Let’s all just take a deep breath and look at this sweet illustration of cats, birds, and mice working together to distill some perfumery ingredients.
“Attention! Fleurs Fragiles”
Image via Fragonard.
Category: Just Because
VOTE! Election Day 2016
Just before Election Day 2008, I purchased these three buttons at a Gap location near my Manhattan workplace. The Gap had invited ten artists to create buttons incorporating the word “VOTE,” and the resulting designs were selling for $5 apiece. (A dollar from each sale was donated to the voter-registration initiative Declare Yourself.) The artists were Fab5Freddy, John Baldessari, Adam Pendleton, Kara Walker, Nate Lowman, John Waters, Deborah Kass, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Laurie Simmons, and Sean Landers.
I purchased buttons from three artists: Assume Vivid Astro Focus (the psychedelic letters playing on Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE), Kara Walker (the silhouette of a girl’s head), and Laurie Simmons (the cat figurines). I wish I had bought a full set.
A lot has changed over the past eight years. A lot has not changed. Remember to vote today if you’re registered.
Things that Make You Go Hmmm…John Coolidge in CULTURED Magazine
I was flipping through a copy of Cultured Magazine at work, and I paused at this page. I’m really not the demographic for this slick publication, and I don’t know anything about photographer-turned potter John Coolidge and his partner, “painter and creative director” David Burgoyne. But the photo of these two, by Coolidge, caught my eye.
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Happy Labor Day
With thanks to all those who came before us and fought for fair treatment, equal opportunity, and a living wage.
Lewis Wickes Hine (American, 1874-1940). [Untitled] (Women Making Stockings), 1936-1937. Gelatin silver photograph. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the National Archives, 79.143.136 Photo: Brooklyn Museum.
Gene Wilder (1922-2016)
Of course we all loved him in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (as pictured above!) but my absolute favorite Gene Wilder memory is my earliest one: his appearance as The Fox in “The Little Prince.”
Click here to view a short scene from the film (1974, directed by Stanley Donen and based on the classic story by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry).
Thank you, Mr. Wilder. Farewell.
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