Tag Archives: kids
Jeff Mangum at the Starli(gh?)t Crypt
See Jeff Mangum, the (apparently) reclusive front-personage of Neutral Milk Hotel, being completely upstaged by a toddler during the (apparently) legendary performance in Athens, GA in 1997. For (apparently) one week only. Fair warning. (Owing to the peculiarities of the … more…
links for 2008-02-15: no child left unintimidated
BBC NEWS | Education | ‘Retrain ex-troops’ as teachers Forget about standards of education, as long as the little horrors live in FEAR? (tags: wingnuts, education, war, kids)
Sigur Rós – Glósóli
Achingly beautiful. More Sigur Rós on YouTube: Svefn-g-Englar (1999) Starálfur (1999) Untitled (Vakka) (2002) Saeglopur (2005) Andvari (2005) (via wood s lot)
only a paper moon
Adam “Ape Lad” Koford alerts us to only a paper moon, a haunting collection of century-old studio photos employing the classic paper moon prop. As Adam points out, there’s some excellent faces among these pictures — mostly on the subjects, … more…
Children of the Cold
In Argentina, a Museum Unveils a Long-Frozen Maiden – New York Times SALTA, Argentina — The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a … more…
handsoap
handsoap Ew! (via blort)
Shock and Awww, Revisited:
Alain Delorme’s Little Dolls
Extremely creepy photo set about which I have little to say that I didn’t say already about the Greenberg exhibition last year in Shock and Awww. Actually, rereading that post, I find that there is something else to be said: … more…
Abdi-cations
Rather lovely illustrations by Andrej and Olga Dugin, from a children’s book, The Adventures of Abdi, which once details are tracked from here to there and back again, turns out to have been written by Madonna. Yeah, that Madonna. The … more…
Listen to the Bastard Fairies, Already
Okay, so it’s a tad contrived — I don’t think any 8-year-old is going to be making Pulp Fiction references of her own accord, for one thing — but maximum points for sentiments and candour. A-and for winding up the … more…
Myths Over Miami
Fascinating emergent mythologies abroad amongst the homeless children of Miami: Satan harbors a special hatred of Miami owing to a humiliation he suffered while on an Ocean Drive reconnaissance mission. He was hunting for gateways for his demons and was … more…