Alec Soth: Escape Artist
If there is something lonely and frightening in these images, there is also something dream-like and remembered -- something fed by our own fantasies -- the desire for freedom and safety, the desire to provide for oneself.
If there is something lonely and frightening in these images, there is also something dream-like and remembered -- something fed by our own fantasies -- the desire for freedom and safety, the desire to provide for oneself.
Daniel Will-Harris | Posted 01.01.2012
I suspect, though, that a lot of people go simply because it's beautifully designed, run, and people are nice to them. And, come on, isn't that how the whole world should be: well-designed, well-run, with people nice to each other?
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2011
Long gone are the days of meticulously planned jailbreaks a la "Escape from Alcatraz." There's no need to dig out of jail or swim across freezing w...
Posted 09.20.2011
A career criminal known for his dramatic escape attempts was sentenced to 28 more years behind bars on Thursday. Ronald Tackman, a convicted New Yo...
ABC | Posted 09.14.2011
The young wife of the Washington man who shot and wounded seven in a Tacoma mall in 2005 and orchestrated a deadly failed prison break in June told AB...
AP | Posted 11.15.2011
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- If you're in Buffalo and see a man handcuffed to a chair, call police. They'd like the chair back, along with the guy shackled to it....
Artlog | Posted 05.25.2011
Before the artworld hits its frantic peak, why not delve a bit further afield?
Andrea Chalupa | Posted 11.17.2011
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater gave us a meme we couldn't get enough of. Now that the jokes have been exhausted, it's time to focus on an issu...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
MIFFLINTOWN, Pa. — Authorities say a Philadelphia woman hid in a coffin at a central Pennsylvania funeral home to escape custody. Nicole April K...
Tara Stiles | Posted 11.17.2011
If we can shift our perspective of blowing off steam to get away from ourselves, and our lives to dropping right into them, we can begin to form healthy, sustainable habits.
AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 05.25.2011
BALTIMORE — A man serving three life terms conned his way out of a Baltimore prison with help from his cellmate, an extraordinary escape that ra...
TIME | Tristana Moore | Posted 05.25.2011
In a powerful new documentary titled Natascha Kampusch: 3,096 Days' Imprisonment, which was broadcast on the German public television channel ARD on M...
KDVR | AP | Posted 05.25.2011
DENVER (AP) -- Colorado needs to do a better job of tracking mental patients. That's according to a state audit released Monday examining three of ni...
Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011
How do I unwind? My bio says it all, "Julia kayaks as often as possible on Georgian Bay".
Elizabeth Donoghue | Posted 11.17.2011
I try to honor my mother by my actions. She left her children a note. It says "help each other always." In her honor, I try to be there for my family more than ever.
www.mochiads.com | MochiAds | Posted 05.25.2011
Imagine the ball hooked on elastic. You control a ball on an elastic string. You must avoid tons of different enemies by moving your mouse around the screen. Try to avoid as more collisions as possible having in mind that you manage another end of string.
www.mochiads.com | mochiads | Posted 05.25.2011
Now probably every person knows who Paris Hilton is. She is known for her appearance in a sex tape, her appearance on the television series, for her tongue-in-cheek autobiography, her album "Paris", and her work in modeling. And of cause she is much known for her shocking, antisocial and sometimes scandalous behavior. Some of her tricks even leaded Paris to the jail. Please, help Paris to get out of there!
MochiAds.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Everybody knows that volcanoes are very dangerous and unpredictable. And it is very hard to escape the convulsion of nature when it happens. You can try to do this while playing easy and funny game.
Arthur Rosenfeld | Posted 11.17.2011
Unlike passive varieties of entertainment, the good novel does not leave us numbed up, dumbed down, mentally impoverished, weakened or intellectually dead.
Catherine Despont | Posted 05.02.2012