

The little red book which contains hightlights from The thought of Mao Tse-tung is the most influential volume in the world today. It is also extremely dull and entirely unmemorable. To resolve this paradox, we, a handful of editors in authority who follow the capitalist road, thought useful to illustrate certain key passages in such a way that they are more likely to stick in the mind. The visual aid is Sharon Tate and, to give credit where credit, God knows, is due, she will soon be seen in the Twentieth Century-Fox motion picture, Valley of the Dolls.

The Thought Experiment is a blog run by Elizabeth Lamanna:

This animal is a thought experiment. I will try to keep it upbeat and interesting, but it may occasionally swing through bat country, go off broadway, or veer into vapidity as I attempt to disentangle what feels like the crushing simultaneity of where my choices have lead my life.

I realized about a month from turning thirty that I had spent the past year acting like I was going to be audited, as if, casting my memory back through the past ten years, I panicked. Maybe not without reason. Throughout this last decade, I’ve jumped a few ships, burned a few bridges, worded up, partied down, hung loose, and obeyed my thirst, and been just about rolled under by the waves almost as many times as I deserved. The final countdown of my twenties suddenly woke me up to the fact that somewhere along the way, I’d lost track of myself. (more)

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✖ Via Fotografía: Morrison by Elliot Landy, Hunter College, NYC, 1968.

About Elliot Landy:

Elliott Landy (born in 1942) is a photographer best known for his iconic photographs of rock musicians. A 1959 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, ten years later he was the official photographer of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. His photographs have appeared on the covers of such magazines as Rolling Stone, LIFE, and The Saturday Evening Post. Landy’s portraits have also graced the covers of many of the best known albums of the era, including such classics as Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, Van Morrison’s Moondance, and The Band’s second album, eponymously titled The Band. From 1967 to 1969, Landy travelled with and photographed Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, and Jim Morrison. He has published several collections of his work. (wikipedia)

Check the same photo on his official website.


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✖ Via Emblemas morales by Don Sebastian de Couarrubias Orozco, centuria II, emblem 55 (155), 1610

Herostratos torching the temple of Artemis. Learn more on Wikipedia and by reading Albert Borowitz’s essay Terrorism for Self-Glorification. The Herostratos Syndrome. More on that later.


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✖ Via Jeremy Enecio: “Stanley Kubrick” (sketch)

Previously on Skandalon


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✖ Via The New York Times: illustration by Barry Blitt for the od-ed column “Tiger Woods, Person of the Year” by Frank Rich, Dec. 19, 2009.

Previously on Skandalon: Barry Blitt


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The plea bargain is the moment when the case pivoted from the story of what Polanski did to Samantha Gailey to the story of what the system did to him. Polanski’s detractors focus on the first, his supporters on the second, but the two are interwined, and both were shaped by the influence of Polanski celebrity.
✖ Via The New Yorker: “The Celebrity Defense. Sax, fame and the case of Roman Polanski” by Jeffrey Toobin, Dec. 14, 2009, p. 57

Excellent article on the subject : Toobin makes an explicite effort to restrain himself to the presentation of hard (legal) facts.

Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer to The New Yorker. He is also “the author of five books, including The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, which won the 2008 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize” (TNY). Check his official website.



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✖ Via LIFE - Hosted by Google: “Johnny Cash - Country Singer” photographed by Michael Rougier

The photo was probably taken for the LIFE magazine issue of November 21, 1969. See it’s cover – also by Rougier – here. More pictures by Michael Rougier over at LIFE photo archive hosted by Gogle


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I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you see that? I’m afraid I will compete―that’s what scares me. That’s why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
✖ Via The New Yorker, “Franny” by J.D. Salinger, Jan 29, 1955, pp. 34-35

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✖ Via The Rumble: “Muhammad Ali Tribute” by Gorilla Production

First discovered via Anathema Delight.


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✖ Via LIFE - Hosted by Google: Time Cover, Sept. 15, 1961 : J. D. Salinger
“J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91.”

From The New York Times, “J.D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91” by Charles McGrath, Jan 28, 2010


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