Doc Watson
1932 - 2012
Steve McQueen in his backyard, 1963
Funny little story… I drove on a field trip once, to a guitar factory, to show all these little kids how to make guitars. So we’re standing there, and I’m looking around, and folks are looking over at me, and I’m just waiting for someone to recognize me—you know, “Hey, aren’t you that music guy? That singer guy?” Nobody. Nothing. We’re there for, like, two hours, watching them put the frets on and all that, and I’m waiting and waiting… A week later, I took the same group of kids on a field trip to the dump, and as I pulled up, don’t ask me how, but my truck was surrounded by people that wanted an autograph. It was a dump, for Christ’s sake. I guess everybody knows me at the dump.”
- Tom Waits
German artist Marcel Schindler created this wonderful hand drawn stop motion animated rendition of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “The Old Man and the Sea.”
Awkward Merit Badges
Artist Bill Plympton animated the “couch gag” opening sequence for the April 15, 2012 episode of The Simpsons.
(Source: memewhore, via cleanyourroom)
From 1929 to 1965, Sherman Billingsley ran the Stork Club, called by columnist Walter Winchell “New York’s New Yorkiest place.” Among its patrons were Orson Welles, Grace Kelly, Tallulah Bankhead, and Frank Sinatra. When photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life in 1944, Billingsley shared the hand signals he used to communicate with his waiters: hand on tie (no bill for the table); hand touching nose (unimportant people, do not cash their checks); hands interlocked, thumb raised (get them out and don’t let them back in); and pulling ear (summon me to a phone call).
