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Sunday, May 27, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Color Test
In this cute promo shot, Max Factor uses a makeup grey scale on a model to test colors for film. This helps the cameras and lights focus better. You can also see his Max Factor beauty factory above, which is now the Hollywood Museum. If you have a chance to go, it is a must just for his makeup rooms alone! There is one for Redheads, Blondes, Brunettes and Brownettes. Max Factor is a pioneer, as are the Westmores, in the beauty industry, so I always love photos of them!
Here Betty Grable is getting made up for a television appearance. I assume this is the earlier days of tv and/or lighting, as color adapting quickly evolved even with black & white broadcasting, where the makeup for performers was not so drastic. Green is a compliment for red which is why the artists would use this particular color to bring out features.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Historic NYC
Manhattan Bridge seen from Washington Street, June 5, 1908
Delancy Street, Lower East Side July 29, 1908
Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge October 7, 1914
28th Street in Manhattan, October 2, 1930
Booking photo for Charles 'Lucky' Luciano, April 18, 1936
Babe Ruth and his second wife Clare, during Game One of the 1936 World Series at the Polo Grounds, September 30, 1936
George Washington Bridge looking across the Hudson River into Manhattan, December 22, 1936
Corner of Sixth Avenue and 40th Street in Manhattan May 18, 1940NYC Department of Records
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Absurdity
I love funny pictures. Even more so if they are historical. Here are a few gems that amuse me to no end! I love black & white photos, random absurdness, oddities and a bizarre sense of humor. look at the skeletons ha ha ha!! Put them all together and you get my new favorite blog, Black and WTF. Do you have any favorites? click image for larger view!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Mad Men Cosmetics Collection
Via The Hollywood Reporter
Estee Lauder Launches 'Mad Men' Makeup CollectionThe cosmetics giant offers two provocative products that will bring out any woman's inner January Jones or Christina Hendricks.
11:20 AM PST 3/5/2012 by Merle Ginsberg
"There are few televisions shows that have sparked as many promotions -- and had as large an impact on culture, fashion and beauty -- as Mad Men. For the last few years on the red carpet, we've seen a lot of deep red lips (including, most recently, Angelina Jolie at the Oscars), bright red Fire & Ice style fingernails, a lot of wavy hair (Milla Jovavich and Penelope Cruz, also at the 2012 Oscars), and fashion's been packed with bright colors, prints, florals and full skirts and sweater sets. Prada's new spring 2012 collection could have been yanked right off January Jones' Betty Draper character. And the show's costumer Janie Bryant has just released her second MM collection for Banana Republic.
Now this week Estee Lauder's putting out a Mad Men limited edition cosmetics collection to get you in the mood for the show's March 25 premiere. The collection includes two pieces -- a $25 cherry-orange coral, appropriately named Cherry, which happens to be one of the season's hottest colors, and a $40 Evening Rose creme rouge in that's drier than most creme blushes so it stays on and in place exactly where you dap it. It's also a great color for eyelids. The lipstick is less gloss and more matte, without being too dry.
Both are going to be sold on Estee Lauder's website and at Bloomingdale's for a limited time only, and just like the show's characters, they're packaged provocatively: Both come in a white, gold and light blue floral print box with gold fabrics cases on the inside. Will you look like January Jones or Christina Hendricks in these shades? Perhaps, but if nothing else they'll be great for whipping out while sipping a martini."
Photo Estee Lauder
Text The Hollywood Reporter
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Ansel Adams Los Angeles, 1940
On assignment for Fortune Magazine, photographer Ansel Adams took these shots of everyday Los Angeles and it's citizens. The whole collection is available online at Los Angeles Public Library, and now the collection will be on display Feb. 18-March 17 at the Los Angeles DRKRM gallery.
Intersection of Wilshire and Robertson Blvds. Notice the guy(s?) on the Coca-Cola billboard? Also amusing is the 4 way stop sign in the middle of the street.
Massive palm trees line a residential street. Looks like Korea Town or maybe the Wilshire district? I recently found out that palm trees are not native to Southern California. The Spanish and Portuguese brought them over from Europe in the early 1900's to give the land a more Mediterranean feel.
Lockheed plant employee parking lot, Burbank. Boy, they just jammed 'em in there, didn't they!
The exterior of the Earl Carroll Theatre. The names!
The original Brown Derby restaurant here on Wilshire, opened in 1926. This location is now a small strip mall, but the dome shape still stands.
Court Flight cable railway, South Broadway in downtown. Built in 1903, this is the smaller of the two cable cars in Los Angeles, the larger being Angel's Flight at Hill St.photos by Ansel Adams, via lapl.org
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