For a Fafinette Boudoir
Oh, bestill Gilding’s junkie heart. Perhaps Mr. Gilding with forgive a pink vanity (and the Glamour Junkie of her heart) if surrounded by four walls of Fafinettes. A little booty wins him over every time.
Fafi is a strong presence in the graffiti and fine arts scene with her painting and hustling her sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters, kick-starting a whole new graphic language by exploring feminity through stereotypes, and using it to her advantage.
In 2007, Fafi entered a new phase in her artistic life. Having become a mother and moving to Paris, Fafi introduced a new depth to her creations. Now not only are the Fafinettes fly girls, they also run a whole universe of creatures, homes and vehicles. It’s called The Carmine Vault. It’s a dreamy and peculiar place.
Oh, how Gilding wants a Fafi filled home!
Link: Fafi
Via: the pink-a-dilly Glamour Junkie
A Fabulous Shade of Blushing
So Gilding had long ago made a solemn vow to Mr. Gilding that she would never make him live in a pink anything! house…but this is just too fabulous for even Gilding to stubbornly deny wanting.
Link: glamjunkie
Gingerbread Ruins
“It’s easy to picture someone reclining in the bed of this New England cottage for the mentally ill. The bright snowscape and generous space evoke a sense of peace and harmony—until one looks closer to discover frantic scratch marks still left on the walls.”
Link: This n’ That
Hamilton’s Nymphets
Spending some time in the countryside of Dorset, inspiring David Hamilton’s controvertial works of art depicting early teen girls, most oftentimes nude and exploring their youthful virginal innocence on a journey of the sensual, even to today. Most notably accused by North American and Britain on the allegation of child pornography, Hamilton’s works attracted conservative protestors in the late 1990′s to protest bookstores that stocked books of his photography; their efforts came to nothing. Because of differing attitudes regarding age and nudity, Hamilton has not received this negative attention in his adopted home of France, nor in the rest of the world.
Bilitis was the first and most popular of the five feature-length movies made by Hamilton. Filmed in 1977, Bilitis boldly depicts a French nymphet’s (played by Patti D’Arbanville) discovery of the joys of sex during a memorably summer vacation.
Links: Wikipedia | Hamilton Archives | David Hamilton Films
Such Extremes
“The worst child pornography is free, posted on news servers by individuals who want to share their interests with others. By this I mean pictures of small children forced to engage in sexual activity with adults. I remember a picture of a sad little Asian child prostitute in a leather harness, seated on her client’s knee. Such extremes of child pornography are free, fairly easily accessed by journalists and researchers, and tend to set the standard of discussion about this problem.”
~ The Guardian
Link: ‘I cannot admit what I am to myself’–Guardian Unlimited
In the End
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
~ Martin Luther King
Thoughts
Thoughts on the Death of Martin Luther King written by Linda Edmonds, one of the
First Black Women @ Virginia Tech
Lemon Incest
“On one hand, these could be construed as innocent love songs. On another, they are weird and sordid writings of a man curiously obsessed with his own daughter…
Charlotte was just a child when this was made, and she ‘speaks’ the words rather than singing them. ["Lemon Zest" is] possibly the most un-controversial track…as compared to the even more bizarre “Oh Daddy Oh”.
“Lemon Incest” translates as “Inceste de citron”, a wordplay on “un zeste de citron” (a lemon zest). The title demonstrates Gainsbourg’s love for puns.
Links: Review by Kabir Davis | Wikipedia
Creatively Maladjusted
“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.”
~ Martin Luther King
Photograph of Ernest C. Withers, civil rights photographer
Of Law and Conscience
“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
~ Martin Luther King
Photograph by Charles Moore
The Ought To Be
“…let us move on in these POWERFUL days of challenge to make America what it ought to be.”
Photograph by Charles Moore
Stronger than Evil Triumphant
Photograph by Spider Martin
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
~ Martin Luther King
Love
Photograph by Spider Martin
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
~ Martin Luther King
‘Joe Le Taxi’
“Vanessa was entrancing, vogueing about in her Naf Naf tracksuit, pouting bravely at the camera, but you couldn’t help wondering where it was all going to end. Trash magazines are littered with the wrecks of former pop nymphets, after all.
…but there is steel in this butterfly’s wings…there is more than a little triumph in her possession of him…”
Link: FRENCH lessons by Hermione Eyre
