I had that dream again

Images from Expo 1970 in Osaka daniellaondesign.com/blog/expo-os... via Design & Desire design20century.blog

Simone d’Aillencourt in a purple jersey dress by Donald Brooks, photographed by Henry Clarke for Vogue, June 1967

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.” #ShakespeareSunday

Argoman: The Fantastic Superman

Stereoview of unknown actors in unknown production

Hilma af Klint, Altarbild, nr 1, grupp X, Altarbilder, 1915 one of first Western abstract artists whose work predates Kandinsky's #womensart

Fencer by Georges Demeny, 1906. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Ferris Wheel & Ticket booth in the The San Gennaro Feast at Jersey Street Alley, Mulberry Street, 1976 (that's Bowie's old building on the left). #SanGennaroFeast

Hotel is appalling. We are all in the attic.

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

Marcello Mastroianni 1962 [Irving Penn]

The birth of Punk?

Henry Gibson #BOTD with Agnes Moorehead in BEWITCHED (1970)

We missed you at Sunday School this week. Don't forget to come next week, and every week. You can run, but you can't hide!

man dressed as jester- magic lantern glass slide

three unknown men in fancy dress

Women don't need to hear none of your mess. Joe South

Somewhere between the lamp from the Arabian Nights and the Lilliputian laser of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Bottle Man hoax of 1749 was as empty as the vessel at its center: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bottleman

Stephen King (with scenes from the Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of the King novel "The Shining") - BOTD

“Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.” -Chuck Jones #BOTD Jones' page in a Vanity Fair Hollywood issue

Henry Gibson #BOTD presented himself as the poet laureate of Alabama, reciting poems like “What Freedom Means to Me in 25 Words or Less”. He received an official letter from the governor’s mansion in Montgomery hailing him as “the most exciting talent to come out of Alabama since Tallulah Bankhead.”

Gustav Holst #BOTD

Good morning!

I had that dream again

"At Land" (1944) Maya Deren

Fred Sonic Smith, MC5

Bonjour, je vous invite a cette Bonbonnerie, where the speciality is caramelised red nougat

A serious-looking Owl presides over the external Christmas decoration of a haberdashery shop in Bath.

A Graphic Guide to Cemetery Symbolism www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-g...

It’s the 110th anniversary today of the last time Stonehenge was sold by one private owner to another. Wealthy local barrister Cecil Chubb went along to a property sale at the Palace Theatre in Salisbury on 21 September 1915 and bought the monument on impulse for £6,600

Born #onthisday in 1866, the "father of science fiction" H. G. Wells. Read our essay by Peter J. Bowler on the writer's many musings on the future of humanity: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress #otd

"You can bring patients out of the corner with Ritalin..." #ADHD #Neurodivergence

Salvador Dalí sketching Harpo Marx, Feb 1937. Harpo with bandaged fingers, playing the harp, made from barbed-wire strings and teaspoons and forks for tuning knobs, that Dalí sent to Harpo as a Christmas present.

I'm thinking, truly deeply thinking, about what to eat today. Alan "Ration Al" Chowhound

855 years ago, on the 21st of September 1170, the Kingdom of Dublin fell to the Anglo-Norman invasion, led by Richard "Strongbow" de Clare. Irish High King Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (Rory O'Conor) besieged Dublin, but it remained in Anglo-Norman hands. #otd #history #ireland 🗃️

“I’ll have a Mifune, please.”

I had that dream again

#Caturday Jerry Schatzberg ~ Bob Dylan, Crucifix, New York 1965

"Oh, Mr. Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!" -Kenneth More #BOTD Eva Gabor dresses Mr. More for a charity skit in 1960

the Masticator was a popular table utensil with Victorians who had few natural teeth and I wish it was still available at second rate steak houses

this is one fucked up letter to Penthouse

A telescope, of ivory, with writing paraphenalia and various containers, first half of the 17th Century. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Dismas, the good thief and Gestas the bad thief, on their crosses. Gestas is usually depicted as being on the left of Jesus, and St. Dismas to the right. c. 1490 - 1510. (Rijksmuseum)

Lewis Wilson as Batman (1943) #BatmanDay

The box for the 8mm 1960's release of the 1943 serial featured Batman's summer weather uniform of cape, cowl, and gloves and skin. #BatmanDay

Lyle Waggoner & Peter Deyell vs Adam West & Burt Ward Batman Screen Tests #BatmanDay