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.: visionaries: tim walker

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Tim Walker's evocative images are full of textured nuance and intriguing detail. Stunning sets and lavish locations juxtapose the everyday with the absurd and the fabulous, to create captivating, original photographs. Walker loves turning "funny daydreams into funny photographs," adding that he lives much of the time in an imaginary world, a world rooted in real-life and memory, specifically the British countryside of his childhood. How does he pull off such elaborate productions? Center for book arts.

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.: leonard cohen: you're our man

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Leonard cohen: you're our man. This evening, Leonard Cohen will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. My reaction? I love this line from Cohen's Anthem. It may just be my favorite lyric. Ever. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. I recently discovered a remark that Cohen made about this bit of his poetry: That’s the closest thing I could describe to a credo. That idea is one of the fundamental positions behind a lot of the songs. Late Night with Dave. Love the...

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.: true nature

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Birds’ nests are ephemeral, often abandoned once the young have fledged. But the sheer ingenuity of these miniature marvels of architecture is as durable as the impressions left by San Francisco photographer Sharon Beals. Who captures them in their lasting glory. And how nice to see sharon getting some exposure here! May 3, 2008 at 2:17 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Center for book arts. View my complete profile.

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.: vivienne in pink

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Vivienne Westwood, arguably the most influential British fashion designer of the twentieth century, revels in incendiary provocation and a defiance of convention, but nonetheless finds beauty and inspiration in the past. This apparent contradiction, to attempt to upset the status quo while clearly having a consciousness of tradition and history, made Westwood the most representative designer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute's 2006 exhibition AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression ...

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.: a man's castle is his home

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A man's castle is his home. Several years ago, Kohle Yohannan was riding his motorcycle through Yonkers and passed what appeared to be a castle. He circled around, found his way to the property, and began trying to get in. For months, he knocked on the door and left notes. Yohannan told New York Magazine. 8221; says Yohannan. And his wife gave classes there when they owned the castle in the late thirties—and they left behind trunks of Diaghilev-era costumes that Yohannan stumbled on in the attic.

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.: holi: spring arrives in india

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Holi: spring arrives in india. The Inimitable Persephone of What Possessed Me. And Sarah the Intrepid of Passementerie. Are two of my most favoritest, most fantacularly well-traveled blogging comrades. Sarah is journeying through India right now - having recently overcome a combination of formidable in-country lodging and weather and physiological challenges. Follow her here. The other day, Sarah got me thinking more about Holi, India's festival of color, when she left this comment on another post:.

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.: dianamuse feature: yellena's temple and allusion

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Dianamuse feature: yellena's temple and allusion. If you haven't met Yellena James, allow me to introduce her to you. Yellena is a 29-year-old artist who lives on the Central Oregon Coast with her musician husband and two cats, Masha (good kitty) and Fisher (bad kitty). Yellena explores flow, movement and organicity in her extravagantly fanciful creations. She loves to invent new relationships between shapes and colors from those that exist naturally. How and why did you make it? Pens, inks, markers, goo...

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.: antea: beguiling, strange beauty

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Antea: beguiling, strange beauty. Was painted in the early 1530s by Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino (1503–1540). This captivating painting is on view at The Frick. Through May 1. While there is no known evidence definitively linking the woman Parmigianino depicted to a specific person, her identity has been the cause of speculation for centuries. Holland Cotter notes in his Times. Of Antea: A Beautiful Artifice. More from Holland Cotter's review. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).