r/VeryFuckinCool

Rage Against the Machine playing at Zed’s Records in Long Beach, California on March 29th, 1992. This was seven months before the release of their debut album.

u/dannydutch1 — 6 hours ago
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Creedence Clearwater Revival performing "Fortunate Son" live at the Royal Albert Hall in April of 1970

u/CarkWithaM — 15 hours ago
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Explained here is ‘The Marilyn Monroe effect’, otherwise known as the nonverbal communication of confidence, well worth a quick read.

u/WithoutPrinciples — 2 days ago
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One of the many amazing scenes in the 1933 film "Footlight Parade" Choreographer Busby Berkeley put dozens of swimmers in a massive water tank & filmed them from above.

u/CarkWithaM — 2 days ago
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In 2006, Werner Herzog was filming an interview for the BBC when an air-rifle pellet hit him in the abdomen. He called it an “insignificant bullet” and continued with the interview.

u/Gunkel — 3 days ago
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Jasmine Trevanna of Cricklewood, London - aka Yasmin the Fire Eater, 1961.

Trevanna performed public fire-eating displays around London, including a preview at the Magic Circle's headquarters ahead of their festival at the Scala Theatre.

u/CarkWithaM — 4 days ago

Filming of La Haine (1995), with the giant frescoes of Rimbaud and Baudelaire that decorate the commune of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, France

u/WithoutPrinciples — 4 days ago
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During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras, and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

u/GlitterDanger — 7 days ago
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Remembering Herb Ritts on his birthday. He's mainly known for creating beautiful photography, but he also directed Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game', where Isaak and Helena Christensen can be seen frolicking on the beach in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

Chris Isaak talks about making the video here. Did the on-camera chemistry with Helena Christensen happen off-camera, too? What was Herb Ritts' vision for the video?, etc

You can find more about Herb Ritts his amazing work and his early death here

u/GlitterDanger — 6 days ago
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Steve Irwin takes us on a tour of a A-10 Warthog at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, 1999. This man could explain anything in such a great way.

u/AlbinoAkon — 9 days ago
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A brilliant publicity photo for Buster Keaton's 1922 short film, The Electric House.

u/dannydutch1 — 9 days ago

British sisters Nancy and Betty Debenham circa 1925. Not only well known motorcyclists, they were sports journalists, and authors and heirs to the prominent Debenhams department store.

u/ExtremeInsert — 10 days ago

Keith Moon of The Who demonstrating a drum technique for his 12-year-old godson, Zak Starkey, at Drum City music shop in London back on September 13, 1977. Taken on Zak's 12th birthday, "Uncle Keith" brought Ringo Starr's son to the shop and bought him his very first real drum kit.

u/SteveNtheseagulls — 10 days ago

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak autographing an original Apple 1 motherboard that he helped create in 1976. These things go for sale at auction for between $300,000 and $950,000, but ultra-rare pre-production prototypes have sold for as much as $2,750,000.

u/CarkWithaM — 11 days ago

Video of a meteor taken from flight attendant Alexandra Spasskaya on Aeroflot Flight SU 1289 from Ulyanovsk to Moscow. [📹 sasha_bashnya_]

u/CrippledStripper — 8 days ago

East Berliners Tomi, Silvy , Manuela, her sister Trixi, Uwe, and Tatjana, (from left) photographed by by Harf Zimmermann in the mid 1980s.

u/ExtremeInsert — 10 days ago