So a friend of mine got kicked off Facebook for god knows what, too much body exposure? Same old bullshit. Can’t they discern between individual artists sharing their work and porn advertisers on the hustle? Idiots. Anyway, his name is Ron Athey, and he’s an amazing artist, and I’m a big fan! (I’ll be doing […]
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I watched the first two seasons of “Girls” and while I enjoyed many moments in the writing – when delivered well, the dialogue could be slyly caustic, a sign of a well-honed sense of humor. There was an overall verbosity though that drove me nuts. With the exception of Shosh and Adam, the characters are […]
I’ve been really into the fashion/editorial work of photographer, Ali Mahdavi, lately. He’s Iranian, Paris-based, and used to be an apparel design for Thierry Mugler. His self-portraits are interesting too as he’s got a striking look..So here’s a mish-mash of some images I’ve collected that I like. Tweet
“Lower class prostitutes in Weimar Germany, 1920′s” (that’s all the info. that accompanied this Google searched image….Hate not crediting a photo, don’t understand how people can steal photographs that have attribution) Fascinating article I have my students read every year as we discuss the Weimar era “New Woman”. I highly recommend it. Here’s an excerpt […]
Happy Birthday, Albert Camus! 100 years old today…a centenarian. I memorized this phrase from The Plague, 1947, years ago for some reason, (its tautological veracity, I suppose): “There is a terrible cogency in the self-evident”, and well there is, isn’t there? You can read the book free online here! Given its meditations on mortality and […]
