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Well at least one of us has had a productive morning.

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Wookiees by Mako Miyamoto 

Photographer Mako Miyamoto‘s newest solo show, entitled Speculative Hunting will will be showing at San Francisco’s Gauntlet Gallery. Using Yeti or Wookiee masks from the famous Star Wars films he adds a humorous and somewhat surreal take on a world where such creatures seem to thrive and exist side by side with us.

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Want to know what I've been up to recently? Browse on over to jeremyfreed.com and check out my nifty new website! (at Toronto, Ontario)

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I learned yesterday morning that my favorite photographer, Lars Tunbjörk, just passed away. His work meant everything to me: irreverent, idiosyncratic, skewed, intelligent, sharp. Lars saw the world in double-take, and it constantly refreshed my understanding of photography and what a single still photo can mean. Paul Moakley has written an excellent and touching account of Lars and his work on the Time Lightbox. Please do yourself a favor and spend some time with his work this morning, and watch the embedded video on the Time site.

Here is a lovely online gallery of some of Lars Tunbjörk’s work. 

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Eggs in Regalia

I'm working on the menu for a brunch place that serves only dishes based on popular classic rock songs. So far: Eggs Benny and the Jets Smoke On the Waffle Sweet Ham Alabama Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hard-Boiled Eggs Lox On the Wild Side Scrambled Up in Blue

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Photographer Hassan Hajjaj pays homage to the female bikers of Marrakesh with his vibrantly-colored photography show, “‘Kesh Angels,” at Taymour Grahne Gallery in NYC. See more on Hi-Fructose.

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The OK Gatsby

The Great Gatsby was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons 90 years ago today, in 1925. Even though F. Scott Fitzgerald (books by this author) already had two successful novels under his belt - This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and Damned (1922) - Gatsby's reception was, at best, mixed. The novel sold fewer than 20,000 copies its first year in print, and Fitzgerald went to his grave in 1940, at the age of 44, believing he was a failure. Reviews were tepid, and most readers saw it as little more than a nostalgic period piece. One reviewer said the book was "clever and brilliantly surfaced but not the work of a wise and mature novelist." H.L. Mencken called it "a beautiful anecdote." Fitzgerald believed the book flopped because it lacked a likeable female protagonist and at that time most readers of novels were women. Later critics speculated that it was the disconnect between the novel's wealthy characters and the tough real-world economic times that left readers cold. Matthew Josephson wrote of Gatsby in 1933 that "there are ever so many Americans who can't drink champagne from morning to night, or even go to Princeton or Montparnasse."

From The Writer’s Almanac

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What do you call piano that sounds like this? Also, those bongos right??

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Bits n pieces around LA

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“The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison”

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I want one of these unitards.

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Artist Builds Detailed Miniature Interiors Inside Old TVs