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Another photoshop piece. Somewhat similiar to the 'Orange Clouds' one but actually a different photo entirely. Those highlights in my hair are actually there, without the help of Photoshop. My eyes though, do not look like this is 'real life'. The look surprised me and reminded me of cat's eyes.
Sony a7RIII (ILCE-7MR3)/Sony FE 85mm F1.4 GM
Strobist Info: Godox AD600 in large softbox umbrella boomed
overhead, AD200 in medium softbox umbrella camera left for fill, AD200 with 1/2 stop CTO gel inside non working light for kicker and also as prop, fog machine used for effects
I'm going into deep to the belle epoque.
Today i've been in como to watch a beautiful exposition about that years.
This is my little tribute to the period with the vanity fair tiles that i think is the best match for this work...
take a look at it on a dark background press "L" on your keyboard
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This is a real photo of me in lingerie, done in the style of the classic Mark Shaw photography of Vanity Fair's advertisements from the 1950s and 1960s, an example of which can be seen here.
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This is the way I want men, especially older men attracted to gender-fluid, transgendered women, who want to have a live-in girlfriend like me.
Today the We’re Here! gang is playing What’s Wrong With This Picture?
I had an opportunity to visit the Museum of Art Fort Collins today on free admission day. Yay! The current exhibition is called “Picasso as Printmaker”. It was a difficult exhibition to photograph. The prints were close together, and under glass, which glared the overhead lights and other objects in the room back at the camera. But I did enjoy seeing these amazing works in person.
I was curious about the quote centered on the wall over the two prints above, and looked it up when I got home. I confirmed what I’d heard before - Picasso was a womanizer who left most of his lovers in emotional shambles.
The model on the right was Marie-Thérèse Walter, who became his mistress at 17. Picasso’s 1st wife, Olga Khokhlova, left him when Marie-Therese bore him a child. Marie-Therese committed suicide after Picasso’s death, 50 years after they met.
On the left we have Dora Maar, who was introduced to 55-year-old Pablo Picasso at the age of 29. She became his companion and muse, concurrent with his ongoing relationship with Marie-Therese. Her liaison with Picasso, who physically abused her and made her fight Marie-Therese Walter for his love, ended in 1943.
Over his life Picasso had two wives, six mistresses, and an array of short-term love affairs. “Women are machines for suffering,” Picasso told Françoise Gilot, his mistress after Maar. “For me there are only two kinds of women: goddesses and doormats.”
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/09/how-picasso-bled-t...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Maar
www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/05/picasso-mistress-201105
www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1997/07/26/dora-maar...
If you look at all sizes - original size, you will see me wink :)
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What a pain Flickr doesn't allow you to see gifs except if added as a HTML code in comments. Nuts.
So much could be done using animated Gifs like
www.tripwiremagazine.com/2011/07/cinemagraphs.html
Looking at
: www.vanityfair.com/culture/photos/2014/12/year-in-photos-...
and Listening To
Refuge du Plan de l'Aiguille, Aiguille du Midi le 28 janvier 2018, en hommage à Vanity fair ;-)
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A Sailing Kayak or Canoe? A folding Kayak similar to those manufactured by Hans Hart in Munich?
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Interesting history of Oskar Speck who travelled from Germany to Australia (1932-1939) in a Kayak. His reward from the Australian Government for making such a remarkable 7 year trip was to be thrown into a POW Camp for 6 years!
www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/01/from-nazi-germany-to-aus...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Speck
Hace unos meses Vanity Fair (http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/04/dylan.html) publicó un especial sobre Dylan, donde podemos encontrar esta infografía curiosa, con todo lo que, supuestamente, tiene Bob Dylan en su cabeza.
People have long wondered what goes on in Bob Dylan’s mind. But if you pay attention to what the recent Pulitzer Prize-winner says and plays on his XM satellite-radio program, Theme Time Radio Hour, you can actually get a pretty good idea. Here, by cataloguing the themes has chosen for the episodes, the artists he has favored, and Dylan’s other preferences and quirks, Vanity Fair has constructed a revealing portrait of America’s most enigmatic musician. Below is a near-exhaustive, up-to-date list, expanding on the version printed in our May issue.
The Voice
Ellen Barkin
The Themes
Weather, Mother, Drinking, Baseball, Coffee
Jail, Fathers, Wedding, Divorce, Summer
Flowers, Cars, Rich Man/Poor Man, The Devil, Eyes
Dogs, Friends & Neighbors, Radio, The Bible, Musical Maps
School, Telephone, Water, Time, Guns
Halloween, Dance, Sleep, Food, Thanksgiving Leftovers
Tennessee, Moon, Countdown, Christmas, Women’s Names
Hair, Musical Instruments, Luck, Tears, Laughter
Heart, Shoes, Color, Texas, Trains
Fools, New York, Death & Taxes, Spring Cleaning, Hello
Youth & Age, Days of the Week, California, Classic Rock, Cadillac
Head to Toe, Smokin’, Dreams, Party, Countdown
One, Walkin’, Around the World, Lock & Key, Mail
President’s Day, Doctors, Danger, Birds, Joe
Heat, Cold
Artists He Plays
Nine times: George Jones
Eight times: Tom Waits, Dinah Washington
Seven times: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Louis Armstrong, Van Morrison
Six times: Buddy Johnson, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Louis Jordan, Muddy Waters, Porter Wagoner, The Rolling Stones
Five times: Anita O’Day, Buck Owens, Howlin’ Wolf, James Brown, The Stanley Brothers
Four times: Bessie Smith, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Charlie Poole, Chuck Berry, Ella Johnson, Fats Domino, Fats Waller, Irma Thomas, June Christy, Little Walter, Loretta Lynn, Los Lobos, Prince Buster, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, Slim Gaillard, Smiley Lewis, Sonny Boy Williamson II, The Beatles, The Carter Family, The Everly Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Wynonie Harris
Three times: Bo Diddley, Bobbie Womack, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Etta James, Hank Ballard, Hank Penny, Hank Snow, Harry Nilsson, Huey “Piano” Smith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Rodgers, Johnny Tyler, Joni Mitchell, Lefty Frizzell, Lou Reed, Memphis Slim, Merle Haggard, Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies, Otis Redding, Ricky Nelson, Roy Brown, Roy Orbison, Ruth Brown, Ry Cooder, Sam Cooke, Sir Douglas Quintet, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Clash, The Drifters, The Ink Spots, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Staples Singers, Wanda Jackson, Warren Smith, Webb Pierce, Willie Nelson
Brothers
The Allen Brothers, The Bailes Brothers, The Chambers Brothers, The Clancy Brothers, The Everly Brothers, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Lebron Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, The Maddox Brothers, The Mills Brothers, The Monroe Brothers, The Neville Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, The Stanley Brothers
Sisters
The Andrews Sisters, The Davis Sisters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sister Wynona Carr, Sister Rose
“Little” People
Little Eva, Little Johnny Taylor, Little Junior Parker, Little Millette
Little Milton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Little Richard, Little Walter, Little Willie John
The Playboys
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys , Vince Taylor & The Playboys , L.C. Smith & His Southern Playboys , Jimmie Revard & His Oklahoma Playboys
The Years
—50% the songs he has played were recorded before 1960.
—Only 9% of the songs he has played were recorded in the 1980s or more recently.
Guest Commentators
Six times: Penn Jillette, Tom Waits
Five times: Billy Vera, Deke Dickerson, Elvis Costello, Richard Lewis
Three times: Jack White, Jimmy Kimmel, John C. Reilly, Luke Wilson, Marianne Faithful, Matt Groening, Peter Wolf, Ricky Gervais
Poets References
Aesop, W.H. Auden, St. Basil, Bertolt Brecht, Gwendolyn Brooks
Charles Bukowski, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gregory Corso, Stephen Crane
e.e. cummings, TS Eliot, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes, C.S. Lewis
Christopher Marlowe, Sylvia Plath, Alexander Pope, Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne Sexton, Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Jonathan Swift
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Butler Yeats
Authors Referenced
Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Herman Hesse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Edgar Allan Poe
Playwrights Referenced
Molière, George Bernard Shaw
Movies Referenced
As Good As It Gets, An Affair to Remember, The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Barfly, Blow, Blue Hawaii, Blue Velvet, Bonnie & Clyde
Casablanca, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case
Chinatown, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Coffee and Cigarettes
Cool Hand Luke, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, For a Few Dollars More
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Godfather, It’s a Wonderful Life
Life of Brian, The Maltese Falcon, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
The Lost Weekend, The Night of the Hunter, Night Train, Paper Moon
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, The Player, Raising Arizona, Rock & Roll High School
Rocky III, Runaway Train, The Shawshank Redemption, Sleeping Beauty
Snow White, Spinal Tap, Strangers on a Train, Streetcar Named Desire
Sweet Smell of Success, Taxi Driver, The Ten Commandments, The 39 Steps
The Wild Bunch
Television Shows Referenced
The Beverly Hillbillies, Chico and the Man, The Ed Sullivan Show
Hee Haw, Josie and the Pussycats, The Honeymooners
Leave it to Beaver, Lil’ Abner, Welcome Back Kotter
Sanford and Son, Roots, 60 Minutes
The Simpsons, The Sopranos, The Tonight Show, The Wire
History Lessons From Bob
Famous Electric Chairs (e.g. Old Sparky and Gruesome Gerty)
Famous People Who Were Cheerleaders (e.g. Ann Margaret, George W. Bush)
Famous People Who Were Valedictorians (e.g. Cindy Crawford, William Rehnquist, Weird Al – “I wonder if William Rehnquist gave the same type of speech as Weird Al. Somehow I doubt it.”)
Famous People Who Had Burials At Sea (e.g. Steve McQueen, Ingrid Bergman, Vincent Price, Jerry Garcia)
History of the Wobblies, the U.S. labor organization
People Who Died While Playing Cards (e.g. Wild Bill Hickok, Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, the gangster Arnold Rothstein)
Famous People Who Drove Cadillacs (e.g. Pope Pius XII, Teddy Roosevelt, Bill Clinton)
History of Constantinople
Useful Tips
How to Hang Dry Wall
What to Pack When You’re Traveling
How to Walk Like A Runway Model
How to Give Yourself Dreadlocks
One-Liners
“Hope all you listeners won’t accuse me of cronyism just because I occasionally play records by people I know.”
“The distinctive voice of Aaron Neville. A lot of people think we sing the same.”
Re: Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code—“I’m not ashamed to say that I live my life according to that code. Quite a man, that Gene Autry.”
“Fred Astaire, the smoothest dancer known to man.”
Re: Berna Dean—“Here’s a woman who sure doesn’t sound like she sleeps alone.”
“John Lee….one of those guys that always sounds better without a band. Thirteen bars here, eleven bars there, nine there. Doesn’t matter to him. Nobody can do more with less than John Lee Hooker.”
Re: Endless Sleep – “This next song is not for the faint of heart.”
Re: Johnny Hicks – “A man who sounds like he’s got a smile in his voice.”
“America is certainly the great melting pot. Where else could someone like Slim Gaillard sing a tribute to matzoh balls and gefilte fish? It’s the kind of thing that makes me proud to be an American. Sing it, Slim.”
“It’s a quarter of a million miles from earth to the moon, and there’s no one I’d rather go with than Dinah Washington.”
Re: Six Pack to Go – “One of the great beer drinking songs of all time.”
Re: Leadbelly – “One of the few ex-cons who recorded a popular children’s album.”
“A lot of people who play one kind won’t play with people who play another kind, but me personally, I never understood any kind of border patrol when it comes to music.”
“Some people call Bob [Seger] the poor man’s Bruce Springsteen, but personally, I always thought Bruce was the rich man’s Bob Seger. Love ‘em both, though.”
Re: Red Headed Woman – “Boy, you hear a record like that, and you wish more Rockabilly bands had trumpets.”
Re: How You Gonna Get Respect—“A political statement you can dance to.”
Re: Eddy Dugash and the Ah-Ha Playboys: “Sometimes you just play a record because you like the name of the band. I love the name of this band, but I also love the record.”
“Not all songs about crying are necessarily sad.”
Re: Robert Parker’s Barefootin’ – “The man who wrote the national anthem of shoelessness.”
Re: Jimmy Lewis – “He sounds as bad off as a rubber-nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest.”
“Willie Nelson’s tour bus runs on cooking oil….I’ve toured with Willie…sometimes late at night you can see us, I’m filling up my tank at the gas station and he’s filling his up at Denny’s.”
“I always liked songs with parentheses in the title.”
Re: Dinah Washington’s Manhattan – “If there every was a love song to a city, I’d say it was this one.”
Re: Prince Buster’s Taxation – “Like all great artists, he was able to turn things that bothered him into three minutes of musical pleasure. Like here.”
Re: Porter Wagoner’s Skid Row Joe – “Next up, a very sad song. A recitation. A sermon. A speechifying testification. From Porter Wagoner, telling a tale of a sad man down on his luck in the dirty part of town.”
Re: Tex William’s Brother Drop Dead – “Some people die too soon. Others, you’re kind of hoping. Tex Williams has a song for such a situation.”
Re: Sinatra singing Summer Wind—“West Coast weather is the weather of catastrophe. The Santa Ana winds are like the winds of the apocalypse. But the summer wind that Frank’s singing about may be a little lighter. Come on in, Frank.”
Re: Charles Aznavour—“The Frank Sinatra of France…sings in six languages – French, English, Italian. He’s written over a thousand songs…I only know about half of them.”
Re: Memphis Minnie—“Me and My Chauffeur Blues. One of the great blues songs of all time, one of the great car songs of all time, one of the great chauffeur songs of all time, sung by one the great old ladies of all time - Memphis Minnie.”
Re: Joni Mitchell—“Joni and I go back a long ways. Not all the way back, but pretty far. I’ve been in a car with Joni. Joni was driving a Lincoln. Excellent driver. I felt safe.”
Re: Howlin’ Wolf—“This next song is entirely without flaw and meets all the supreme standards of excellence.”
Re: Hank Williams—“One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived was Hank Williams, of course. Hank could be headstrong and willful, a backslider and a reprobate, no stranger to bad deeds. However, underneath all of that, he was compassionate and moralistic.”
Deep Thoughts
“I don’t trust a man who doesn’t tear up a little watching Old Yeller.”
“All of our shows are for truckers, if not about truckers.”
“They say the earth’s warmin’ up. Be careful of that global warming, and wear your sunscreen.”
“Music City USA – one of the only places where a banjo player can make a six figure income.”
“You know, every shut-eye ain’t sleep. Sometimes you’re sleeping in the ground, taking a dirt nap, saying the big Goodbye.”
“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”
“Sometimes when you look at a menu, it’s hard to decide what to get. Life is like that, full of difficult choices.”
“Lipstick traces on cigarettes can get you in trouble or remind you of the wonders of the night before.”
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me…as opposed to when you grow up and you learn that…the pen is mightier than the sword. The world is fill of little contradictions like that.”
“I leave you with the words of Benjamin Franklin. ‘He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.’ Thank you, Ben. Peace out.”
Bad Jokes
“My friend’s wife is a really bad cook. I broke a tooth on her coffee.”
“I once had a friend who said liquor will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no liquor.”
“A giraffe can go a long time without water. But he wants to see a menu right away.”
“I gave a bald-headed friend a comb. You know what he said? ‘I’ll never part with it.’”
“I don’t condone [blonde] jokes. I just repeat them in the public interest.”
“I want everybody to go out and paint their cars red and white tonight. We want a PINK CAR NATION.”
Recipes
Mint Julep
Four mint sprigs
3 oz of bourbon
1 tablespoon of powdered sugar
1 tablespoon water
Put the mint leaves, powdered sugar and water in a Collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and then add bourbon. Top that off with more ice. I like to garnish mine with a mint sprig. Serve it with a straw. Two or three of those and anything sounds good!
Rum and Coca-Cola
Let me give you my recipe for a rum and Coca-Cola. Take a tall glass, put some ice in it, two fingers of Bombay rum, and a bottle of Coca-Cola. Shake it up well and go drink it in the sunshine!
BBQ
1 cup tomato sauce
1 cup vinegar
5 tablespoons Worcestershire
1 tablespoon butter
?? small onion
dash black pepper
cayenne pepper
1 ?? teaspoons salt
half cup water
Mix it all together in a large pan. Bring it to a quick boil. Reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. You can also figure out your own secret ingredient and dump it to the mix. I like about three fingers of Tennessee sipping whiskey.
Figgy Pudding
4 oz of plain flour
a pinch of salt
4 oz bread crumbs
4 oz shredded suet
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 oz dark soft brown sugar
8 oz chopped dried figs
finely grated rind & the juice of one lemon
2 tablespoon milk
2 beaten eggs
“Sift salt and flour together, then mix with all the remaining dry ingredients. Add the figs, lemon rind and juice, milk and beaten eggs. Beat them well. The mixture should have a soft dropping consistency. Put into a greased two-pint pudding basin, cover securely, and steam for three hours. I like it served with heated golden syrup topping, and a generous pour of custard. Makes me hungry just talking about it. My engineer Tex Carbone likes vanilla ice cream on it. I don’t understand that at all.”
The Perfect Meatball
3 minced cloves garlic
?? cup vegetable oil (for frying)
1 pound ground meat (equal parts beef, pork, veal)
?? cup grated Parmesan cheese
9 Saltine crackers, finely crushed
?? teaspoon salt
black pepper
oregano
dried basil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
?? cup water
1 egg
1 teaspoon tomato paste
“Heat the oil over a low heat in a large Dutch oven. In a big bowl, add the meat, garlic, cheese, crackers, and spices. Mix lightly with your fingers. Don’t be shy—get into it. In a small bowl, whisk the water, the egg, and the tomato paste. Add the egg mixture to the meat mixture. Mix it lightly with your fingers. Form it into drum shapes, or balls. Cook in batches, over medium high heat, until its browned on both sides. That will be about five minutes total. Serve ‘em up with some potatoes, or some spaghetti, or just make a sandwich out of them. You're gonna love 'em."
— Duff McDonald
www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/04/dylan.html
In Spanish: En la cabeza de Dylan:
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© 2006 Phillip Nesmith
Some street art in Bisbee Arizona that I always look at. I shot this back in the winter (Jan 2006) before I went to Iraq for the second time (the short trip).
Beautiful young girl pictured in Surat. I had just taken a picture of her mother and brother when she sat next to her mother to have her picture taken. With those beautiful eyes I had to do her as a closeup.
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...strobist:
again... one strobe wtih a softbox on the left... and one sb800 on the right through an umbrella
After a long search i've found very special wall to put on my works just few steps from home. So i cam fix my grungy version of my mosaics into very special square frame.
I shot this in color of Emma (see below) but I thought it would make a nice black and white. I used channel mixer to get the effect I wanted. Added a little noise and boosted the contrast slightly. Then I brought it into Mystical Lighting for the shading and lighting effects, although you could probably have gotten the same from one of the RENDER filters in PS.
A soft and silky Miss Elaine nightgown with floral Vanity Fair panties. The panties are not really sexy but they feel so good with this nightgown and they color match too!
This is just a small portion of a large sculpture/statue of three women with their backs to each other but each holding hands with the woman on either side of her. Underneath this statue is a large pedestal which is actually a three sided water fountain. Water literally 'spits' out of the mouths of three identical faces (one on each side) and down into three seperate open shells (again, one on each side). Since this statue/sculpture is in the middle of a very busy three way intersection right on the lakefront, it is near impossible to take a photo of it in it's entirety without something distracting in the background. I have photos of it and can always post them later.
I named this woman 'Charity' because I believe she might be one of the seven virtues that I have been reading about in a cemetery symbolism book. Charity almost always has one breast partially exposed, if not both entirely. This particular one has both breasts exposed.
Or maybe they are the three fates? Your guess is as good as mine, if not better.
Feature Films: 30
Total Domestic Box Office Gross: $1.4 billion
Highest Grossing Film Worldwide: "Kung Fu Panda" $629.1 mil
Most Recent Film: "Wanted" $134.3 mil
Awards:1 Oscar 2 Golden Globes