The Masked Connoisseur

I should vacuum. youtu.be/PkS2xydpLIg?...

Picasso was an asshole

She told Picasso that his portrait of her didn’t look anything like her. ‘It will,’ was his response.

Sailboats on a reach, wind and clouds in a red sky, blue water and Japanese characters.

Matchbox, 3 February

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it.

The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT.

Let's talk about it.

Karen Morley at her most glamorous for RKO’s The Phantom of Crestwood (1932).

"It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices."

Italo Calvino.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

The Cosmati Pavement mosaic floor of the High Altar of Westminster Abbey, London, laid down in 1268

one day these heels are gonna walk all over you

Mary Carlisle - BOTD

I share many things with you here on the internet. But it's not like I share everything.

Holden N. Reserve

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else,

come sit next to me.”

-Gertrude Stein #BOTD

Stein by Picasso, Cecil Beaton, George Platt Lynes, and Picabia

Stumbled across this rather lovely stuff.

Black and white photograph of man standing in front of a stack of sandbags against the wall for men with rifles printed at him stand in front of him there looks to be a priest off to the left photos taken from above from what looks like a second floor window looking down at the scene from a little bit of a distance. Bárdossy where's the Prime Minister who brought hungry into World War II as an ally of Nazi Germany when he was captured after the war it was put on trial and shot

The Execution of Hungarian Prime Minister László Bárdossy — Lee Miller, 1946

Anjelica Huston by Ara Gallant (1976)

I had that dream again

Russian poet-futurist Vladimir Golzschmidt hypnotizing a chicken. 1923

Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress and painter Tilly Losch, in a scene from the show Wake Up And Dream, April 1929

#TillyLosch #ModernDance #Photography

White diamond with CITY in green, arresting design with red background on top half, orange below. A favorite.

Matchbox, 2 February

Photographer Steve Schapiro in 1975, shows David Bowie holding a biography of one of his heroes, silent film star Buster Keaton.

Monday

Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

I discovered an app called Radio Garden, and I've been listening to radio stations from around the world while I work. Today I listened to Energy in Berlin, YLE in Helsinki, Bel RTL in Belgium, and WHTZ in New York. If you have any radio station recommendations, I'd love to hear them!
radio.garden

Number 31 (1950)
by Jackson Pollock

People in 20s movies look a lot more 2026 than people in 50s movies.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

~ Albert Einstein (1949)

#Photography, Albert Einstein on the porch of his home, via the Historical Society of Princeton.

We've been depending on shadows for a 140 years now.

I should vacuum. youtu.be/Vz3VQK60ZhM?...