I should vacuum. youtu.be/PkS2xydpLIg?...

Picasso was an asshole

She told Picasso that his portrait of her didn’t look anything like her. ‘It will,’ was his response.

Matchbox, 3 February

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

Karen Morley at her most glamorous for RKO’s The Phantom of Crestwood (1932).

"It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices." Italo Calvino.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

The Cosmati Pavement mosaic floor of the High Altar of Westminster Abbey, London, laid down in 1268

one day these heels are gonna walk all over you

Mary Carlisle - BOTD

I share many things with you here on the internet. But it's not like I share everything. Holden N. Reserve

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.” -Gertrude Stein #BOTD Stein by Picasso, Cecil Beaton, George Platt Lynes, and Picabia

Stumbled across this rather lovely stuff.

The Execution of Hungarian Prime Minister László Bárdossy — Lee Miller, 1946

Anjelica Huston by Ara Gallant (1976)

I had that dream again

Russian poet-futurist Vladimir Golzschmidt hypnotizing a chicken. 1923

Austrian dancer, choreographer, actress and painter Tilly Losch, in a scene from the show Wake Up And Dream, April 1929 #TillyLosch #ModernDance #Photography

Matchbox, 2 February

Monday

I discovered an app called Radio Garden, and I've been listening to radio stations from around the world while I work. Today I listened to Energy in Berlin, YLE in Helsinki, Bel RTL in Belgium, and WHTZ in New York. If you have any radio station recommendations, I'd love to hear them! radio.garden

Number 31 (1950) by Jackson Pollock

People in 20s movies look a lot more 2026 than people in 50s movies.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein (1949) #Photography, Albert Einstein on the porch of his home, via the Historical Society of Princeton.

We've been depending on shadows for a 140 years now.

I should vacuum. youtu.be/Vz3VQK60ZhM?...

Anne Bancroft preparing for her Role in the Stage Production of The Miracle Worker Nina Leen, 1959

Renata Tebaldi - BOTD

Seen at flea market today in Lisbon. Not sure when this was originally printed. 🤣

My, all these hours answering to no end

Dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham in a still for "Le Jazz Hot" presented in New York City in early 1939.

El Bosco. Ascensión del Bienaventurado, c.1504.

Hello February 🌹 ‘Rose Rouge’ designed by Yves Saint Laurent for Dior, silk, 1958. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Important February Dates. 2 Groundhog Day 2 Groundhog Day 3 HALFWAY THROUGH WINTER 4 Soup Day 6 Work Naked Day 9 Pizza Day 14 Book Giving Day 17 Random Act of Kindness Day 17 Pancake Day 18 Wine Day 26 Toast Day 27 Polar Bear Day 28 Public Sleeping Day

the horror

Gustav Klimt Danaé, 1907

“Wash your hands well after handling animals that were exposed to fallout.” Fallout on the farm. Blueprint for survival No. 3. 1961. Canada Department of Agriculture.

Andrea King - BOTD in 1919

don’t tell me we don’t have the technology

Tweet! youtu.be/DmS2HQKAAcw?...

Remember to take your meds 🌿 November 1959. Rita Egan. Photo Francesco Scavullo.

Jean-Michel Basquiat ~ Self Portrait (1984) #Basquiat #Contemporaryart #Primitivism

Jack Kerouac’s 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned - The draft – one of the Beat Generation’s defining artefacts – will be part of a wider sale of pieces from the Jim Irsay Collection at Christie’s in March www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

San Pietro in Vincoli, monument to Mariano Pietro Vecchiarello