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Laureate’s demons.

This video clip was meant to be a video test, butĀ  Stan was on a roll so I thought I’d cut together a wee short. You might remember Stan from such blog posts as this one (second pic down) where he impersonates Yoko Ono.

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Zombie Bride at Thriller Zombie Walk

Last weekend Martians ran amok in Union Park. Last night in Wicker Park, undead Michael Jackson fans rose up and reenacted John Landis’ Thriller video and then stumbled south, taking over Damen Avenue, and continued east on Division, then back north on Ashland, all the while writhing ecstatically to the dead pop-king’s infectious tunes, which blared from a boombox-appointed hotrod bicycle. What’s next, Malayan sun bears in Lincoln Park? More pictures and video on the way…

Yesterday I took 1,115 photographs from right outside my studio door. Here they are at 60 frames per second. (UPDATE: I’ve changed the Youtube link to point to a newer, 18% more fabulous version of the time-lapse video. The new version is higher resolution, with panning and zooming, and I obliterated the dust parasite that had invaded my camera’s sensor.)

What the WTF, these Chicago street gang business cards from the 70s and 80s are fascinating. They’re posted (the cards below and many others) at the We Are Supervision blog; (via Windy Citizen).

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You can view theĀ  winning entries from Field & Stream’s Bigfoot “trail cam” photo contest here. The photographs reveal fascinating and heretofore unknown aspects of the elusive and furry humanoid’s behavior. Here are a couple inspired shots by Greeley Colorado’s Erik Stenbakken–the top photo is the contest winner.

2 sasquatch winner Field & Streams Bigfoot photo contest

Via Field & Stream. Photo: Erik Stenbakken

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Via Field & Stream. Photo: Erik Stenbakken

MMJ takes the stage at the Chicago Theatre tomorrow and Sunday night. Here are two pictures I shot of the band–both for Magnet–the top in 2001 and the other in ’07.

mmjxmas375 My Morning Jacket in Chicago this weekend (12/27 & 28)

My Morning Jacket, 2001. Photo: Jim Newberry

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My Morning Jacket in 2007. Photo: Jim Newberry

Pop Justin Quinnell’s incredible SmileyCam inside your mouth and you can show the world the view from your tonsils. Awesome, and only $23.

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SmileyCam. Photo courtesy Justin Quinnell

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SmileyCam photo. Courtesy Justin Quinnell

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SmileyCam photo. Courtesy Justin Quinnell

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Photo: Jim Newberry

No, you idiot, that wasn’t Bonnie Prince Billy at the Pitchfork Festival in Chicago yesterday. As far as I know Mr. Billy has yet to receive his cosmetology license, and I’m sure he would charge a lot more than $2 to introduce the business end of his scissors to the sweaty heads of Sebadoh fans.

I don’t know who that maniacal barber is, but he sure was fun to watch.

UPDATE: Thanks to eagle-eyed, highly informed readers (see comments), I now know that the barber in question is Tim Harrington, singer of Les Savvy Fav, who apparently also was generously administering massages at the festival. Major dude!

Julius Von Bismarck, a prankster genius in Berlin, devised a diabolical contraption for sabotaging photographers: the Fulgurator. (Found via boingboing.net) He gave me permission to run the images below, which illustrate the workings of this badass gizmo.

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I was aware that it’s tougher than ever to be a photographer these days, but this is the first time I’ve heard of fighting the competition with a slingshot:

Kurtis Leo Leany, 52, must also pay a $1,000 fine, write a letter of apology to the victim and complete an anger-management class as part of a 36-month probation.
In March, Leany pleaded guilty as charged in 5th District Court to one count of third-degree felony criminal mischief.
Leany used a slingshot to damage windows at Studio West Photography five times during a six-week period between Aug. 5 and Sept. 14, according to court documents. He told police he believed owner Karl Hugh was stealing business from him.
But Leany, who owns Zion Photography, later told The Tribune: “I was just in a really bad place; I couldn’t see that it was the economy and I instantly blamed [Hugh] because of things in the past.” —
By Stephen Hunt, The Salt Lake Tribune

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I found this sign in Los A’ngeles. (Photo by Jim Newberry)

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I find it charming that Seagram’s is encouraging folks to “bring on the (presumably alcoholic) rage.” I guess drunken rages can be “exciting,” as the following example proves; a few drinks and this guy thinks he’s Ozzy Osbourne:

Mark Andrew Johnson, 45, of Seaford, Victoria, got home drunk, falsely accusing his partner of infidelity before assaulting her and pulling the budgie out of its cage.

Johnson tore the bird’s head from its body, throwing it into the yard, prosecutor Bruce Nibbs told the County Court yesterday.

Johnson then asked his partner where the dog was.

(By Shelley Hodgson, from News.com.au) Billboard photo by Jim Newberry