Random Chick Pic

My my, how Heidi Klum’s little girl Leni has grown up:

She’s nineteen now, and those pics were taken on some rich guy’s yacht, where she and a couple of buddies of approximately-similar age were disporting themselves with anything but “gay” abandon, if you know what I mean.  So clearly, young Leni has not just inherited Mommy Heidi’s looks…

And just a reminder as to who’s her daddy

In Praise Of The Unknown Actress – Margaret Nolan

We take a break today from our regular Sunday programming — that of the study of classically-beautiful women — and pay homage to another group — those women who are neither classic nor even classy, but whose outstanding attributes deserve similar scrutiny.

Such as Brit actress Margaret Nolan:  one of the “fringe” actresses who never made a serious impact on the cinema, but who always found work in movies of little redeeming social value (not that that’s important or anything, when it comes to the movies).  So here’s Margaret:

And in glorious Technicolor:

Nothing much wrong with that, and whole lot right.

Lunch On The Grass

It was a popular theme, for a while:  people having a picnic lunch en plain air, in some park or other.  Here’s (I think) the best-known example of “Dejeuner sur l’herbe”, painted by Edouard Manet:


(all pics can be right-clicked/embiggened)

His similarly named contemporary Claude Monet also did one (albeit less shockingly):

…and Paul Cézanne did two:

  (I’m pretty sure the second was painted during his Drunken Phase, but whatever.)

Here’s Marcel Dyf’s pair:


…although it must be said that Dyf had a thing about barely-pubescent girls, the dirty old sod.

Of course, Picasso had to add his two pesetas:

…while Egon Schiele went off-script completely:

Some American guy followed the trend:


…but he cocked it up completely, i.e. no nudity — I’m frankly surprised that he had wine in the pic.

The theme has continued into the modern era, mostly through photography (here’s Robert Doisneau):

…and in glorious (?) color:

…and even as a party theme:

There’s been some modern art on the topic, of course. Here’s Chinese artist Yue Minjun:


…which made me howl with laughter.  Absolutely brilliant satire.

There was even a French movie entitled “Dejeuner sur l’herbe”.  Here’s a still:

And yes, that was yesterday’s Caption Competition pic.

Stunning Beauty

Over at Wristwatch_Revival, Marshall gets an old (1960s-era) Omega Constellation working again.  And by the time he’s done…

I have no words.  That tapered dial, the simple numerals… it whispers “elegance” like their newer bling-studded geegaws can’t (no pics:  I don’t even want to put them on the same page as this beauty).

I would wear this watch every night of the week, and most especially if I were eating at a fine restaurant each night with, say, Nigella Lawson.

Am I alone in loving these things so much?


By the way, this is one of Marshall’s earlier shows, where he was still finding his way around the craft.  There are a couple of mishaps, one hilarious.