Something I’ve always had trouble with…
[h/t to Editor & Publisher newsletter...]
I love New York…and hipsters…and hipsters in New York…Sunday NY Times is here…gotta go…
Just being ironical…heh…
[h/t to swissmiss...lead in from Steve Layman...who's also seems to be thinking about tattoos...]
“…Armansky’s star researcher was a pale, anorexic young woman who had hair as short as a fuse, and a pierced nose and eyebrows. She had a wasp tattoo about an inch long on her neck, a tattooed loop around the biceps of her left arm and another around her left ankle. On those occassions when she had been wearing a tank top, Armansky also saw that she had a dragon tattoo on her left shoulder blade. She was a natural redhead, but she dyed her hair raven black.
She had a wide mouth, a small nose, and high cheekbones that gave her an almost Asian look. Her movements were quick and spidery…her extreme slenderness would have made a career in modeling impossible, but with the right makeup her face could have put her on any billboard in the world.
Sometimes she wore black lipstick, and in spite of the tattoos and the pierced nose and eyebrows she was…well…attractive.
It was inexplicable.”
- excerpted from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larson
Watched the US version with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara last weekend…just picked up the Danish release and the book today at the library.
Trailer here…
Cueing up the DVD now…
There was a certain kind of voice I listened to back in the 70′s. I wasn’t one for classic poets – no one was there to read me those lines. So like Kerouac, I hitched down the road and picked up images and words along the way.
Leon Russell was one of those singing poets I could sit for. Maybe that’s why I also segued into the raspy tones of a Tom Waits or the written growl of Charles Bukowski.
“I’ve been so many places in my life and time…”
It’s a quiet Saturday morning…
Just received this photo from an old friend I haven’t seen in years. Judging by the peacoat, haircut, and fu-manchu like moustache, probably around the mid-1970′s.
Notice that I was an early adopter of “texting”… heh…
[click on image for full strip...]
“While I photographed Anouk, she talked about her role as Justine. Justine is Jewish. Anouk, whose maiden name was Dreyfus, was born of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. She was brought up a Catholic but had since become Jewish. Because she was immersed in her role as a Jew, she talked about it, and I’m still haunted by two things she quoted. They seemed to say more about her than anything else I experienced with her during the three weeks I knew her on the film.
Quote from Treblinka: “The Jews are prone to anguish but seldom given to despair.
And said by an anonymous Jewish poet: “Till now we have lived with fear, now we can know hope.”
- Eve Arnold writing in her photography memoir, Eve Arnold: Film Journal
Anouk Aimee, on the set of Justine by Eve Arnold, 1968
And another Brunette to fall hopelessly in love with…
Discovered this band on Nan’s blog this morning – and found a session they played with Carlos Santana. Great heartbeat from Tinariwen and a lead from Carlos…
[..and a h/t to Steve Layman for reminding me...]
Paper…ink…I am so there.
2012 National Stationery Show – Javits Center, NYC.
Paper Power….indeed….Kindle that…or not!
[h/t tip for the tip to Felt & Wire...]
