CARL CARL CARL!

Van Vechten all over the place. Outside the portrait studio—walking down streets, looking out windows, looking in windows and oogling beach bums. You know how much I adore Carl. Carl. Carl! via City Museum of New York  

SPIRAL MINE

Spiral bound books need to come back. Lay flat & full bleed. I was lucky enough to get a preview of this book at my day job yesterday. It’s fantastic! Inciting my newest crave—books on books. I dug around in the Library of Congress and picked up WPA-Federal Art Project photographs of Pennsylvania coal miners. [...]

PLASTICS

1. bowl, circa 1930 2. hair comb, circa 1950-59 3. beaker, circa 1935 4. brooch, circa 1940-49 Museum of Design in Plastics: Arts University College at Bournemouth. via VADS

SONIA COLORS

Note to selves – Color Moves : Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay at Cooper Hewitt March 18–June 5, 2011 Must See! first alert via MM second reminder via ### third !! via objects of whimsy (images from oow) go to Cooper Hewitt (more reminders coming in couple months)

LA NEWS.

Only in LA. 1. 1970 womens skirts and dresses, hemlines mid-length 2. Barbara Payton at Hollywood Police Station bruised and scarred refuses to file complaint 1962 3. “Pop-eye,” a Persian housecat, made famous for killing a four-foot-long black diamond rattlesnake, 1934 Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive via UCLA Digital Image Archives

AT SEA.

Ropes, pets, sailors, blankets at sea. Get sea sick. Gorgeous photographs. via National Maritime Museum Flickr 1. Mr P.M Anderson and Russ on the ‘Scotia’ 2. On the forecastle head in fine weather, March June 1933 3. One of the crew using a sailmakers palm, 1932 4. Two survivors from the ‘Elingamite’ onboard HMS ‘Penguin’ [...]

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