As a photojournalist, Richard Koci Hernandez reached what he thought was the pinnacle of success: two Pulitzer nominations, one Emmy.
Then along came Instagram.
As the tributes begin for Levon Helm, hopefully this great film receives more recognition.
— Bill Russell, during his interviewed on Feherty
I wonder about you cat people….
The Oldest Cat Video of All Time?
This 1894 film, one of the earliest produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria movie studio, features two cats boxing. Obviously it’s not actually a video, but it’s certainly evidence that even at the dawn of cinema, over a century before YouTube, cats ruled the moving image.
But is this the first recording of a cat in motion? That credit, it seems, goes to…
(via theatlantic)