Myrna Loy utters those immortal dinner party lines - “The Thin Man” (1934)
“Waiter, will you serve the nuts?
I mean, will you serve the guests the nuts?”
Michael Caine in The Ipcress File (1965, dir. Sidney J. Furie) (via)
Tamara de Lempicka
Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti, 1925, oil on wood, private collection.
Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish Art Deco painter and “the first woman artist to be a glamour star.” Her distinctive and bold artistic style developed quickly (influenced most probably by “soft cubism”) and epitomized the cool yet sensual side of the Art Deco movement. She thought that many of the Impressionists drew “badly” and employed “dirty” colors. De Lempicka’s technique would be novel, clean, precise, and elegant. She became one of the most fashionable portrait painters of her generation among the aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites. Through her network of friends, she was able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era.
“I’ll be your Huckleberry”
Field Columbian Museum Moon Model
Field Columbian Museum West Court Alcove 103. 1898. Moon Model Prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Germany, in 1898. Made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal. Wood floor, security Guard in uniform in background, stairs leading up to the left. Sign above door, “Geology,” not completely visible.
plaque émaillée Aqmé by Yannick Corboz
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“You’re dearer to me than all the bats in all the caves in the world”
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Spione 1927/28 - Director: Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Willy Fritsch
Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German “thriller” director Fritz Lang.
all the images are great but I love that “I’m on to you” blink
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Michael Caine by Terry O’Neill (1968)
i didn’t even know other people liked poirot
HOW COULD ANYONE NOT LOVE POIROT?
+1, Poirot is the best!
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Knowledge is Power
Photograph of WWI cryptographers, 1918. Using bilateral cypher with their body positions, the soldiers are forming an intended coded phrase, “knowledge is power”.
more here.
Bacon’s biliteral cypher can also be read in the context of binary text encoding. Impressive.
