Cheerleader
New track (below) from Annie Erin Clark (above), performing as St. Vincent. From the album Strange Mercy.
St. Vincent: Cheerleader
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Lady Baltimore Fashion Luggage
‘Exclusive designer styled brass finished die-cast locks’
We found this on our honeymoon back in 1995.
We’d picked up a bunch of trinkets in Seattle and needed an extra piece of luggage – so a few hours before our trip home, we ran across this luxuriously lined Lady Baltimore display model in a small shop.
Been a part of the family ever since.
In Helfer & Baker’s Shadow
‘It didn’t last long; true-blue Shadow fans (and, apparently, the owners of The Shadow trademark) didn’t care for Helfer and Baker’s smart-ass approach, especially when they killed the character off and resurrected him as a killer cyborg. It’s not surprising that happened to also be their final issue.’ –Robot 6
The Shadow (1987-89) was my favorite comic book series.
It was a sequel to a Howard Chaykin-penned 1986 update to the classic radio program, pulp novel character The Shadow, ‘What evil lurks in the hearts of men . . . The Shadow knows!’
Chaykin had brought the character into the 1980s, with uzis instead of .45s, ‘for mature readers’ emblazoned on the cover. And unlike the rest of his crew (Margo Lane and others had aged), Shadow alter-ego Lamont Cranston was still a rather youngish, dapper guy – ready to take on the New York of the Miami Vice era.
A monthly series followed – and after a few artist changes, writer Andy Helfer and artist Kyle Baker made it something else entirely.
Helfer and Baker’s take on The Shadow became a crazy whirlwind tour of Sopranos-like mobsters, wickedly dark humor, extreme violence, unexpected plot twists and in issue 13, they killed off the main character. Then his sons lost his body and with every successive chapter, one could not predict what would happen next. [Read more →]
Russian Coke
Art Nouveau meets Russian Constructivism. Motion design by Matt Duplessie.
Super Mamika
‘A superhero’s eating habit is so different from that of an ordinary person’
Photographer Sacha Goldberger figured out just the trick to cheer up his 91-year-old grandmother: A cape, tights and a camera.
Hungarian-born Frederika (hero name: ‘Super Mamika’) is a hero already, during World War II she risked her life to help Jewish friends evade capture – before having to flee her homeland. As of late, had just been sitting at home feeling lonely; the photos, which got a lot of attention on the Interwebs, changed all that.
After the viral success of Super Mamika, Goldberger’s continued to use Frederika as a go-to model. More delights abound at his official website.
Found via EzineMark, My Modern Met
Soviet superheroes
‘Underneath they wrote: ‘Keeping Up with the Times.”
From June: The redecorated Monument of the Soviet Army in Sofia, capital of Bulgaria.
‘Unfortunately, the art survived for only a day – very early the next morning, the die-hard worshipers of communism’s corpse washed away the paint.’
Story here.
Cabaret-Berlin: Die wilde Bühne 1919-33
‘In her 2010 documentary about the Berlin cabaret scene of the interwar period, Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir includes archival material, excerpts from German cinema classics, rediscovered promotional and institutional films, rare modern art experiments as well as documentaries of the time – all restored in high-definition.’
Above, the first five minutes of Fabienne Rousso-Lenoir’s Cabaret-Berlin: Die wilde Bühne (The Wild Stage) 1919-33. This 2010 documentary is loaded with incredible images from an era that went away in the 1930s.
Watch the entire untranslated film here. (Note: Veoh player download required)
Bibby
‘She is adamant that she will continue to photograph until she is blind from age’
The work of 18-year-old, London-based photographer Charlotte Bibby.
Website here. Flickr sets here.
Found via the first issue of the magazine formerly called ‘Carson’
Starry Night at MoMA
The real deal. Zoom and pan Van Gogh’s original via The Google Art Project.
Click image to view/jump.
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