29 January 2012

This Week in Awesome (1/28/12)

Time to start thinking about the Super Bowl menu...

Related: really well-done re-imaginings of NFL team logos. (This Fits)

A crowdsourced approach to concert videos. (UrbanDaddy)

Cultural anthropology of sorts: in the early 1970s the EPA sent photographers out across the country to document how people's lives were being affected by various environmental conditions. This fascinating photo set on Flickr examines a section of East Boston adjacent to Logan Airport in 1973. (Hemmings Auto Blog)

And finally this week, also in a musical vein, Leonard Cohen's new album Old Ideas arrives this week. I have never given his music the attention it deserves, but Twilight Singers frontman Greg Dulli's outstanding cover of Cohen's "Paper Thin Hotel" is a great way to begin to rectify that. A day or so later I came across this video of a 1988 Cohen appearance on Austin City Limits. (Rolling Stone via The Awl (note that this link will autoplay); Dangerous Minds, also via The Awl)

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