On December 8, 1980, legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz photographed John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the couple’s New York City apartment for Rolling Stone magazine. Though Leibovitz had intended to shoot Lennon alone, insisted Yoko be in the photograph. At the end of the shoot, Lennon said the photograph of him nude curled around his wife “captured our relationship exactly.” Five hours later, he was shot outside of the Dakota Building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Rolling Stone’s used Leibovitz’s photograph as the cover of the January 22, 1981 Lennon tribute issue and in 2005 was names the top cover of the past 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors.
The iconic photograph can be found in the master-collection Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years.
Wow didn’t know that backstory
We can now officially announce…
Workaholics is BACK with all new episodes on January 16th~!
That means the return of Workaholics Wednesdays as well! Hump Day has never been so appropriately named.
Stay tuned for more details as we grow closer to the premiere of Workaholics Season 3B; Back in Snacktion.
Yesssss
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How do you transport a 234-pound baby to New York City? If he’s a 15-week-old walrus rescued from the open ocean off Alaska, the answer is a jumbo-size crate aboard a FedEx cargo jet, accompanied by a veterinarian and a handler.
“If he’s calm and comfortable, no worries,” said Jon Forrest Dohlin, director of the New York Aquarium, which will receive the walrus calf, named Mitik, on Thursday. “But his needs and comfort come first. So he may very well travel with his head in our keeper’s lap.”
via Orphaned Baby Walrus to Arrive at New York Aquarium - NYTimes.com
Photo: Alaska Sea Life Center
Looks like he had an accident.
