°˖✧~aesthetic™~✧˖°

A sideblog for stuff I like the look of.

[yesterdaysprint]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 20, 1908

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Black Lizard (Kinji Fukasaku, 1968)  

[pierppasolini]

Die Betörung der blauen Matrosen (1975) // dir. Ulrike Ottinger, Tabea Blumenschein

[talesfromthecrypts]

Harry Melling and Karl Glusman in Please Baby Please (2022)

[boozerman]

STRAY — (10/?)

[windsweptinred]

CHRISTIAN DIOR COUTURE Diorient Express - Fall/Winter 1998

[oaksfordreblogs]

Yoshida Hiroshi (1876-1950)

Ukiyo-e, Shin Hanga style woodblock prints 

[taissaifarmiga]

In a small village on the Dutch border, a mysterious hypnotist, Dr. Caligari, arrives accompanied by the sleepwalker Cesare, who is supposed to have been asleep for 23 years. At night, Cesare roams the city, fulfilling the dire predictions of his master, Dr. Caligari.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) dir. Robert Wiene

[dirchristophernolan]

Mandy Patinkin as Avigdor

YENTL 1983 | dir. Barbra Streisand

[awidevastdominion]

TIL: the massive and still unfinished ‘Chronicles of Georgia’ monument (a.k.a. the Tbilisi Stonehenge) in Tbilisi, Georgia.

[arinewman7]

Skull of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette

Vincent van Gogh

oil on canvas, ca. 1885–86

[distantvoices]

Oliver Hadlee Pearch photographs MaRock, Botswana’s leather cowboy metal subculture for i-D Magazine Winter 2022

[desimonewayland]

Basil Clavering (1910-1973)

An archive of homoerotic photographs, 1950s-1960s

Clavering was a successful businessman, and owned the Gala-Royale cinema chain. More as a hobby than anything else, he established a photographic studio in the basement of his Pimlico home, with his friend John Charles Parkhurst (1927-2000). Both men had served in the Navy, and they were drawn to the military men around the Hyde Park and Chelsea barracks, whom they paid to model for them. The studio operated under two names, Royale and Hussar, and Clavering sold the photographs by mail order. The images are profoundly erotic, despite there being no frontal nudity. Models are occasionally depicted solo, but more often in groups, and scenarios involve uniform, military and naval discipline, wrestling, light bondage and spanking - somehow always in a mood of levity and playfulness. Clavering met Tom of Finland, and several images from a biker series echo the Finn’s work; in 1957 Studio Hussar even commissioned a series of drawings from him.

Bonhams

[ihavealavalamp]

The Screaming Man // 2022

          … The pose of this particular sculpture was decided based on the prompt of impact; I wanted the posture and expression to perhaps startle the viewer, to convey the sense of someone screaming for help and reaching out a hand in desperation. I wanted to make it visceral, for audiences to feel uneasy when they see it and get a rush of emotion that will remain with them even after they walk away.            Ideally, this sculpture would be shown in an area that is wooded, where one may not see it at first. It is that jolt of recognition of the human form that would catch the attention of any accidental audience members, that realization that somebody has been silently screaming for help right in the corner of your eye and you hadn’t even noticed. That it could have easily gone unnoticed and unheard, but now your attention is impossible to deny, that it is too late to plead ignorance without remembering what you saw, what cry for help you had no choice but to walk away from.           There is a meaning in that shame. It means something to me, and I know it means something to you as well. Something about guilt and helplessness and learned apathy, but I wish to let audiences decide what specific meaning it has to them. The type of impact is unique on the person, after all - at the end of the day, the screaming man is simply a man made out of sticks. Nothing more, nothing less. Not unless more is given, if one chooses to take the hand reaching out.

[pwlanier]

INCREDIBLE GROUP OF NINETEEN HANDWROUGHT AND DECORATED ALUMINUM HARD HATS.

mid-20th century

These are such a cool example of industrial folk art. They were presented to employees at their retirement or some other significant accomplishment.

This would take along time to accumulate a collection of this size.

These are usually from the oil, gas and energy sectors with occasional mining ones found.

Bonhams

[neil-gaiman]

1996 photos (a Polaroid and the proposed cover) that were meant to have been on the cover of Wired magazine in the UK. I think I preferred the one they finally used from a different part of the photoshoot because it was impossible to see what I looked like in it, so I was on the cover of a magazine and anonymous at the same time. But these were sweet. I guess they would have painted out the wires if they had used one of them.

[tobiasrieper]

Time to breathe life back into Paradise.