Saturday, January 28, 2017

Photographer: Jack Welpott

Amanda Gullickson


A day in the life, Jan 24


A day in the life, Jan 24, Regensburg cathedral

Lily-Rose Depp


ph: Tom Munro

New York


New York City, 1954

Barbara Palvin


First Lines: Peter Matthiessen - The Snow Leopard


In late September of 1973, I set out with GS on a journey to the Crystal Mountain, walking west under Annapurna and north along the Kali Gandaki River, then west and north again, around the Dhaulagiri peaks and across the Kanjiroba, two hundred and fifty miles or more to the Land of Dolpo, on the Tibetan Plateau.

Friday, January 27, 2017

Lisa Cant


A day in the life, Jan 23


A day in the life, Jan 23, objet trouvé

Agyness Deyn


New Stuff: Frank Zappa



Dani Witt


ph: Nicole Heiniger

Pompeii (2014)



A slave-turned-gladiator finds himself in a race against time to save his true love, who has been betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator, and, as Mount Vesuvius erupts, he must fight to save his beloved as Pompeii crumbles around him.

Below-average historical catastrophe drama full of age-old cliches; one is relieved when the volcano finally erupts.

Maltin**1/2: "Special effects are the star attraction in the kind of sword-and-sandal epic that was once a staple in Hollywood. This is pure, hokey fun for the nondiscerning, even if Sutherland's bad-guy performance is a bit monotonous."

Fabiana Mayer


ph: Bob Wolfenson

New Stuff: Blue Velvet



Thursday, January 26, 2017

Kristina Elise


ph: Aris Jerome

The Last Days on Mars (2013)


A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.

Old-fashioned and formulaic sci-fi horror movie is nicely produced, but simply doesn't offer anything new.

Maltin: "Well cast and well made on a low budget, but its debuting director is let down by a script with indifferent dialogue and one of the worst ideas conceivable for an otherwise realistic science-fiction tale: Martian bacteria turn human beings into the murderous walking dead. Oh dear."

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Miranda Kerr


New Stuff: The New Yorker


(art: Barry Blitt)

Who's That Girl?


Art: Phil May

Isa Stoppi


ph: Gian Paolo Barbieri

Window faces


Regensburg, January 2017

Julia Hafstrom


ph: Matthew Kristall

A day in the life, Jan 22


A day in the life, Jan 22, snowing

Ornella Muti


New York


New York City - 12th Avenue on the West Side (under Riverside Drive, the '125th Street Overpass')

Edie Sedgwick


First Lines: Fridtjof Nansen - Farthest North


Unseen and untrodden under their spotless mantle of ice the rigid polar regions slept the profound sleep of death from the earliest dawn of time.

Monday, January 23, 2017

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Nastya Kusakina


Pitch Black (2000)



A group of marooned space travelers struggle for survival on a seemingly lifeless sun-scorched world.

Above-average sci-fi thriller with some atmospheric visuals.

On renewed viewing: I must admit it's not a masterpiece but a guilty pleasure of mine.

Halliwell (no star): "Essentially a 'B' movie with a few pretensions, this delivers its shocks efficiently enough, but is otherwise in need of a better script and a bigger budget."

Maltin**: "Ambitious, but formulaic sci-fi/horror film...Some exciting scenes and effects, but weighed down by a feeling of deja vu."

Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Bruce Davidson

May Douglas


A day in the life, Jan 20


A day in the life, Jan 20, window display

Vita Sidorkina


ph: Max Abadian

New York


Equitable Building Fire Ruins New York City - 1912

Josephine Skriver


First Lines: Marco Polo - Travels


Let me begin with Armenia.

Ashley Benson


A day in the life, Jan 19


A day in the life, Jan 19, evening star

Jean Shrimpton


New Stuff: The Wire