Monday, February 25, 2013

Another Dawn / Imagining a Warmer Future


b&b . Minneapolis, Minnesota. Late February.
over and over, I've spent too much time imagining, waiting for approaching plans. too many destinations, expectations. emphasis on expectations, your imagination fooled you again.  La Rie En Rose. hard when the glasses come off.
too many hours on a road, in a car, in the bubble. 
When I get down, imagination steps in. 
The past then a fantasy, or moment un-remembered.


Naomi Campbell & Christy Turlington. 
Photographer Steven Meisel. "The Face"1990 

Model Lucie von Alten. Photo by Nikolay Biryukov & Styling by Stella Gosteva
“End of a Season” for Fashion Gone Rogue.

Edvard Munch (Norwegian 1863-1944)
Kiss By The Window,1892. Oil on canvas.

Model Cora Keegan photographed by Craig Salmon. 
“White Light” for Fashion Gone Rogue.  

Sleepless. W Magazine, December 2012. 
Image by Mert & Marcus, Modeled by Natalia Vodianova.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

cigarettes & flowers

JUERGEN TELLER Cat Smoking, Hydra, 2012
photographers fan site here juergenteller.tumblr.com 


Carla Bruni

Carline Print Love Card.  (www.liberty.co.uk.)

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Rational Romance?


LOVE NOTES BY CHARLE DARWIN 

An Alternative Approach to Matters of the Heart!


.....this year, an unexpected romantic hero - The Rational Romantic!
Like my father, who had the nerve to brake up with my mother before leaving to India, only to phone back an hour later insisting that she write him a letter outlining the reasons it would make sense for them to be married!! 
...but she did, and MON DIEU it worked, stil married, still best friends, still my heros. 

so instead of Shakespeare
.....

NOT MARRY
Freedom to go where one liked— choice of society & little of it. 
Conversation of clever men at clubs.
Not forced to visit relatives & to bend in every trifle to have the expense & anxiety of children.
Perhaps quarrelling.
Loss of time.
Cannot read in the evenings
Fatness & idleness.
Anxiety & responsibility.
Less money for books.
If many children, forced to gain one’s bread.

- Perhaps my wife wont like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool.

MARRY
Children—(if it Pleases God).
Constant companion & friend in old age.
Better than a dog anyhow ! 
Home, & someone to take care of house.
Charms of music & female chit-chat.
These things good for one’s health.

-My God, it is intolerable to think of spending ones whole life, like a neuter bee, working, working, & nothing after all. No, no won’t do. Imagine living all one’s day solitarily in smoky dirty London House. Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music perhaps.


.....in the end it proved necessary to marry, and according to the history books He loved his wife Emma dearly to the end! 

his notes found here www.darwinproject.ac.uk


HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!


Sunday, February 10, 2013

Be Mine Valentine

Everyone needs a Valentine, Day of Friendship, Day of Love
Its my favorite. Day of the Heart, Not just the Lover

I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU.   I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.    I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.    I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU.    I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.   I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU.   I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.    I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.    I LOVE YOU.  I LOVE YOU.    I LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU.   I LOVE YOU.  

Anthony Gerace, Fig. 20
Playboy Magazine Collage
OH MY! a-gerace.com


You + Me = <3 (the perfect equation!)
...as suggested by Vogue UK favourites-of-vogue/2013/valentines-day

I Love Wildfox photography 

Heart nails? I think so!

Comme des Garçons 
Shirt Ad Campaign Spring/Summer 2010
True Love xxx

Jayne Mansfield in her Pink Palace 
Photos by Life Magazine. 1961

perfect.

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Bath Time Beauties



How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead
Kate Moss photographed by Sante D’Orazio


Roxanne Lowit
Three Models in a Tub, Paris, 1990.
(Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington & Linda Evangelista)
see her cool photo blog here - RoxanneLowit.Tumblr.com



Jean Seberg 
Vogue US, October 1990
Editorial by Ellen von Unwerth
Modeled by Christy Turlington


Cleopatra 
Elizabeth Taylor, 1963


L.A. Afternoon 
Harper’s Bazaar, US, May 1995
Patrick Demarchelier - 
Christy Turlington & Linda Evangelista!


Bubble Bath time for Dumbo!