― How come suddenly you’re an expert on women?
― I’ve got seven wives. How many you’ve got?
― So why aren’t you at home with your seven wives?
― I know how to marry them. Nobody knows how to live with them.
― So why did you marry them for?
― Shee-shee… someday I have to tell you the facts of life.
✖ Via The Gods Must Be Crazy by Jamie Uys, 1980.

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✖ Via Higher Pictures: “Untitled” from the 30 Ways To Stop Smoking series by Alfred Gescheidt, vintage gelatin silver print, 1964
In the 50s and 60s, as the whole ‘Mad Men’ advertising agency era was booming, no one came close to Gescheidt for innovative photography, and he created numerous campaigns, magazine, book, and album covers. His images often both flattered and mocked American sensibilities, and his ’30 Ways To Stop Smoking’ series from 1964 remains a landmark in satirical conceptual photography. (Field Of Vision: Alfred Gescheidt)

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The purpose of science is to get paid for doing fun stuff if you’re not a good enough programmer to write computer games for a living (Schulman et al. 1991). Nominally, science involves discovering something new about the universe, but this is not really necessary. What is really necessary is a grant. In order to obtain a grant, your application must state that the research will discover something incredibly fundamental. The grant agency must also believe that you are the best person to do this particular research, so you should cite yourself both early (Schulman 1994) and often (Schulman et al. 1993c).
✖ Via Annals of Improbable Research: “How To Write A Scientific Paper” by E. Robert Schulman, Vol. 2, Issue 5, Sep/Oct 1996

About Improbable Research:

>Improbable research is research that makes people laugh and then think. Improbable Research is the name of our organization. We collect (and sometimes conduct) improbable research. We publish a magazine called the Annals of Improbable Research, and we administer the Ig Nobel Prizes.

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✖ Via Techno Tuesday: “All Alone With A Camera Phone”

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✖ Via 9 0 0 0 photostream on Flickr: “I Love Heidegger”

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Higher Pictures: “Untitled” by Alfred Gescheidt, vintage gelatin silver print, 1961

In an age when Photoshop seems to be a de facto part of nearly every photographer’s creative process, the ways of in-camera and darkroom trickery - montage, collage, double exposure, hand-retouching and re-photographing - are in danger of becoming a lost art. Alfred Gescheidt was a master of all these techniques and more, although his name has, rather unjustly, become largely unknown in recent years.

Once described by former New York Times photo editor John Durniak as “the Charlie Chaplin of the camera”, Geischeidt amassed a rich body of photographic work that was unique, satirical, idiosyncratic and at times even hallucinogenic. (Field of Vision: Alfred Gescheidt)


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✖ Via Vanity Fair: The Hitchcock Hollywood Portofolio, slide no. 10 : Seth Rogen photograph by Art Streiber. February 25th, 2008.
Alfred Hitchcock left a peerless legacy of the stylishly macabre. In this year’s Hollywood Portfolio, Keira Knightley, Javier Bardem, Seth Rogen, and other stars channel iconic moments from the director’s greatest hits. (see the whole slide show)

Spotted via Douglas Haddow’s Tumblr blog.

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✖ Via Tom Scott: Journalism Warning Labels
It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content.

I figured it was time to fix that, so I made some stickers. I’ve been putting them on copies of the free papers that I find on the London Underground. You might want to as well. (more)

About Tom Scott:

Tom Scott is a geek comedian. He won the 2008 Kevin Greening Award for Creativity at the Student Radio Awards, once got in trouble with the Cabinet Office for his version of their Preparing for Emergencies site, and has been described as a “sometime internet funny man” by The Register.

He runs the British part of International Talk Like A Pirate Day, and accidentally got elected as president of his students’ union after running as “Mad Cap’n Tom”.

His work has been shown on BBC One, Channel 4, and at the paraflows net-art exhibition in Vienna. (About)

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The Breakfast Club, John Hughes, 1985: “Hackers Will Be Expelled” [click for hi-res]


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✖ Via Society6: “Graphic Haiku #1” by Mark Joseph Deutsch

About Mark Joseph Deutsch:

I was born on tax day 1980. I am an illustrator and graphic designer. I do most of my work from a little studio in the island of Cebu (About)

Visit Mark Joseph Deutsch official website to see more of his work.

First spotted via This Isn’t Happiness.


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