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Joshuah Bearman

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Joshuah Bearman has written about CIA missions, jewel thieves, deranged private investigators, aspiring Fabios, bitter rivalry among dueling Santa Clauses, and the metaphysical implications of being the world's greatest Pac Man player. His article for Wired became the movie Argo.
  • Art

Tara Donovan Draws with Pins

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • April 27, 2011
I can’t get enough of Tara Donovan’s work, so I was excited to see a new series of pin placements, like so:
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  • Media

The Newspaper Never Dies

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • April 21, 2011
Even in the aftermath of an unprecedented earthquake:
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  • Humor

5,318,008

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • April 20, 2011
I’m glad there’s a wikipedia entry for 5,318,008 = BOOBIES, and many other entertainments from algebra class:
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  • Other

What Makes a Pigeon a Champion?

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • April 15, 2011
Being shaped like Foghorn Leghorn:
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  • Politics
  • Sex

News from Mexico that Doesn’t Involve Beheading!

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 31, 2011
More kissing in public means change in Mexico.
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  • Politics

Coquette on the Caspian

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 30, 2011
Or maybe the Gulf? Either way, Iran before the Chadoor:
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  • Other

Arachnophobes, Steer Clear of South Eastern Pakistan

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 30, 2011
Because last year’s floods drove the spiders to the trees, which now look like this:
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  • Other

Badass

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 29, 2011
Hideaki Akaiwa used scuba gear to navigate tsunami-submerged city to rescue his wife, and days later, his mother.
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  • Other

Kobayashi Maru

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 17, 2011
Stirring but brief portrait of the 50 Japanese nuclear plant workers crawling in the darkness, exposing themselves to radiation, in desperate attempt to stave of nuclear meltdown.
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  • Video

Beanies

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 16, 2011
Do you miss Beanie Babies? Get ready for a booster shot.
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  • Art

Like Walton Ford, In Photographic Diaroma

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 16, 2011
Simen Johan’s Until the Kingdom Comes:
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  • Art

Simple, Obvious, but Effective

  • Joshuah Bearman
  • March 3, 2011
Photographer Irina Werning recreates childhood photos. They look like this and speak volumes about youth, adulthood, and all that’s in between:
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