24 janv. 2015
America's Dirtiest Cops: Cash, Cocaine and Corruption on the Texas Border
How an elite anti-narcotics task force became the most brazen drug thieves on the Texas border.
-Rolling Stone
The Most Ancient and Magnificent Trees From Around the World
The Bowthorpe Oak is a massively thick, millennium-old tree in Lincolnshire, England that once was rumored to hold three dozen people in its enormous, hollowed-out trunk. Beth Moon photographed the leafy giant some 15 years ago and was struck by its solemn nobility and overwhelming presence. Thus began a pilgrimage that would take her around the world to document the planet’s most ancient trees.
-Wired
Take a Photo Tour of Long-Forgotten Soviet Russian Arcade Games
I went to Moscow this fall and while there, I quit drinking forever. I hadn’t planned this, so, like anyone finding himself in an ancient metropolis with unexpected free time on his hands, I pulled out my phone and Yandexed “video game museum Москва.”
-Motherboard
18 janv. 2015
Vas-tu te marier?
Durant les fêtes, on fait sentir seuls les gens seuls, mais on fait aussi chier les gens matchés. On leur demande souvent s’ils vont se marier. (Ensuite, ce seront les questions sur les enfants.)
Ma question à moi est beaucoup plus louche et un peu moins party-de-famille-friendly : est-ce qu’il y a des gars qui se branlent en regardant des catalogues de chicks en robes de mariées?
Genre, c’est ça qu’ils trouvent hawt.
Je sais. Bizarre de question. C’est juste étonnant que pour le grand jour de l’amouuuuur où le couple jure qu’ils vont passer le reste de leur vie ensemble, la fille porte un truc vraiment zéro sexuel qui la branche surtout elle et ses copines.
Pourquoi est-ce qu’on se marie encore aujourd’hui?
-Nightlife
Shah Cheragh
Visiting the Shah Cheragh mosque in Shiraz, Iran can be a somber and, for lack of a better word, religious experience, yet the interior of the central temple looks as though a disco ball exploded, covering nearly every surface with glittering shards of glass and mirror.
-Atlas Obscura
17 janv. 2015
Interdite il y a 100 ans, l'absinthe revit
Il y a 100 ans, l'absinthe, boisson sulfureuse rendue célèbre par des artistes du XIXe siècle tels que Van Gogh ou Verlaine, fut interdite, car elle était accusée de «rendre fou»: aujourd'hui, la «Fée verte» connaît une nouvelle vie.
-La Presse
The murder that has obsessed Italy
Yara Gambirasio should only have been gone a short while. On Friday 26 November 2010, at 5.15pm, she left home to go to the gym, just a few hundred metres from her home. Yara, who was 13 and wore train-track braces, was preparing for her rhythmic gymnastics display the following Sunday. All she needed to do was drop off a stereo with her instructor. She said goodbye to her family, who knew where she was going, and left the house.
-The Guardian
Nothing Lasts Forever: The Bill Murray Sci-Fi Film That Went Unseen for 30 Years
Any channel-flipping insomniac who might have come across Turner Classic Movie channel's late-night screening of Nothing Lasts Forever at 2 am one Monday morning would hardly have raised an eyebrow. Another innocuous black-and-white science fiction B-movie, with a maudlin big-band soundtrack and ample 50s era stock footage intercut between stilted dramatic sequences.
But wait—no. That’s impossible. Because isn’t that Dan Aykroyd? And there, playing a sky host on a moonbound commuter bus—a young Bill Murray? Now our poor insomniac would be mightily confused. How could Dan Ackroyd and Bill Murray be in a film that looks for all the world as though it were made in 1952? Is this, like the alleged time-traveler caught on film in Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film The Circus, some instance of paranormal cinematic anachronism?
-Motherboard
Detroit in the 1940s
The early part of the 20th century saw the city of Detroit, Michigan, rise to prominence on the huge growth of the auto industry and related manufacturers. The 1940s were boom years of development, but the decade was full of upheaval and change, as factories re-tooled to build war machines, and women started taking on men's roles in the workplace, as men shipped overseas to fight in World War II.
-The Atlantic
10 janv. 2015
Le bruit des glaçons
Mélangez la poudrière mondiale, les nouvelles nationales doublées d’une morosité ambiante faite tantôt rigueur, tantôt austérité, ajoutez vos tracas personnels et vous convergez vers l’obscurité, à moins de vivre sous une cloche de verre. Dans mon cas, l’éclairage a changé imperceptiblement ; je ne distinguais plus que les contours flous d’un monde inhospitalier et hostile. Au fil du temps, ne restaient souvent que la tristesse et le fatalisme, une voie royale et pavée de larmes vers l’amertume. L’hypersensible à fleur de peau était devenue une idéaliste déçue. Et cette posture mentale est assez commune pour que je l’observe chez mes contemporains qui se défendent comme ils le peuvent ou se réfugient dans un tout-compris sans rien comprendre. Heureusement, c’est opérable ! J’ai même trouvé le médecin : moi-même.
-Le Devoir
Pourquoi "ça" nous attire ?
Pourquoi les images de sexe donnent-elles envie de tourner la tête ? Celles qui ne cachent rien, surtout, exercent une forme de magnétisme. On les regarde, on les scrute. Parfois on ne s’étonne pas. On a déjà vu ça mille fois… mais…
-Libération
The Well-Hung Boy Next Door
Men aren't porn stars. Not really. They're extras. They're props. They're stand-ins for guys everywhere. But not Mr. James Deen. Just by being, well, average (or let's say larger than average), Deen has gotten huge (oops). And what's even stranger is who he's gotten huge with (hey, we didn't mean that): women, young women, and even teenage girls. Wells Tower spends a week with the man who would apparently have the best job in the world. (He doesn't)
-GQ
Le cinéma L'Amour a 100 ans
Sans tambour ni trompette, le cinéma L'Amour a fêté ses 100 ans au mois d'octobre. Une occasion en or de tester vos connaissances sur ce bâtiment mythique et l'histoire de la censure au Québec, et de revisiter une salle que certains qualifient carrément de « patrimoniale ».
-La Presse
Pietro Aretino, The Secret Life of Wives and the School of Whoredom
This is Part IV of a four-part entry on the life of Pietro Aretino the genius and madman behind the ‘invention’ of pornography. Part one was about his early life and his inspirations, and can be found here. Part two was about his involvement with the first work of pornography, I Modi and can be found here. The third entry delves into an assassination attempt by the Church and the first part his greatest work, The Dialogues, and can be found here. This is the fourth and final entry, and it wraps-up The Dialogues with the Secret Lives of Wives and the School of Whoredom and the final years of Aretino’s life.
-Annalspornographie
Photos Banned By North Korea, But Smuggled Out. A Rare Look Inside The Country
The Hermit Kingdom, North Korea, strictly controls its image domestically and internationally with government approval required for photos. So, when photographer Eric Lafforgue secretly took and smuggled a set of photos out, it pulled back the curtain and let the world see an unfiltered view of North Korean life.
-Smatterist
«Charlie» à «Libé» : «Bon, on fait le journal ?»
Les journalistes rescapés de l'attentat ont repris le travail ce vendredi. Avec les morts et les blessés en tête, pour sortir un journal mercredi. En tout, la conférence de rédaction de Charlie Hebdo aura duré plus de trois heures. C’est qu’en plus du chemin de fer, des sujets, des deadlines, il faut aussi ce vendredi matin parler des morts, des blessés, des hommages, des obsèques. La salle du hublot, où Libé tient habituellement sa réunion quotidienne, est occupée pour l’occasion par les rescapés de l’hebdo satirique.
-Libération
