Strom Thurmond left office as the only senator to reach the age of 100 while still in office and as the oldest-serving and longest-serving senator in U.S. history (although he was later surpassed in the latter by Robert Byrd). Thurmond holds the record for the longest serving Dean of the United States Senate in U.S. history at 14 years. He conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop. He later moderated his position on race, but continued to defend his early segregationist campaigns on the basis of states’ rights in the context of Southern society at the time, never fully renouncing his earlier viewpoints. After his death it was revealed that Thurmond and a black maid, Carrie Butler, had a daughter whom Thurmond never publicly acknowledged.

Gia Carangi was an American fashion model during the late 1970s and early 1980s. After she became addicted to heroin, Carangi’s modeling career rapidly declined. She later became infected with HIV and died at the age of 26. Her death was not widely publicized and few people in the fashion industry knew of it.

Above, his website. Here, a great article of his.

Syntax, a sick magazine by CS Leigh.

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The Movement of People Working. This double-sided DVD collects a number of Niblock’s documentary films analysing the dynamics of motion involved in manual labour. The images on the disc are all accompanied by Niblock’s own minimalist approach to soundtracking.

New Me magazine with Robert Geller.

New York Model Management blog.

Bo Harwood’s songs for Cassavetes’ films are famously hard to find. However, here’s a neat little article and an audio clip of I’m Almost In Love With You. And the clip above is from Love Streams, Cassavetes’ best film. Check the opera sequence, it’s the closest he ever got to directing a musical of Crime and Punishment as he said he wanted to.

Charvet is a French high-end bespoke and ready-to-wear clothing company.

Prized for its beauty, shade, and medicinal properties, the cultivar was thought to have become extinct sometime around AD 150. However, in 2005, a preserved 2,000-year-old seed sprouted. It is the oldest known human-assisted germination of a seed.

http://www.picnicmagazine.net/

The Relief Shading website is intended to give cartographers, map enthusiasts, and students in-depth information about shaded relief.