Musician Lauren White found these snapshots taken during The Rolling Stones 1965 US Tour in a fleamarket in California. After some research she realised that they had never been seen before and certainly had never been published. The photographer still hasn’t been identified. Even for a band that is eternally youthful they look incredibly young – most are in their early 20s. The pictures have that ‘before they were famous’
Women are often smug about being able to multi task but maybe a facet of the ability to be in more than one place in your head at the same time is the sense that we could and should always be doing more, an awareness that there are others lives we could live. Below, Sylvia Plath and Victoria Wood both capture the angst perfectly: Plath beating herself up about it,
This smart Memac Ogilvy and Mather Dubai campaign for UN Women makes powerful use of actual Google searches. They reveal a profoudly depressing attitude to women …
If only all to-do lists looked like this one from Johnny Cash. Featured in Lists of Note by Shaun Usher who has just published a book inspired by his popular blog, Letters of Note. Image courtesy of Julien’s Auctions.
Genius captioning makes Terrible Real Estate Photographs the funniest thing on the internet right now – enjoy. It’s the level of commitment shown here that sets this particular accidental selfie apart from the rest. He even got dressed up for the occasion. Drinking with my beg-your-pardon? Avoid using photographs which suggest that the photographer was slowly and quietly circling the house looking for an unlocked door. Modern building techniques now
Everything is lovely in this video of a mother playing the banjo for her baby. It bears no relation to the messy, noisy, chaotic scenes in my house when my babies were this age. Maybe I just didn’t play the banjo enough…
The Happy Lands is a feature length film about the 1926 Coal Miners Strike. It was filmed in West Fife using local people instead of professional actors and premiered last year at The Alhambra in Dunfermline. It will be screened next on 22 October at Beath High School in Cowdenbeath. In this exclusive interview the film’s director Robert Rae talks to Fife artist Ian Moir and testifies to the community
Hard to imagine the Americans and Australians fretting about these dilemmas. But then they are Very British Problems, as captured by Rob Temple in his book, Very British Problems – Making Our Lives Awkward One Rainy Day at a Time, due out on 10 October 2013. Or follow his twitter feed @SoVeryBritish. ‘Secretly feeling a bit excited to be wearing jumpers again’ is a particular favourite. Via Buzzfeed.
Lego Dance by Annette Jung. This clever animation is only 29 seconds long but probably took up several months of Annette Jung’s life.
A former crimer reporter with the LA Times, Abigail Goldman, draws on her professional experiences to create these tiny, detailed recreations of real life crimes scenes. The works, according to the artist, explore the dynamic between ‘what’s funny and what’s ghastly’. See more of her Dieoramas here.