Double dactyl
(Written earlier this year, but unexpectedly topical in the light of the latest Eurovision Song Contest news.)
New Year card 2011/12
the ragbag: peculiar elizabethan stage directions
- enter hieronimo; he knocks up the curtain
- hell is discovered
- volpone peeps from behind a traverse
- eugenius discovered sitting loaded with many irons; a lampe burning by him; then enter clowne with a piece of browne bread and a garret root
- a couch discovered with the duke on it
- enter lopez…
Robert Altman Tournament
From a sequence of photographs by Nicholas Nixon. Four sisters shown over twenty-four years. The blonde one, second from right, is the photographer’s wife. The only formal constraint seems to be that they’re always in the same left-to-right order. I’m a sucker for this brand of time-lapse photography. It seems to prompts all sorts of guesswork about what’s been happening between the taking of each photo. Plus in this case you get to contemplate the similarities and differences between the four sisters. (Click on photo for source blog.)
(via monkeyknifefight) While no match for Glenn Close, Rose Byrne is very very pretty. (I think she looks like 80s cult icon Florence Guérin, but what do I know?)
