Spaghetti

From the Visual Research Dept.: It is a near scientific fact that every German male would rather be a cowboy, so it’s easy to understand the strong fascination I felt growing up for one of the records my mom owned. It was the brilliant Ennio Morricone soundtrack for “Once Upon a Time in the West”, [...]

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Stefan Falke at the Movies

Stefan Falke is a Brooklyn based German photo-journalist who has worked and traveled extensively for a wide variety of magazines. On top of that he has made himself a name as a stills photographer on big German movie productions, a part of the business I know almost nothing about. So I’m very glad and grateful [...]

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Squint

From the Visual Research Dept.: In case you haven’t been invited to the party, you might have missed it, but it was Clint Eastwood’s 80th birthday this week. I’m obviously stating the obvious here, but the man wrote a very large chapter of the book on looking good, cool, and masculine. There is a lot [...]

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Zatoichi

From the Visual Research Dept.: There is a treasure trove of beautiful imagery and old-school Japanese whoop-ass to be found in the amazing series of “Zatoichi – The Blind Swordsman” movies on Hulu.

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