Practice Makes Perfect

It takes two to make a thing go right
It takes two to make it outta sight
 

Hit it!

Enjoy the Silence : Cateyes in Repose

Now It's Your Turn

VOGUE (July, 1950) by Irving Penn

Optician's Window (New York) by Irving Penn

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Get off the computer! Go outside!

Twisty Slide

Three Muses of Rhonel

Advertisement for Rhonel Sunglasses from French Elle, 1967

Hats off to the Groom!

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Christy's Hats now at Hotel de Ville

Stillness and Motion

Déjà Vu, Reja Vu

Eyes of Tomorrow : Pierre Cardin

Space age futurism eyewear courtesy of Pierre Cardin

Flight of the Conchords?

Bret and Jemaine doppelgangers of 1974

 

Emmanuelle in Silhouette Futura 1974

 

Film still from seventies softcore Emmanuelle (1974) featuring sunglasses from the highly sought Silhouette Futura 562 in green.

Jade Vision 1975

Fashion Illustration with indoor tint glasses, Yves Saint Laurent, 1975

Suspicious Women of Vogue 1972

Birds of a Feather

Flower Beard

Photo via newmexico51

Beasties Raw on the Joan Rivers Show

Beastie Boys perform on the Joan Rivers Show, 1986.  The line-up included Gene Hackman, Sally Jessy Raphael, and Mafia princess Antoinette Giancana.

Somewhere in the Tall Grass 1958

Vintage European Vacation photos courtesy of the Huebner Family

Tezuka Osamu : Osamu Tezuka

Will you see the mermaid?

 

Manga legend Osamu Tezuka

And The Bride Wore Aluminum

HDV patron Anna Pearson in her wedding glasses, a beautiful vintage aluminum Tura frame that complemented the silver accents in her dress.

  Photos courtesy of Scrambledaggz Photography

Congratulations Anna & Chris!

Love's Presentation : Hockney 1966

David Hockney first discovered the Greek poet C.P.Cavafy while a student at the Royal Colege of Art in the early nineteen sixties. In 1961 he produced two etchings ( Kaisanion with all his Beauty; Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ) and a painting (A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi - Egyptian Style ) inspired by Cavafy's poems. So when Paul Cornwall - Jones of Editions Alecto asked him to make a series of etchings relating to Cavafy in 1966 he agreed without hesitation.

The poems Hockney chose all related to Alexandria in Egypt with its barely concealed flavour of homosexual love, but Alexandria had become too spoilt since the poems were written in the nineteen twenties and so he travelled to Beirut for two weeks in order to make careful pen and ink drawings of the daily life of the city. On his return he created the etchings which vividly demonstrated his new fascination with observed reality after the more abstract imagery of his Rake's Progress series of 1961 - 63. 

-Excerpt from The Cavafy Etchings, 1967 by Peter Webb

View David Hockney's Cavafy etchings at the TATE online gallery

Make Me Psychic

 

Make Me Psychic by Sally Cruikshank, 1978

View all of Sally's wonderful animated films at laughingsal

Hungry Men