Last week nopooh was at the MTV Movie Awards giving away free t-shirts for charity, hobnobbing with celebs, and taking lots of pics. In this promotion, we’re giving away the proceeds from sales of all t-shirts worn by celebrities at the event to their chosen charities, which include Ride for Autism, the Red Cross, Special Olympics and World Fit for Kids. Celebrities in attendance included Erin Murphy of Bewitched, Kevin Sorbo of Hercules, Brad Sherwood of Whose Line is it Anyway and Heath Pearce of Chivas USA.

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If you missed seeing Christian Marclay’s The Clock at the Paula Cooper gallery in New York this winter, there’s still hope.  The twenty-four hour long film, spliced from innumerable film clips, is described on the gallery’s website: “The Clock uncannily proceeds at a unified pace as if re-ordered by the latent narrative of time itself. Because it is synchronized with the local time of the exhibition space, the work conflates cinematic and actual time, revealing each passing minute as a repository of alternately suspenseful, tragic or romantic narrative possibilities.”

It’s an odd comparison, but while reading about Eugene Atget’s passionate quest to photographically document the buildings and residents of a rapidly modernizing Paris from the mid 1890s until his death in 1927, another, equally avid photographic recorder of people and style, (rather than buildings), Bill Cunningham, came to mind.

A new documentary film: Bill Cunningham New York, tells tantalizingly little about Cunningham’s own history and private life other than that the photographer briefly attended Harvard, came to New York in 1948, and began to capture the stylish, in every sense of the word, photographically. 

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Weegee was an absolutely brilliant, self-taught photojournalist who operated in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s.

The nickname Weegee is a phonetic version of “Ouija”, reputedly resulting from his uncanny ability to arrive moments after crimes or disasters, sometimes before the police.  In reality, Weegee was the only photographer allowed to carry a portable short wave police-band radio, hence the ‘prescience’.

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