"House & Garden" cover from March 1950 by photographer/designer Herbert Matter.

From 1951 by Hughie Lee-Smith.

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid." Born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on 9 November 1914, we remember her as Hedy Lamarr.

Whoa now, have a listen... "This is a mushroom playing in the wild in some woods near Glossop in Manchester. The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fluctuations are converted into signals that control the robotic arms."

“I decided I could lose nothing by the soft approach. If that didn't produce for me—and I didn't think it would—nature could take its course and we could bust up the furniture.”

"Look, you wanna' hustle pool, don't you? This game isn't like football. Nobody pays you for yardage. When you hustle you keep score real simple. The end of the game you count up your money. That's how you find out who's best. That's the only way." George C. Scott in "The Hustler" (1961).

Ali and Pelé.

Margaret Leighton, Henry Fonda and Ann Sothern in "The Best Man" (1964), written by Gore Vidal and directed by Franklin Schaffner.

From 1935 by Zéró (Hans Schleger).

Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, "Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive." n.pr/4oYRKiA

“You didn’t want to align yourself too closely, but she didn’t care. We were her constituents, and she went to bat for us over and over and over again... She was fierce before fierce became a cliché.”

The kimono displays an intricate overall pattern dominated by a rich lavender-purple ground created through meticulous shibori technique, over which fan and tsuzumi (hand drum) motifs are distributed in a carefully balanced composition. 1912-1926, Japan

Theatre dressing room, Tokyo, Japan, 1960. © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos

A 1952 Delahaye 235 coupé with coachwork by Saoutchik.

"As the devil would have it, I was in town one day with nothing to do and joined some fool committee or other that was investigating labor conditions in a cigarette factory. I'd heard there were some pretty girls there." Lionel Atwill and Marlene Dietrich in "The Devil is a Woman" (1935).

La Gioconda cigar.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

Photo by Dennis Stock (1967)

Another #Caturday slumber...

Monica Vitti

😅 I do believe that I would like to see that dance...

Joan Sutherland as Violetta during a performance of Verdi's "La Traviata" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden - BOTD

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

From 1956, Leiber and Stoller's "Ruby Baby" by The Drifters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdC9...

Happy Birthday to Jean Shrimpton, born 7 November 1942.

A Longines 14KT tank watch, c. 1944.

Poster by Luigi Martinati for the Italian release of "A Star is Born" (1954) with Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford and Tommy Noonan. Moss Hart adapted the screenplay from the 1937 version and George Cukor directed.

From Paris to Mexico via Air France. Poster design by Edmond Maurus, 1952.

Ayrton Senna (21 March 1960 – 1 May 1994).

Morocco, 1985. Photo by Bruno Barbey.

She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.

"I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country. I have experienced it before, when I wasn't president, when I was a student... A line must be drawn." www.bbc.com/news/article...

"But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes." - Carson McCullers, 1951

"Liberty relies upon itself, invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is positive and composed, and knows no discouragement." - Whitman, Leaves of Grass, c. 1855

I wonder how all the women reporters and editors at the Times feel about this headline.

From 1960, "Spoonful" written by Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fjv...

"Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances."

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

"Soap Bubble Set" by Joseph Cornell, c. 1948.

A boy with a zither on 105th Street in New York City (1952). Photo by Walter Rosenblum.

Tamara Karsavina as Zobeida in "Scheherazade" from 1911. Photo by E. O. Hoppé.

Jackie Robinson shares his thoughts with Cincinnati rookie Frank Robinson at spring training, 1956. When Frank Robinson was announced as manager of the Indians for the 1975 season he said, "If I had one wish in the world today, it would be that Jackie Robinson could be here to see this happen."

The Doctor will see you now. (Lalla Ward and Tom Baker.)

Spiral Geoglyphs ‘A circle in a spiral, a wheel within a wheel Never ending nor beginning on an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind’ - Noel Harrison Windmills of Your Mind #WildOz #Geoglyphs #Spirals #Desert #Culture #Australia

“'I guess it doesn’t really hit us yet,. says Simone Gardon, 40, when asked about the impact of the storm — the strongest ever to hit Jamaica. “After two weeks, when it’s all settled down and the hunger sets in…'” www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/a...