My favourite female characters

Katie Morowsy, Marion, Jeanne, Jennifer Cavalleri, Annie Hall, Lolita, Haydee, Holly, Marty, Lydia Deetz, Vada Sultenfuss, Enid, Elaine Robinson, Lux Lisbon, Maude, Andie Walsh, Rosemary Woodhouse, Iris, Jacy Farrow and Geneviève Emery.

Muerte en Venecia o la fascinación por la belleza

A principios del siglo XX, el compositor Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) muy delicado de salud huye de su país (posiblemente Baviera), a un breve descanso en Venecia, del dolor de haber perdido a su hija y del fracaso de su matrimonio y su última obra. Huye de su mujer (Marisa Berenson), de las discusiones con su amigo intelectual (Romolo Valli) y se aleja de la severidad teutona, en resumidas cuenta huye de su vida.

Aquejado de una grave enfermedad, sabe que le queda poco tiempo de vida.

En la decadente e inspiradora ciudad de los canales, se enamorará platónicamente de Tadzio, (Bjorn Andresen) un adolescente polaco de ascendencia noble y sobrecogedora belleza.

Obsesivamente vagará contemplando la inalcanzable belleza de Tadzio y de la propia Venecia, sumergiéndose en la decadencia de una ciudad que no admite estar condenada por una epidemia de cólera y al igual que él trata de huir de su propia decadencia.

do you believe in ghosts?

This remarkable image first appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times (12-21-03) and was apparently captured with a closed-circuit security camera at Hampton Court Palace in London, England. The palace was built in 1525 on the River Thames 10 miles west of central London and was one the the places that King Henry VIII lived. Jane Seymour, his third wife, died there giving birth to a son, and her ghost is said to walk through one of the cobbled courtyards carrying a candle. No one seems to know what this ghostly figure represents but according to security, it sure looks like a ghost.

This photograph appeared in both the Chicago Sun-Times and the National Examiner. It was taken during an investigation in Bachelor's Grove Cemetery on August 10, 1991 with a group of GRS members. The picture is an enlarged black and white infrared shot taken of an area where many of the group noticed something unusual with some of the equipment they used. It shows a young woman sitting on a tombstone with parts of her lower and upper body being somewhat semi-transparent. The dress she is wearing is also out-of-date. It was taken by member, Jude Huff-Felz.

A black and white infrared picture taken at Hull House in downtown Chicago, Illinois by Dale Kaczmarek in November of 1980. This is enlarged blowup of the interior staircase of this most haunted house in Chicago. There was nothing visible to the naked eye when the photograph was taken but what appears are four distinct shadowy monk-like figures standing on the bottom four or five steps. The one directly in the middle appears to be dressed in monk's habit with his two hands together in prayer. There are two other figures to the left of the center monk and one to the right superimposed on the banister which apparently has no head!

This photograph was taken by Dale Kaczmarek at Woodlawn Cemetery in 1979 using black and white Infrared film. The picture shows what appears to be a shadowy figure of a man with a brimmed hat on his head between the double tombstones and the tree in the background.

We met by the moon on a silvery lake

Los telescopios y binoculares antiguos son unos de los objetos que más me han llamado la atención desde siempre, mirar por cualquiera de ellos da sensación de control a quien los utiliza, es como ver a través de una cámara que no filma ni fotografía, es disfrutar por el simple hecho de observar la realidad ampliada.

Rage of the Age

Berkley illustration

Berkley illustration







Day Defy Project







Mamas Little Babies

(tiene verdaderas preciosidades sacadas de ilustraciones victorianas)







Pink Sweetie







Sweet Babu







Tops y Design

Wrapped up in books

Kate Spade, además de debutar con unos preciosos diseños de ropa, le gusta mucho leer y nos recomienda una lista de lecturas para el verano en su web y unos fantásticos wallpapers con los que puedes personalizar tus libros y que están hechos con unas de las más preciosas cubiertas de libros, ediciones antiguas del Nine Stories de J.D.Salinger, el Bonjour tristesse de Françoise Sagan, Break of Day y The Blue Lantern de Colette, Matar a un Ruiseñor de Harper Lee, The Face of The World de Cecil Beaton, el Kiss Kiss de Roald Dahl...

vintage pleasure



larkingabout

...existe acaso algo mejor que un buen libro?