Holly Bailey

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Awesome tattoo at Laiblefest (New York NY)

Sad Farewell by Duane Michals, 1968

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"I’ve never seen anything like it in a restaurant. They were literally attached to each other over the top of the table. They kept twisting around, holding hands,then a hand would go up the arm into Jessica’s mouth. I don’t think a lot of eating was going on, because her mouth was constantly full of his hand. They were just gorgeous and madly, wildly, passionately involved with each other. Once you realized who they were, you were fascinated."

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Remembers a TV producer who spotted Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard around 1982 at Butterfields.

(Vanity Fair 1991)

I just fell out of my chair.

(via bbook)

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The Order of the Good Death is a collective of death professionals, artists, and academics who promote real talk about death and dying. While its name has an occult quality, the Order’s mission is actually quite public: to encourage people to be “death positive,” or open to exploring their thoughts, feelings, and fears about mortality.

While it started in 2011 as a network of around 10 friends and like-minded colleagues, the Order quickly expanded as it resonated with other writers, scholars, and designers. The growing group has worked hard to make death a part of the cultural conversation. They approach this task through a wide variety of projects aimed at different audiences—some within the funeral industry, and many others further afield. Some of the Order’s most prominent movers and shakers are young women, which is remarkable, given that as recently as 1971, 95 percent of the students enrolling in mortuary schools were men.

(via Pacific Standard)

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Fly away, Kim. Fly away with the white wings that hang from your shoulders. Rise up in the air, where your swollen feet need no longer bear weight in those tortuous Givenchy heels.

Maureen O’Connor is the best. (via The Cut)

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natgeofound:

Parisians walk on the street past lottery and vermouth advertisements in 1935.
Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic

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timelightbox:

Photograph by John Moore—Getty Images

“I sped out to the airport, met up with my charter pilot and we set off in a Robinson R-44 Raven II helicopter into a stiff headwind for the 45 minute flight to the ‘target,’ as he put it,” photographer John Moore tells TIME. He was on assignment for Getty Images on May 14, 2013, tasked with shooting aerial photographs of the iconic JetStar roller coaster in Seaside Heights, New Jersey; now slated for demolition more than six months after Hurricane Sandy had “tossed it in the Atlantic Ocean.”  

“I had originally planned to fly later in the afternoon, a little closer to sunset, for the best light,” Moore says, until a tip came in from Getty staff photographer Mark Wilson, who was shooting the scene from the ground, that “the crane was making quick work of it and that I’d better hurry and get up in the air before it was all gone.”

“We flew in circles over the scene for about 25 minutes at varying altitudes, hoping to get a moment when the crane would lift a large piece of the debris from the surf,” he says. The photograph above, featured in this week’s issue of TIME and in LightBox Pictures of the Week, was made “from a height of about 500 feet, shot in the mid-afternoon with a high shutter speed in order to eliminate any possible camera shake from the helicopter.”

“You can see the beach of the Jersey Shore stretching northward, much of it, unlike the jagged pier, restored ahead of the upcoming tourist season, which begins anew with Memorial Day Weekend,” Moore adds. “Local business owners and residents hope the tourist income will help Seaside Heights get back to normal after Sandy’s cruel seas washed so much of their community away.”

—Eugene Reznik

See more of this week’s best photos on LightBox.

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CANNES, France — More than $1 million worth of jewels due to be lent to movie stars at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel room in the French Riviera town, a police source said.

The jewels were in the safe of the room rented by an employee of Chopard, a luxury jeweler, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The incident at the hotel in central Cannes took place on the night of Thursday to Friday as the festival got under way, drawing thousands of movie stars, film industry executives and journalists to the fabled resort.

“To Catch a Thief” replays at Cannes in real life (via NYT)

Christopher Nolan Is Actually In Loose Talks About Directing The Next James Bond Film →

Wow. Christopher Nolan’s made no secret over the years of his love of the James Bond franchise; he named it as an influence on his first two “Batman” movies, directly paid homage to “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” in “Inception,” and has often said that he’s like to direct a film in the franchise at some point. But given that he’s one of the few directors who could greenlight absolutely anything, we’d always wondered if it was something of a pie in the sky idea, despite his enthusiasm — especially given that many, including Sam Mendes, talked about Nolan’s influence on “Skyfall,” the billion-dollar grossing last entry in the 007 series.

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From the LA Times archive: A roller-skating elephant.

“Lies” by The Black Keys

"Perhaps I should share the secret of the show’s 1981 Soviet wig technology with the CIA… Where to begin? The fit, the shape, the color, the shine? Oh my God, what $100,000 could have bought!"

— Peg Scheinholz, a wig designer for “The Americans,” talks to Vulture about the wig worn by Ryan Fogle, the alleged U.S. spy arrested in Russia this week