Photography by Frank Horvat
31 December 2012
28 December 2012
27 December 2012
Trust Your Waitress : Adrienne Shelly's Glasses
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| Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelly in Hal Hartley's Trust (1990) |
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| Adrienne Shelly as Maria Coughlin in Trust (1990) |
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| Adrienne Shelly as Dawn in Waitress (2007) |
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| ADRIENNE SHELLY FOUNDATION |
26 December 2012
21 December 2012
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20 December 2012
19 December 2012
Strangers in Paradise : Jim Jarmusch and Friends
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| Jim Jarmusch |
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| Roberto Benigni and Tom Waits in Down By Law (1986) |
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| Johnny Depp in wire rimmed saddle bridge glasses for Dead Man (1995) |
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| Jim Jarmusch and Winona Ryder |
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| Jim Jarmusch and Joe Strummer |
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| Visit the Jim Jarmusch Research Page curated by Jarmusch Scholar Ludvig Hertzberg |
18 December 2012
Underwater Rescue Mission, Mexican Vogue Scuba Style 1977
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| Modelo usando un bañador de cuerpo completo y espalda descubierta, 1977. |
17 December 2012
14 December 2012
13 December 2012
Log Lady Remix : Twin Peaks 2012
A WOMAN OF MYSTERY LOGROLLS TO FAME (People, April 14, 1990)
Catherine Coulson is a little stumped. She doesn't comprehend the fascination with her Twin Peaks character. So what if she's never seen without a piece of wood, or that she's been known to chat with the timber in her arms? "I don't see her as being unusual," declares Coulson. "A log is such a solid thing to carry."
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| The Lady of the Log by Patrushka |
Coulson, 44, plays David Lynch's oddest cameo character by far, the mysterious Log Lady, an off-kilter Twin Peaks denizen named for the hunk of ponderosa pine she forever cradles. Two early, fleeting Log Lady appearances - mischievously flipping off the lights at the town meeting in the pilot, then insisting to Sheriff Truman and Agent Cooper in the first episode that the log "knows" who killed Laura Palmer-stoked a minicult and made the mystical widow of a woodsman killed in a fire the subject of wide conjecture. (Her mystique branches out a bit this week, when Cooper interrogates the lady - and the log.)
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| by Beth |
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Coulson's sudden fame is as curious as her character, since she's the only cast member who is not a professional actor. She normally works as a camera operator, having abandoned her theatrical calling long ago. But not before planting the seedlings for the Log Lady. In 1972, playing a bit part in Eraserhead (she portrayed the title character's neighbor), Coulson somehow inspired director Lynch: "He said, `When you put on your glasses, I just saw a log in your arms. Someday I'll do a series and you'll play a girl with a log.' " |
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| Twin Peaks / Log Lady Art Print by Sodapop 4 Ponyboy |
Despite the burning curiosity she has aroused, the Los Angeles-based Coulson isn't "quitting my day job." For now, she and husband Marc Sirinsky, a writer, are trying to cope with the demands of her TV fame. Even their 3 year-old daughter. Zoey, has gotten into the act, asking, "Mommy, if you're the Log Lady, can I be the Log Girl?"
Copyright 1990 People Magazine via Lynchnet.com
12 December 2012
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10 December 2012
Monocle Monday 1922
Yanski & Roszika Dolly, aka "The Dolly Sisters", were Hungarian sisters, who moved to New York in 1904 & were discovered by Oscar Hammerstein
07 December 2012
Cat Power: The Enigmatic Art of Tsuguharu Foujita
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| Portrait of Foujita, 1927 -by Madame D’Ora |
His name in Japanese means "field of wisteria, heir to peace." He was the son of a general, a black belt at judo. And in the 1920s—known as Fou-Fou or Mad-Mad—he was the most famous and the most eccentric artist in Montparnasse. He had a haircut modeled on an Egyptian statue and a wristwatch tattoo around his wrist. He wore earrings, a Greek-style tunic, a "Babylonian" necklace, and on occasion a lampshade instead of a hat. (He claimed it was his national headdress.)
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| Woman and Cat, 1937 |
He'd arrived in Paris from Tokyo in 1913 and had soon rented a studio in the Cité Falguière, where Modigliani and the Lithuanian-born painter Chaim Soutine were already working. Foujita was a good cook, I read; he was meticulously clean—he tried to teach Soutine to brush his teeth and to use a knife and a fork. Foujita had frequented Isadora and Raymond Duncan's school of movement and dance (hence the Greek-style tunics). He'd favored the Café La Rotonde, where Trotsky used to play chess, over the Dôme, the favorite haunt of the Fauvists.
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| Foujita, Paris, juin 1957 -by Thérèse Le Prat |
He was apparently an adept dressmaker, courting his future wife, the painter Fernande Barrey, by making her a blouse. (He stayed up all night to do it.) He talked endlessly to Modigliani, the books said, about the traditions of Japanese painting; and it was partly through the influence of Foujita's background and methods—he'd found a way of painting in black on a porcelain-white oil background—that Modigliani became (like Foujita himself) one of the few Montparnasse artists to favor line over color.
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| Foujita, 1954 -by Sabine Weiss |
In 1931 Foujita traveled and painted all over Latin America, giving hugely successful exhibitions along the way. Two years later he was welcomed back as a star to Japan; and he stayed there—through Mady's death in 1935 (probably from drugs)—till 1939, when he returned once more to Paris. He didn't stay in France long, however. The threat of German invasion forced him back to Japan, where he was enlisted as a war artist, first for the conflict between Japan and China and then, after Pearl Harbor, for the war against the Allies. He was only able to return to his beloved France in 1950.Excerpts from Lost Art: The strange life of Tsuguharu Foujita, the toast of 1920's Montparnasse, more successful than Picasso at his peak, and now forgotten (except by connoisseurs of line drawings) by Jo Durden-Smith for Departures (1999)
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| Quai aux Fleurs- Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita |
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| Jil Sander tribute to Foujita |
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| Foujita, ‘Cafe’ (1918) |
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| Foujita - Les deux amies, brune et blonde (detail) |
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Leonard Foujita, Self-portrait, 1926
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| My Dream, 1947 |
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