Man with Dog, Man with Bicycle

Top: Sigmund Freud with his dog, Jofi

Bottom: Emperor Joshua Norton photographed by Eadweard Muybridge

Elsa Schiaparelli - 1938

Elsa Schiaparelli photographed by John Phillips
Paris - 1938
last one is her daughter, Countess Maria Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor
better known as Gogo Schiaparelli


source:life


Just finished reading "The Show That Smells" by Derek McCormack .
Elsa Schiaparelli is a vampire while her (real life) nemesis Coco Chanel is a vampire hunter.
Wordplay, violence, haute couture, country music.

Alice '03

"The first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll's tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, and was based on Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations."

"With a running time of just 12 minutes (8 of which survive), Alice in Wonderland was the longest film produced in England at that time. Film archivists have been able to restore the film's original colours for the first time in over 100 years."

Found on the TamTam Books blog

Have you seen the new Alice?

Richard Brautigan - 1970

Richard Brautigan - San Francisco 1970
photos by Vernon Merritt
source:life

I read Trout Fishing In America recently and it was great.
Then I read In Watermelon Sugar and it was also great.
If you have any recommendations for other books let me know.

Prints From Old Occult Books

1. "Vision of the Second Coming" page from Sphaera Coelestis Mystica by Johann Georg Hagelgans, 1739.
2. "Cabalistic map" also from the Sphaera Coelestis Mystica
3. "Manifestations of Apparitions" page from Biliotheca Acta et Scripta Magica by D. Eberhard David Hauber, 1739.
4. "Astaroth, Abaddon, Mammon" page from The Magus, or Celestial Intelligencer by Francis Barrett, 1801.
5. "A table shewing the names of the angels governing the 7 days of the week with their sigils, planets, signs etc" also from The Magus


all from Cornell University Library - Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

El Libro Grande

source:life

Illuminations

Selections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy

from the LoC

Edith Wharton

Photographs from the Edith Wharton Collection
source: Beinecke

Portraits

I've been thinking a lot about portraits lately.
Anybody out there feel like modeling?
Nothing too formal...well, actually formal might be kind of fun.


1. Charles Dickens (chillin') n.d.
2. "The hand of artist Georgia O'Keeffe holding one of her favorite stones in her palm." John Loengard - Albiquiu, NM - 1968
3. "Singer Barbra Streisand and others, Marlene Dietrich, Elsa Martinelli, wearing Chanel suits at Chanel fashion show." Bill Eppridge - Paris - 1966
4. "Film director Francois Truffaut (L) with actress Julie Christie (R) during filming of 'Fahrenheit 451.'" - Paul Schutzer - London - 1966
5. "Poet-Doctor William Carlos Williams sitting in his house." Lisa Larsen - US - 1954
6. "Glamorous full-length portrait of movie actress Hedy Lamarr wearing long gown superimposed (probably unintentionally) over portrait of her." Alfred Eisenstaedt - US - 1938
7. "Bebob king, Dizzy Gillespie, a Mohammedan, is bowing to Mecca from his Hollywood apartment." Allan Grant - Hollywood - 1948 (I think they meant "bebop" not "bebob")
8. "General Norstad'S Color Portrait" Howard Sochurek - n.d.
9. "Actress Sophia Loren sitting affectionately with sons Carlo & Edorardo Ponti." Alfred Eisenstaedt - Paris - 1976
10. "Actor Humphrey Bogart hitching up his pants as he walks along dock at the Newport Yacht Club." John Florea - Newport, CA - 1943
11. "Alice Neel, Artists at work" - Alfred Eisenstaedt - 1979