Saturday, March 17, 2018

Ines Espuny


Streetview Captures


Jessica Alba


ph: Sasha Samsonova

Toys From My Childhood


Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. It was developed by British engineer Denys Fisher and first sold in 1965.
The name has been a registered trademark of Hasbro Inc. since 1998 following purchase of the company that had acquired the Denys Fisher company. The Spirograph brand was relaunched worldwide with original product configurations in 2013 by Kahootz Toys.
In 1827 English architect and engineer Peter Hubert Desvignes developed his "Speiragraph",[1] a machine to create elaborate spiral drawings, intended to prevent bank note forgeries.[2]
The mathematician Bruno Abakanowicz invented the Spirograph between 1881 and 1900. It was used for calculating an area delimited by curves.[3] Drawing toys based on gears have been around since at least 1908, when The Marvelous Wondergraph was advertised in the Sears catalog.[4][5] An article describing how to make a Wondergraph drawing machine appeared in the Boys Mechanic publication in 1913.[6] The Spirograph itself was developed by the British engineer Denys Fisher, who exhibited at the 1965 Nuremberg International Toy Fair. It was subsequently produced by his company. US distribution rights were acquired by Kenner, Inc., which introduced it to the United States market in 1966 and promoted it as a creative children's toy.
In 2013 the Spirograph brand was re-launched worldwide by Kahootz Toys with products that returned to the use of the original gears and wheels. The modern products use removable putty in place of pins or are held down by hand to keep the stationary pieces in place on the paper. The Spirograph was a 2014 Toy of the Year finalist in two categories, over 45 years after the toy was named Toy of the Year in 1967. [Wikipedia]

Nyadak Thot


A day in the life, Mar 15


A day in the life, Mar 15, objet trouvé

Kris Gottschalk


ph: Nagi Sakai

New York


A teenage gang from Brooklyn, 1959. Photograph by Bruce Davidson

Josephine Skriver


ph: Christian Högstedt

Friday, March 16, 2018

First Lines: J.G. Ballard - The Crystal World


Above all, the darkness of the river was what impressed Dr. Sanders as he looked out for the first time across the open mouth of the Matarre estuary.

Jane Fonda


A day in the life, Mar 14


A day in the life, Mar 14, objet trouvé

Lera Kapkaikina


New Stuff: Jimi Hendrix



Tali Lennox


Apple Tree Yard (2017)


An eminent scientist caught up in a damaging and compromising lie.

4-part TV mini-series has some excellent performances, but presents itself like a crime mystery artificially drawn into length.

Alexandra Tikerpuu


New Stuff: The Azusa Plane



Regan Kemper


Dunkirk (2017)


Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Highly accomplished attempt to convey a significant historic event in the totality of its stages and locations, and despite omitting any lead characters, it manages to hold one's interest throughout.

Sasha Luss


ph: Benjamin Kanarek

New Stuff: Mason Williams



Who's That Girl?


Art: Jasper Johns

Oxana Moiseeva


Streetview Captures


Natalia Mallmann


A day in the life, Mar 13


A day in the life, Mar 13, shopping carts

Halle Berry


New York


Ming Smith, Coney Island Pas De Deux, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 1976

Alexa Chung


ph: Ben Morris

First Lines: Frank Herbert - Dune


A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Caitriona Balfe


ph: Nick Haymes

A day in the life, Mar 12


A day in the life, Mar 12, garbage

Eline Bocxtaele


New Stuff: Keiji Haino + Sumac



Thursday, March 15, 2018

Remainder (2015)


A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past.

The movie manages to fascinate with the protagonist's increasing obsession, but the twist ending is a let-down. 

Olivia Palermo


New Stuff: John Brunner


Yui Ichikawa


Lauf Junge lauf (2013)


An eight-year-old boy, flees from the Warsaw ghetto in 1942 and attempts to survive, at first alone in the forest, and then as a Christian orphan on a Polish farm.

Well-made drama with some memorable scenes takes a cursory look at a harrowing child's fate.

Jourdan Dunn


ph: Lee Broomfield

New Stuff: Ian Culbard & H.P. Lovecraft


Who's That Girl?


Photographer: Simon Roberts

Amanda Wellsh


ph: An Le

Streetview Captures


Fernanda Hin Lin Ly


ph: Solve Sundsbo

Window faces


Regensburg, March 2018