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Detroit’s beautiful, horrible decline

French photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre took this and other harrowing photos of the motor city collected in a TIME photo essay.

The haircut’s in charge here

Photo by Sara M. Ralph

Squashed

Photo by Matthew Ralph, taken a block away from Tangzine.com headquarters

Slumdog bus

As gaudy as some of the graphic design has been for some of the promotion of Slumdog Millionaire, this photo of a London bus the fine folks over at /Film posted last week charts new territory in questionable movie marketing. Would this bus ad make you want to see Slumdog Millionaire or want to avoid […]

Laughing out loud at pastors

Following in the footsteps of Stuff Christians Like (see Stuff White People Like), our friends over at Burnside Writers Collective have launched a blatant Christianized blog spoof of their own: LOLPastors (see I Can Has Cheezburger). Surprisingly, there are no entries for Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Bakker or John Wesley yet. We might just have to do something to […]

High standards

From Nothing To Do With Arbroath

LEGO album covers

A group of Flickr users that appear to be pretty partial to British music has started a photo pool of album covers reimagined Lego style. Click HERE to see a lot more from where the above Lego-fied Belle and Sebastian and The Smiths album covers came.

Sewing thread

Photo by Debbie Garrett