This is the extended version of Marc Silber's visit to Ansel Adams' home and darkroom . You'll hear his son Michael talk about some of Ansel's most iconic images, including the breakthrough he had when he first visualized the image of Half Dome. This led to the development of his unique and masterful style. You'll also see much more of his darkroom and hear about how Ansel worked and see the darkroom he custom built, like none on earth. Join us now for this rare, behind the scenes look. (SLYT 17:04)
posted by spock
on Mar 3, 2011 -
5 comments
The American Festivals Project takes you along on two guys'
National Geographic-funded 2008 tour of the "small, hidden, and bizarre"
festivals celebrated all over the United States. Through photos,
video, and a
blog, discover
Rattlesnake Roundup,
Okie noodling, an American
Fasnacht, the
Idiotarod, and
plenty more.
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posted by Miko
on Feb 17, 2011 -
23 comments
Hey Mick, why don't you start singing Gimme Shelter at the mixing desk in the middle of the a huge crowd and then leisurely stroll to the stage. Nothing bad
will happen. (SLYT)
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posted by punkfloyd
on Oct 7, 2010 -
66 comments
The New York Times discusses some of the nation's most atrocious bands in the context of the Vans Warped Tour. We've seen some of these bands on the blue before, but never before has there been this much atrocity in one place.
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posted by LSK
on Jul 20, 2009 -
170 comments
The stuff of legend, Van Halen's "No brown M&Ms" concert rider (most recently mentioned on MetaFilter
here) has made the rounds by word of mouth, and word of internet, for years. Now, the Van Halen 1982 World Tour backstage rider has been found. It consists of 53 typewritten pages and contains the M&Ms prohibition - which actually says
M & M's (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES) - as well as other interesting demands, excerpted at The Smoking Gun.
Via.
posted by amyms
on Dec 12, 2008 -
91 comments
Rowan Oak: In 1930, William Faulkner purchased what was then known as "The Bailey Place," a large primitive Greek Revival house that pre-dated the Civil War standing on four acres of cedars and hardwoods. Take a virtual tour of the home that housed this great American writer.
posted by Fizz
on Aug 11, 2008 -
11 comments
Around the world on a Dream Machine — 77 years ago, the
giant German airship
LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin left
Lakehurst, NJ on an aerial
world tour sponsored by American media mogul
William Randolph Hearst. The airship's
gondola carried 20 passengers in high-tech
style, including: U.S. Navy observer
Charles Rosendahl; English
pilot, Zeppelin
frequent flyer, and Hearst reporter
Lady Grace Drummond-Hay; and Japanese naval aviator
Ryunosuke Kusaka. The 41 crewmen were captained by
Dr. Hugo Eckener, Zeppelin
champion and the world's
best airship pilot. The
hydrogen-filled LZ-127 flew over the Atlantic to
Germany,
Siberia,
Japan, over the Pacific to
California, across the
United States, and
back to Lakehurst. The 20,500 mile, 21-day flight—with 12 flying days at ~80 mph top speed—defined airship travel's
golden age.
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posted by cenoxo
on Aug 8, 2006 -
24 comments
"We need to go to Tennessee to pick up some fireworks, and someone owes me money in Kentucky."
Tom Waits goes on
tour
for the first time in years.
posted by timory
on Jul 5, 2006 -
27 comments
The Atlantic Ideas Tour It's been almost 150 years since a group of writers that included a group of writers that included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and James Russell Lowell founded
The Atlantic Monthly. The magazine is klcking off a year–long celebration of its
upcoming 150th anniversary by having each issue this year based around articles from their archives.
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posted by kirkaracha
on Jan 19, 2006 -
15 comments
Tour the Nasher Sculpture Garden. Can't make it to Dallas. Big D is now home to the one of the first institutions in the world dedicated exclusively to the exhibition of modern and contemporary sculpture with a collection of global significance as its foundation. The Nasher Sculpture Center is further distinguished by a groundbreaking facility and landscaped garden specifically designed for the indoor and outdoor display of sculpture - not to mention the
"designer dirt".
(flash)
posted by sierray
on Oct 31, 2003 -
1 comment
Greendale. For his recent
tour, Neil Young is staying true to form and surprising the hell out of people by performing his new multimedia-rock-opera-dvd-epic-type-thing in its entirety and
yelling at the increasingly unruly audience who came to hear his classics. Although a project of this magnitude has long been the domain of wonderfully, unashamedly
pompous old bands in the 70's, I find myself rather intrieged. Am I alone in welcoming this kind of concert surprise?
posted by ghastlyfop
on Jul 3, 2003 -
47 comments
Seamless City is a project made possible by proliferation of gigabytes of affordable disk space, digital cameras, photo composition applications, and a lot of time. Take a 30 mile pedestrian tour of
San Francisco.
posted by mnology
on Nov 20, 2002 -
8 comments
The Virtual Tour of Edo allows you explore the city that would one day become Tokyo, Japan. Classical images illustrate short descriptions of life in this 18th century metropolis.
Although modern Tokyo may look very "Western" on the surface, in its heart the spirit of Edo still lives on!
posted by Joey Michaels
on Aug 24, 2002 -
6 comments
The Oregon Vortex is a nice place to visit if you enjoy places where things roll uphill and things change size base on their position.
Many have tried to figure it out. Physicist John Lister spent forty years there only to burn all his notes.
When is someone going to let the vortex genie out?
posted by john
on Feb 20, 2001 -
40 comments
