the ladies of the wheel

Taken from an online collection of images from Paris in the 19th century, curated by my pal Sharon at Brown University.

EDIT: link fixed

Disasterpiece

click pic for full image (via CakeWrecks)

Moustache Rides

Günther And The Sunshine Girls Sun Trip (Summer Holiday)

Precious Moments

Barnaby Barford: Private Lives

dancing bears

Owsley "Bear" Stanley III - the guy who designed the Grateful Dead's sound setup, the acid maker who fueled the band and Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters, and the inspiration for the classic design above. Check out this recent interview with the unrepentant hippie genius.

Also, check out this fantastic Grateful Dead show, recorded at Ken Kesey's ranch in August, 1972.

Full Metal Canine

Primus Too Many Puppies

colorful colors

a good photo combines content and context.

beautiful whole car (ekosystem) / found ak47 (flickr) / couch-henge (vice)

Friday Friday

Hallucinating at the Beach Edition

The End of Western Civilization

An artificial appropriation of different styles from different eras, the hipster represents the end of Western civilization – a culture lost in the superficiality of its past and unable to create any new meaning. Not only is it unsustainable, it is suicidal. While previous youth movements have challenged the dysfunction and decadence of their elders, today we have the “hipster” – a youth subculture that mirrors the doomed shallowness of mainstream society.

Leave it to Adbusters to be a total Buzz-kill

animals drink too

NYT reports on new research that wild animals drink alcohol, maybe i can use this to excuse my weekend habits?

German scientists have discovered that seven species of small mammals in the rain forests of western Malaysia drink fermented palm nectar on a regular basis. For several of the species, including the pen-tailed tree shrew, the nectar, which can have an alcohol content approaching that of beer, is the major food source — meaning they are chronic drinkers.