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Hilarious Tumblr: Dads on vacation

Dads on Vacation is a hilarious Tumblr devoted to real life examples of the Hollywood archetype of the “Vacation Dad” (as embodied by Chevy Chase in films such as the National Lampoon’s VACATION series). While we may all cringe with embarrassment at seeing our parents hold silly poses next to statues, we get a laugh looking at other people’s dads wearing their brightest Hawaiian florals (and sometimes too-short shorts that scream “I’m not working right now!”) act foolishly and behave like children. And as someone who already enjoys mimicking sculptures and jumping photos, these dads are an inspiration for the future dad in me a hundred years from now. The one dad that refuses to partake in theses shenanigans is High Expectation Asian Father.

“The New York Times Magazine Photographs” goes beyond celebrity

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Celebrity portraiture can seem like an easy way for a photographer to make a buck, and maybe that’s what makes it so challenging – to do something new and exciting in such well-trodden territory. Kathy Ryan, the director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, is such an avid proponent of the “good” celebrity portrait that she wrote a book on the subject, “The New York Times Magazine Photographs,” a “wonderfully heavy” tome out next month, the result of six years of research poring through 1,700 issues of the magazine.

FANTASTIC MR. FOX

Finally, a film that lives up to the hype. Not only is FANTASTIC MR. FOX thrilling to simply look at, I think even hard-core Roald Dahl fans will appreciate the liberties Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach (SQUID AND THE WHALE, MARGOT AT THE WEDDING) took with the story. While it’s not clear what they invented and what they took from Dahl’s original notes, the events in the book occupy the middle of the film with added backstory in the beginning and a more involved and complete ending.