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Showing posts with label vertue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vertue. Show all posts

Monday, February 23, 2009

Yeah, OK.

perfection
continuing the dangling cigar/ette as prop

More perfection from Jacques Dutronc. OK Patron (1974).
1) Undone double breasted jacket
2) contrasting buttons on the shirt
3) precise pant-length
4) sassy brown pointy shoes breaking up the black suit

But, like a generous, creative enthusiast, he fearlessly makes his Idea an Action; shows himself in peculiar guise to mankind; walks forth, a witness and living Martyr to the eternal worth of Clothes.
-- Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus I:v

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

2 Color Russian Poster

red right hand
Poster for Der Mann im Feuer. See it in its full glory here.

Red, black, and yellowing paper. So satisfying.


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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

"Patrician" is Okay if You're Capucine

nothing in my hands
"nothing in my hands" [in givenchy]


Capucine in Walk on the Wild Side... Icy aristocratic perfection, playing a prostitute. Well, she's not known for her acting skills.


blur
flippant


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Sunday, February 8, 2009

Eyelids

stylish

Hers is the head upon which all
'the ends of the world are come',
and the eyelids are a little weary.

--Walter H. Pater

Describing the Mona Lisa,
but it might as well be Marilyn.


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Saturday, February 7, 2009

Words of Wisdome

Staying young:

"Ah the luxury of floating factors, such is the way of joyful youth..."

-- Saleem Vahidy

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Friday, February 6, 2009

Resistance is Futile

Fiat 500

Oh me? I'm just the cutest car ever made. Don't mind me.

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Friday, January 30, 2009

Happy Smiles

More picture book recommendations for your
adorable Marxist children
available here.

Red Page

This page of mine
Is red in hue.

Red for the sun
and your tie too.

Red banners glow
Upon Red Square,

Happy smiles
Shine everywhere.

--Samuil Marshuk




Samuil Marshak. The Rainbow Book. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1974.

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Onerations and Exonerations

another lovely one from Irving Penn

The word sensuall, as it is used by those onely that condemn them, having no place till there be Lawes governing bad outfits. Of this kind are all Onerations and Exonerations of the body; as also all that is pleasant.

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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Object present

lovely photo, Irving Penn

Of Pleasures, or Delights, some arise from the sense of a handbag Present; And those may be called Pleasures of Sense.

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