collectivehistory: “Kiss of Life”, 1968 Pulitzer Prize A utility worker, J.D. Thompson, is suspended on a utility pole and giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a fellow lineman, Randall G. Champion, who was unconscious and hanging upside down after contacting a high voltage line. Champion survived and lived until 2002, when he died of heart failure at the age of 64. Thompson is still living.  Rocco Morabito
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collectivehistory:

“Kiss of Life”, 1968 Pulitzer Prize

A utility worker, J.D. Thompson, is suspended on a utility pole and giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a fellow lineman, Randall G. Champion, who was unconscious and hanging upside down after contacting a high voltage line.

Champion survived and lived until 2002, when he died of heart failure at the age of 64. Thompson is still living. 

Rocco Morabito

(via collectivehistory)

eastmanhouse:

A Brief History of John Baldessari

Narrated by Tom Waits.
Commissioned by LACMA for their first annual “Art + Film Gala” honoring John Baldessari and Clint Eastwood.

directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman
edited by Max Joseph 
written by Gabriel Nussbaum 
cinematography by Magdalena Gorka 
& Henry Joost
produced by Mandy Yaeger & Erin Wright

cruiseorbecruised:

Blueprints- Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil

21Feb11

During the early 1950′s, Rauschenberg and Weil, then husband and wife, collaborated on a number of pieces involving the use of blueprint paper.  Objects and/or models were laid on top of the paper which was then exposed to a sun lamp.  After this, the paper was fixed using hydrogen peroxide. Here are some photos of the process as well as the end result:

(via emilyauchincloss)

Source: cruiseorbecruised

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