If you haven’t cried yet this’ll do the trick. It did for me (photo by Emmanuel Dunand via The Big Picture).

Sam Cooke – “A Change Is Gonna Come”

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A fond farewell to one of the greatest, Paul Newman.

via Ken Meier

Words of wisdom from A.P.C. designer Jean Touitou courtesy of JJJJound.

Last time around our friend Tony Cederteg was good enough to hook us up with some excellent images by artists he’s worked with. In our latest LOOK installment, PhotoShelter‘s Director of Photography Meagan Ziegler-Haynes (as an aside, PhotoShelter’s got a pretty great blog too). Photographers featured include (clockwise from left to right in the image above) Thomas Brodin, Jim Goldberg, Justin Hollar, Matthew Porter, Willy Somma, and Troy Williams.

We had this idea to ask some of our friends to create a collaborative series of one-of-a-kind tote bags. The end project is a limited edition of 150, with each natural canvas tote bag designed and signed by each artist. All of the totes have been customized using a different artistic process, ranging from hand-done drawings and intricate quilt-work to simple screen printing and photo transfers.

Contributors to this project include fashion designer Zac Posen, artists Hisham Akira Bharoocha, Fanny Bostrom and Jeremiah Maddock, musician Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, architect Robert Harvey Oshatz, fashion stylists Christopher Niquet and Pamela Love, poet T. Cole Rachel, and photographers Tim Barber and Nicholas Lorden.

Select bags can also be purchased at:
I Heart   262 Mott Street NY, NY 10012
And Then Some   103 Bond Street Brooklyn, NY 11217

For a complete list of artists see below:
Anna Ahonen, Tim Barber, Hisham Akira Bharrocha, Jonathan Black, Andrew Blazer, Suzuya Bobo, Fanny Bostrom, Joanna Bovay, Alex Chodak, Adi Cydulkin, Roi Cydulkin, Hedi Ferjani, Alex Eagleton, Alec Friedman, Joey Gabriel, Brooke Goldberg, Katherine Krause, Sally Krause, Katariina Lamberg, Jojo Li, Nicholas Lorden, Pamela Love, Jeremiah Maddock, Katrina del Mar, Richie Mosley, David Mramor, Christopher Niquet, Robert Harvey Oshatz, Skye Parrott, Zac Posen, T. Cole Rachel, Eso Robinson, Chris Taylor, Cheyenne Timpero, Dana Veraldi, Meagan Ziegler-Haynes

Price: US – $25.00 (plus $3.00 shipping)   International – $25.00 (plus $10.00 shipping)

Last December I picked up my copy of The Vice Photo Book and was not surprised to find that it was a pretty dope book (and it also happens to contain a photo by a certain photographer kind enough to lend it to us for our READ page). That book helped me catch up on a lot of the great photography in Vice that I’ve often missed because I’m too late to get a copy of the magazine when I finally drag my ass into a place that stocks it. I have a feeling though that I may be able to find one tomorrow.

The Vice crew has thrown together a gallery in what will eventually be more office space and is putting on a show for the entire month of August in the space. Exhibitors include: Jonathan Black, Rennie Ellis, Roe Ethridge, Naomi Fisher, Dana Goldstein, Jerry Hsu, Richard Kern, Maggie Le, David Markey & Jordan Schwartz, Jens Mollenvanger, Patrick O’Dell, Aaron Rose, Chris Shonting, Luke Stephenson, Nick Zinner & Aliya Naumoff, and a special “Riddles” section curated by Tim Barber. Affordable prints will be available as well as other Vice products at a discounted price. And I’ll finally be able to grab a copy of the new Photo Issue. The gallery’s open Tuesday through Friday from 3 to 7pm and 12 to 6pm on Saturdays.

I stumbled upon this great video, which is actually the third of four, in which This American Life‘s Ira Glass talks about telling great stories and making good creative work. You needn’t be in radio or TV to learn something from this. Ira talks about how discerning taste and love for what you do combined with diligence through your less-than-a-genius phases will carry you through as it did for him. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff but nonetheless I sure as hell need to be reminded from time to time (via 43folders).

We’ve updated the Look section of our site and we’re really psyched about it.

Since the site launched, our Creative Director Skye Parrott was holding down the curation of that page. However, we’ll now have a monthly featured curator. For July, Tony Cederteg of Cederteg Publishing has provided us with some new visual selections from Christopher Green, Mathias Sterner, Maria Trofimova, and TwoTom.