December 2009
17 posts
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in...”
– Shirley Temple (via feastingonroadkill) (via clingtomymouth)
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i don’t believe in christmas, but i’m proud to say this year we’re upgrading from the usual chinese takeout and a movie to persian food and er…persian food. mmm!
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mirrors
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images -Jean Cocteau
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those eyes, that mouth
Baya Mahieddine
Dolce and Gabbana
These shoes are the stuff of dreams! They conjure up so many different images for me, but mostly the art of Algerian surrealist Baya Mahieddine, who was a self taught orphan born in the Kabylie region, adopted by French parents and admired by Pablo Picasso and Andre Breton.
Her use of sensuous broad lines, highly saturated colors and symbols make her one...
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gilded
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snow angels
unknown photographer, 1880
felice beato
raimund von stillfried, 1885
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a few years ago i was wandering around the lower east side looking for a the fed-ex store with my package. i managed to go to new york leaving all of my shoes behind. there are a million fex-ex stores on houston, and in the middle of my search i found myself walking behind david bowie and iman.
i was reared on bowie. mom was a bowie fan before i was even born. and being african, iman was like...
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"we share the same fantasies, the same madnesses
it’s winter. i am continuously drawn to a particular type of beauty, something silent, seduction without desperation.
lashes and lips
the smell of lipstick, smoke, and isolation.
deceptively strong cheekbones and shoulders, a spinx gaze.
laughing at us, with us
but this rare breed of beauty always dies too young.
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by...
“Few things aside, a side
Didn’t we, did not we
Have a good, good time?”
– star of david by the field mice
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the life of an amorous woman
“Carnal pleasure between man and woman is but the mutual embrace of stinking bones.”
“…regain your purity of heart…”
ihara saikaku, 1686
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or/light
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