Don’t really follow fashion or fashion photography (but am a fan of Richard Avedon‘s great stuff from mid-20th century to early 2000s). However, some stuff is too interesting to ignore. Like many of these slideshow images from “Best Photos From Fashion Month“.
One of the milder examples here:
Dog people seem to be pretty friendly. Every one of them waved, smiled, said good morning and/or chatted for a minute. Morning round trip to downtown via 103, solo, sans The Charles Creature.
A little Hello-Velouria action from this Women’s Day week:
Just circumventing the usual channels to say hi to Chika and Ivi …
US News & World Report has released the results of its annual survey to determine the “best countries” under a variety of criteria. Go here for much more detail, but here is a quick intro or overview:
Working on the broken tracked Jeep:
For well over a decade, I prominently displayed this cartoon (along with the nearly-as-famous Peter Steiner “Nobody Knows You’re A Dog On The Internet” cartoon) on my workplace office entrance wall. Its creator, Bob Mankoff, is soon to retire as cartoon editor of The New Yorker. Learn more about Mankoff and see more of his great work in this New York Times piece.
Most of us associate pointillism with the late 18th century movement in art history. But the practice of painting with dots of color may have originated much, much earlier, as scientists now believe, based on paintings found in cave dwellings used by people in what is now southwest France some 38,000 years ago.
