Another round of the exciting British Hair Dresser of the Year Awards. The traditional Candy-Rave Muse of competitions past has been unceremoniously dumped. Is this her new replacement or merely a parvenu? These hair creations are by Efi Davies.
This is a camera-phone shot of an episode of the X-Files, season three. It aired in 1996, about the time I was taking my first-ever figure drawing class in high school. That’s what I would have done too – focus really hard on the important parts like the muscly arms and flowing hair and then just kind of throw the face in there for context. But later, when I wrote about the hot naked model in my diary, I would have spelled the contraction of “you are” correctly. As in, “Journal entry 05/17/96 – You’re such a good drawer”.
Luke accidentally discovered that if you type “haunted doll” into ebay, you will not only find yourself with many hundreds to choose from, but there may be some stiff competition from other prospectors. Best arm yourself with an auction sniper!
It would appear that not only the dolls are haunted. The item descriptions for almost all of the listings have been mysteriously inflated to the maximum font size allowable.
Well, actually I CAN believe I still have this! Given to me by my grandma, it is but one of many cat-motif treasures I have received from her over the years.
This photo, taken by photojournalist Dana Fineman, is from an interesting book, “A Day in the Life of America“, a photo series compiled by Rick Smolan and David Cohen. “[A Day in the Life of America] is a scrapbook of a nation. The color and black-and-white pictures in this book were chosen from almost a quarter million shot on May 2, 1986. No picture is twenty-four hours older or younger than any other.” Totally engrossing. Too bad they couldn’t have waited one more day. My brother was born on May 3, 1986.
Embroidered linen tea towel from the 1960’s.
Still from the 1967 Hammer film, “Slave Girls”. A masterpiece of She-Ra costuming.
IMDB does the best job of summarizing the plot: “Jungle guide David Marchand is kidnapped by a tribe of natives who want to sacrifice him to their white rhino god. Just as he’s about to be killed, however, he is thrown backwards in time to a kingdom of brunette women and their blonde slaves. David rejects the advances of Queen Kari and sides with the blondes, which leads to him being imprisoned in the dungeon. Can David find some way of returning to his own time? And if he does, what will be awaiting him when he returns?”
Film stills are from the excellent collection at Tout Le Cine.
Thanks to Luke, I now own the book I so fervently coveted, “Extreme Canvas” by Ernie Wolfe III. Its awesomeness cannot be described. The glorious collection of full-page color plates are wonderful look at, but even more engrossing are the artists’ biographies and the essays exploring the history of the art form. The book is out of print, but luckily copies are still available here.
