Burning Flags Press The website of Glen E. Friedman. Renowned for both his work with musicians like Fugazi, Minor Threat, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, Slayer (and many, many more) as well as his groundbreaking documentation of the burgeoning skateboard phenomenon in the late `70's, Glen has been privvy to (and has summarily captured on film) some of the coolest stuff ever. He's also an incredibly insightful and nice guy to boot.
SoHo Blues - Photography by Allan Tannenbaum Allan Tannenbaum is a local photographer who has been everywhere and shot everything, from members of Blondie hanging out at the Mudd Club through the collapsing towers of the World Trade Center on September 11th. You could spend hours on this site, and I have.
Robert Otter Photographs Amazing vintage photographs of New York City, specifically my own neighborhood, Greenwich Village.
oboylephoto Just some intensely cool photographs of abandoned places.
Rikki Ercoli's Legends of Punk Much like Glen E. Friedman (see above), Rikki Ercoli has managed to catch some amazing bands in their manic element.
Lost & Found Film A fascinating website devoted to undeveloped film found in vintage camers. A curious mixture of interesting and spooky.
Eugene Merinov Compelling shots of Punk, Post-Punk and New Wave band performing live in various long-lost venues in a pre-sanitized New York City. Great stuff!
ILXOR.Com Between ILM (I Love Music) and ILE (I Love Everything), there are countless threads wherein to discuss/debate virtually any topic under the unrelenting flames of a dying, angry sun.
Forgotten NY, www.forgotten-ny.com Mind-blowing resource for NYC-related trivia, crucial for those keen on strolling New York's streets, pointing out historical ephemera.
Homestar Runner.Com Hugely entertaining or insufferably dumb, depending on your sensibility.
The Weblog of Spumco's John K. The weblog of cartoonist John Kricfalusi, crazed mind and frantic pencil behind the original "Ren & Stimpy," as well as "The Goddamn George Liquor Show." Surreal, unapologetic, uncompromising genius.
As it's a beautiful Spring Sunday, I thought you might enjoy this trip back through time to the Greenwich Village of 1963, replete with bongo-thwackin' beatniks. Bask in the jazzy (and, at times, slightly ominous) score, narrator Jean Shepherd's condescending tone (and accomplished pronunciation of Italian treats), the krazy-deep spoken word poetry and the colorful generalizations. Though it's a glimpse (in three separate clips) of the `hood during the "Mad Men" era, it's striking how much of it still resembles the comparatively sterilized Greenwich Village of today. I can't help pointing out one fleeting segment to some of my scowling compatriots in the "NYC blog mafia." What's that at 01:27 in the first clip? Yes, that's right -- even in bohemian 1963: STROLLERS! Ha.
Enjoy.
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Nice find, Alex! Would like to see the same film - but filmed in '68 instead of '63. I'm sure the differences in just 5 years were striking...
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Nice find, Alex! Would like to see the same film - but filmed in '68 instead of '63. I'm sure the differences in just 5 years were striking...
Posted by: NYCDreamin | March 21, 2011 at 07:45 AM