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Maggoty

Maggots? In the Daily Telegraph? This is a bluebottle maggot. For a price, this guy and his friends will chew — therapeutically, mind you — on your ulcerated parts. Second thought: a daily stream of this kind of thing would … more…

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links for 2009-12-21: Ed Sanders

Ed Sanders Great pictures of Ed at home in Woodstock NY, by Ted Barron. For Relix magazine (tags: Ed-Sanders Fugs Woodstock Ted-Barron photography)

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Jim Carroll 1949-2009

(via Silliman’s Blog) Possibly wrong to bring it up in an RIP box, but: whilst peering into the depths of the David Shankbone portrait on Silliman’s Blog, it struck me that if anyone were planning to make a film of … more…

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buggy

flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy Most ingenious time-lapse photography of insects doing what insects do around streetlamps.

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Rudy Rucker’s Bergen Midsummer

[A cool picture of a futuristic yacht appearing in a California-shaped space between some ancient houses.] from Rudy’s Blog » Blog Archive » Norway 1. Bergen, Midsummer.. This could totally be a book cover illustration. Very understated — in a … more…

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Sorrento Ruins

Sorrento Ruins – Chris Thorpe, 2005 (via Abandoned Places group at LJ)

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One night over Texas

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo. (via Robot Wisdom on delicious)

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Corner boys

Alas, you don’t get street gangs looking this smart anymore (or, maybe you do. Stick yours in the comments). This appears to be an autochrome – on which subject I have a long uncompleted post sitting in the back.

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LIFE picture library at Google

William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Paris, October 1959, picture by Dean Loomis from the monstrous heap of pictures from LIFE magazine, now hosted and searchable at Google. (via all over the place)

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Great White Hunter

As usual with FFFF, I have no idea who is responsible for this. At larger resolution (for which you should click through from the page linked here) it appears this image is advertising clothing of some sort. I think it’s … more…

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