I had that dream again
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I had that dream again
Wearing white after Labor Day meant you were someone who had the means to have end-of-summer vacations. Wearing your whites beyond Labor Day was just, well … showing off.
The exquisite corpse: the Mad Libs of Surrealist drawing Automatism, a scientific term for movements or actions that we don't consciously control. For artists, the most accessible technique was automatic drawing, a system Freud used to explore the unconscious mind. artuk.org/discover/sto...
#mood
They've got me blocked out for four hours in the torture chamber today.
very few ppl are as talented and fortunate as bill cunningham. but i often think about how he was able to live an honest life doing what he loved because he lived simply. even at the height of his career, he slept on a cot. as he once said, "if you don’t take money, they can’t tell you what to do."
Considered the oldest complete seventy-eight card tarot deck in existence, the 15th-century Sola Busca — named for the family of Milanese nobles who owned it for some five generations — is also one of the most mysterious: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sola-busca
Henri L’Estrange, known as the Australian Blondin, was an Australian funambulist and accident prone aeronautical balloonist.
Henri L’Estrange #funambulist
Henri L’Estrange #funambulist
Good morning!
I had that dream again
Stumbled across this loveliness. Check out the top shelf yellow blind doll with blindfold and walking sticks. What a thing!
Wedding dress? Church with a very wide central aisle, I assume. Not very dignified going sideways
There was a young Belgian named Rops Whose etchings were financial flops He added some corn Satanic hard porn And sold out in all of the shops
I had that dream again
#DebutDazzlers #MusicChallenge Laurie Anderson: Big Science "O Superman" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfp...
Tonight's viewing - "Fresh Kill"
I am DELIGHTED by this hall cosplay from Dragon*Con! THEY HAVE A PEPPER BAR!
Sicilian photographer Ferdinando Scianna Cinema Corso Sicily, 1961 #FerdinandoScianna #Photography
Appearing at the 1954 Chicago Auto Show, the FX-Atmos featured tail fins, rocket exhaust taillights, needle-like radio antennae extending from the front and a glass dome roof.
Manufacturers devised many methods to carry liquor undetected during Prohibition. This leather valise, sold by Abercrombie & Fitch, has a brass stud on the base that, when swiveled, reveals a tiny keyhole. Once unlocked, the false bottom can be opened to reveal three silver flasks. #TravelTuesday
In three weeks reporters will have to wear these into briefings.
#AI won't get you laid.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
me and my brain ever since i can remember:
Murder At The Circus pulpcovers.com/murder-at-th... Covers, Circus, Clown, Magazine, Mystery, Phantom Detective
Etienne Chambaud
Ukiyo-e woodblock, by the late Edo artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), illustrating the legend of the "Sea Monk" or Umibōzu, a spirit in Japanese folklore. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-sea-monk-ca-1845
“Perhaps the hardest thing a juggler has to learn is to see things without looking at them. For instance, when I hold a glass on my forehead, and juggle five hats, I never look at the hats; and if I do look, even for a hundredth of a second, the glass falls." Paul Cinquevalli, 1909
Captain Matthew Webb (19 January 1848 – 24 July 1883) was an English seaman, swimmer and stuntman who became the first person to swim the English Channel without the use of artificial aids.
The Human Volcano fire eater 1890
in the future we were all supposed to be allocated seahorses for daily use in commuting to and from work. what happened?
I could't get you a uber, because they haven't been invented yet, but here's a destrier caparisoned in the finest leather.
No reason at all why you can't have 3 pairs of horses pull in harness while you do your balance exercises, nor reason you must wear a sombre costume for the endeavour.
John Robinson circus performer, 1900
Middle management celebrating your return to the office today
1880's Gus Hill champion Indian club Vaudeville performer
One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/u...
55 years ago this month, Harold D. Craft, Jr. published an intriguing series of pulsar charts in his Ph.D. dissertation at Cornell University. A stacked series of jagged lines displayed incoming radio waves from pulsar CP1919; one of them became an icon. #joydivision
#ToshiroTuesday
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I had that dream again
One day he created a new comic, about what a menace his son was. The comic was a huge success, and Hank now had a fictional family to love. Eventually, Hank sent his son off to boarding school, and separated from his wife, abandoning them both to revel in the success of their cartoon counterparts.
The star of the production number in the Art Deco film, Madam Satan, 1930.
Today is the 273rd anniversary of 2 September 1752, which is significant because it was followed by 14th September. Yes, this was the day we finally changed to the Gregorian calendar, 170 years after Gregory XIII suggested it – and the legend says we rioted about it, wanting ‘our 11 days’ back...
If you peer *very* closely – or look at this blow-up – you can just make out a banner on the floor which says “Give us our Eleven Days”, which a Whig is supposed to have stolen from a Tory campaigner (during a fairly violent altercation, admittedly, judging by his gin-bathed head wound)
I had that dream again
Tonight's viewing - "Macumba"
Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.” Photo: Wellcome Collection, London. #MementoMoriMonday
Labor Day Nicolaas van der Waay, The Strike of the Ballerinas, c. 1936
Jack Mahoney, Johnny Weissmuller. Ron Ely, and James H. Pierce at a Tarzan reunion in Mexico City to celebrate the 91st birthday of Edgar Rice Burroughs #BOTD in 1966.
It's officially September!
Vittorio Gassman in unknown stage production
Q: How should be advertise out martial arts business? A: I know this guy Irving Klaw, who has just the right photo!
#MondayMotivation
New exhibit at my local library. What a lovely thing. Thought you'd enjoy.
#BOTD 1866 – James J. Corbett, American Heavyweight boxer
publicity photo for Gentleman Jim (1942) starring Errol Flynn based on the life of James J. Corbett
Hungary’s most famous ballet stars, Gabriella Lakatos and Ferenc Havas rehearse in London
#MusicMonday
my sister googled "fun things to do in Boston this weekend" and it told her to go sit on Storrow Drive and watch a bunch of college kids peel their rented Penske moving trucks open like tin cans
"The dames I started out with are all batty today. They had their looks and nothing more and now they think they're finished." - Yvonne De Carlo #BOTD Fred Gwynne and Yvonne DeCarlo, 1965
On the first day of the month say “Rabbit Rabbit” for good luck!
Vittorio Gassman #BOTD in The Devil in Love (1966)
Vittorio Gassman in The Devil in Love (1966)
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I had that dream again
What Does J.G. Ballard Look Like? Mike Halliwell ~ Internal Landscapes Images of Inner Space, Illustrating the work of J.G. Ballard Planes Intersect #JGBallard #Ballardian
Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory
As discussed on this week's #FFAA, did YOU save your cereal box cutout records?! Let's see 'em! More at funforallagespodcast...! @franksantopadre.bsky.social
'The Bluebell Girls, from the Lido Nightclub in Paris, perform on suspended platforms above the audience at the Stardust Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.' Ralph Crane, 1958.
What's the point of building a secret passage if it doesn't lead from your spooky library into your dungeon of despair? Bloody amateurs.
"Choose Zippo, for the lighter side of life." The caption says this was the very first art car to appear at Burning Man. If it's not real I'd rather not know. J. Eager Hoover
Cœur d'hélium #DavidLynch #SoLynch
Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours?utm_content=bufferec024&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The National Guardners
Killer In The Corral pulpcovers.com/killer-in-th... Covers, Animal Attack, Magazine, Male, Norman Saunders, Sweats
Japanese poster for Jacques Tati's PLAYTIME (1967) I woulda loved to see a kaiju movie where gigantic Jacques Tati takes on Godzilla and King Ghidorah
I had that dream again
J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: 'Project for a New Novel', his 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature. #JGBallard #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature
I've been thinking of you. But I'm lost for words, so pugs.
Fantastic Comics #1 (December, 1939) Stardust is here to fuck with your heads and have sympathy, and he's all out of sympathy.
The Sleeping Shaman. Preserved human heads for sale on the Shanghai black market. Navvies from the Alishan Forest Railway. Extending the line to Yushan, the Jade Peak, in the misty heart of Taiwan. strangeaeons.substack.com/p/the-sleepi...
Honor Blackman, Richard Basehart, and John Williams Dagger of the Mind, Columbo episode (November, 1972)
When I see oldsters like myself flocking to Pearl Jam revival shows, I realize that we're never going back to the days when everyone over the age of 50 considered rock and roll the devil's music.
This still is from A Go Go '67, a Malaysian musical that has some of the best 60s music you've never heard.
"An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity #ShakespeareSunday
"I'm a jazz kind of actor, not rock 'n' roll." #JamesCoburn
James Coburn and Yvonne Craig in In Like Flint (1967)
”My my my. Wow. You know, I’ve been around here — I’ve been working and doing this work for like over half my life. And I finally got one right, I guess. See, some of them you do for money, some of them you do for love. This is a love child.” James Coburn from his Oscar acceptance speech
Richard Basehart #BOTD and Fellini on the set of La Strada (1954)
Getting the right outfit for back to school is important
Anatomical Study of the Common Fairy by Dan Baines. www.danbaines.com/blog/anatomi...
Paulette Goddard at Casa Monte Tabor in Switzerland, the villa that husband Erich Maria Remarque bought in 1931.
What a hit from Dom!!!! #LFC
