At the tender age of 15-years-old, Michal Landers has become the youngest player ever to win the Men’s USA Table Tennis National Singles Championship. He overcame a three-games-to-one deficit in the best-of-seven final match on Dec. 19th in Las Vegas.
You can read more about Michael Landers in The New York Times here.
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W. Eugene Smith was one of mid-century America’s greatest photojournalists; his work for Life Magazine during and after World War II made him rich and famous. In 1957, Smith, 38, moved into a fourth-floor loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, near West 28th Street, in the heart of what was then Manhattan’s commercial flower market. Over the next eight years, he shot over 1,000 rolls of film, many of them from his window, capturing a world in one block.
Many of those photographs can be found in Sam Stephenson’s recently published The Jazz Loft Project, which is equally devoted to Smith’s other passion, jazz. As it happened, his next-door neighbor was composer-arranger Hall Overton, and Smith was letting him use his loft as a rehearsal space for some of the era’s great jazz musicians. Not only did Smith photograph the musicians, he wired the whole building for sound, hooked up several tape recorders, and let the spools spin till they ran out, recording everything from jam sessions to conversations in the hallway.
The first of the two videos below presents a number of photographs taken in and from the loft, accompanied by actual sounds captured by Smith’s tape recorders in the building.
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Filmed in and around Edinburgh, this video of stunt bike rider Danny MacAskill features probably the best collection of street riding you’ve ever seen. 23-year old Danny MacAskill has been tearing up the streets of Edinburgh and wowing people across the globe with his bike stunts for a few years now. However, this stunt video has taken the world by storm and received more hits than any cycling video ever. Watching this video, your spirit will soar, and life in that moment becomes movement, joy and the triumph of the indominitable spirit.
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Song For A Blue Guitar is performed by singer and guitarist Mark Kozelek, with video footage provided by photographer Phil Bebbington. The music is one of Kozelek’s iconic masterpieces, replete with escalating feelings of desolation, elusive promises and lost loves. Kozelek’s artistry is known for his reflectively haunting vocals that greet listeners with interlocking images of lost childhood and ruminations underpinned by lucid pictures of a past that recaptures old relationships, formative places and tumultuous experiences.
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