Experience: I am a trauma scene cleaner

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  911 words  |  Kary Bruening

Cian Kelly: ‘I often think about what the client is going through.’ Photograph: Mark Chilvers/The GuardianCian Kelly: ‘I often think about what the client is going through.’ Photograph: Mark Chilvers/The GuardianExperienceLife and styleThe huge crunch we heard when we went into one house was maggots under the carpet I started off selling showers, then got offered an interview by chance for a sales job at a specialist cleaning company. They put me on a cleaning job for two days just to try it out – I was cleaning oil spills, sewage and mould. [Read More]

From Kurt to Elvis, JFK and more, what movies did stars see just before they died?

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1627 words  |  Valentine Belue

Musical connections … Kurt Cobain features on a poster for the last film he saw (Jane Campion’s The Piano), as redesigned by Stanley Schtinter. Photograph: Courtesy the artistMusical connections … Kurt Cobain features on a poster for the last film he saw (Jane Campion’s The Piano), as redesigned by Stanley Schtinter. Photograph: Courtesy the artistFilmFor Franz Kafka, it was The Kid. For Stanley Kubrick, it was the trailer to Eyes Wide Shut. [Read More]

Joe Jackson obituary | Pop and rock

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1331 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Pop and rockObituaryJoe Jackson obituaryFather who single-mindedly drove the Jackson family to musical superstardomHad it not been for Joseph Jackson, who has died aged 89, the world would almost certainly never have experienced the pop music phenomena of the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson, nor seen the success of La Toya Jackson and Janet Jackson. As the father of this remarkable brood of talented children, Joe raised them and guided their careers with unbending single-mindedness. [Read More]

My plane crashed in the Andes. Only the unthinkable kept me and the other starving survivors alive |

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  23 minutes  |  4841 words  |  Aldo Pusey

‘I remember the clear, beautiful faces of my friends’ … Nando Parrado and fellow survivor Carlos Páez Rodríguez greeted by Páez’s father. Photograph: Sipa/ShutterstockIn 1972, Nando Parrado was travelling with family and friends when his plane went down in the mountains. What followed was months of horror, ingenuity – and incredible sacrifice by Chris GodfreyAll Nando Parrado remembers is a deep black hole and one recurring thought: “I’m dead. I’m dead. [Read More]

Twenty photographs of the week | Artanddesign

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  42 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The continuing war between Israel and Hamas, COP28 in Dubai, snowfall in Zurich and the Wildlife Photographer of the Year: the last seven days, as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists

Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing

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W Eugene Smith, the photographer who wanted to record everything

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2173 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

The ObserverPhotographySmith took many famous pictures, but also taped hours of audio of jazz greats, writers and artists of the day in his New York loft. A new book explores his strange world In April 1977, the photographer W Eugene Smith sat in a wheelchair in 23rd Street in New York and oversaw the loading of his vast archive into two removal trucks by a team of young volunteers. Among material carried out of his loft and transported to the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona were several hundred thousand photographic prints and negatives, hundreds of notebooks filled with his writings, boxes of cameras and accessories, 25,000 LPs and 8,000 books. [Read More]

Alexander Zverev outlasts Jannik Sinner in US Open epic after fan ejected for slur | US Open Tennis

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1133 words  |  Aldo Pusey

US Open Tennis 2023 This article is more than 4 months oldAlexander Zverev outlasts Jannik Sinner in US Open epic after fan ejected for slurThis article is more than 4 months old12th-seed German wins late-night match 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3Zverev says spectator used ‘most famous Hitler phrase’Alexander Zverev didn’t win Monday’s fourth-round showdown with Jannik Sinner so much as survive it, outlasting the sixth-seeded Italian in a punishing five-set epic to reach the US Open quarter-finals for a third time. [Read More]

Experience: my face became a meme

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  839 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

András Arató: ‘It looked as if I was smiling through the pain.’ Photograph: Bela Doka/The Guardian. Thanks to the Three Corners Hotel Anna Superior, BudapestAndrás Arató: ‘It looked as if I was smiling through the pain.’ Photograph: Bela Doka/The Guardian. Thanks to the Three Corners Hotel Anna Superior, BudapestExperienceLife and styleMy wife hated Hide the Pain Harold – until I got paid for a Hungarian TV commercial Nine years ago, I did a reverse image search on a photograph of me and was shocked to discover it had become a meme. [Read More]

GoldieBlox agreed to pay $1m to charity in Beastie Boys settlement | Technology

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  522 words  |  Kary Bruening

Technology This article is more than 9 years oldGoldieBlox agreed to pay $1m to charity in Beastie Boys settlementThis article is more than 9 years oldArgument over 'fair use' of Girls song ended in March with deal to donate to STEM education for girls In March, the Beastie Boys reached a settlement with the US toy company GoldieBlox over the latter’s parody of their song Girls in a viral advert. Now the details of that settlement have been published. [Read More]

Pachycephalosaurus: Jurassic Worlds racist dinosaur

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  395 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

ShortcutsJurassic WorldIt’s pachycephalosaurus, not ‘pakisaurus’, but that hasn’t stopped some people taking offence at the tiny-brained lizard with the thick, scaly head Age: Extinct, since the Late Cretaceous. Appearance: Thick-headed dinosaur, hence the name, which means “thick-headed lizard”. Thick-headed as in stupid? Well, they weren’t clever, but it’s really because they had spiky, domed skulls to protect their tiny brains. They’re dinosaurs. What else are they like? Socially aggressive, accidentally racist. [Read More]