Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you happy all the same.

Is Ken Burns not well known outside the US?

Is his face really that well known in the US?

I thought he was great in Harold & Maude.

More familiar with the Kenny Burns effect tbh

https://files.ekmcdn.com/footycards/images/nottingham-forest-kenny-burns-scotland-250-97269-p.jpg

xpost Do they know it as "the Ken Burns effect"?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 22, 2023 12:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect#Use_by_Apple.

i don't actually know if more people know the name of the effect than know who ken burns is. both numbers are pretty close to zero in the UK.

I know Ken Burns' films, there is a (fre-to-air) PBS channel over here which shows them pretty much in a loop. No idea what the guy looks like though.

Yeah, I guess it makes sense that his face may not be recognizable; unlike, say, David Attenborough or something, he's not in his docs. I realize his stuff is mostly focused on American history and culture, but his brand is so high profile here I guess I assumed his name would be at least a little familiar in passing elsewhere.

I had to look up the pic to see that it was Ken Burns. I knew the other two assholes, obvs.

it's not just that he focuses on american history and culture. people all over are interested in that. it's that he focuses on it in precisely the way that makes it appropriate to invite him to a koch brothers retreat. the overseas market for that is not huge.

ken burns is how i know who mary chesnut is

she looks like this:
https://www.battlefields.org/sites/default/files/styles/squarish/public/thumbnails/image/Mary%20C.jpg

Here's Fred Schneider, August Darnell, and Joey Ramone.

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/380423141_689240946573879_6733012020200262108_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=49d041&_nc_ohc=p1l5XLnfTXcAX_0AUjo&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AfDgvZ8ytloDl6PzOGIMuAuR1psUGJUl2Juktlx32w-ngQ&oe=65129083

That's more like it.

Gracias to peace man for putting nest in instead of expecting us to just know

*names

I doubt I'm the first to say this, but young Ryan Gosling looks eerily like young Macaulay Culkin.

Ken Burns is pretty well known in the UK if you like Serious Telly - I watched the Civil War with my parents as a teenager, and the BBC have fairly recently shown the country music and vietnam series. I’d never recognise his face though.

"Serious Telly" is the best phrase I've heard all day.

Serious Telly Savalas

https://www.liveabout.com/thmb/lKnU2kC4j2i1uzqWZcvGSDBX9mk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)/telly-savalas-kojak-color-5c01fb5e46e0fb000161404f.jpg

Serious Telly

https://s3.amazonaws.com/icptmsdata/a/v/e/r/avery_sid_5_1981_424272_displaysize.jpg

XP Goddamnit

Lol c. Grisso. Someone was gonna get there.

https://prod-images.tcm.com/Master-Profile-Images/TellySavalas.170583.jpg

Danny Torrence and a couple muppets

https://scontent.fhio2-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/387179717_864864485005050_7146567757922299724_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5614bc&_nc_ohc=AX6F6O5bVTgAX89oBnt&_nc_ht=scontent.fhio2-2.fna&oh=00_AfCJfDdpwschzMcwYgO-5wPujrwSCzsWvdWjyXoy0w40lA&oe=652CEB14

looks like Jack already got to Waldorf

Kudos for knowing which one was which!

Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Celebrities including front row L to R Helen Worth, George Michael, Julie Waltesr, Sue Cook, Sade, Danielle Westbrook and Jenni Faulkner attends the appeal press launch and photocall for "The Rainbow Trust" at the Oak Room, Maridien Hotel, Piccadilly (2003) pic.twitter.com/uPRzCTyNj9

— Great British Getty Images (@shitbritishpics) July 6, 2023

this may have been posted at the time, but in case it wasn't

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtU0MPhWQAAdwYG?format=jpg&name=900x900

Cliff Richard, Captain Tom and Russ Abbott(?) for non-UK ILXors.

(xp) Gary Rhodes, Paul Young, Linford Christie, Chris Eubanks, Tony Hadley are also there.

captain sir captain on his final fatal barbados trip, pictured with his smiling assassins

captain sir captain packing some heat in that pic, had he been at russ's viagras?

captain sir captain on his final fatal barbados trip, pictured with his smiling assassins

aka Evil Under the Sun

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_Ft7YpWEAAR5-J?format=jpg&name=medium

Haven't a fucking clue who those people are tbh.

Sammy Hagar on the right, guy on the left looks familiar.

The pizza slice is nice touch.

wise elder Sammy Hagar lecturing Layne Staley from Alice In Chains about Cabo or some shit

I thought maybe it's the guy from Anthrax.

wow wow wow A+

'Listen here my man in the box, stay away from dope! I'll hook you up with my tequila, muy primo...'

double whammy of a twitter post plus not really unexpected but I just really liked this pic

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder laying down rhythm section tracks in the studio in 1981 pic.twitter.com/hEOOEiFjwC

— Bass Magazine (@BassMagOnline) November 29, 2023

https://i.imgur.com/MfRUZ3e.jpg

Photos taken of famous people together that you would never have expected to be together but make you nauseated all the same.

The body language in that photo is instructive, Kissinger is leaning forward and Harrison is leaning back.

https://www.steviewonder.es/images/Prince-Stevie.jpg

Wonder, Prince, McConaughey

baby, everything is alright alright alright, uptight uptight uptight, outtasight outtasight outtasight

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ16X45S_rIeuJ1TgbOzc-VhYnPaTjo41GQbNgkxuqMQRliPviEkOn3wBzWiIhKOq9zmAC8nUcNMkZSyATd5-n5lhCUSxVWCYRCYfxKos8BugO4aTjSs_3jiboF_ghFkOQP3UUHYqVKuc484anOvUvpb8nGtpdta1LLqPbxmw1VI5WwlrsNAi6af1qelc3/s1024/472_8731c4ff9f342e03897723345a49ef09_t.jpeg

Beatle Paul and Chita Rivera

Sorry!

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Carl Weathers & Robbie Robertson from the Goodnight segment to their 1988 SNL episode

https://i0.wp.com/onesnladay.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1-30-1988_1.06.10.00.jpg?quality=89&ssl=1

xp awesome!