Andromaque, je pense à vous!

Semper Augustus

Big Bambú

Have. Want. Need. vol. XIX

Cloth-bound Penguin Classics, designed by Coraline Bickford-Smith.

Especially: Crime & Punishment

the hours of catherine of cleves.

a collection for nichols.

Margaret Mead Film Festival Opening Night.

Ako Sa Varia Dejiny, Cooking History, dir. Péter Kerekes (2009)

R.I.P. Nancy Spero

Have, Want, Need, vol. XVIII

Pair of Ladies Shoes (printed silk fabric & leather), c. 1914. Wiener Werkstätte

Painlevé.

a few months ago, criterion released a collection of 23 films by Jean Painlevé. i purchased them for daniel's birthday recently & we watched them this past weekend during a rainy day in the Catskills. the films were certainly worth the wait.

Painlevé's guidelines:

1. You will not make documentaries if you do not feel the subject.
2. You will refuse to direct a film if your convictions are not expressed.
3. You will not influence the audience by unfair means.
4. You will seek reality without aestheticism or ideological apparatus.
5. You will abandon every special effect that is not justified.
6. Trickery will be of no use unless the audience is your confidant.
7. You will not use clever editing unless it illustrates your good intentions.
8. You will not show monotonous sequences without perfect justification.
9. You will not substitute words for images in any way.
10. You will not be content with “close enough” unless you want to fail spectacularly.

japan.

Ninagawa Company's Titus Andronicus.




issey miyake


samurai


this makes me think of Givenchy Haute Couture FW2009


samurai pants by ExtraSkinny


yamantaka eye

the summer of death continues...

so i just returned from a weekend in the Catskills (photographs forthcoming). i open my computer this morning in an attempt to reconnect with the hustle bustle & this is what i see:

NY Times: Merce Cunningham Dies Sunday

farewell, bausch.

pina bausch succumbed to cancer yesterday, less than one week after diagnosis.
definitely one of the women to be admired.

thinking of this on the sabbath.

velázquez. old woman frying eggs. 1618.

marcus ohlsson.

gianluca fellini.

i cannot wait.

9 December 2008.

The Language of Love in the Italian Renaissance
Philippe de Montebello
Isabella Rossellini

Poetry and art were inextricably linked in the Renaissance, and never more so than when the subject was love. Artists were inspired by the language of Boccaccio, Petrarch, Pietro Bembo, and Pietro Aretino, and poets in turn looked to the ravishing paintings of Botticelli, Palma il Vecchio, and Titian for their imagery. Metropolitan Museum Director Philippe de Montebello and actress Isabella Rossellini will read in Italian, English, and French from great love poems and dialogues on the nature of love, as well as from the immensely popular bawdy verses of the period.

i loved dancing the odette variation.

a votre avis

and svetlana zakharova (of bolshoi, of course) does it best.

is nothing sacred?

new balance unknown pleasures trainers by dylan adair. [one of one]

perfekt sommer Foto.

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