A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them. Even if you do not consider yourself a die hard gamer, check out their podcast episodes, it’s really entertaining stuff. Via
Westerners young and old arrive in Laos, and so do their cameras. They document a fragile and deceptively brutal world, revealing themselves in the process. Camera, Camera quietly calls upon viewers to ponder the multifaceted and often ambiguous impacts of travel and photography on citizens of two worlds.
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Taken from their new album Teen Dream. My soundtrack of choice for this summer. See them live this Thursday in Berlin.
180° South follows Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard (founder of the Patagonia company) and Doug Tompkins (founder of The North Face company) to Patagonia.
Along the way he gets shipwrecked off Easter Island, surfs the longest wave of his life and prepares himself for a rare ascent of Cerro Corcovado. Jeff’s life turns when he meets up with Chouinard and Tompkins who, once driven purely by a love of climbing and surfing, now value above all the experience of raw nature – and have come to Patagonia to spend their fortunes to protect it.
Bicycle Portraits
Cycling | Photography | Publication
Monday, June 28th, 2010 by Christian, 1 Comment
The Bicycle Portraits project was initiated by Stan Engelbrecht (Cape Town, South Africa) and Nic Grobler (Johannesburg, South Africa) early in 2010. Whenever they can, they’re on the lookout for people who use bicycles as part of their everyday work, to meet and photograph. Being avid cyclists themselves, this project is as much an investigation into South African bicycle culture as it is an excuse for them to ride their bikes and take photographs. Via
“When I was a kid, there are two things I wanted badly and never got… A real dog and a Kenner AT-AT Walker.”
The nice people from Indie Cratez put out an outstanding 90s Indie Hip Hop compilation featuring 5E, Bored Stiff, Chan, DuoDie, Mystik Journeymen, Nightbreed, Phats Bossilini, Shadowman, T-Max and Wil’Pak. You don’t wanna miss that one!
At the end of WWII, 60 minutes of raw film, having sat undisturbed in an East German archive, was discovered. Shot by the Nazis in Warsaw in May 1942, this footage quickly became a resource for historians seeking an authentic record of the Warsaw Ghetto. However, the later discovery of a long-missing reel, inclusive of multiple takes and cameraman staging scenes, complicated earlier readings of the footage.
