This week, Dior unveiled its Fall 2020 haute couture collection by Maria Grazia Chiuri through a short film featuring mermaids, snail women, hunky horned forest creatures, and statues coming to life, directed … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, F. Holland Day
#BornThisDay: Jean Cocteau
"Cocteau In Bed With A Mask, Paris" (1927) by Berenice Abbott, via YouTube July 5, 1889 - Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau: "Life is a horizontal fall." He was a poet, writer, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. While still in his teens, Cocteau began to … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, James Van Der Zee
Public domain June 29, 1886- James Van Der Zee: "Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts. You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see." For several years, Van Der Zee played piano with Fletcher Henderson's band and the … [Read more...]
Social Impak Launches Merch Collection feat. Mike Ruiz’s Iconic Photos
Social Impak- the online retailer that specializes in quality products with social, political, and LGBTQ messages aimed at making our world a better place- just launched is its new summer collection, the Mike Ruiz Collection. Specially … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Cultural Arbiter, Carl Van Vechten
Self-portrait (1921), public domain via Wikimedia Commons June 17, 1880– Carl Van Vechten: "There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer, Margaret Bourke-White
Photo via Wikimedia Commons June 14, 1904 – Margaret Bourke-White: "Different cameras fill different needs." Life was an American magazine published weekly in its golden age from 1936 to 1972. It arrived at my house on Wednesdays and I was anxious to get to the mailbox … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Actor, James Stewart
In Rope, 1948, via YouTube May 20, 1903 - James Stewart: "You have to develop a style that suits you and pursue it, not just develop a bag of tricks." The summer of 1997 was a tough one. The passing of Diana, Princess of Wales was probably the most shocking, but for … [Read more...]
Quarantine Must Watch: A Beautiful Monarch Butterfly Swarm Filmed by a Drone Disguised as a Hummingbird
PBS Nature via YouTube For an episode of a PBS Nature show titled Spy In The Wild that begins airing on May 6, a tiny drone that looks like a hummingbird captures footage of a swarm of half a billion … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Pin-Up Girl, Bettie Page
April 22, 1923 - Bettie Page: "God gave me the talent to pose for pictures and it seems to make people happy. That can't be a bad thing, can it?" Bettie Page Bettie Page was a popular pin-up model and sex symbol in the 1950s who, after her death, became a cult figure. … [Read more...]
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