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the fun gallery (former)
from hip hop, graffiti posted in music by pete_nice
Patti Astor was known as the "Queen of the Downtown Scene" and was an underground film actress and culture maven in 1970s and 80s NYC.
She opened up The Fun Gallery at this location with partner Bill Stelling in 1981, and the art gallery featured some of the earliest exhibitions of graffiti and street art, including Taki 183, Keith Haring, Fab 5 Freddy, and Jean Michel Basquiat.
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from hip hop, dj kool herc posted in music by pete_nice
Original hip hop DJ Kool Herc attended the Alfred E. Smith Career and Technical Education High School in the Bronx. He got the name "Hercules" at the school because of his size and his stature, then changed it to "Kool Herc" when he was running with a graffiti crew called the Ex-Vandals.
In 1973, DJ Kool Herc threw the first hip hop dance party.
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from buddha, buddhism posted in history by pete_nice
SiddhÄrtha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha (or just Buddha), was born in the town of Lumbini in present-day Nepal around c. 563 BCE or c. 480 BCE.
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from bob dylan, the band posted in music by pete_nice
In the spring of 1967, the band that had been calling themselves The Hawks had just arrived back from a world tour backing Bob Dylan. They moved into the Big Pink house (named after the color of the siding) and set up shop in the basement, creating a makeshift recording studio and rehearsal space.
The band grew beards, wore hats, and started calling themselves The Band. Dylan, who was recovering from a motorcycle accident and lived a couple of miles away, spent nearly every evening at Big Pink.
In 1968, The Band put out the album Music from Big Pink which contained their biggest hit, "The Weight." Dylan did the artwork for the album and co-wrote a couple songs.
The bootleg recordings from Big Pink with Dylan and The Band began to circulate, and were eventually as The Basement Tapes.
view full location details...devon island
from army shanks, far arden, kevin cannon posted in comic books by pete_nice
Much of the action that takes place in the slightly-in-the-future Arctic pirate adventure graphic novel Far Arden happens on and around Devon Island, although these days it's considered the largest uninhabited island in the world.
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