Thursday, June 25, 2009

What's Black & Red & White All Over?

It's a testament to Paco Peregrin's art direction that I find his gothglam post Pierre Et Gilles lite fashion photography even more pleasing in it's over-decorated simplicity than his born 'n bred romance novel name.







Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Gotta' Catch 'Em All...

I realize I'm risking cute overload here, what with the fractured fairy tales, Ponyo & the Vivianne Westwood mantis below, but c'mon, could you resist a pack of Pokepups!?!





http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195139/Gotta-catch-The-Pok-mon-cubs-receive-public-showing-Tokyo-Zoo.html

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

BugBitchBud

Just because she's going to bite your head off after dessert, that doesn't mean she's dressing down for dinner.


(pictured: Pink Flower Mantis)

!PONYO!

I'm a mega Miyazaki fan, and have been waiting for this movie to come out - in Kids Sitting In The Back Seat Of The Car On A Road Trip Time - FOREVER!

So, you can imagine my pleasure when my coworkerfriend, The Former Madame Pompadour, told me that the theatrical trailer for Disney's release of it was posted this morning.







The link, as this isn't resizing correctly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiNB4epGxK8

A Closer Gander At Mother Goose

Deans Of London put out a series of Mother Goose rhyme books in the '70's that were gorgeously illustrated by the sisters Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone, whom, I can only imagine from their work, were either spinsters whose biological clock had a broken alarm off switch, or they'd been manhandled at a very early age by a thuggish hairy brute whose breathe reeked of turnips and tobacco; because all of their wee lads and young men were sorta'... girls.

Their haughty androgynous beauty projected an air of narcissistic self-satisfied smugness onto their accompanying rhymes...


...which are not wanting for pedohomoprostiphelic subtext for those who can read between the lines.


The rhymes with the prettiest ladyboys tended to revolve around the same themes: currency, compensation, and performance - usually performance compensated by currency.


These overly sophisticated street "boys" of course had their own language to discretely advertise their special skill sets, thus the hitherto unheard of "street wool seller"...


...and, in all the days of Fairyland, have you ever seen a more lecherous Old King Cole!?! The way he's eyeing those pages in their tights, legs spread wide in confident expectation; I've no doubt that night involved a bowl, fiddlin', a threesome, and the making of sweet music... even, if only for some, to earn a shiny bit and stave off the executioner.


Good thing he never saw Boy Bunting here, or else he'd be out his kingdom...


...though, as his father's gone a-hunting to fetch a rabbit skin wrap, maybe not such a good thing for the Boy after all.

The few men who weren't androgitutes, were either pretty boy gigolo's preying on wealthy old women...


...or eccentrically flame-buoyant, albeit mercilessly fickle, dandiegramp's.


Because, honestly, peeved as I'd have been to have such a flawlessly tailored ensemble ruined by the rain, I would have given Glouchester a second day.

Sturgia's Birthday Pigeon Pie!


Happy birthday Dan - I love ya'!







Monday, June 22, 2009

A Tisket, A Tasket...

Hazel Greensleaves


A wonderful photo that my friend Paul Bonomo took outside of Hazleton, PA.


Wall-E & Eva's daughter may not have inherited their good looks, but she can complete a Rubik's cube in 1.5 seconds!

Nick Fury's Tea Party

I've pimped this blog on Myspace before, but I like to check it out every once and again to see what's been added, and it never fails to surprise me (and all you micro hero haters out there, zip it!).

It's about Nick Fury.


Nick Fury and his friends.


Nick Fury and his enemies.






- and there are still about 400 micro hero pics of Nick Fury & his friends and ememies that you haven't seen!

http://www.iconian.com/fury/micro.html

In The Style 10/6

With Phoebe In Wonderland (which I've yet to get around to seeing) coming out on dvd tomorrow, and my posting Carol Channing's "Jam" song the other day, I guess I've got Alice on the mind.

These pics from Tim Burton's upcoming jump down the rabbit hole were just released, and I'm starting to get excited - though seeing it will mean breaking my recent oath to never never watch another Anne Hathaway film after the maddeningly annoying hell that was Rachel At The Wedding!




(as always, click the pics for a close-up)