"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different."
— Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
4:03 pm • 10 February 2012
Louis Faurer
Social Patron, 1947-51
From Louis Faurer
1:01 pm • 10 February 2012
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Elliott Smith
“Fear City”
From New Moon
9:30 pm • 9 February 2012
Weegee with poster for the film, The Naked City (1949, dir. Jules Dassin)
Photographer unknown
From Weegee’s World
7:30 pm • 9 February 2012
"It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in."
— Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep
5:35 pm • 9 February 2012
Saul Leiter
Near the Tanager, 1954
From Saul Leiter (Steidl)
3:30 pm • 9 February 2012
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Franz Ferdinand
“Walk Away”
From You Could Have It So Much Better
9:37 pm • 8 February 2012
Leonard Freed
Kiel, 1965
From Leonard Freed: Worldview
7:30 pm • 8 February 2012
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
5:34 pm • 8 February 2012