curious things.

a miscellany. vintage. history. art. words. handmade. books. cinema. objects. playthings. abandonment. decay. nature. creatures. stories. characters, real and imagined. creativity...my own and other people's. anything that ignites a spark.

[theashenphoenix]

三船敏郎 // MIFUNE TOSHIRO 醉いどれ天使 // Drunken Angel (1948)

[pureanonofficial]

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome Fremde, étranger, stranger Glücklich zu sehen, je suis enchanté Happy to see you Bleibe, reste, stay

CABARET (1972) dir. Bob Fosse.

[sovietpostcards]

Vintage Russian Back to school postcards 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[londongramer]

Coming soon… #Greenwich is going to be special when the #CherryBlossom explodes! 🌸🌸🌸 And @tmnikonian always nails it! ☺️☺️🙏🏼 // #thisislondon #london #greenwichpark https://ift.tt/2HOsVES

[your-lovers-and-drifters]

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, 1947

[cinemawithoutpeople]

Cinema without people: The Great Beauty (2013, Paolo Sorrentino, dir.)

[nypl]

Telling Time on New Year’s Eve: Why the First Ball Was Dropped in Times Square

On New Year’s Eve all clocks are synchronized for the epitome of countdowns. The clinking of champagne glasses and the first kiss of the New Year will all be coordinated to the descent of a 12-foot-wide glowing geodesic sphere stationed on top of One Times Square. When all of its 11,875 pounds reach the bottom of its pole, we will know that the New Year has officially begun.

It wasn’t always that way. But thanks to a time-honored tradition involving a lowered ball, a one-shot opening celebration has morphed into a spectacle that attracts one million revelers to Times Square each year.

Read more here.

(Image via NYPL Digital Collections; ID 1587992)

[weirdvintage]

Ted Sears was an animator at Disney during its “Golden Age”. He worked on films such as Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Dumbo.  His artistic spirit inspired him to create these pre-photoshop photomanipulative Christmas cards featuring his family in the 1940s.  (via)

[cinemawithoutpeople]

Cinema without people: Citizen Kane (third pass) (Orson Welles, dir.)

[cinemawithoutpeople]

If I quit Tumblr because I’m mad about their adult content ban, this would make a good final post

[humansofnewyork]

“I lived in chaos for a long time, but I’ve been sober for thirty years.  And I’ve got a tremendous amount of gratitude for that.  Right now I have no money, no job, and no man.  But I’ve never been happier.  Because my only addictions are chocolate ice cream, feeling good, and gossip.”

[hashtagloveloses]

tumblr users: please ban the Nazis

tumblr: if you post a tiddy you’ll be deleted on sight

[mysharona1987]

[blackcatcuriosities]

Same.

[redlipstickresurrected]

Nicolas Martin (French, b. 1980, Paris, France, based Montreal, Canada) - 1: Long Nights, 2018  2: L'Entrée Rose , 2017  3: La Porte Rose, 2016 from Cinemascope series  4: Parisian Staircase  5: Midnight  6: La Baignoire aux Vitraux (The Stained Glass Bathtub), 2016  7: The Living Room  8: Old Stairway  9: Dimanche (Sunday), 2017  10: Peggy’s Stairs, 2016 from Cinemascope series  Paintings: Oil on Panel/Canvas/Linen

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Real talk, though, because it needs to be said: as much as we all joke that porn was the only good thing this place had left, the reality is that it being the only place where one could regularly engage with and promote sexual content being gone is really not understanding at all what makes this place special. I mean we all joke about “horny on main” and all that, but the reality is that for a lot of the LGTBQ+ community, particularly younger members still discovering themselves and members in extremely homophobic environments where most media sites were banned (but Tumblr wasn’t even considered important enough to be), this was a bastion of information and self-expression. For a lot of artists too, this was a great place to come and post NSFW work and get traction that became Patreon pages that became honest jobs. The problem with “family friendly” social media is that more often than not, the ones hit  the most by the whole family friendly nonsense are marginalized groups that have no vehicles to express themselves. Stuff like YouTube consistently bans or flags simple content featuring something as innocuous as two men kissing as “adult” content and makes it hard for LGBTQ+ content creators to compete with their non-queer peers for a lot of those reasons. The ultimate problem isn’t even that banning of NSFW content, it’s the general mess surrounding it and unintended consequences to these groups. For MONTHS Tumblr has had a huge problem with porn spam bots and outright child pornography, and for MONTHS the majority of the userbase has been in general consensus that both of these things needed to stop. Tumblr did NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. When Apple finally removed their app from the store, SPECIFICALLY because of the child pornography, Tumblr decided to do what any rich corporation owning a social media site with zero understanding of what makes it popular would do, and decided that the best course of action was to eat itself like an Ouroboros. Rather than admit that they have done an absolutely shit job at keeping pedophiles off this website and rather than hiring the necessary staff to carefully moderate content, they decided to loose a poorly programmed bot that literally deleted perfectly SFW blogs with thousands of followers, and rather than properly handling moderation, they decided that it was best to simply go the lazy route and block anything even remotely NSFW. They run this site in the worst way possible, and I don’t understand how @support or @staff or their completely oblivious “CEO” plans to keep this sinking ship alive.

[wehadfacesthen]

Amen…

[seattlemysterybooks]

Agreed. Already there have been posts about their mundane material being flagged. One site had their Mark Rothkos flagged. Someone is urging a “turn off tumblr” initiative on 12/17. Fine. But I would like to know where to go and how to move my entire collection of pulp imagery.

I look forward to suggestions.

[seattlemysterybooks]

Tumblr is banning adult content, and it's already not going over well

Tumblr announced Monday that it is banning adult content. CEO Jeff D'Onofrio said the move was meant to promote "a better, more positive Tumblr."

[blackcatcuriosities]

Censorship is vile.

[fallout-4-reactions]

Reblog to show your support for NSFW Artists, who deserve better than having their art censored/removed because of a badly thoughtout idea