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  • 18th
  • August
  • 2011
chagalov: Lilian Gish, 1929 -by Cecil Beaton   [+] from npg

chagalov:

Lilian Gish, 1929 -by Cecil Beaton   [+]

from npg

  • 15th
  • June
  • 2011
melisaki: Map of Nowhere, purple variant etching by Grayson Perry, 2008

melisaki:

Map of Nowhere, purple variant

etching by Grayson Perry, 2008

  • 12th
  • June
  • 2011
theclitcut: Jennifer Lindberg of Warpaint - Mia Kirby

theclitcut:

Jennifer Lindberg of Warpaint - Mia Kirby

‘He Gained a Fortune But He Gave a Son’ (1918)

Christopher Nevinson, He Gained a Fortune But He Gave a Son (1918)

  • 11th
  • June
  • 2011
nevver: Puppy Love

nevver:

Puppy Love

low-country: Sofie Muller - Elza; my grandmother on a swing (2009) Looks like Gertrude Stein to me. [Is she waiting for Toklas to give her a push?!]

low-country:

Sofie Muller - Elza; my grandmother on a swing (2009)

Looks like Gertrude Stein to me.

[Is she waiting for Toklas to give her a push?!]

  • 9th
  • June
  • 2011

Hiroshi Sugimoto I

Hiroshi Sugimoto, ‘Hall of Thirty Three Bays’ (Sept 13-Oct 18 1997 at Sonnabend 420 W. Broadway)

attraktor: Rainer Fetting: Van Gogh in der U-Bahn I’ve no real eye for art criticism, but I was always good at playing ‘Snap’ with a pack of cards as a kid.  Quite an uncanny resemblance in the composition between Rainer Fetting’s ‘Van Gogh in Subway’ (1985) and Ford Madox Brown’s ‘Work’ (c.1865). There’s the bank of trees to the right, the oncoming train in Fetting’s, the two well-to-do horse riders in Brown’s, and in both there is a rather crestfallen character to the left margin. In Fetting’s it is Van Gogh being Van Gogh, in Brown’s it is a street pauper figure at ‘work’ selling what hopeless posies she’s gleaned from nearby Hampstead Heath. I think the two characters would have gotten along handsomely (in a disheveled way). 

attraktor:

Rainer Fetting: Van Gogh in der U-Bahn

I’ve no real eye for art criticism, but I was always good at playing ‘Snap’ with a pack of cards as a kid. 

Quite an uncanny resemblance in the composition between Rainer Fetting’s ‘Van Gogh in Subway’ (1985) and Ford Madox Brown’s ‘Work’ (c.1865). There’s the bank of trees to the right, the oncoming train in Fetting’s, the two well-to-do horse riders in Brown’s, and in both there is a rather crestfallen character to the left margin. In Fetting’s it is Van Gogh being Van Gogh, in Brown’s it is a street pauper figure at ‘work’ selling what hopeless posies she’s gleaned from nearby Hampstead Heath.

I think the two characters would have gotten along handsomely (in a disheveled way). 

Sonic Youth The Bedroom (Live) [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Not one of my favourite Sonic Youth songs to be honest, but my favourite song introduction of all time.



Thurston Moore [to audience]: “What do you do when your mom is a skinhead?” 

Audience [to Thurston Moore]: “FUCK HER!!”

Thurston Moore [mostly to himself]: “You write a song about it.”



Of course.

  • Sonic Youth ~ The Bedroom (Live from Irvine, California, 11/3/90). Available on the ‘Dirty Boots’ EP. The song’s a grower too. 
  • 4th
  • June
  • 2011
attraktor: Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin designed by Hans Poelzig, 1929 Expressive but efficient Seductive through contrast Streamlined yet spectacular Weimar Germany, 23rd October 1929, you had the world in your palm…

attraktor:

Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
designed by Hans Poelzig, 1929

Expressive but efficient

Seductive through contrast

Streamlined yet spectacular

Weimar Germany, 23rd October 1929, you had the world in your palm…