In memory of Ray Harryhausen. Medusa. (Shot with my SLR, post processed via my iPhone. Model by Ray Harryhausen for ‘Clash of the Titans.’
Scotland → Kilchurn Castle, Loch Awe [by ShootingMrSmith]
I’ve been here - ‘awe’ is an appropriate name…
April 1937 - Edie in her salad days, modeling her intended Spring Fever Frolic white silk sheath gown and blue silk crepe cape (say that 4 times, fast) in the New York Post.
Have I posted this before? I don’t remember…
“…it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it’s not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity…”
A monstrous sea-spider.
Alphonse de Neuville, from Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty thousand leagues under the seas), by Jules Verne, Paris, 1871.(Source: archive.org)
A selection of pages from Siculus Diodorus, Under den Griechen Berhuempesten Gschichtschreibers sechs Bücher…, 1554.
(Source: lhldigital.lindahall.org)
Lindy West, I <3 you so bad….
Lindy West at Back Fence PDX (by Back Fence PDX)
The Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
Published by Michiel Snyders
After Jan van der Straet .
Published in Antwerp .
1611 (after c. 1611)The British Museum
Good-by — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart his life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia!
Gilt silver, enamel, and jeweled bookcover
[Probably Salzburg, ca. 760–90]
Earlier binding used as lower cover on Lindau Gospels, Abbey of St....
Ray Harryhausen, Jason and the Argonauts
R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen. The king of stop-motion animation, he brought fantasy to life. ”Oh man, that’s the Kraken…”
nick nonchalantly describes his feelings for blixa (german tv, 1997)