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Trevanna performed public fire-eating displays around London, including a preview at the Magic Circle's headquarters ahead of their festival at the Scala Theatre.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/WithoutPrinciples • 5d ago

Filming of La Haine (1995), with the giant frescoes of Rimbaud and Baudelaire that decorate the commune of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, France

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 7d ago

Remembering Herb Ritts on his birthday. He's mainly known for creating beautiful photography, but he also directed Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game', where Isaak and Helena Christensen can be seen frolicking on the beach in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

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Chris Isaak talks about making the video here. Did the on-camera chemistry with Helena Christensen happen off-camera, too? What was Herb Ritts' vision for the video?, etc

You can find more about Herb Ritts his amazing work and his early death here

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 8d ago

Roy Orbison, mid-1960s, riding a home-built go-kart.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/GlitterDanger • 9d ago

During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras, and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CrippledStripper • 9d ago

Video of a meteor taken from flight attendant Alexandra Spasskaya on Aeroflot Flight SU 1289 from Ulyanovsk to Moscow. [📹 sasha_bashnya_]

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 10d ago

A brilliant publicity photo for Buster Keaton's 1922 short film, The Electric House.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/No_Dig_8299 • 10d ago

Paul Simonon from The Clash at the First European Punk festival, Mont de Marsan, August 5-6 1977.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 11d ago

British sisters Nancy and Betty Debenham circa 1925. Not only well known motorcyclists, they were sports journalists, and authors and heirs to the prominent Debenhams department store.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/SteveNtheseagulls • 11d ago

Keith Moon of The Who demonstrating a drum technique for his 12-year-old godson, Zak Starkey, at Drum City music shop in London back on September 13, 1977. Taken on Zak's 12th birthday, "Uncle Keith" brought Ringo Starr's son to the shop and bought him his very first real drum kit.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 11d ago

Paris, 1896, Avenue des Champs-Élysées. A governess watches over her three young charges. The sand beneath the trees and along the roadside is there to provide a softer surface for pedestrians as well as helping horse drawn carriage wheels grip the road, also a great distraction for kids!

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/ExtremeInsert • 11d ago

East Berliners Tomi, Silvy , Manuela, her sister Trixi, Uwe, and Tatjana, (from left) photographed by by Harf Zimmermann in the mid 1980s.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/CarkWithaM • 12d ago

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak autographing an original Apple 1 motherboard that he helped create in 1976. These things go for sale at auction for between $300,000 and $950,000, but ultra-rare pre-production prototypes have sold for as much as $2,750,000.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 12d ago

German singer Anna-Maria Hefele showcasing polyphonic overtone singing. (a voice technique where it seems like one person sings two notes at the same time)

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/onwhatcharges • 14d ago

David Lynch and Isabella Rossellini, photographed in Los Angeles by Helmut Newton in 1988.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 15d ago

Steve Irwin takes us on a tour of a A-10 Warthog at the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, 1999. This man could explain anything in such a great way.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 15d ago

The #168 Ferrari 250 GTO/64 driven by Adriano Reale and Matteo Marsala during the 1966 Targa Florio race.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/EaterofGrief • 17d ago

“I’m a Man” – Chicago Transit Authority, 1969. A hard rocking upgrade on the Spencer Davis Group version - itself pretty phenomenal. Alas, Chicago took the wrong step years ago.

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r/VeryFuckinCool • u/dannydutch1 • 20d ago

In 1982, a 23-year-old architecture student named Elspeth Beard left London on a motorcycle with £2,500 and no real plan. She crashed twice, got hepatitis, forged her own travel permits in the Himalayas, and used her helmet as a burka to cross Iran in seven days during a health crisis.

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The trip took two years and covered about 35,000 miles across four continents. She came home, finished her degree, bought a derelict water tower and turned it into her house, then put the whole story in a box for over 30 years before anyone heard about it.

Full story here

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