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Noise coming from the mist
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Hitchcock in the Park
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Big Lugs
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Why did the pigs cross the road?
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Siberia claims to find evidence of yeti
Officials in Siberia say they have found “indisputable proof” of the existence of yetis. Local government officials in Kemerovo said footprints and possibly even hair samples belonging to the yeti - or abominable snowman - had been found on a research trip.
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An American of French and Austro-Hungarian extraction, Vivian bounced between Europe and the United States before coming back to New York City in 1951. Having picked up photography just two years earlier, she would comb the streets of the Big Apple refining her artistic craft. By 1956 Vivian left the East Coast for Chicago, where she’d spend most of the rest of her life working as a caregiver. In her leisure Vivian would shoot photos that she zealously hid from the eyes of others. Taking snapshots into the late 1990′s, Maier would leave behind a body of work comprising over 100,000 negatives. Additionally Vivian’s passion for documenting extended to a series of homemade documentary films and audio recordings. Interesting bits of Americana, the demolition of historic landmarks for new development, the unseen lives of ethnics and the destitute, as well as some of Chicago’s most cherished sites were all meticulously catalogued by Vivian Maier.
Maier’s massive body of work would come to light when in 2007 her work was discovered at a local thrift auction house on Chicago’s Northwest Side. From there, it would eventually impact the world over and change the life of the man who championed her work and brought it to the public eye, John Maloof.
The book Vivian Maier: Street Photographer is scheduled to be released on November 17, 2011, and a feature-length documentary film about Maier and Maloof’s discovery of her work, titled Finding Vivian Maier, will debut in 2012. If you’d like to see Maier’s photos in person, there are two upcoming exhibitions you can mark on your calendar - Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York (December 15, 2011 - January 28, 2012) and Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles (January 7 - January 28, 2012).
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Illusions and Patterns of Paris
Paris is one of my favourite places that I visit on an annual basis, here’s a collection of photos that possibly haven’t been taken before.
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