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On the anniversary of Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, LIFE.com presents pictures of the writer in Cuba — and the unsettling, untold story behind the photos.
Not originally published in LIFE. An image from a contact sheet of Alfred Eisenstaedt’s pictures of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, August 1952.
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When LIFE photographer Robert W. Kelley shot a few rolls of film at an intimate jazz gig on May 14, 1958, evidently neither he nor the magazine’s editors were jumping out of their skins with excitement…
Why the pictures — which capture the great, groundbreaking trumpeter, then just 31 years old, leading his band in an unnamed New York venue — never made it into print remains a mystery to this day.
(see more — Miles Davis: Unpublished Photos of a Jazz Giant)
Pictured: “The Prince of Darkness” shows his goofy side at his gig in 1958.
Rediscovered The Thin Red Line by Terrence Malick, yesterday. I think it kind of got lost to the majority of audiences who received their realistic war film kick from Saving Private Ryan which came out around the same time. If you’re familiar with Terrence Malick’s work you know he does an incredible job of combining cinematography, music, and voice over dialogue to extract a deeply emotional and engaging experience from the audience. The soundtrack, composed by Hans Zimmer, features a choir from the Solomon Islands singing: God U Tekem Laef Blong Mi couldn’t be a more perfect addition to Malick’s scope. God U Tekem Laef Blong Mi has officially become my morning alarm. You can’t have a bad morning when you start it with this.
(Source: imdb.com)
God Yu Taken Laef Blong Mi - The Thin Red Line OST
How anyone can watch or even respect nascar is beyond me.
Joel Sternfeld’s First Pictures
Three decades after they were made, Joel Sternfeld’s earliest photographs have now been published as “First Pictures,” a selection of which are débuting today at Luhring Augustine Gallery. Taken between 1971 and 1980, the photographs document the travels of a young artist from busy streets to barefoot beaches, with inklings of Sternfeld’s now celebrated dark sense of humor, formalist experiments in color theory, and narrative tableaus. Click through for more selection of Sternfeld’s “First Pictures”: http://nyr.kr/xOUcf0
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iTunes Match. Taking full advantage of iCloud. Made getting a new computer about the easiest thing in the world. Also, saving 50+ GB of music from collecting dust on your HD is a bonus as well. Well worth the annual fee.
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Quality over Quantity
The labeling is all over the place here, but I like what you are going for and that stack of Keystone is giving me college flashbacks. Apparently it’s nostalgia day.
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2011 NFL Rankings by ESPN
I like to get together with some internet pals over at Fark to discuss ESPN’s rankings every week. We were always complaining about how erratic they seemed, so I decided to start graphing the new rankings every week. This is the final product for this regular season. Teams are sorted on the left by their Week 1 rank. Sorry if it makes everyone go cross-eyed. That’s kind of the point. :)
I want to be your friend.
Take a few minutes to admire these photos by Mitch Dobrowner.
Mitch spent 9 hours tracking and photographing a severe weather system across the American midwest.
