Jul 21, 2018
POWER’S A FUNNY THING. SOMEBODY CALLS YOUR HOLE CARD, AND [IF YOU CAN’T SHOW YOU AREN’T BLUFFING] IT’S LIKE A DIKE - ONE LITTLE HOLE CAN BLOW THE WHOLE THING.
Mickey Cohen
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POWER’S A FUNNY THING. SOMEBODY CALLS YOUR HOLE CARD, AND [IF YOU CAN’T SHOW YOU AREN’T BLUFFING] IT’S LIKE A DIKE - ONE LITTLE HOLE CAN BLOW THE WHOLE THING.
Mickey Cohen
HOOKER’S DIVISION: A 1890s MAP OF VICE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
HOOKER’S DIVISION: A 1890s MAP OF VICE WITHIN SIGHT OF THE WHITE HOUSE
At the end of the Civil War “a vast hoard of enfranchised slaves, discharged soldiers and a cloud of riffraff, bummers and camp followers” descended onto the city of Washington D.C., doubling it’s size from 75,000 people to 150,000 and turning it into one of the most disorderly places in America. Crime was out of control and the very names of its neighborhoods (Bloodfield, Bloody Hill and Murder…
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Just In Case
H: How are you getting home?
Me: ...Walking. It's four blocks.
H: Do you have a knife?
Me: Not on me.
H: [walks away, rummages around, comes back with a flickblade] Here.
Me: Yesss!
H: If you use it, be sure throw it down the sewer. It fits.
SNOOPING, ANYONE?
Kiev Speccam Detective Camera
The version shown here is a modified 303, gold plated and leather bound case made to resemble a note book, complete with pages and a pen to write notes with. The pen holder opens up the camera ready to shoot and the shutter release is under the note book pages. You can’t set shutter speed, aperture or focus without removing the casing. The casing is fastened by a single screw.
There are reports of another version, based upon the Kiev 30, with gold plated cover housing a lipstick case and mascara holder in an art deco case with handle.
A collection of surveillance equipment from the from the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s.
Sometimes you find the past in the breakdown lane with its hood up and the blinkers on. Sometimes you pull over and lend a hand. Change a tire. Drive for gas. Sometimes the past broad sides you. One second you've got the green light – the next, it’s all jarring impact, screaming metal and broken glass. Pain, blood, the swirling cherries of an ambulance. One second, you have the green light – the next, you’re in an emergency room, heavily medicated, thinking – did I just kill some one?
In The Rear View Mirror by L.A. Webb
SHOOTERS DELIGHT: TEN CAMERA GUNS FROM AROUND THE WORLD»
DANZIG BALDAEV: TATTOO COLLECTOR»
"Between 1948 and 1986, during his career as a prison guard, Danzig Baldaev made over 3,000 drawings of tattoos. They were his gateway into a secret world in which he acted as ethnographer, recording the rituals of a closed society. The icons and tribal languages he documented are artful, distasteful, sexually explicit and provocative, reflecting as they do the lives, status and traditions of the convicts that wore them. Baldaev made comprehensive notes about each tattoo, which he then carefully reproduced in his tiny St. Petersburg flat. The resulting exquisitely detailed ink drawings are accompanied with his handwritten notes and signature on the reverse, the paper is yellowed with age, and carries Baldaev’s stamp, giving the drawings a visceral temporality – almost like skin." ~ Fuel Deisgn
(Source: J. Yuenger)
MUSHFAKES: FROM JAIL HOUSE HOT PLATES TO HOME MADE WEAPONS, EIGHT EXAMPLES OF PRISON DIY INGENUITY»