METRONOMY - THE ENGLISH RIVIERA - 2011

JAMES FRANCO & JAMES DEAN - 2011

Roy Schatt - James Dean, NY 1954


I've always thought they looked strikingly similar to one another (it's almost errie!). Then I saw Franco's performance as Dean in the tv movie about James Dean's life. I thought Franco was perfect! He captured James Dean wonderfully, from the look to the mannerisms, it was amazing. Even now, 7 years after that role, to me it's still Franco's best to date. So, here is my little tribute to two amazing actors !

HANNAH HÖCH - ARTIST - 2011

Hannah Höch was born Anna Therese Johanne Höch] in Gotha, Germany. From 1912 to 1914 she studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Berlin under the guidance of Harold Bergen. She chose the curriculum glass design and graphic arts, rather than fine arts, to please her father. In 1914, at the start of World War I, she left the school to work with the Red Cross. In 1915 she returned to schooling, entering the graphics class of the National Institute of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Also in 1915, Höch began an influential friendship with Raoul Hausmann, a member of the Berlin Dada movement. Höch's involvement with the Berlin Dadists began in earnest in 1919. After her schooling, she worked in the handicrafts department for Ullstein Verlang [The Ullstein Press], designing dress and embroidery patterns for Die Dame [The Lady] and Die Praktische Berlinerin [The Practical Berlin Woman]. The influence of this early work and training can be seen in her later work involving references to dress patterns and textiles. From 1926 to 1929 she lived and worked in the Netherlands. Höch made many influential friendships over the years, with Kurt Schwitters and Piet Mondrian among others. Hausmann, along with Höch, was one of the first pioneers of the art form that would come to be known as photomontage.

DIARY LYLYBYE - THE FLOWERS OF DEVIL - 2011

Wine knows how to adorn the most sordid hovel
With marvelous luxury
And make more than one fabulous portal appear
In the gold of its red mist
Like a sun setting in a cloudy sky.
Opium magnifies that which is limitless,
Lengthens the unlimited,
Makes time deeper, hollows out voluptuousness,
And with dark, gloomy pleasures
Fills the soul beyond its capacity.
All that is not equal to the poison which flows
From your eyes, from your green eyes,
Lakes where my soul trembles and sees its evil side...
My dreams come in multitude
To slake their thirst in those bitter gulfs.
All that is not equal to the awful wonder
Of your biting saliva,
Charged with madness, that plunges my remorseless soul
Into oblivion
And rolls it in a swoon to the shores of death.


Charles Baudelaire - The Flowers of Devil.








Rudoff Eickemeyer - Evelyn Nesbit 1901



Franz von Stuck - Spring 1912






Elizabeth Peyton Florine (Florine Stettheimer) 2005



Statue of Daphne John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)



John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) Psyche Opening the Golden Box, 1903



Eric Guillemain for Vogue Turkey January 2011

FILM UN POISON VIOLENT - KATELL QUILLEVERE - 2010

Cet été-là, tout change pour Anna. A son retour de l’internat, elle découvre que son père a quitté la maison.Sa mère, effondrée par cet abandon, trouve refuge auprès du jeune prêtre du village.Anna se raccroche à son grand-père, tendre et fantaisiste. Elle prépare aussi sa confirmation, dernière étape dans sa vie de croyante. Mais la naissance de son désir pour Pierre, un garçon libre et solaire, la fait vaciller.Une part secrète d’elle même cherche à se donner corps et âme, à Dieu ou à quelque chose d’autre…

DIARY LYLYBYE - BAD RITUAL - 2011

Timber Timbre - Creep on Creepin on, 2011








Alizé Meurisse Pen Knife



Joan Juliet Buck's Rome



Robert Mapplethorpe, White Gauze, 1984



Rene Magritte Les Amants, 1928



Members of the White Sisterhood, a sect of the Carmelites, wear white hood covering their faces and bodies circa 1930







Jean de La Huerta



The Castle of Elizabeth Bathory



“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” Virginia Woolf

DIARY LYLYBYE - THE REAL THING - 2011

The Real Thing is a play by Tom Stoppard, first performed in 1982. It examines the nature of honesty, and its use of a play within a play is one of many levels on which the author teases the audience with the difference between semblance and reality.

The play focuses on the relationship between Henry and Annie, an actress who is part of a committee to free Brodie, a Scottish soldier imprisoned for burning a memorial wreath during a protest.





Matthew Broderick at the premiere of Tom Stoppard's play The Real thing, Plymouth Theater, New York, January 5, 1984