The Years

Switch Hitting Swerve

James Jirat Patradoon:

"Basically we are not white enough to wear studded/patched leather jackets... so we are going to put a booty shaking, gang sign throwing, switch hitting swerve on the look."

Upon Viewing Brueghel's 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus'

Death Eater Masks

More here.

Whitechapel

Distance

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Frank Monaco

In the 1960s several Italian newspapers carried a story that the American pilot who had dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima had become a Carthusian monk, and was living in the La Certosa monastery in Southern Italy. Frank Monaco, an American photojournalist, was hired by a Catholic magazine to investigate the claims.

Monaco visited the monastery, where he found that the solider-turned-monk was not the Hiroshima bomber, but was rather a veteran of the Korean War who had visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on service leave. After the war finished, the solider found himself unable to integrate back into day-to-day American life, and turned to the Carthusian order.

Monaco decided to stay at the monastery regardless, and over three days he photographed the comings and goings of the monks who lived there.

Read more about Frank Monaco here. See more of his photos here.

Sacred Bones

Brooklyn's Sacred Bones Records produce vinyl for a roster of bands that specialise in the dark and noisy. They also use a really nicely defined visual aesthetic for their range of different LP covers.

You can see an album of their different sleeve designs here. Music-wise, check out Moon Duo, Pop. 1280, The Men, Zola Jesus and TRUST.

Bow-Tie Etiquette

“When you have on a bow tie, the bow tie commands respect,” Big Boi says. “And if you got a bow tie on, you gotta be a bad motherfucker to have a bow tie on."