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"FacebookPinterest\n\nSean Sullivan of one of our favorite daily inspiration sites, The Impossible Cool, and Russell Blackmore of Sonic Editions (the spot to pick up the very same iconic photography you see on Sullivan's site) have collaborated for the third time on a limited edition set of prints. However, this installment took slightly more legwork. In an effort to snag some of the snaps you simply haven't seen, the pair ventured west to the Getty Archive in Los Angeles. There, tucked in the recesses of a nondescript facade, are more than 6 million prints and negatives of some of film's and music's most treasured names. We spoke with Sullivan about going down the rabbit hole.\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nGQ: Start from the beginning... How'd the collaboration go down with Sonic Editions?\n\nSean Sullivan: Russell emailed me a while back with the idea to put out these prints, and he's been in the business for a while, so he already had the contacts in place to make this happen. Honestly, doing limited prints was something I had wanted to do, but the red tape around getting the licensing was out of control... Russell worked for Getty Images, so we had the in. Our first series of prints did well, so we did another. This time we wanted to change things up a bit.\n\nGQ: So you went to the Getty. As a film/music buff, this must have been like your Graceland.\n\nSullivan: It's pretty insane down there. There are just millions and millions of images, and only like 10 percent of them have been scanned. So there's all these negatives, and they're not in some climate controlled, futuristic vault... it's rows of metal filing cabinets with handwritten tags. We went in with this plan, and as soon as we got there it went out the window [laughs]. There's this one dude down there, Jonathan Hyams, and he knows everything there is to know about these photos.\n\nGQ: Like encyclopedic?\n\nSullivan: You can't even call it that. Jonathan has reached a nirvana state of IMDB knowledge [laughs].\n\nGQ: So you and Russell spend a day down there, shit goes haywire, but you pull these ten great images.\n\nSullivan: Yes. We do ten images for each release, and these ones are special. We found this amazing David Bowie photo from his Thin White Duke phase, and he's got a Gauloise cigarette hanging from his mouth, and his hair was just bright orange. And the outtake from Serpico we found is this amazing shot of Pacino on the rooftop, but not the iconic image from the film. He's standing off to the side, and you can really see the city... that's New York right there! I mean, you can see the World Trade Center over his shoulder. That's probably my favorite one.\n\nGQ: I assume you guys will continue rolling out these collections...\n\nSullivan: Absolutely. We're hoping to do a color collection at some point.\n\nGQ: What was the takeaway moment from this trip?\n\nSullivan: As we're in the elevator on our way out, and after having spent all day with Jonathan, he casually drops that his dad is the one who introduced Yoko Ono to John Lennon. I mean, he's been hitting us with cool stories all day, and now he's waited until we're about to leave to tell us his father had a hand in what would ultimately lead to the breakup of The Beatles? C'mon!\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\nThe latest installment of Sonic Editions x The Impossible Cool is available, here, now. Framed prints start at $109."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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