Here are some classic vintage mugshots of “all round thieves,” “warehousebreakers” and “bad characters” from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums via the World’s Best Ever. Their general olde timey-ness is amusing, but the fanciful descriptions of their “marks” are fascinating: “Heart, clasped hands, Ture Love, Evelyn;” “extensively tattooed forearms and hands;” “8 dots tatt. left forearm;” “blue dot between thumb and forefinger rt. hand…” There are also invisible marks of the non-ink variety, like various missing appendages or the “scar on chest” of the one bent over in unremorseful laughter. That one would enjoy his posthumous pseudo-fame.
These types of Australian mugshots resurface once in awhile, but this batch of face / full body diptychs is the most gorgeous set I've ever seen. They were shot in the '20s and discovered in '89. They're actually 4-by-6-inch glass plate negatives. That means one giant bulky camera and lots of…
A police department in North Miami Beach made headlines last week when it was discovered they were using mugshots of black men for target practice. Now, some unlikely meme-creators are trying to break the internet with a Twitter protest campaign. The #UseMeInstead campaign was started on a Facebook group for Lutheran clergy.…
In the above video, Jan Schekauski the human crawls around on the floor while Dasha the rhesus macaque crawls around on his back. Also, Dasha has paint all over his or her little monkey-hands, and so Jan gets paint all over his back. Then, Jan gets a tattoo of the marks Dasha…
