Stuff & Nonsense

My name's Rebecca Hayes and I'm an illustrator / animator / designer from Melbourne, posting stuff and nonsense of interest, amusement and inspiration.

[gameraboy]

I’m a lonesome cowboy.

Peanuts, July 24, 1953

[rebecca-kay]

Recent commission of a cutie patootie 

[antoinemaillard]

Springtime’s Not-So-Peaceable Kingdom , Illustration for the New York Times Sunday Review about an article of Margaret Renkl. Art Director : Alexandra Zsigmond Article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/opinion/sunday/springtimes-not-so-peaceable-kingdom.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[natgeofound]

President and Mrs. Johnson and Vice President Humphrey watch Apollo 11 lift off at Cape Canaveral, July 1969.Photograph by Otis Imboden, National Geographic

[natgeofound]

Fashion students add last touches to models’ wild peacock costumes in Vienna, Austria, February 1959. Photograph by Volkmar K. Wentzel, National Geographic

[elisacunningham]

Sketches from a trip to Cornwall last week. 

[natgeofound]

Traffic lights are made in Shreveport, Louisiana, and sent around the U.S. and abroad, December 1947. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

[natgeofound]

Portrait of two young men dressed up as chinelos for carnival in Tepotzotlan, Mexico, December 1951.Photograph by Justin Locke, National Geographic

[natgeofound]

A child sitting on a Hereford bull near Pleasanton, California, 1926. Photograph by Charles Martin, National Geographic Creative

[natgeofound]

Women sit for a portrait in Salzburg, Austria, 1929. Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic Creative

[gameraboy]

Peanuts, August 20, 1952

[thevortexofourminds]

Buster Keaton in “The Haunted House”

[maliatale]

“The management regrets to inform you that the shampoo is not tear-free. If anything, it encourages tears.” - A Series of Unfortunate Events (2017- )

[laurentamaki]

Duro Olowu SS17

[mudwerks]

Landen en Volken III, j 20 klederdrachten- Schwarzwald

[legrandcirque]

“Una partita a poker” - a crucial scene from the opera Puccini, 1910. Left to right: Emmy Destinn, Enrico Caruso, and Pasquale Amato.

Source: Svetozor magazine, 20 January 1911

[nguanblr]

from the series “Singapore”