Saturday, February 14, 2015

Monika Jagaciak


New Stuff: The New Yorker


(art: Barry Blitt)

Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Minor White

Jane March


Vienna


Wirtschaftsuniversität

Roxane Horner


ph: Mitsuaki Murata

Mannequin


Vienna, January 2015

Emily Van Raay


A day in the life, Feb 12


A day in the life, Feb 12, at night

Lada Kravchenko


ph: Rachel Rebibo

From my vaults: Simone de Beauvoir

Sharam Diniz


ph: Mario Principe

New York


Studio 54

Audrey Tautou


First Lines: Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars


Mars was empty before we came.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Sienna Miller


ph: Alasdair McLellan

From my library: Ammon Shea - Reading the OED


I've always been fascinated of the Oxford English Dictionary; I'd love to have it, but simply can't afford it (and Ursula would say we don't have the room). Here's a man telling the entertaining story of how he read the whole thing.

Phillipa Gleeson


Rarely Heard: Actress - Purple Splazsh



"The alias of Wolverhampton, England-based producer Darren Cunningham, Actress was credited with some of the least predictable, categorization-defying electronic dance music of the 2000s. Since debuting in 2004 with the No Tricks 12" on his own Werk Discs label, Cunningham juggled a diverse array of inspirations -- including early-'80s funk and electro, art rock, raw and classicist house, and noise -- while putting a fresh, challenging spin on them." (Allmusic.com)
His album Splazsh was declared best album of the year 2010 by the music magazine The Wire.

Irina Shaykhlislamova


ph: Gilles Bensimon

Vienna


Wirtschaftsuniversität

Alicia Kuczman


ph: Gui Paganini

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Window faces


Vienna, January 2015

Winona Ryder


ph: Herb Ritts

A day in the life, Feb 11


A day in the life, Feb 11, standing outside looking inside

Seon Hwang


ph: Sun Hye Shin

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)



On the Russian front in 1944 a German Private receives a leave and visits his family in Germany but Germany isn't the same country he left behind.

Well-produced and tasteful adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque (who even plays a bit part) is unfortunately turned into a romantic melodrama.

Halliwell*: "Interesting but preachy and generally misguided attempt, by the studio which made All Quiet on the Western Front and The Road Back, to repeat the dose in colour and wide screen."

Maltin***: "Intensely dramatic love story...Well-directed version of Erich Maria Remarque novel..."

Tiiu Kuik


New Stuff: The New Yorker


(art: Mark Ulriksen)

Who's That Girl?


Art: J. Scott Campbell

Ali Lagarde


ph: Manolo Campion

Vienna


Wirtschaftsuniversität

Amanda Booth


Window faces


Vienna, January 2015

Marine Barbier


A day in the life, Feb 10


A day in the life, Feb 10, door

Natalia Vodianova


From my vaults: Daniel Day-Lewis

Valentine Vernier


New York


A helicopter lands on the Pan Am building NYC

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Heather Marks


First Lines: Walter Miller - A Canticle for Leibowitz


Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert.

Marina Krtinic


ph: Cihan Öncü

From my library: Robert Crumb - Sketchbooks


In the 1980s the German publisher Zweitausendeins released four thick volumes of sketchbooks that contained a multitude of Robert Crumb's drawings. A friend told me that a little old comics' store was selling them for a few Marks, so I got them all, a great addition to my library.

Margaux Lenot


Vienna


Wirtschaftsuniversität

Helena Christensen


Window faces


Vienna, January 2015