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Still from Simple Men
(photographer unknown)
“Disaffected suburban cowboys, who might have stumbled out of a Sam Shepherd play or taken leave from a Raymond Carver story, they lurch around laconically, making gnomic remarks which seek to explain the universe concisely.”
From a review by Adrian Gargett
Pilot Wm. C. Hopson, U.S. Mail Service Winter Flying Clothing
Omaha, Nebraska, ca. 1926
(photographer unknown)
“Airplane pilots were celebrities in the 1920s. This mail service pilot posed in an outfit that not only emphasized his suit’s advantages for open cockpit flying and his status as a risk-taking adventurer, but that underscored his masculine good looks.
National Archives, Records of the Post Office Department (28-MS-6E-1)”
The Way We Worked - Photographs from The National Archives
Big thank you to Uncertain Times
Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon
(photographer unknown)
“In Minneapolis, a few years after its release, Bud and Ruth Gordon came to support the success there of Harold and Maude”
Photo via The Unofficial Bud Cort Fan Site
(photographer unknown)
Wildflower Preservation Society, Illinois Chapter, 1902
3 1/2 x 4 inch hand-colored glass lantern slide
Flower Children via The Field Museum Library
Part of the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project
(photographer unknown)
“Beautiful Girl in Red Dress, tintype, ca. 1870”
Photo by Carl Van Vechten
“We always say to scriptwriters and directors that they should look at the original manuscript. There are five manuscripts for each book at least.” They are also taken into the little hut in the garden where Dahl wrote. “I think it’s very inspirational. How do you write an adaptation of anything without seeing the source? Tim Burton burst into tears. When I said to him, ‘Why do you want to make a film of James and the Giant Peach?’ he said, ‘It was the only book that gave me any hope as a child’.”
Liccy says: “It’s very important on both sides. For them to feel the original manuscripts and the way it was written and for us to feel them.” By “us” does she also mean Roald? “He’s still here.” Does she feel him in the house? “Yes, yes, yes,” she says quietly.
Via Times Online: Roald Dahl’s widow, Liccy, recalls her life with the real BFG
Frida Kahlo, New York, 1941
Color print, assembly (Carbro) process
Photo by Nickolas Muray
Dear Deer by Kate Micucci
Watch in HQ here
Music video for LA singer/actress/comedian Kate Micucci
Directed by Raul B Fernandez
Keanu Pence as the Deer
Fionn James as the Hunter
Photo by J.B. Schmidt, 1918
Children of St. Rita’s School for the Deaf, Cincinnati, signing
the Star Spangled Banner.
American actor and director Dennis Hopper on the set of his film “The last Movie”, 1971.
Image by Apis/Sygma/Corbis (exact photographer unknown)
“The Last Movie was actually to be Hopper’s first. Inspiration hit him in Durango, Mexico, during the making of the John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder - ‘I thought, my God, what’s going to happen when the movie leaves and the natives are left living in these Western sets?’ Hopper hoped to make The Last Movie in 1966 but the project fell through when music producer Phil Spector withdrew financial support; his opportunity came in the wake of Easy Rider. Universal gave Hopper $850,000 and total autonomy (including final cut), so long as he stayed within budget.”
Big thanks to the excellent Selvedge Yard
Full article in the Village Voice
