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A tour through one of the most influential years in America, with Steven Spielberg, E.T. the beginnings of rap, hip-hop, and break dancing, arcade video games, home video games, $99 personal “computers,” 44 channels of cable TV, a major recession, the unveiling of the Vietnam Memorial, the first word processor used by Steven King which costs $12,000, fads that are returning today – such as the Smurfs and 3D glasses for TV, and finally one of the worst cars ever made by General Motors which directly led to their bankruptcy in 2009.

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All photos by Steve Jessmore

Best of the shots I’ve taken in Flint Michigan.

Feels soooo good!

You can use these with your DSLR camera, which is what I use to shoot movies. It’s all about the glass, folks, and these Zeiss CP.2 Compact Prime lenses have quite a nice glass!

The last new car dealer, Applegate Cheverolet, in Flint Michigan. Amazing photo of the sign, which dates back to the 1950′s Source: Flint Expatriates

The New York Public bathhouse on E. 11th Street between Avenue A and Avenue B has a cool back story to it.

Photographer Eddie Adams (probably best known for the Vietnam-era photo of the man getting shot in the head) bought this bricked up abandoned space in the 80′s early 90′s when Alphabet City was known as the heroin capital of America. It was a huge risk. It took years and a lot of borrowed money, but he renovated it and began shooting in it. Eddie is known for some of the most memorable photographs of all time (the one of Louis Armstrong is my favorite).

Here’s a quick look inside Bathhouse Studios, as its called now, in a scene from the DVD An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story. That’s Rod Steiger in the video (he died in 2002). The clip begins with a setup by former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett – a friend of Adams – on how Adams came to find and purchase the abandoned space.

Adams himself died in 2004, but the studio lives on today…

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A Gulfstream jet has slammed into a BP refueling truck on the runway. The driver of the truck is OK from what I know. Still, the sight made me chuckle a bit. Take that BP!

One photo tells it all. My guess is that this will change filmmaking forever. Price point is around $1,000, shipping late summer.

Watch the video of it in action.

Photo by Tom Ackerman.