Recently, Sean Connery died. He was 90. But somehow it still seemed like a horrible shock. Just one more piece of bad news in a year filled with it. Of all the times we needed […]

Recently, Sean Connery died. He was 90. But somehow it still seemed like a horrible shock. Just one more piece of bad news in a year filled with it. Of all the times we needed […]
I’ve already written about how some of my attraction to Godard is purely superficial. The look of them. The actors and actresses. The sheer cool factor. There’s more to them than that, obviously. But to […]
My taste in fiction tends to be dark. As in, Orwell’s 1984 is one of my all-time favorite books. Never has anyone captured the tools of surveillance, tribalism, misinformation, and psychological manipulation by those with […]
I wanted to do another holiday related Christmas post. I thought of several very specific topics but decided against doing those. Instead, I’m going totally random. Weird, heartwarming, scary, depressing, nostalgic, cute, sexy, mean, commercial, […]
William Klein is considered on of the most influential photographers of all time. During the 50’s and 60’s he created a name for himself in both street and fashion photography. Nobody had seen anything quite […]
Things were different back then. The Twin Towers still stood tall at the tip of Manhattan. Brooklyn was more dangerous than hip. Trump and Giuliani were New York names but largely unknown to the rest […]
Man Ray was a Surrealist and a major contributor to the Dadaist movement. He worked in several media and actually considered himself, primarily, a painter. This is just a very small, random, collection of his […]
Dark. Disturbing. Violent. Women as victims. The photos of Guy Bourdin often make people uneasy. Especially, given that these were commercial, fashion, photos that appeared in the pages of Vogue or in ads for Charles […]