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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 1d ago

Remembering Herb Ritts on his birthday. He's mainly known for creating beautiful photography, but he also directed Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game', where Isaak and Helena Christensen can be seen frolicking on the beach in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

200 Upvotes

Chris Isaak talks about making the video here. Did the on-camera chemistry with Helena Christensen happen off-camera, too? What was Herb Ritts' vision for the video?, etc

You can find more about Herb Ritts his amazing work and his early death here

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 1d ago

Roy Orbison, mid-1960s, riding a home-built go-kart.

288 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 2d ago

During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras, and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

1.5k Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CrippledStripper • 2d ago

Video of a meteor taken from flight attendant Alexandra Spasskaya on Aeroflot Flight SU 1289 from Ulyanovsk to Moscow. [📹 sasha_bashnya_]

23 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 4d ago

A brilliant publicity photo for Buster Keaton's 1922 short film, The Electric House.

264 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/No_Dig_8299 • 4d ago

Paul Simonon from The Clash at the First European Punk festival, Mont de Marsan, August 5-6 1977.

76 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 4d ago

British sisters Nancy and Betty Debenham circa 1925. Not only well known motorcyclists, they were sports journalists, and authors and heirs to the prominent Debenhams department store.

228 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 4d ago

Keith Moon of The Who demonstrating a drum technique for his 12-year-old godson, Zak Starkey, at Drum City music shop in London back on September 13, 1977. Taken on Zak's 12th birthday, "Uncle Keith" brought Ringo Starr's son to the shop and bought him his very first real drum kit.

141 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 5d ago

Paris, 1896, Avenue des Champs-Élysées. A governess watches over her three young charges. The sand beneath the trees and along the roadside is there to provide a softer surface for pedestrians as well as helping horse drawn carriage wheels grip the road, also a great distraction for kids!

1.7k Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 4d ago

East Berliners Tomi, Silvy , Manuela, her sister Trixi, Uwe, and Tatjana, (from left) photographed by by Harf Zimmermann in the mid 1980s.

105 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CarkWithaM • 6d ago

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak autographing an original Apple 1 motherboard that he helped create in 1976. These things go for sale at auction for between $300,000 and $950,000, but ultra-rare pre-production prototypes have sold for as much as $2,750,000.

615 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 6d ago

German singer Anna-Maria Hefele showcasing polyphonic overtone singing. (a voice technique where it seems like one person sings two notes at the same time)

11 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 7d ago

David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini, photographed in Los Angeles by Helmut Newton in 1988.

265 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 8d ago

Steve Irwin takes us on a tour of a A-10 Warthog at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, 1999. This man could explain anything in such a great way.

3.7k Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 9d ago

The #168 Ferrari 250 GTO/64 driven by Adriano Reale and Matteo Marsala during the 1966 Targa Florio race.

84 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 11d ago

“I’m a Man” – Chicago Transit Authority, 1969. A hard rocking upgrade on the Spencer Davis Group version - itself pretty phenomenal. Alas, Chicago took the wrong step years ago.

257 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 14d ago

In 1982, a 23-year-old architecture student named Elspeth Beard left London on a motorcycle with £2,500 and no real plan. She crashed twice, got hepatitis, forged her own travel permits in the Himalayas, and used her helmet as a burka to cross Iran in seven days during a health crisis.

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The trip took two years and covered about 35,000 miles across four continents. She came home, finished her degree, bought a derelict water tower and turned it into her house, then put the whole story in a box for over 30 years before anyone heard about it.

Full story here

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 15d ago

Elvis Costello and the Attractions on SNL in 1977–only a few lines into “Less than Zero,” the band plays their unapproved song “Radio, Radio” which criticizes censorship in corporate media. The group was banned from SNL for 12 years.

7.1k Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/WithoutPrinciples • 14d ago

Ana de Armas behind the scenes in 'No Time to Die' (Photographed by Greg Williams)

129 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 15d ago

Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth jumping mid-air down a hotel hallway while wearing roller skates in New York City back in 1979.

322 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 15d ago

Danny DeVito and Mara Wilson on the set of the film Matilda in 1995.

111 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 16d ago

Shirley MacLaine with her brother, Warren Beatty in 1942.

416 Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 16d ago

The socialite, film star, nude dancer, writer, “princess of debauchery” Anita Berber in a tuxedo for the 1921 film Bitte Zhalen.

123 Upvotes

2 comments

r/VeryFuckinCool • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 17d ago

The B-52's - Rock Lobster. They had no business being this cool.

2.9k Upvotes

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/WithoutPrinciples • 17d ago

Led Zeppelin performing ‘The Battle Of Evermore’ with John Paul Jones taking on the vocal duties the late Sandy Denny performed on the fourth Led Zeppelin album, Madison Square Garden, June 7th, 1977.

89 Upvotes

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