The Beach Boys on Good Morning America, sometime in 1980 or ’81. This clip is kinda funny, but also heartbreaking. Dennis Wilson is in no shape to be on TV or even out in public, yet the clueless interviewer asks him the…
I love, love, love these Holga photos of (I think) stuffed animals in a museum. I emailed the guy who took them, and told him, “Wes Anderson has dreams that look like this.”
Trivia: Film director Lasse Hallström may be best known for films like Chocolat, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and The Cider House Rules, but he got his start making (pre-MTV) music videos for the Swedish group ABBA. The “promo clips,” as they were…
All of them, actually. This Flickr pool was established in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Yahoo/Flickr are going to donate 1 dollar for every pink photo uploaded to the group. (I assume for this month only.) The money…
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