Momentarily (for a morning) between projects, I steal an hour with one of the gifts I gave my husband this past Father's Day. Assembled by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press,
Savage Beauty, the retrospective look at Alexander McQueen's unmatched fashion career, bears down on you with its monstrous, lovely glory. Nothing impresses me more than a form-breaking designer; McQueen was that and he was also more—an impeccable tailor, a performance artist, a poet, a political observer, an historian, a very public man with very personal ideas. His early death was tragic.
I think McQueen would have appreciated this little girl's fabulous sense of style, and so I place her here, beside one of the many quotes that floats throughout this magnificent, cloth-bound catalog.
Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I'm inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It's so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.
— Alexander McQueen
An LA Times portrait of comedic actor Zach Galifianakis bears a striking resemblance to a famous Yousuf Karsh photograph of Ernest Hemingway.
Follow this link to see the photo. When asked about the resemblance, Galifianakis replied: “To Mariel Hemingway, maybe. Not the other one.” In the tweet posted above, writer Edward Champion already predicts Galifianakis could play Hemingway in a movie.
He has plenty of competition. Last summer, Charles Bicht was crowned as the “29th Papa” in the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. This annual event pits bearded men in a competition celebrating the Nobel Prize winner.
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The kids are off from school this week, so yesterday we drove down to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. I really love New York! Probably because if you've ever felt quirky or different, you'll fit in there somehow, someway. There's room for everyone.
I decided to take pictures since the kids, being kids, rushed from one thing to the next. A whirlwind tour! (Ahh, to be back in art school, with time to linger, sketching at a museum...) There's so much to see at the Met-- it's an amazing place.
Rather than make my hair hurt by trying to format words and pictures together in Blogger, I thought I'd just show a few of my favorite things:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is offering free family admission for up to 6 people from February 15-24 if you register at their site. We'll be so there! (Thanks, Julie!)
or possibly a book. For my next book, Shadows Walking Backward, I want to do one of those mash-ups you always see on Publisher's Lunch, where a book is compared to two movies or two books or one of each, i.e. "It's Pride & Prejudice meets Beetle Juice."
Only I want to do something that makes more sense than my example. Shadows is about a blind girl who is kidnapped and must outwit her captors. The first part of the match up is obvious: Wait Until Dark. But I'd like to have a second comparision point. So can anyone think of a movie or well-known book about a character who is kidnapped - and the story is told at least primarily from the POV of the victim? And I'm not looking for anything high-tech (she's saved by lasers!) or about serial killers.
Free book to someone with the best idea. I'm the sole judge.
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She is totally fabulous. I'm almost positive you've seen this since I know you are a Bill Cunningham fan but I lurve it: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/05/13/fashion/100000000818642/on-the-street--mcqueened.html
I'm going on a tangent here. It's not a memoir but a wonderful biography of the same name: Have you read SAVAGE BEAUTY, the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay?
It's AMAZING.
Did you see the show? It was a hallucination - really lovely. I bought the catalog AND a poster, which I never do, because it reminded me of my fantasy book in the making!
Perfect match-the quote and photograph. Perfect.
I often hold my breath as I wait to see if the letters and numbers I've typed in are correct. What if I'm a robot?