4 Your Consideration

Alfred Hitchcock’s magic carpet ride

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:35:57 -0400

Alfred Hitchcock’s magic carpet ride

elfentau: ~* An important Viking sword, provenance: Northern...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:58 -0400

elfentau:

~* An important Viking sword, provenance: Northern Europe dating: 10th Century *~

filmrevues: Funny Face (1957) - dir. Stanley Donen There is no...

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:35:47 -0400

filmrevues:

Funny Face (1957) - dir. Stanley Donen

There is no reason to watch this film.

Oh… wait… Audrey Hepburn. That’s the only reason to watch this film.

Oh… wait… Fred Astaire. So, there’s only two reasons to watch this film.

But then there’s the jazz-dancing in the Parisian cafe. And the montage of teaching Jo (Hepburn) how to be a model. And the cinematography is surpisingly delicious. And then Dick (Astaire) sings the title song.

So there’s plenty of reasons to watch this film. It’s not the most compelling story in the world, but Audrey Hepburn is absolutely fantastic and dominates the screen with her presence.

7.8

I would add Kay Thompson and “Think Pink”!

★★★★

bellbookandcandles: Azulejos - Porto

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:10:56 -0400

bellbookandcandles:

Azulejos - Porto

thepieshops: Captain Kangaroo explains modern art to the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:55:59 -0400

thepieshops:

Captain Kangaroo explains modern art to the children

- TV Guide July 6-12, 1957

Photo

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:38:36 -0400

Yes. I remember.

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:20:45 -0400

Yes. I remember.

theswinginsixties: 1968 National Library Week poster

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:51:46 -0400

theswinginsixties:

1968 National Library Week poster

kitschgirl65: Anything can be art.

Sat, 18 May 2013 23:49:46 -0400

kitschgirl65:

Anything can be art.

sherlockianblainer: I give you Detective with Reflecting Sphere...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:50:41 -0400

sherlockianblainer:

I give you Detective with Reflecting Sphere , based on my favourite M.C. Escher’s lithograph Hand with Reflecting Sphere

My little contribution to the letsdrawsherlock project

benskid: Know where you stand.

Sat, 18 May 2013 08:35:19 -0400

benskid:

Know where you stand.

Doris Day in April In Paris (1952) Terrific actress &...

Sat, 18 May 2013 07:29:55 -0400

Doris Day in April In Paris (1952)

Terrific actress & singer. Animal lover too.

cavetocanvas: George Stubbs, A Couple of Foxhounds, 1792 From...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:27:51 -0400

cavetocanvas:

George Stubbs, A Couple of Foxhounds, 1792

From the Tate Gallery:

A Couple of Foxhounds was probably commissioned by the Reverend Thomas Vyner of north Lincolnshire. Stubbs was known to have worked for the Vyner family on his return to Lincolnshire in 1776 and again in 1792. Vyner was an avid sportsman and equestrian, and an expert on breeding hounds. He was a close friend of Charles Anderson-Pelham, later 1st Baron Yarborough, and the two often hunted together at Brocklesby, the Pelham estate. Stubbs painted Ringwood(collection Earl of Yarborough), a portrait of the leading hound in the Brocklesby pack, the same year he made this picture, and the hounds depicted in this work are probably of the same breeding.

It was Stubbs’s practice to paint the foreground animals first, and the background and sky later, painting up to and often over the outline of the figures. His increasingly sophisticated style is apparent if one compares this picture to his earlier depictions of hounds, such as the 1762 Foxhounds in a Landscape (collection Lady Juliet de Chair), in which he posed five dogs in a frieze-like arrangement. Whereas the dogs in the 1762 portrait, equally well-painted, are formally posed, this pair are engaged in almost human interaction.

indypendent-thinking: “Buffalo Bill Wild West Show c. 1907....

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:37:55 -0400

indypendent-thinking:

“Buffalo Bill Wild West Show c. 1907. Juanita and Ethyele Parry, Martha Allen.” The Parry sisters were well-known performers, and Martha Allen was a star cowgirl.

(via Cowan’s Auctions)

cavetocanvas: George Catlin, Ru-ton-ye-wee-ma, Strutting...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:39:32 -0400

cavetocanvas:

George Catlin, Ru-ton-ye-wee-ma, Strutting Pigeon, Wife of White Cloud, 1844

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum:

Strutting Pigeon, Pigeon on the Wing, and Female War Eagle were among the fourteen Iowa who joined George Catlin in London in the 1840s, during the artist’s trip to Europe to exhibit and promote his Indian Gallery. Catlin eventually added the visiting Indians to his show, in which they performed dances and songs. His addition of Native Americans was controversial from the start. Charged with exploiting simple, innocent people in an alien and overwhelming environment, Catlin responded that he was actually rescuing Indians brought overseas by unscrupulous promoters. But his constant addition of new acts, including demonstrations of riding, shooting, and tipi-building in London’s Vauxhall Gardens, undermined his credibility. These portraits of Iowa women were probably painted in London in 1844.

lobbycards: Singin’ in the Rain, Spanish lobby card. Re-release...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:36:24 -0400

lobbycards:

Singin’ in the Rain, Spanish lobby card. Re-release 1975

Submitted by videorecord

Hubba Hubba

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:11:15 -0400

Hubba Hubba

Life of Pi.

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:37:19 -0400

Life of Pi.

vanishing-melody: Life of a penny

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:29:48 -0400

vanishing-melody:

Life of a penny

Vertigo, 1958

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:24:53 -0400

Vertigo, 1958