Monday, June 28, 2010

serious scientist

"birching"

"He was not exaggerating when he called himself an admirer of the fair sex, and if I learn that you have yielded to his advances I will beat you.”
“I will take care that you don’t catch me, never fear.”

Artists/lovers part 2: Nobuyoshi and Yoki Araki

Araki's first published photography book was Sentimental Journey, a document of the honeymoon with his wife, Yoko.
She sold it to her co-workers.

kissing you red

Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
-letter from Sigmund Freud to his fiancee, Martha Bernays

Parsons & Cameron

Jack Parsons & Marjorie Cameron

Sunday, June 27, 2010

oskar kokoschka & alma mahler

Yesterday I sent a life-size drawing of my beloved and I ask you to copy this most carefully and to transform it into reality. Pay special attention to the dimensions of the head and neck, to the ribcage, the rump and the limbs. And take to heart the contours of body, e.g., the line of the neck to the back, the curve of the belly. Please permit my sense of touch to take pleasure in those places where layers of fat or muscle suddenly give way to a sinewy covering of skin. For the first layer (inside) please use fine, curly horsehair; you must buy an old sofa or something similar; have the horsehair disinfected. Then, over that, a layer of pouches stuffed with down, cottonwool for the seat and breasts. The point of all this for me is an experience which I must be able to embrace! Can the mouth be opened? Are there teeth and a tongue inside? I hope so!
-letter to Hermine Moos (dollmaker) from Oskar Kokoschka (painter)


Alma Mahler


Hermine Moos with the completed Alma doll




a more complete story is available here

ain't nobody's business

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Saturday, June 19, 2010

rik meets krampus

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

around this time, their bodies merged together

kodak fiends



from the commercial scrapbook School Friendship Book, copyright 1911

Monday, June 14, 2010

"Book of Harlem," by Zora Neale Hurston

"Mandolin journeyed on to Harlem...and each evening stood he before the Lafayette theatre and a-hemmed at the knees that passed."

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Artists/lovers part 1: Paul Eluard and Gala, 1912/13

"in fancy dress"

"I must say..."

"don't take this the wrong way, but that is a stupendous brassiere.  And your body is the most... photogenic..  that I have ever encountered."

John Willie's wife

John Willie's wife was the model for almost all of his drawings.

Friday, June 4, 2010

another John Willie gem

Jayne Mansfield and Anton LaVey


from Bizarre, issue no. 2

"Our parents and grandparents...thought nothing of the mere physical discomfort caused to a wife who was chained up, or tied securely to the bedpost to prevent her from going out to make whoopee..."

"The girl whose waist was squeezed in to such an extent that even breathing was difficult, whose arms were imprisoned in gloves so tight that she could scarcely bend them and could certainly pick up nothing with her fingers, and was always obviously in need of assistance, had 'oomph.'"

so you want to be a secretary


"This is a very good job you've done, Miss Ouzo. Thanks a lot."

aptly titled

Miss Love Suffocato, Part 2


a.k.a. Clara Bow

Miss Love Suffocato

aka Claudette Colbert