Patrick JamesEarlier this year, we featured the photography of Noah Abrams, who captured Afghanistan's emerging skateboard culture in dramatic black and white images. Now we look to Orlando Von Einsiedel, who documents the experiences of young skaters in the war-torn country with a gorgeous and intimate short film.
Skateistan—the world's first co-educational skateboarding school—might be the coolest initiative I've learned about this year.
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Click through to see the full map, and read the full story here. Via Times Online. (Thanks, Will.)
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Remembering Pearl Harbor..
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