#Alfred aldous

[garbage-creature]

Sdv npcs fancast except it's only my favorites.

@narahverde on Instagram as Sandy. Idk anything abt her bc i don't have Instagram, but this is Sandy in my heart :3

Betty White as grandma Evelyn

Alfred Aldous as Linus

Sam Elliot as Marlon

Julia Roberts as Robin, i had the hardest time finding someone who fit Robin omg 😭

John Boyega as Demetrius, saw someone else on here say this and i couldn't unsee it.

[ronnydeschepper]

Haruki Murakami wordt 75...

De naar ik vermoed populairste schrijver van het moment wereldwijd, de Japanner Haruki Murakami, viert vandaag zijn ste verjaardag. Continue reading Untitled

[fashionbooksmilano]

Philippe Halsman's Jump Book

Compléments de documents Yvonne Halsman, Postface Owen Edwards

Éditions de La Martinière, Paris 2015, 96 pages, 194 ill, ISBN 989-2-7324-7506-6

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

C’est en photographiant la famille Ford que Philippe Halsman a eu cette idée un peu folle : faire sauter Mme Ford devant l’objectif. Ainsi naît le concept de « jumpology ». Cet album présente des portraits hauts en couleurs (bien qu’en N&B), originaux, dynamiques, drôles et vrais. De Riga en Lettonie à New York, en passant par Paris, Philippe Halsman est devenu le plus grand portraitiste de son époque : Chagall, Le Corbusier, Gide, Malraux et d’autres artistes et intellectuels tombent tous sous la coupe de son appareil. Dès 1940, Halsman fuit l’Occupation et émigre aux États-Unis où il se reforgera une notoriété aux côtés de Picasso, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Winston Churchill, Audrey Hepburn, Salvador Dalí ou encore Alfred Hitchcock. La photographie d’Halsman se caractérise par son approche directe et psychologique, ainsi que par une recherche formelle dans le détail, affectionnant les expérimentations techniques et esthétiques. Il réalise 101 couvertures du magazine Life et publie, en 1959, son manifeste de la « jumpology » : Jump Book.

Le quasi 200 fotografie realizzate da Halsman a metà degli anni 50 che ritraggono stelle del cinema, regnanti, politici, attori, artisti e studiosi a mezz’aria sono ormai entrate a far parte nell’immaginario collettivo della cifra stilistica di Halsman. In quel periodo l’artista concludeva le sessioni fotografiche chiedendo ai suoi soggetti di saltare e così iniziò a prendere forma questa straordinaria ed energetica raccolta che tra gli altri annovera Marilyn Monroe, Edward Steichen, Audrey Hepburn, Robert Oppenheimer, John Steinbeck, Weegee, Aldous Huxley, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalì, Brigitte Bardot, Groucho Marx, Richard Nixon e il Duca e la Duchessa di Windsor. "Quando si chiede una persona di saltare", ha scritto Halsman, "la sua attenzione è principalmente rivolta verso l'atto di saltare, e la maschera cade, facendo apparire così la persona reale."

25/10/24

[thecreaturecodex]

Protean Anagram Solutions

When I started making proteans last summer, I decided to name them all after a person, shuffling the letters in the name to make an anagram. I challenged my followers to figure out who each protean was named after.

So here's the solutions. Some of these people got when the monsters were originally posted. Others I got no replies on.

The temortanga, protean of fashion, was named after Stefani Germanotta, aka Lady Gaga

The alengos, protean of plant life and ecology, was named after Henry Gleason, an ecologist who argued against a universal "climax community" and that every ecosystem had a unique balance of plant life.

The ricretillo, protean of weather, air and water, was named after Evangelista Torricelli, who invented the barometer and was the first to explain how winds form from differences in air pressure and temperature.

The cthilpuk, protean of emotions and moods, was named after Robert Plutchik, who created a psychological classification for emotions.

The yexhul, protean of evolution and animal life, was named after the Huxley clan, particularly Thomas Henry Huxley, first generation evolutionary biologist, and his grandsons Julian (a eugenicist) and Aldous (who parodied eugenics in Brave New World as a dig at his brother).

The heputwisa, protean of conspiracies and lies, was named after Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.

The renegwe, protean of plate tectonics, earth and fire was named after Alfred Wegener, proponent of continental drift

[pupsmailbox]

STARTING WITH A

MASCULINE︰ aarav. aaren. aaron. abdiel. abe. abel. abner. abraham. abram. ace. adair. adam. adan. aden. adirel. adler. adonis. adrian. adriel. aidan. aiden. al. alan. alban. albert. albie. albin. alden. aldo. aldous. alec. alejandro. alessandro. alex. alexander. alexis. alf. alfie. alfonso. alfred. algar. alger. ali. alijah. allan. allen. along. alonzo. alpha. alphonso. alphonzo. alton. alva. alvin. amari. ambrose. amer. amery. amias. amir. amos. anakin. ander. anderson. andie. andre. andres. andrew. andy. angel. angelo. angus. ansel. anson. anthony. antonio. apollo. archer. archie. ares. ari. aric. ariel. aries. arin. arjun. arlen. arlie. arlo. arlow. armando. armani. arn. arnie. arnold. arron. arthur. arturo. arvel. as. asa. ash. asher. ashley. ashton. ashtyn. aspen. aster. astor. atlas. atreus. atticus. audley. august. augustine. augustus. austen. austin. avery. axel. axl. axton. ayaan. aydan. ayden. azariah. aziel. azure.

FEMININE︰ aaliyah aaralyn abbey abbi abbie abby abegail abi abigail acacia ada adair adaline adalyn adalynn adamina addilyn addison addyson adele adelyn adria adriana adrianna agatha aggie agnes aimee ainslee ainsley ainslie alaia alaina alana alanis alannah alannis alaya alayah alberta alea aleesha alesha alesia aletha alethea alex alexa alexandra alexandrea alexandria alexandrina alexia alexina alexis alexus alfreda ali aliah alice alicia aline alise alisha alisia alison alissa alisya alita alivia allana allannah allegra allie allison allissa ally allycia allyn alma alora alvena alvina alyce alycia alys alysa alyson alyssa alyssia alyx amabel amanda amaya amayah amber amberly amberlynn ambrosine amelia amery amethyst ami amie amilia amity amora amoura amy anabella anabelle anastasia anaya andi andie andrea andrina anemone angel angela angelia angelica angelina angelle angie anima anise anissa anita anjanette anjelica ann anna annabel annabella annabelle annabeth annalee annalise annette annie annora anona ansley antonette april araminta ardath ardith aretha aria ariah ariana arianna ariel ariella arienne arin ariyah arlie arline armani aryana ash ashlea ashlee ashleigh ashley ashlie ashlyn ashlynn ashton ashtyn aspen aspyn aster aston astoria astra astrid athena aubrey aubrielle audrea audrey augusta aura austyn autumn ava avalon aveline averie avery aviana avianna avonlea avril ayla azalea azaria azura azure

NEUTRAL︰ able. abraid. absinthe. absolute. absolution. acacia. accord. ace. acid. ad. adair. adler. adrian. adrien. aiden. akira. alden. alex. alexis. ali. alias. alien. alistair. alive. allium. allure. alpha. alto. always. amalgamation. amani. amar. amari. amaris. amber. ambrose. amethyst. amiri. amor. analogue. anchor. and. anderson. andrea. andromeda. angel. ant. anthem. anti. antidote. apex. apotheosis. apparition. apple. april. arc. arcane. archer. arden. ares. ari. arian. arie. ariel. aries. aris. arlo. armani. armoni. arrow. arsenal. arsenic. artemis. aryan. as. asa. ash. asher. ashley. ashtyn. aspen. asset. aster. ataraxia. atlas. atrocity. auden. august. augustine. aura. austen. austin. austyn. author. auto. autumn. avery. avi. awake. axel. axis. ayan. azariah. azrael. azriel. azul. azure.

[laddersofsweetmisery]

My former English professor is retiring and gave away a bunch of the books in her office. She's a gem. I giddily returned to campus just to sort through her collection. Super excited about the ones I brought home with me. I thought someone else might appreciate some of the books I found.

I've already began poring over the poetry collections, but what should I read first? Are there any that you guys have read that you highly recommend?

Books included in Photo 1:

● Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (Alta Edition includin Persuasion)

● Robert Burns by David Daiches

● Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

● Leigh Hunt's What is Poetry? by Albert S. Cook

● Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

● Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Quentin Bell

● Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries 1776-1871 by Adam Zamoyski

● Earnest Victorians by Robert A. Rosenbaum

● Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals by Lord Byron, Leslie A. Marchand (Editor)

Books Included in Photo 2:

● Orlando by Virginia Woolf

● Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

● The Portable Irish Reader, (The Viking portable library) by Diarmuid Russell

● The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

● Becoming a Heroine by Rachel M. Brownstein

● To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

● East Lynne by Ellen Wood, writing as Mrs Henry Wood

● Poetry and Prose of Alexander Pope edited by Aubrey Williams

● In Memoriam; An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Editions) by Alfred Tennyson

● Daughters and Fathers by Lynda E. Boose, Betty S. Flowers

Books Included in Photo 3:

● Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

● A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne

● Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti (Dover Thrift Editions)

● Sound the Deep Waters: Women's Romantic Poetry in the Victorian Age includes works by Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Alice Meynell, and Edith Nesbit

● The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

● The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein by Thomas Hoobler and Dorothy Hoobler

● Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering by James H. Averill

● Victorian Ghost Stories: By Eminent Women Writers (Part of the The Virago Book Series) edited by Richard Dalby

● The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

● Victorian Poetry and Poetics by Walter E. Houghton G. Robert

[quasi-normalcy]

A while ago while I was in tumblr jail, you posted that you had a masters in science fiction literature (unless you didn't, I have been known to be mistaken), and I am wondering, what do you consider 'important' works of science fiction? Like the science fiction literary canon? I am so curious. Feel free to ignore, I will not harass you.

Yes! I do. I can tell you the ones that I was assigned (I'm afraid that the list skews extremely male and (especially) white).

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men (1930) and Star Maker (1937) [You can probably add Odd John (1935) to this list]

Jules Verne, Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870) [You can probably add From the Earth to the Moon (1865)]

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (1895) and War of the Worlds (1897) [Though you can probably go ahead and add The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The First Men in the Moon (1901)]

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland (1915)

Catherine Burdekin (writing as Murray Constantine), Swastika Night (1937)

Karel Čapek, R.U.R. (1920)

Isaac Asimov, I, Robot (1950) [You can probably add the first three Foundation novels here as well]

Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (1921)

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) and Rendezvous with Rama (1973) [Add: Childhood's End (1953) and The Fountains of Paradise (1979)

John Wyndham, Day of the Triffids (1951) [add: The Chrysalids (1955) and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)]

H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) [add The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)]

Richard Matheson, I Am Legend (1954)

Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956)

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers (1959) [Probably Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (1966) too, depending on, you know, how much of Heinlein's bullshit you can take]

J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World (1962) [Also, The Burning World (1964) and The Crystal World (1966)]

Phillip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle (1962) [Also Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) and several of his short stories]

Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)

Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (1969)

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-5 (1969)

Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974) [Also The Lathe of Heaven (1971) and The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)]

Brian Aldiss, Supertoys series

William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984)

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (1992) [Also Green Mars and Blue Mars]

They also included Iain M. Banks's The Algebraist (2004), but I personally think you'd be better off reading some of his Culture novels

Other ones that I might add (not necessarily my favourite, just what I would consider the most influential):

Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)

Matsamune Shiro, Ghost in the Shell (1989-91)

Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira (1982-1990)

Octavia Butler, Lilith's Brood (1987-89) and Parable of the Sower (1993)

Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos (1971)

Hector Garman Oesterheld & Francisco Solano Lopez, The Eternaut (1957-59)

Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem (2008)

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy (1975)

William Hope Hodgson, The House on the Borderland (1908)

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (1992)

Joanna Russ, The Female Man (1975)

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (1985) [Please take this one from a library]

Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (1912)

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and Oryx and Crake (2003)

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)

Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy (1952-68)

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (1962)

Walter M. Miller, A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959)

Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979)

[nerds-yearbook]

Appendix: Some Nerd Appearances of David Warner

Teen Titans Go! - The Lobe (2020)

Mary Poppins Returns - Admiral Boom (2018)

The Alienist - Professor Cavanaugh (2018)

The Amazing World of Gumball - Dr Wrecker (2015 - 2016)

Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear - Jon Irenicus (2016)

Southern Troopers - Admiral Warner (2015)

Penny Dreadful - Professor Abraham Van Helsing (2014)

Doctor Who - Professor Grisenko (2013)

Wizard - Merlin (2013)

The Evil Clergyman - The Evil Clergyman (2012)

The Secret of Crickley Hall - Percy Judd (2012)

A Thousand Kisses Deep - Max (2011)

Tron: The Next Day - Ed Dillenger (2011)

Graceless - Daniel (2010)

Doctor Who: Dreamland - Lord Azlok (2009)

Hogfather - Lord Downey (2006)

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse - Dr Erasmus Pea (2005)

Cyber Wars - Joseph Lau (2004)

Cortex - Master of the Organization (2004)

Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde - Sir Danvers Carew (2003)

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy - Nergal (2001 - 2003)

The Code Conspiracy - Professor (2002)

The Little Unicorn - Ted Regan (2001)

Planet of the Apes - Senator Sandar (2001)

Men In Black animated - Alpha (1997 - 2001)

Star Trek: Klingon Academy - Chancellor Gorkon (2000)

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne - Arago (2000)

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command - Lord Angstrom (2000)

Batman Beyond - Ra's Al Ghul (2000)

Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (2000)

Star Wars: Force Commander - Grand Gen Brashin

Superman animated - Ra's Al Ghul (1999)

Descent 3 - Dravis (1999)

The Outer Limits - Inspector (1995 - 1999)

Total Recall 2070 - Dr Felix Latham (1999)

Wing Commander - Admiral Geoffery (1999)

Toonsylvania - Doctor Vic Frankenstien (1998)

Houdini - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1998)

Fallout - Morpheus (1997)

Spider-Man animated - Herbert Landon (1995 - 1997)

Preversions of Science - Dr Nordhoff (1997)

Freakazoid - The Lobe (1995 - 1997)

Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys - the Glyph (1997)

Privateer 2 - Rhinehart (1996)

Beast Master III - Lord Agon (1996)

Gargoyles - Archmage (1995)

Iron Man - Arthur Dearborn (1995)

Batman animated - Ra's Al Ghul (1992 - 1995)

Final Equinox - Shilow (1995)

Biker Mice from Mars - Ice Breaker (1995)

Mighty Max - Talon (1994)

Babylon 5 - Aldous Gajic (1994)

Lois and Clark the New Adventures - Jor-El (1994)

Adventures of Brisco County Jr - Winston Smiles (1993)

Quest of the Delta Knights - Lord Vultare (1993)

Body Bags - Dr Lock (1993)

Wild Palms - Eli Levitt (1993)

Dinosaurs - Spirit of the Tree (1993)

Star Trek the Next Generation - Gul Madred (1992)

Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Zarm (1992)

Tales from the Crypt - Dr Alan Goetz (1992)

Return to the Lost World - Professor Summerlee (1992)

The Lost World - Professor Summerlee (1992)

Star Trek VI - Chancellor Gorkon (1991)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - Professor Jordan (1991)

Twin Peaks - Thomas Eckhardt (1991)

Spymaker - Adm Godfry (1990)

Star Trek V - St John Talbot (1989)

Worlds Beyond - Ken Larkin (1988)

My Best Friend is a Vampire - Professor Leopold (1987)

Frankenstien - the creature (1984)

The Man With Two Brains - Dr Alfred (1983)

Tron - Ed Dillenger (1982)

Time Bandits - Evil Genius (1981)

Time After Time - Dr John Leslie/Jack the Ripper (1979)

[dontplaywithityoullbreakit]

Read-alikes for Dune by Frank Herbert…

The massive popularity of the Dune movie series has put the books by Frank Herbert in high demand. If you haven’t been able to get hold of a copy, or you’ve already read the series and are looking for more books like it here are some you may like: 

The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

A protagonist with psionic powers navigating an interplanetary war. Warring clans and the honing of one's body. 

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

A story of the interconnectivity of many galactic empires. A story of pilgrimage and spiritual philosophy explored.

Red Star - Alexander Bogdanov

A more realist approach to the dreaming up of ‘worlds that could be’ and how humans will adapt and build. This sci-fi forerunner is an early inspiration to so many narratives that came after. Governmental struggle and political philosophy abound.

A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine

Diplomatic intrigue and navigating political conquest. An adventure through a deep and well-crafted galactic empire. 

Foundation - Isaac Asimov 

As Dune tells a story of warring empires, Asimov writes of a galactic empire in decline, alluding to the fall of the roman empire. The protagonist battles the looming possibility of a dark age.

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

If the dystopian control of those in power and battling between hierarchies of Dune were of interest to you, Huxley’s Brave New World is a predecessor and must read. 

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Le Guin crafts a tale of a galactic empire through the lens of anthropology and feminist theory similar to the exploration of gender dynamics found in Dune. The world building has a great depth like Dune, and there is a similar focus on ecology and the ‘what ifs’ around environmental sci-fi.

[boldlycrookedsalad]

Continuing Literary Canon

100. Federico Garcia Lorca, Blood Wedding

101. Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

102. Albert Camus, The Stranger

103. Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano

104. William Butler Yeats

105. George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

106. Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

107. Joseph Conrad

108. D.H. Lawrence

109. Virginia Woolf

110. James Joyce

111. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

112. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

113. W. H. Auden

114. George Orwell, 1984

115. Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis

116. The Trial

117. Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage

118. Thomas Mann

119. Andrei Bely, Petersburg

120. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

121. Boris Pasternak, Dr. Zhivago

122. Edwin Arlington Robinson

123. Robert Frost

124. Edith Wharton

125. Willa Cather

126. Gertrude Stein

127. Wallace Stevens, "Sunday Morning"

128. Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie

129. Sherwood Anderson

130. T.S. Eliot - "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

131. "The Waste Land"

132. "The Hollow Men"

133. "The Journey of the Magi"

134. Katherine Anne Porter

135. Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

136. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

137. William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury

138. Ernest Hemingway -The Old Man and the Sea

139. A Farewell to Arms

140. John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

141. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

142. Eudora Welty

143. Flannery O'Connor

144. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

145. J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

146. Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire

147. The Glass Menagerie

148. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

149. Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

150. Joyce Carol Oates

151. Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint

152. John Updike - A&P

153. The Witches of Eastwick

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

George Platt Lynes

George Platt Lynes (15 de abril de 1907 - 6 de dezembro de 1955) foi um fotógrafo comercial e de moda americano que trabalhou nas décadas de 1930 e 1940. Ele produziu fotografias apresentando muitos artistas e escritores gays da década de 1940 que foram adquiridas pelo Instituto Kinsey . 

Vida pregressa

Nascido em East Orange, Nova Jersey, filho de Adelaide Sparkman e Joseph Russell Lynes (falecido em 1932). [ 1 ] [ 3 ] Seu irm��o mais novo era Joseph Russell Lynes, Jr. (1910–1991). Lynes passou a infância em Nova Jersey , mas frequentou a Berkshire School em Massachusetts , onde foi colega de classe de Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996). Ele foi enviado para Paris em 1925 com a ideia de prepará-lo melhor para a faculdade. Sua vida foi mudada para sempre pelo círculo de amigos que ele conheceria lá, incluindo Gertrude Stein , Glenway Wescott , Monroe Wheeler . Ele frequentou a Universidade de Yale em 1926, mas desistiu alguns meses depois para se mudar para a cidade de Nova York . 

Carreira

Ele retornou aos Estados Unidos com a ideia de seguir carreira literária e até abriu uma livraria em Englewood, Nova Jersey, em 1927. Ele começou a se interessar por fotografia não com a ideia de uma carreira, mas para tirar fotos de seus amigos e exibi-las em sua livraria.

Retornando à França no ano seguinte na companhia de Wescott e Wheeler, ele viajou pela Europa pelos próximos anos, sempre com sua câmera em mãos. Ele desenvolveu amizades próximas dentro de um círculo maior de artistas, incluindo Jean Cocteau e Julien Levy , um negociante de arte e crítico. Levy exibiria suas fotografias em sua galeria na cidade de Nova York em 1932 e Lynes abriria seu estúdio lá naquele mesmo ano.

Trabalho comercial

Ele logo recebeu encomendas da Harper's Bazaar , Town & Country e Vogue, incluindo uma capa com talvez a primeira supermodelo , Lisa Fonssagrives . Em 1935, ele foi convidado a documentar os principais dançarinos e produções da recém-fundada companhia de balé americano de Kirstein e George Balanchine (hoje o New York City Ballet ).

Coleção particular

Ele também era amigo de Katherine Anne Porter , autora do romance Ship of Fools , a quem ele gostava de fotografar usando vestidos de noite elaborados e ocasionalmente reencenando Shakespeare. 

Durante sua vida, Lynes acumulou um corpo substancial de trabalho envolvendo fotografia de nus e homoerótica. Na década de 1930, ele começou a tirar nus de amigos, artistas e modelos, incluindo um jovem Yul Brynner , embora estes permanecessem privados, desconhecidos e não publicados por anos. Nas duas décadas seguintes, Lynes continuou seu trabalho nesta área apaixonadamente, embora em privado.

No final da década de 1940, Lynes conheceu o Dr. Alfred Kinsey e seu Instituto em Bloomington, Indiana . Kinsey se interessou pelo trabalho de Lynes, pois estava pesquisando a homossexualidade na América na época. Um grande número de obras nuas e homoeróticas de Lynes foram enviadas ao Instituto Kinsey antes de sua morte em 1955. A coleção Kinsey representa uma das maiores coleções individuais da obra de Lynes. 

Vida pessoal

Por mais de dez anos, Lynes teve um caso de amor com o curador Monroe Wheeler e o escritor Glenway Wescott (1901–1987). Mais tarde, ele se juntou ao seu assistente de estúdio e, depois que ele morreu na Segunda Guerra Mundial , Lynes foi morar com o irmão mais novo do assistente. 

Los Angeles

Lynes esteve em Los Angeles de 1946 a 1948, morando antes e depois na cidade de Nova York. Ele visitou pela primeira vez para férias e encontrar alguns amigos que conhecia lá, incluindo os romancistas Katherine Anne Porter e Christopher Isherwood , e a organizadora trabalhista Bernardine Szold Fritz . Ao chegar lá, ele conheceu a pintora Mai-Mai Sze , os figurinistas Irene Sharaff e o figurinista Adrian (figurinista) , e a esposa de Adrian, Janet Gaynor . Ele também fez retratos dos escritores Thomas Mann e Aldous Huxley . Depois de conhecer todos eles algumas semanas após sua primeira visita, ele decidiu se mudar de Nova York para explorar a cena artística em Los Angeles. Lynes ainda tinha encomendas de fotografia para a Vogue por meio de seu diretor de arte Alexander Liberman Depois de se mudar para Los Angeles, Lynes se reconectou com a socialite Denham Fouts , a quem ele havia fotografado em Nova York nos anos 30 e os dois trocaram redes sociais.

Morte

Em maio de 1955, Lynes foi diagnosticado com câncer de pulmão terminal. Antes de sua morte, ele transferiu muitas de suas fotografias e seus negativos contendo nus masculinos para o Instituto Kinsey. "Ele estava claramente preocupado que este trabalho, que ele considerava sua maior conquista como fotógrafo, não fosse disperso ou destruído... Temos que nos lembrar do período de tempo sobre o qual estamos falando — a América durante o Red Scare do pós-guerra..." 

Após uma última viagem à Europa, Lynes retornou à cidade de Nova York, onde morreu em 1955.

George Platt Lynes: Sailor (1954)

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Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

Another week, gone. We’re picking up the grandkids this morning so I’ll have to get this put together quickly this morning. Sorry, grandpa duty calls! 👴🏼

I’m finishing this off in the car as we go to get them. 🤣

Hope you enjoy the links.

Max Boot • The Washington Post

The GOP’s abandonment of Ukraine makes me ashamed to be an American

This is gut wrenching. Ukraine is standing between Russia and Europe. That nutter in Russia isn’t going to stop at Ukraine. He’ll go until someone can stop him.

Come on G.O.P., get your crap together and defend democracy. Oh, right, you no longer care about that.

Ananya Bhattacharya • Quartz

Spotify is ending 2023 with its third and biggest layoffs of the year

Man, 2023 has been a crummy year for tech workers. Here’s hoping 2024 is much, much, better.

James Verniere • Boston Herald

“Leave the World Behind,” which is based on a 2020 novel by American author Rumaan Alam and produced by among others Barrack and Michelle Obama, is nothing less than a modern-day version of Alfred Hitchcock’s unforgettable 1963 hit “The Birds.”

I watched this last night and I really liked it. If you have Netflix check it out.

Ashur Cabrera

Once upon a time — way back in, like, 2004 or something — I used to turn my nose up at sites that served an RSS feed with only an excerpt. It felt, I think I would have said, like a sleazy way to drive clicks. (“Information wants to be free!” etc. 🙄) Twenty years on I still read a ton from RSS feeds, but I found recently that I’m starting to thaw on that position quite a bit.

Ashur, what happened to the curmudgeon in you? 😃

As a developer of a feed reader I get request to display the full article and it’s what I prefer so I don’t have to visit the website. That’s a feature on the feature list for Stream. One of these days.

Bart Decrem • Mammoth Blog

Introducing Mammoth 2: The easiest way quit Twitter/X for good and join Mastodon

It’s nice to see developers strive to make Mastodon work for old Twitter, non techie, users to get started with Mastodon. That’s been the biggest barrier to entry. Folks can’t figure out how to join and they also tend to like recommendations.

Jacob Kastrenakes • The Verge

Earlier this year, a developer slid into Eric Migicovsky’s DMs with a spectacular claim: that he had reverse engineered Apple’s iMessage, allowing any device — Android, Windows, whatever — to send messages as a blue bubble. Migicovsky didn’t believe what he was reading.

This is an interesting read. Bravo to the 16-year old who figured it out!

Daring Fireball

But Overcast does exist, and it’s the app where most people with exquisite taste in UI are listening to podcasts.

Poor Castro has languished and definitely doesn’t have the geek recognition Overcast does. I’d imagine that’s why it’s the number one podcast player in John’s stats.

As far as UI preferences and paradigm go, Castro fits me better.

I’d love to be able to buy it from Tiny and keep working on it. I’ve already shared my opinion on the matter.

Aldous J Pennyfarthing • Daily Kos

House Speaker Mike Johnson, whose grand vision for America includes transforming every uterus in the country into a Pez dispenser, is convinced he’s the North American Moses who will lead his people to the Promised Land.

Yeah, this guy wants a theocracy. No thank you.

Sure, the Christians might agree with you but what about Jews, Muslims, Buddhists? Name your religion. It’s not right. Our First Amendment was setup to protect us from a theocracy, but we all know the G.O.P. doesn’t really care about the Constitution.

Susana Polo • Polygon

The Comixology app, the mobile incarnation of the digital comics platform owned by Amazon since 2014, has finally shuffled off this mortal coil.

I’ve had ComiXology for a number of years but I never went for the subscription. I just don’t read enough. I don’t see this as a bad move. Comics are just another type of book and the Kindle App is fine for reading.

ESPN

While four teams are celebrating the opportunity to play for a national title on the field, undefeated ACC champion Florida State is on the outside, becoming the first unbeaten Power 5 conference winner to ever miss out on the College Football Playoff.

This broke a lot of hearts and it’s a real shame the 12 team — why not 16 — playoff wasn’t in place this year.

Of course I say that and my own thoughts on the matter didn’t include Florida State.

I also thought Georgia should have been in. Off by one error. We got Alabama from the SEC instead.

Apple

Apple TV+ today shared the first images from “Constellation,” a new eight-part, conspiracy-based psychological thriller drama starring Noomi Rapace (“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” “You Won’t Be Alone”) and Emmy Award nominee Jonathan Banks (“Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul”).

So, yeah, I’m looking forward to this! Anything with Noomi Rapace in it is good in my book.

Danijela Vrzan

Let’s implement a custom dark mode color in our app - dark blue.

Really nice SwiftUI article on how to change the colors used for Light and Dark mode for your app. Well done.

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"É impossível que algo se torne o que de forma alguma é." Empédocles

Sobre a essência das coisas. ✍️

“Conhece-te a ti mesmo.” Sócrates ✍️

"Até onde podemos discernir, o único propósito da existência humana é lançar uma luz nas trevas do mero ser." Carl Jung ✍️

"Acho que estamos todos presos em nossas armadilhas e nenhum de nós consegue sair. Usamos nossas garras e unhas no vazio, umas com as outras. E, por tudo isso, nunca mudamos nosso modo de agir." Alfred Hitchcock escritor de Psicose ✍️

“…certeza, certeza de verdade, ninguém tem.” Graciliano Ramos ✍️

"Entre o que eu penso, o que quero dizer, o que digo e o que você ouve, o que você quer ouvir e o que você acha que entendeu, há um abismo." Alejandro Jodorowsky ✍️

"Nunca existiu uma grande inteligência sem uma veia de loucura. " Aristóteles​ ✍️

"Para ver muita coisa é preciso despregar os olhos de si mesmo." Friedrich Nietzsche ✍️

"Todas as coisas nesse mundo se comportam como espelhos". Jacques Lacan ✍️

“Se a maioria de nós permanece ignorante de nós mesmos, é porque o autoconhecimento é doloroso e nós preferimos os prazeres da ilusão.” Aldous Huxley ✍️

“Qualquer um que comporte-se acordado da mesma maneira que se comporta nos sonhos será visto como louco.” Sigmund Freud ✍️

"O homem é, antes de tudo um animal que julga." Friedrich Nietzsche ✍️

"O que me incomoda não é como as coisas são, mas como as pessoas pensam que as coisas são." Epicteto ✍️

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February 2023 Media Breakdown

Movies:

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - Martin McDonagh

Catherine Called Birdy (2022) - Lena Dunham

The Princess Diaries (2001) - Garry Marshall

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) - Garry Marshall

Barbarian (2022) - Zach Cregger

TÁR (2022) - Todd Field

Mangrove (2020) - Steve McQueen

Fresh Dressed (2015) - Sacha Jenkins

Buckjumping (2018) - Lily Keber

Paris is Burning (1990) - Jennie Livingston

The Girl from Chicago (1932) - Oscar Micheaux

Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang

Marnie (1964) - Alfred Hitchcock

It Happened One Night (1934) - Frank Capra

Titanic (1997) - James Cameron

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021) - John Maggio

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997) - Robert Iscove

A View to a Kill (1985) - John Glen

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1994) - Marlon Riggs

The Birds (1963) - Alfred Hitchcock

Knock at the Cabin (2023) - M. Night Shyamalan

La passion de Jeanne d’Arc (The Passion of Joan of Arc) (1928) - Carl Theodore Dreyer

Castle in the Sky (1986) - Hayao Miyazaki

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - Shaka King

Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Rian Johnson

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) - Yoshiaki Kawajiri

TV Shows:

The Last of Us - Season 1, Episodes 4-7 (2023)

Books: Completed

The Lord of Opium (2009) - Nancy Farmer

A Darker Shade of Magic (2015) - V.E. Schwab

Ariadne (2021) - Jennifer Saint

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022) - Gabrielle Zevin

If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) - James Baldwin

Brave New World (1932) - Aldous Huxley

Fire & Blood: A History of the Targaryen Kings from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III (2018) - George R.R. Martin

A Court of Thorns and Roses (2015) - Sarah J. Maas

The Bluest Eye (1970) - Toni Morrison

Borne (2017) - Jeff VanderMeer

Books: In Progress

Bitterblue (2012) - Kristin Cashore | 18%

Six of Crows (2015) - Leigh Bardugo | 5%

Crime and Punishment (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky | 18%

Top 3 Albums:

Live At The Cafe Rouge (2010) - Artie Shaw | jazz

Kick in the Teeth (2023) - Hippo Campus | indie rock

flounder (2023) - quinnie | indie rock/alternative

Crafts:

Made so much plarn and crocheted 4 plarn tote bags from it