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kateoplis:

Weegee, 1953

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life:

One of my favorite LIFE photographs — Happy Birthday Frank Zappa.

Assigned to take portraits of the artists at home with their sweetly square folks, photographer John Olson traveled everywhere from the suburbs of London to Brooklyn to the San Francisco Bay Area, capturing in his work the love that bridged any cultural divide that may have existed between his subjects.

“Everyone had told me that Frank Zappa was going to be really difficult, and he couldn’t have been more professional,” Olson says.

As for Zappa’s parents: “My father has ambitions to be an actor,” Frank told LIFE. “He secretly wants to be on TV.” His mom, meanwhile, thought Frank’s career was fine and dandy, but envied something else about him. “The thing that makes me mad about Frank,” she said, “is that his hair is curlier than mine — and blacker.”

(see more — Rock Stars and Their Parents)

In case you’re still looking for a christmas present - women love appliances!

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It’s all about timing.

Child fascinated by the rain (taken in Singapore, 2011).

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Yarchen monastery, China

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thediaryofadisappointingman:

I’ve seen this photo on tumblr before, but I never realised it was taken by Don McCullin until I saw it in a book (that I couldn’t afford to buy) yesterday.

Finally!

Flipboard launches sleek iPhone app with new ‘Cover Stories’ section

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Inside a random cab (Taken with Instagram at Orchard Road, Singapore)

Red (Taken with Instagram at Takashimaya, Orchard)

Found Nemo (Taken with Instagram at SHENG SIONG Supermarket)

Scooter (Taken with Instagram at 飛飛雲吞麵大王)