When I start out to make a fool of myself, there’s very little can stop me. If I’d known where it would end, I’d never let anything start… if I’d been in my right mind, that is. But once I’d seen her…..once I’d seen her, I was not in my right mind for some time.

A line I enjoy so much I had to make note of it here.

Interestingly, Welles was given flack for having Hayworth cut her hair and dye it blond for The Lady From Shanghai.  Personally, I think it works quite nicely.  I wonder if/how their, Welles and Hayworth’s, impending divorce influenced their performances?

As Mr. Woodbury stated in his introduction to the original edition of this book, in order to avoid misunderstanding, it would be well to explain at the outset that it is not intended as an instruction book in the art of photography in any sense of the word. It is assumed that the reader has already mastered the technical difficulties of photographic practice and is able to make a good negative or print.

Subjects include magic photographs, spirit photography, electric photographs, distorted images, freak pictures by successive exposures, and many others.  I was drawn to the spirits.  Here are the photo’s used as examples, and a link to read more about it.

Not the scariest of images, but interesting reading.

Very interesting, and horrific, article about something that should be more well known.

Vivisection of hundreds of civilians occurred on the campus, with a lack of anesthesia and a live specimen believed essential to this group of scientist soldiers due to their desire to study the body prior to decomposition…
 

A young “cowboy”, the son of a member of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, looks over the Convair built YB-60 during its visit at Edwards from the Fort Worth, Texas, plant. 1953 (U.S. Air Force photo)

The YB-60 was a long-range bomber prototype built for the Air Force.  It was in unofficial competition with the B-52 Stratofortress for an Air Force contract.  As the B-52 is still in service, I guess we know who won the contract.

As for who won the showdown in the photo, my money is on the kid.

Not much to add here, just something my Canadian friends might enjoy.  It couldn’t be more opposite from the many dark,  fear inducing images of other propaganda posters of the time.

The last thing that fell out of that tree was the dried up husk of a squirrel that had died up there some time ago (from the looks of it).  Did it ignore a warning too?

I’m staying away from that tree – it has obviously gone bad.

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I’ve always liked the image and find that, like other work by Hopper I’m seeing for the first time, I can’t quite describe why.  It seems he had a thing about windows.  People looking into them, people looking out of them, and people sitting near them.  Not sure what that’s about, and not to sound like a simpleton, but it’s the colors that grab me.

Do a google image search on his work and you’ll see what I mean.

A public service from your friends at Oddments (circa 1938).