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Lisa Kereszi Finds Beauty In Forgotten Treasures
fashion.elle.com 6 days, 15 hours agoPlastic shark in lake behind sports bar, Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania, 2005. Photo: © Lisa Kereszi, Courtesy of the Artist and the Yancey Richardson Gallery There is something profoundly sad about disco balls. Once a symbol of glamour and excess, the disco ball has been reduced to kitsch,a ridiculous, ersatz object that is laughably out-of-touch. Yet for all its tackiness, it retains something poetic. Disco balls, with their mirrored surfaces, confront us with our own mortality: a reminder that nothing,tr
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Ray Ewry, America's Forgotten Olympic Great
npr.org 1 week, 1 day agoMichael Phelps has won more medals, and more gold medals than any U.S. Olympian. But how many people have heard of Ray Ewry, perhaps the all time greatest Olympic athlete on land? Ewry entered 10 events and won 10 gold medals. That his events no longer exist, and that he won his last gold 104 years ago are what contributes to Ewry's relative anonymity.









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