Lessee… we’ve had cars and guns so far today. What’s missing?
Here’s Brit ginger actress Amy Nuttall:
That’s the trifecta.
Tomorrow we will continue with the Usual Programming of insult, invective, hate speech, threats of violence and anti-government ranting.
Oh wait, tomorrow’s Friday. Never mind.
Last weekend we looked at Bunny Yeager as a model. Today we’ll look at Bunny the photographer — and most notably at her most famous model, Bettie Page.
As Richard Corliss once described, Bettie had been the nadir of sexual exploitation:
In New York City, Page “starred” in tatty, furtive 8mm bondage loops (Dominant Betty Dances With Whip, Hobbled in Kid Leather Harness) that her Svengali, Irving Klaw, sold in plain brown wrappers at his Movie Star News shop. But in Miami, under Yeager’s congenial tutelage, Page bloomed as the girl next door with the bedroom shades up, or the beach bombshell with the seraphic grin. Between them, the Blond Bunny and brunette Bettie made nudity look both sexy and healthy.
And how:
Sensational.
There are millions of Bettie Page pics all over the Internet. But the good Bettie pics are mostly those taken by Bunny Yeager.
Stumbled across these two hotties, both in their mid-sixties:
Marie Osmond (65)
Michelle Pfeiffer (65)
Vintage wines, baby.
Here’s an interesting thought:
Nine UK targets Vladimir Putin would bomb first as hit list is discovered by spies
Far be it for me to offer this dwarf Russian asshole any support whatsoever, but I could be persuaded to do so if his top 9 included the following (in no specific order, and by their nicknames mostly):
1. The Cheesegrater
2. The Walkie Talkie
3. Tower 42
4. The Shard
5. The Razor
6. The Gherkin
7. Lloyds Tower
Not all are tall skyscrapers…
8. The National Theatre
9. London City Hall
Or, if Vlad has such a thing as a Russian version of a MOAB, he could go for the grand salami:
Words cannot express the horror I feel at how London has allowed itself to become Dubai-On-Thames, ruining the wonderful classical architecture which made it unique among the world’s great cities.
She started off as a model herself, and then became one of the most well-known photographers of them all: Bunny Yeager had it all.
She didn’t even have to be blonde…
But still:
Best. Selfies. Ever.
Here’s a piece at Modern Thinker which revisits Modernism:
The forerunners of modernism were a mixture of eccentrics and revolutionaries. They agreed on the break with tradition — and the abominated institutions of the bourgeoisie, including classical architecture. Regrettably, several of the rebellious architects were also willing to renounce their integrity and enter the service of the totalitarians.
Several? Try “almost all” and you’ll be closer to the truth.
Longtime — and maybe even Recent — Readers will know all about my opinion of Modernist architecture (just follow this link if memories need refreshing).
So while the above article is an interesting read, the executive summary is that modernism sucks, sucks green donkey dicks in fact, and is a blight on the landscape everywhere it is perpetrated.
As the title of this post suggests, there is no need to “revisit” modernism, unless it is to be used as a guideline which says, “Not that. Anything but that.”