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Roller Derby Wedding

Max Sparber — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:27:11 +0000

Glimpses of Soul presents an awesome series of photos from a Roller Derby wedding. (Via)

Love, Charlie: A Photoblog About a Photogenic Dog

Max Sparber — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:00:46 +0000

Metafilter points out the now defunct but still enjoyable Love, Charlie photoblog. Charlie is an Italian Greyhound from rural Minnesota, and he seems like a sweetheart. Charlie can still be found on the interwebs at Flickr.

Minnesota LIFE

Max Sparber — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:02:48 +0000

Google is now hosting LIFE magazine’s image archive. I give you Minnesota as seen through LIFE’s photographers over the years:

- General Electric uniforms from 1918
- A tiny burn victim from 1940
- A Conscientious Objector participates in a semi-stavation program at the U of M in 1945
- Scandinavian royalty in Minnesota in 1958
- The Guthrie, from the late 60s or early 70s
- Jack Baker, an out of the closet homosexual, who ran for U of M student president in 1971
- The famous 1973 cover image of Wendell Anderson and a fish