Visual Quote?

a scene from Blow Up, 1966

They pass a troupe of white faced mimes in a park playing slow-motion
tennis without a ball, and they stop for a while, sipping hot tea from
a thermos, to watch the intensely contested game.

--Salaman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

As porcupines possess great visual memory, the prickliest would like to point out this equally applies to the daily scene of Hare Krishna playing tennis at Willard Park on a sunny day.

Another possibility from the film version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - although this one is quite a bit less silent, the ball is equally invisible:

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japanese sweets

Amazingly modern traditional confectionary designs

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elusive

don't mind me, i'm just breaking your heart.

Nissan Figaro 1991: possibly the cutest car butt ever. This is what the new Minis and 500s should have looked like. Why take the retro out of retro resurrections?

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the proper station

kaette kita yopparai, oshima nagisa (1968)

In Oshima Nagisa's Three Resurrected Drunkards, a character "becomes Korean" by wearing a Korean military officer's uniform. A sentiment echoed in Oliver Twist:

What an excellent example of the power of dress, young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society. But now that he was enveloped in the old calico robes which had grown yellow in the same service, he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once- a parish child- the orphan of a workhouse- the humble, half-starved drudge- to be cuffed and buffeted through the world- despised by all, and pitied by none.

-- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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paisley & madness

Pola Negri, endangering herself.

Alas, I feel how much even of incipient madness might have been discovered in the gorgeous and fantastic draperies, [...] in the Bedlam patterns of the carpets of tufted gold!

[...] as the visiter moved his station in the chamber, he saw himself surrounded by an endless succession of the ghastly forms which belong to the superstition of the Norman, or arise in the guilty slumbers of the monk. The phantasmagoric effect was vastly heightened by the artificial introduction of a strong continual current of wind behind the draperies — giving a hideous and uneasy animation to the whole.

--Edgar Allan Poe, Ligeia

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Stoic

Just another day at the office for Mr. Lion.

Mr. Lion would teach you a thing or two about effortless style.

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Picking Off The Continentals

John Searle. Father to Us All.

The proper get-up for hunting down philosophers who disagree with you.
cf. Derrida

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1983 In The Flesh

too sexy!

Alla Pugacheva. The diva to end all divas. I will not describe her since words will pale in the brightness of her fluffity-fluff stole (most likely made of dead men).

Here she is performing the classic "Million Roses". The song is about a poor artist who woos an actress by filling the square in front of her apartment with a million roses.

Pfft...

It'll take a lot more than roses to make Alla take a second look at you.

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