Monthly Archives: February 2013

Animated Laughter and the Perfect Tableau Vivant

David Brody follows the trail of interwoven fiction, fact, the tableau vivant, and art in Nabokov, Bruegel, Disney, Eve Sussman, Lech Majewski, and others Vladimir Nabokov’s 1938 novel Laughter in the Dark begins with an art collector daydreaming about financing … Continue reading

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Bikers in the City

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The Grand Adventure of Vera Caspary

In Vera Caspary’s absorbing autobiography The Secrets of Grown-Ups (1979) recounting her life as a writer, she avows, “This has been the century of The Woman and I know myself fortunate to have been part of the revolution. In another … Continue reading

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UNDER THE BASILICA OF ST. THÉRÈSE, LISIEUX

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On the Street in Amsterdam with Van Gogh and Snow

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Rilo Kiley – “Silver Lining”

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Shortfim “d”

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Jimmy Reed – Take Out Some Insurance

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NEW WORK FROM STINKFISH IN BOLIVIA

Stinkfish created this beautiful portrait just outside of the small town of Uyuni in southern Bolivia. It’s an awesome place of around 2 km of old trains abandoned in the middle of a desert. The piece is based on a … Continue reading

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Laura Callaghan’s Cool Literate Women

First spied on Flavorwire, Callaghan is an Irish illustrator based in South East London. Her work is hand drawn using a mixture of watercolor, india ink and the smallest pens she can get her hands on. She’s also the current … Continue reading

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