If you love the beach with no humans on it, you’ll probably dig some awe-inspiring photos of the shore sans people. This calendar is full of them, shot by photo ace Pat McCarthy. “Pat’s primary focus is capturing the beauty of the Jersey Shore from the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Delaware Bay.”

Enjoy these wonderful “found” photos from the John Maloof Collection:

“This was created in dedication to the photographer Vivian Maier, a street photographer from the 1950s – 1970s. Vivian’s work was discovered at an auction here in Chicago where she lived for 50 years but was originally a native to France. Her discovered work includes over [...]

Wow, there sure are lots of gossip and snark-filled websites out there bombarding you with heaps upon heaps of the negative, the nasty and the nonsense (our favorite). Some fun, so pretty despicable, most leaving you with that less-than-fresh feeling in your soul. Remedy? Today I stumbled across a website every that is refreshingly different, dare I say sweet… and stylish to boot.

Mark Mothersbaugh at the Starwood

The Ramones on Sunset Boulevard 1978

“You Will Never Work in This Town Again” Robert Plant 1978

Many many more evocative  shots of The Beatles, Sinatra, Matt Dillon, The Sex Pistols, Debbie Harry, Muhammad Ali:  Start Slide show here.

Website: www.bradelterman.com

Replacing World Landmarks With Cheap Souvenirs

Make every day a little more stunning with a quality photo.

The middle shot above reminded me of the latest Battlestar Galactica episode (poor radioactive Earth!). Many more intriguing photographs here:

Website: www.smashingmagazine.com

Chicago-based photographer Lee Klawans just informed us that he was the man behind the iconic picture of Marnie Stern that we used for our CD review of her latest release – which led us to take a look at his other material (like the great shot of Company of Thieves at the Metro shown above). [...]

Just got back from the Phillies World Series Celebration Parade, very good time! It was made even better by the complete lack of Mummers. It was really nice to see so many happy people having fun and behaving for the most part, maybe they’re just exhausted from the two previous nights of car-burning, luggage-stealing debauchery.

Great [...]

Porcelain Suffers Crushing Defeat: I like Kevin Smith a lot (the man, not his movies), he’s a funny no-bullshit kind of guy and a very informed movie reviewer. So I’m sad to hear (and see!) just how obese he has gotten. Smith recently broke a toilet. Ooof! Pull it together Kev, quit the pot, hit [...]