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Beth Moon

Dragon's Blood Tree (Dracaena cinnabari)

A very young Jim Danforth (b.1940), of Project Unlimited, at work on the stop-motion animation of the sea monster for the film Jack the Giant Killer (1962).

Principal photography on the film ended in August, 1960, and post-production effects work took ten more months, so this photo is from sometime in 1961, when Danforth was 20 or 21 years-old.

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There are about three scans of this painting I know of, all bad. It’s likely an issue of it not being photographed for years but the pictorial descriptive we read don’t quite fit for any version. This one has orange, and purple but it seems magenta. It’s a bit distressed. There’s a dark version and a light one, very pink. The light one is more lower resolution than this.

I suspect this is the closest of the three, all are gallery sources. Someday we’ll get a good one, and i don’t post this one (and many others) much as i wait for better materials, but occasionally it’s nice to look at something we don’t see all the time, however imperfect.

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The komusō (literally “priest of nothingness” or “monk of emptiness”) were a group of Zen Buddhist mendicant monks who wandered the roads of Edo period Japan. They would play elaborate tunes on their bamboo flutes as they begged for alms, their faces (and thus, their ego) completely concealed by a distinctive hood woven from straws or reeds. Unsurprisingly, many were recruited as spies or were actually ninja or ronin in disguise, and eventually their temples and their schools were abolished for meddling in material affairs instead of spiritual ones.

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Andreas Feininger

Coney Island, 1948.

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Gio Ponti

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49 years ago today

Johnny Rotten and Johnny Ramone backstage at the Roundhouse in London before a Ramones show (with Talking Heads and The Saints as support acts) on June 6, 1977.