mr_tulip

[dee-seejay]

How to deal with an entrenched propaganda machine: interview number 1. More power to you Magyar Péter.

[lafolie99-deactivated20140515]

The reason I played bass

[dee-seejay]

A very much underrated hairdo besides all that bass playing. Shame he ended up doing a Keith the Bass and turning something so enigmatic and sexy into kind of a turn-off. A bloke who calls himself Baz on guitar i mean really :/

[sacredwhores]

Don Hertzfeldt - It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

[dorothea-tanning-blog]

Key Work: “Children’s Games” by Dorothea Tanning

“Children’s Games”

Wall paper takes the form of blue, lively flames as it is torn from the wall by two young girls. (1) What is revealed is striking and puzzling body parts that ambiguously form a stomach and a vagina. (2) These two body parts sit on the wall like pieces of art, almost rectangular in shape. The one that is like a vagina has one of the young girl’s hair inserted in it. The long curly hair is suspended above the child’s head to reveal an unusual outfit. Her dress seems to be open in the back from her neck to her buttocks. This cut out is shaped like a tree. The roots reach through the wrinkles of her skirt and her hair becomes branches blowing in the wind. (3) The other figure in a light blue dress that is fuller than the other child’s. It does not weigh her down. It is lively, possessing the qualities of flames that the torn wallpaper has. There is a third figure that could be missed completely. Half of what seems to be a child’s legs laying on the ground protrudes from the bottom of the image. Without the visual of the rest of the body, the viewer is left wondering why she is lying there. When your eyes make it past the girls, further into the dark hallway you see what appears a doorway. (4) It is open with blue sky and possibly a landscape of sorts. There seems to be hope within the chaotic, disturbing scene.

(1) The energy of this piece, the feeling that so many elements are moving, makes it feel almost cinematic and really adds to the “unreal” nature of the piece.

(2) Tanning is interested in the body and sexuality especially in conjunction with “innocent” girls. 

(3) This unusual outfit choice adds to the dream-like quality of the painting. The morphing of a girl’s dress into a tree form would only present itself in a dream.

(4) Playing with space and doorways seems to be in reference to other Surrealist paintings where there is a montage style of objects and figures within an open, endless landscape. It feels similar to Salvador Dali’s work. 

[dee-seejay]

Dorothea Tanning; Children's Games; 1942

Just sold at auction for $5 million.

[dee-seejay]

A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return

[dee-seejay]

[dee-seejay]

THE MEKONS teeth 1980

[moonsceptre]

Recently I read that Tim Burton and Monica Bellucci love Federico Fellini movies.

Burton said Beetlejuice’s origin story was like the prologue to a Fellini movie, so it had to be told in black and white and Italian with an overall visual style like those in Fellini's movies.

One of Fellini's most successful films, Toby Dammit (1968), looks like it could have possibly inspired the appearance of Betelgeuse? Just a little hunch I had, since it seems Lydia's design was inspired by the witch in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), another giallo movie which Betelgeuse's backstory takes reference from :)

Toby Dammit is a film about a debauched actor who is tormented by the devil, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. It could be totally off, but watching this film, his unique look, the painted white face, bleached hair and purple-shadowed eyes kept reminding me of Betelgeuse's appearance, especially now that we have seen his backstory.

It's interesting to watch all of the films that inspired Tim and infer what elements each piece of cinema contributed to his unique style, from visual motifs to narrative themes and character design.

[eyeronmaus]

But it's not true I'm a great actor. No, it's not true, it's not true. I could've been. I could've been, but I haven't worked for over a year. My last director...my last director complained because he said I was drunk. I don't know why I'm telling you this. I often go on a crying binge when I'm drunk. I don't know, it's, uh, it's the wine - it makes me sad. It's too luminous, you know? Now, whisky...whisky's tooooo...it's so cloudy. It's great!" Terence Stamp as Toby Dammit (1968, Spirits of the Dead)

[teenagedirtstache]

Dolce & Gabbana pull collo alto in cotone a coste

[labella-instagram]

[publicdomainreview]

Scottish-born inventor Alexander Graham Bell — who died #onthisday in 1922 — goes to kiss his wife Mabel while she stands in one of his spectacular tetrahedral kites. See more of these wonderful creations (and the kiss realised) in our post here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/alexander-graham-bell-s-tetrahedral-kites-1903-9 #OTD

[dee-seejay]

Anaïs Nin, 1942 by Soichi Sunami

[dee-seejay]

[lesbianestellahavisham]

I’m never going to get over the fact that THIS is what she pulled up in to kill the president of the United States

[lisamarie-vee]

[rynn-jacobs]

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sandra Good as wood nymphs photographed by Charles Manson (with a color camera stolen from Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys) at Spahn Ranch and in a Californian redwood forest, period 1968.