New York City at night, circa 1935. (Courtesy of the National Archives)

The glow that the combination of much more primitive film stock and long, night exposures produces in older photographs is very endearing. I'm starting to realize that I prefer flawed mediums over precise ones.

A very early animation from Emile Cohl.

Ralph Steadman

Ennio Morricone is Awesome

Here's a piece from his score for Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West. This guy amazes me--nearly five hundred composer credits to his name and he's still writing.

Why Did Nasa Create a Material Ten Times Blacker Than the Blackest Black Paint?

Cellular Et Cetera

A picture of a picture, but something that needed saving.

I found this at a fancy restaurant...I think it's a little too fancy.

A familiar sight when working very late nights.

Pavement - Grounded

Bruce Davidson

Here are a few photos taken by Bruce Davidson. There's something spontaneous about these pictures that negates the clean-cut 1950s idealism that you would normally find in older photographs. It's also interesting to see how much the definition of "bad kids" has changed over the course of a few decades.