Periodic Table of Typography

LIFE Magazine | October 31, 1960Gjon Mili

Famous Artist Suicides

Born this day in 1966 | Dean Cain

Born this day in 1947 | Arnold SchwarzeneggerPhotograph by Robert Mapplethorpe 1970s

There's something really wrong with this picture!

Quote|UnquoteSam Walton, Founder of Wal-Mart

High expectations are the key to everything.

The Screaming Room | 1974The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

This Day in History | 1978Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn, its rings, and a moon, Titan

Born this day in 1938 | Peter Jennings

When being a journalist conveyed respect.

The Vault | Released October 31, 1977Donna Summer | Once Upon a Time

What can I say?

If you were gay and in the clubs in 1977 and 1978, most likely the most productive and explosive years for disco music, every guy dancing to RUMOUR HAS IT backed with I LOVE YOU really thought it was about them.

And if they were there and deny it? They're liars.

And Donna Summer was the Queen of the Dancefloor.

You never know just what you've won until you lose (people talking...)

(rumour, have you heard? rumour has it)

The Vault | 1977Queen | News of the World

Again, music videos, which were, in essence "invented" by Queen (with the promotional video for their iconic BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY) didn't yet have the reach, the penetration, beyond DON KIRSCHNER'S ROCK CONCERTs which were broadcast at midnight, predating, even, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.

Being an outcast in a group of outcasts in high school, there was some alignment of the universe which secured me a ticket to see Queen, and Freddie Mercury, from front row, center, in November 1977.

I haven't been the same since.

Thank God.

The Vault | 1973Elton John | Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

I didn't know it at the time, but this double album, four sides of vinyl, taught me how to see more than any photograph I have been exposed to since.

There's a magic to the lyrics of Bernie Taupin which haven't been "ruined" by the advent of the "music video."

Thank God.

On Deck | Elton @ 60 [Madison Square Garden]The Godfather of AIDS Fundraising

Elton John's record-breaking 60th sellout performance at Madison Square Garden on his 60th birthday, recorded on March 25th, 2007 and televised worldwide is the setting for his DVD, Elton 60: Live at Madison Square Garden.

Sixty Years On

Madman Across the water

Where to Now St. Peter?

Hercules

Ballad of a Well Known Gun

Take Me to the Pilot

High Flying Bird

Holiday Inn

Burn Down the Mission

Better Off Dead

Levon

Empty Garden

Daniel

Honky Cat

Rocket Man

I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues

The Bridge

Roy Rogers

Mona Lisa's and Mad Hatters

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word

Bennie and the Jets

All the Girls Love Alice

Tiny Dancer

Something About the Way You Look Tonight

Philadelphia Freedom

Sad Songs (Say So Much)

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

I'm Still Standing

The Bitch is Back

Crocodile Rock

Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting

Funeral for a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding

Your Song

LIFE Magazine | AIDS across three decades

Photo: Therese Frare

View LIFE's 30 year gallery on the impact of AIDS here.

Scanning 35mm film, full-frame.

Annie Lennox | Dark Road

Photograph by Diane Arbus

More work by the master photographer here.

To D – Dead By Her Own HandHoward Nemerov

My dear, I wonder if before the end

You ever thought about a children’s game—

I’m sure you must have played it too—in which

You ran along a narrow garden wall

Pretending it to be a mountain ledge

So steep a snowy darkness fell away

On either side to deeps invisible;

And when you felt your balance being lost

You jumped because you feared to fall, and thought

For only an instant: That was when I died.

That was a life ago. And now you’ve gone,

Who would no longer play the grown-ups’ game

Where, balanced on the ledge above the dark,

You go on running and you don’t look down,

Nor ever jump because you fear to fall.

Committed suicide this day in 1971Diane Arbus, photographer

Diane Arbus died on July 26th 1971 by committing suicide, taking an overdose of barbiturates and slashing her wrists. Arbus had suffered with depression during her life, which had been exacerbated by symptoms of hepatitis. She was found in her bathtub two days after her death.

CT's Canine Numismatist! Jerry B!

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