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hellolittledaisy: villar0sie: Original 1930s shot which was...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 20:26:43 -0400

villar0sie:

Original 1930s shot which was used for Blur’s ‘Leisure’ album cover

from @blurMusic on twitter.

THE COLORS

So. Cool.

prepologist: Aesthete’s Retreat

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:32:04 -0500

prepologist:

Aesthete’s Retreat

neitherlandish: William Morris, Blackthorn, 1892.

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:29:15 -0500

neitherlandish:

William Morris, Blackthorn, 1892.

Aubrey Beardsley

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:22:17 -0500

Aubrey Beardsley

damonalbarn: Damon’s modeling video for Umbro’s Faces of...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:12:06 -0500

damonalbarn:

Damon’s modeling video for Umbro’s Faces of England campaign

Imagine my disappointment at 3:57. Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing...

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:39:32 -0500

Imagine my disappointment at 3:57. Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version? LIES.

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Mon, 26 Nov 2012 23:52:03 -0500

This is going to be my Thanksgiving playlist while I write about...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:37:01 -0500

This is going to be my Thanksgiving playlist while I write about miniature portraits and eat tofurkey sandwiches! Cilla, Dusty, Sandie, Francoise, Marianne, and Helen= motivational.

silentintertitles: From The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:08:34 -0500

silentintertitles:

From The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

The new(ish) Tame Impala album is pretty rad.

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:38:12 -0400

The new(ish) Tame Impala album is pretty rad.

prolidepp: Coney Island at night 1904

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:40:25 -0400

prolidepp:

Coney Island at night 1904

“This is for rainy, wet grey days. I think”

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:34:00 -0400

“This is for rainy, wet grey days. I think”

booksnbuildings: Art Nouveau architecture from Riga, Latvia....

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:02:44 -0400

booksnbuildings:

Art Nouveau architecture from Riga, Latvia. UNESCO World Heritage.

According to UNESCO, “it is generally recognized that Riga has the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe.” Walking around the streets of Riga gives one a pleasurable taste of what living in an art nouveau world would have been like.

(photos by dalbera)

Simulation of a spinning zoopraxiscope by Eadweard Muybridge,...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:33:32 -0400

Simulation of a spinning zoopraxiscope by Eadweard Muybridge, 1879

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Fri, 10 Aug 2012 23:00:02 -0400

The moon sings.

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 22:52:25 -0400

The moon sings.

theloudestvoice: There’s a new score for The Lodger being...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 11:35:40 -0400

theloudestvoice:

There’s a new score for The Lodger being released on CD/iTunes July 23, composed by Nitin Sawhney and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. Watch the trailer, it is perfection.

(via @silent_london)

Gold Leaf Studios: The Whistler Frame

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:25:02 -0400

Gold Leaf Studios: The Whistler Frame:

gold-leaf-studios:

The studio was just brought this drypoint etching by James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) to be fit for a new frame. And what better choice than one designed by Whistler himself?

Artists designing their own frames were not uncommon in Whistler’s era. Typically just called Whistler Frames,…

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Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:17:33 -0400

oldhollywood: Poster art: Batiste Madalena edition (via) Up...

Sun, 06 May 2012 21:05:06 -0400

Son of the Sheik (1926)

Yolanda (1924)

The Haunted House (1921)

The Blackbird (1926)

Hotel Imperial (1927)

The Loves of Carmen (1927)

The Wanderer (1925)

Beau Brummel (1924)

His Supreme Moment (1925)

The Boastful Braggart (1926)

oldhollywood:

Poster art: Batiste Madalena edition (via)

Up until the 1950s, many movie theaters rejected the mass-produced, lithographed film posters designed and distributed by Hollywood studios in favor of original, hand-painted posters created by local artists.

During the 1920s, Batiste Madalena was the resident artist at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, NY., where he designed and hand-painted about eight original posters per week. Madalena, who is considered the greatest poster painter of the period, was given full artistic control, with the only directive from his boss being that the posters had to be clearly visible to passengers on passing trolley cars.

More examples of Madalena’s work here.