J.M.M.

A catalog of oddities, fascinations, and sundry ephemera

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Punk is Dad

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“She was beautiful; there is no denying that. And her looks captured the zeitgeist of her day: strong but feminine, pale but with lively rosey skin. For the next near-decade, Audrey posed for a litany of different works of art. Her face was slathered onto canvas, woven into tapestries, and chiseled out of stone.”

Audrey Munson, “Miss Manhattan”

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David Bowie and Tilda Swinton swap costumes from Bowie's The Stars (Are Out Tonight) video

Photo via Reddit

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STREET ART UTOPIA

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This beautiful fresco adorns the exterior of the La Bibliotèque De La Cité (Library of the City) in Lyon, France.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation gag reel from season two's recent Blu-ray release. That's Gene Roddenberry in the last clip, on the left.

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"I Am Who They Were" necklace by Ashley Gilreath, 2011. From the artist's site:

This necklace was made to represent the memory of my grandparent's long staircase in their house. I want the viewer to see my history as the necklace wraps around, and to feel the sensation of climbing up and down the stairs as the images of my family line the walls. More importantly, I wanted my skin to show through as my family's skin, so that my stories, my life and who I am as an individual is shown as the sum of all of the people that came before me. I casted dollhouse frames from sterling silver and bronze, and printed my family directly onto the glass. I created a box clasp mechanism to support the weight of my loved ones.

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Grumpy cat graffiti by Paul Walsh

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Fritz Lang was born on this date in 1890. Check out this photograph from the making of METROPOLIS via the Criterion Collection.

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From Star Trek: The Next Generation 365 by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann. Click to embiggen.

Via liz-in-time-saves-nine, via brent-miller

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An 11-year-old David Lynch meets Vincent Price, via Reddit.

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The Sadness of Pain au chocolat, by @utterben

HT to my friend at TwentyFourBit

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Yohji Yamamoto flagship store in Paris by Sophie Hicks

Photo by Johannes Marburg

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Henri the Existential Cat on politics, via the Daily What

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Photo by Steve Irvine, via National Geographic. Their description:

Fluttering wings leave lacy trails as moths beat their way to a floodlight on a rural Ontario lawn. The midsummer night’s exposure, held for 20 seconds, captured some of the hundreds of insects engaged in a nocturnal swarm.

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Fact of the Day:

Prior to proposing to Emma Wedgwood, Charles Darwin did a cost-benefit analysis of marriage, with one of the deficits listed as “less money for books.”

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"The Olympic Ticket Scalper," with Sir Patrick Stewart, Maisie Williams, Simon Pegg and Ryan Lochte