I have so many feelings

retrogasm: Witches’ Sabbat in Paris, ca. 1910

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:44:36 -0400

Witches’ Sabbat in Paris, ca. 1910

Packing panicking packing panicking. My parents keep staring at...

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 12:24:26 -0400

Packing panicking packing panicking. My parents keep staring at me and tearfully smiling as if I were on my deathbed. I almost cried in an outlet mall yesterday. Need to get to Ukraine before self-destructing stat stat stat stat stat.

Henri Matisse and model by Man Ray, 1928

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:54:51 -0400

Henri Matisse and model by Man Ray, 1928

erinbird: I’m really happy how this turned out. We only...

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:30:54 -0400

erinbird:

I’m really happy how this turned out. We only practiced the song a couple times before recording this version.

Lovin’s For Fools cover - Isaac Bloom, Erin Vogel, Amy Lipman

Haunting & lovely - nicely done, friends!

Obsession developing with Lorado Taft, turn-of-the-century...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:40:23 -0400

Solitude of the Soul

Fountain of Time

Fountain of the Great Lakes

Obsession developing with Lorado Taft, turn-of-the-century Chicago sculptor. I’m already attached to that era in Chicago - even as a kid, the city always presented itself to me in a series of art nouveau lines, slender figures, and geometric shapes. But just LOOK at these… at the risk of stating the obvious, look how much feeling’s in the stone!!

I’ve seen his sculptures in and around the Art Institute, and loved them for years, but I’d never connected them with their sculptor. A couple weeks ago I was so, so excited when I found a hallway of the Harold Washington library devoted to photos of his work. Check it out if it’s still there!

Oh, and look what I just found - thanks, Eight Forty-Eight: http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=41664

experimentalbeard: (via wordpainting)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:57:23 -0400

experimentalbeard:

(via wordpainting)

wordpainting: victorielisa: amyyy: Annie Hall (Woody Allen...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:56:50 -0400

wordpainting:

victorielisa:

amyyy:

Annie Hall (Woody Allen 1977)

(paperbrigade & woodyallenscenes)

Bright Star

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:01:54 -0400

Bright Star

Must find a deck of these gorgeous Ukrainian playing...

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:59:42 -0400

Must find a deck of these gorgeous Ukrainian playing cards… (thanks for tipping me off about these, Chris!)

Photo

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:10:07 -0400

“Don’t hold it, behold it, it’s not yours or...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:28:03 -0400

“Don’t hold it, behold it, it’s not yours or mine”…

Haven’t listened to Josephine Foster for the past couple years for fear of nostalgia quicksand. Not only am I pleased as punch to revisit her gorgeously ghostly folk, I find that she is… totes my new fashion icon.

oldbookillustrations: - Madam, a respectable woman has her own...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:39:12 -0400

oldbookillustrations:

- Madam, a respectable woman has her own lovers, she doesn’t take someone else’s!
- Madam! Madam, if I didn’t respect myself, I’d beat you to a pulp!

Illustration by Paul Gavarni, from his series Carnival in Paris. From Le Diable à Paris (The Devil in Paris), vol. 2, collective work, Paris (Hetzel) 1868.
Via archive.org.

Oh, snap.

You can sleep in my bed for ever

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:14:00 -0400

Please, please let me know if you / anyone needs a place in Chicago. I’ve been living with this lovely subletter named Aldo the past few months, and he wants to stay on here, but is having trouble finding a roomie.

My place here, if you haven’t seen it, is really a great deal. Inexpensive, spacious, on a tree-lined street in Andersonville/Edgewater, right by the train. I’ve loved living here. Plus I want to leave some furniture here that I won’t need in Ukraine, like my bed, so just think of it, you can cuddle my ghost!

Obvi this is last minute, but it would makes things hella lot easier for Aldo, and for me, because then I wouldn’t have to haul as much shit. THANK YOU, over and out.

"I liek my teacher and I liek to eet peezza."

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:56:37 -0400

“I liek my teacher and I liek to eet peezza.”

- Ghada, the 6-year-old daughter of the family I’ve been tutoring. A lady of simple tastes! I’m going to miss all of them so much.

experimentalbeard: queering: one more:Biederer

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:04:10 -0400

experimentalbeard:

queering:

one more:Biederer

I’m so in love with all these beautiful lady farmers &...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:00:23 -0400

I want to hug you.

I want to hug those lambs!!!!

Color color color

Wow. You are all so effin' tough.

I’m so in love with all these beautiful lady farmers & COLORS, from all over the world: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/10/female-farmers.html

itoodislikeit: laughingsquid: Ultraviolet light reveals how...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:56:00 -0400

itoodislikeit:

laughingsquid:

Ultraviolet light reveals how ancient Greek statues really looked

Answer: kitschy and gay as all get out. How fascinating.

Indeed!! (Wait a sec, I totally had tights just like those when I was 13…)

oldbookillustrations: Bon voyage. Francisco Goya, Caprichos,...

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 09:14:49 -0400

oldbookillustrations:

Bon voyage.

Francisco Goya, Caprichos, from Le peintre-graveur illustré (The painter-engraver illustrated) Vol. 14, by Loÿs Delteil, Paris, 1922.
Via archive.org.

What a friend we have in Jesus

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:12:39 -0400

Dinner with Amy tonight at Lulu’s, where my most favorite baker Jesus works his night job. I hadn’t seen him in a couple of months since I quit the bakery, and he gave me one of those manly-friends-hugs (shake hands while patting the other person gruffly on the back). As we finished our dinner, our friend Isaac brought over the MOST RIDICULOUS BROWNIE SUNDAE: coconut ice cream on top, with chocolate & carmel sauces and powdered sugar. “Jesus said to bring this to the ladies.” What a guy - I guess we have the kind of bond only working at Sugar & Spice can seal.

(via experimentalbeard)

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:17:31 -0400

(via experimentalbeard)