Each Day a Flower

Interests: Dolls, fashion, androgyny, silent & classic film, Pre-Raphaelites, street art, advertising, surrealism, low-brow, male models & actors, actresses, cartoons, vintage images, toys, candy, fairy tales, messing around with gender roles. I try to avoid reblogging posts that have been reblogged several thousand times, unsourced images, touchy-feely text over blurry pictures of the woods/outerspace, over-exposed pictures of teenagers sitting around doing ordinary stuff with their faces obscured or heads cut off, & fashion photos that seem E.D.-triggering to me. I have enough problems, man.

“As he slept upstairs on September 8th of 1908, two young burglars entered Mark Twain’s home, took an entire sideboard into the garden and proceeded to break it open. They were eventually caught by police with a stash of silverware. The next day, with the help of an aspiring young artist named Dorothy Sturgis, Twain produced the following note for the attention of future burglars. From that day on, it was permanently attached to his front door.” (via Letters of Note)

“As he slept upstairs on September 8th of 1908, two young burglars entered Mark Twain’s home, took an entire sideboard into the garden and proceeded to break it open. They were eventually caught by police with a stash of silverware. The next day, with the help of an aspiring young artist named Dorothy Sturgis, Twain produced the following note for the attention of future burglars. From that day on, it was permanently attached to his front door.”

(via Letters of Note)

Posted January 27, 2012 at 7:56 pm 3 notes

poboh: Young Cicero Reading, ca 1460s, Vincenzo Foppa. Italian Early Renaissance Painter (ca 1430-1515)

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poboh:

Young Cicero Reading, ca 1460s, Vincenzo Foppa. Italian Early Renaissance Painter (ca 1430-1515)

Posted January 27, 2012 at 6:33 pm 22 notes

letsmovetothecountry: Mikko Lagerstedt

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letsmovetothecountry:

Mikko Lagerstedt

Posted January 27, 2012 at 6:27 pm 117 notes

Mary Magdalene “One tradition concerning Mary Magdalene says that following the death and resurrection of Jesus, she used her position to gain an invitation to a banquet given by Emperor Tiberius. When she met him, she held a plain egg in her hand and exclaimed “Christ is risen!” Caesar laughed, and said that Christ rising from the dead was as likely as the egg in her hand turning red while she held it. Before he finished speaking, the egg in her hand turned a bright red, and she continued proclaiming the Gospel to the entire imperial house.”

Mary Magdalene

“One tradition concerning Mary Magdalene says that following the death and resurrection of Jesus, she used her position to gain an invitation to a banquet given by Emperor Tiberius. When she met him, she held a plain egg in her hand and exclaimed “Christ is risen!” Caesar laughed, and said that Christ rising from the dead was as likely as the egg in her hand turning red while she held it. Before he finished speaking, the egg in her hand turned a bright red, and she continued proclaiming the Gospel to the entire imperial house.”

Posted January 27, 2012 at 8:01 am 4 notes

“Russian Patterns,” Marta Berzkalna by Mariano Vivanco

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“Russian Patterns,” Marta Berzkalna by Mariano Vivanco

Posted January 27, 2012 at 7:52 am 1165 notes

Anna May Wong portrait by Otto Dyar

Anna May Wong portrait by Otto Dyar

Posted January 27, 2012 at 7:04 am 2 notes

“Judge Quentin D. Corley with no arms driving car, c. 1919”

“Judge Quentin D. Corley with no arms driving car, c. 1919”

Posted January 27, 2012 at 7:03 am 6 notes

Downton Abbey, 1.3 (Oh Thomas, don’t be so subtle!)

Downton Abbey, 1.3

(Oh Thomas, don’t be so subtle!)

Posted January 27, 2012 at 6:58 am 1 notes

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oldfilmsflicker:

Now, Voyager, 1942 (dir. Irving Rapper)

Posted January 27, 2012 at 6:52 am 78 notes

Kathleen Lolley

Kathleen Lolley

Posted January 26, 2012 at 6:47 pm 6 notes

"She was a lovely lady, with a romantic mind and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more; and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it that Wendy could never get, though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right-hand corner."

Reblogged from liquidnight

J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (via liquidnight)

Posted January 26, 2012 at 6:43 pm 105 notes

invisiblestories: Passage through the ice

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invisiblestories:

Passage through the ice

Posted January 26, 2012 at 6:06 pm 21 notes

"Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves…
moments before the wind."

Reblogged from aggiephile

Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves)

via ginger-ninja (via frenchtwist)

Posted January 26, 2012 at 6:04 pm 41 notes

"I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar."

Reblogged from mythologyofblue

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 113 (via mythologyofblue)

Posted January 26, 2012 at 6:00 pm 569 notes

yanguang: HATS!

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yanguang:

HATS!

Posted January 26, 2012 at 7:59 am 11 notes