#Cover Photos 2024

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

GRAB YOUR UNAPOLOGETIC MOTÖRCHARGE WORSHIP RIGHT HERE -- MOTÖRCHARGE WORSHIP FOREVER.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a testament in Tumblr cover photos to the foundations of all extreme music, PERIOD -- the mighty MOTÖRHEAD and @$!#*&% DISCHARGE. Just random pics of my two all-time favorite music groups snagged across the world wide web.

"EVERYTHING LOUDER THAN EVERYTHING ELSE!!" -- Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: Picuki, Leaders of Men (blogspot), Newcastle Press, Faecbook, @theydeclareit, Fort Bragg Zine, Pinterest, @lemmyslovechild, various, etc...

[slutforpringles]

rose tattoo

Saturday | Shanghai | Kym Illman

[yesloulou]

visacashapprb: Nothin’ but net 🏀 | 2024 Chinese Grand Prix 🇨🇳

[iliveforaussiegrit]

“Australian ex-racing driver Mark Webber, boasting nine victories in his career, arrived in São Paulo for the Brazilian Grand Prix and shared thoughts on his admiration for Ayrton Senna, retirement, and his fondness for Brazilian barbecue.”

“As the Rolex ambassador, he arrived in São Paulo in November for the Brazilian Grand Prix. Despite not boasting world titles, he, a fan of the band INXS ("the songs are timeless"), played tough against prominent figures in the sport. Nowadays, he cruises around in a Porsche and manages fellow countryman Oscar Piastri's career at McLaren.”

“With stints at Red Bull, Minardi, Jaguar, and Williams, and nine victories under his belt — including two on Brazilian soil — Webber discussed Ayrton Senna (whose grave he visited on this recent trip), the accident at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, likely to become a documentary, where his car somersaulted in a cinematic manner, and life after retiring from the sport ("I used to be a sharp weapon, now I'm a gentleman").”

GQ Brasil📸

[synthshenanigans]

new jash twitter photo :0

[photo for ones who do not have the app]

[leavemeslowly]

[celine-deyonce]

Q1 2024 / I only wear 3 outfits

[voguefashion]

Julianne Moore wearing Bottega Veneta, photographed by David Roemer on the cover of Harper's Bazaar UK, February 2024.

[ninja-muse]

So I like Kate Quinn. I love the way she writes unsung women in history—not just that she writes them, but that she takes the time to flesh out their historical context. Women (people) don't just wake up and suddenly find out that they're a spy or a code breaker or an opera singer, after all. They're shaped by their time and their culture and their upbringing, and they have to navigate their present, at its best and its worst. Quinn makes sure that's true for her novels.

I also love that Quinn has a way of pulling you gently along so that suddenly you look up and you've finished the entire book. Her prose is strong, her plots are great, and her characters are compelling, but they never feel fast. There's time taken to build things up and build them up, to give small details and day-to-day lives. It's immersive without being grim. And yet, like I said, I get addicted. The longest I think I've taken to read one of her books is three days. Usually it's two.

Which is why you should listen when I say this is one of her best.* The vibrancy of the characters is a notch up. The topics she's tackling are wider ranging and so the research feels deeper. Her ability to look at the 1950s, see how complicated they were, and encapsulate that in the boarding house setting was marvelous. The structure was a step up too. And the way she spun the characters off each other and developed their friendships? She's always been good at that but again….

The basic plot, for those who haven't had this on their TBR for six months, which is probably most of you: it's 1950 in Washington, D.C., and a new woman has moved into a depressing boardinghouse in a seedy neighbourhood. Over the next few years, she brings the residents together through a secret dinner club, and then somebody is killed. (They all have secrets; it could be anyone, and anyone might have done it.)

The other boarders shine light on facets of the era: the British army wife, the Hungarian refugee, the pro-McCarthy Texan, the athlete, the plus-sized secretary who grew up in a Hooverville, the cop's daughter who's turned her back on her family, the imaginative teen son of the landlady and his kid sister, the young widow. (Not to mention the side characters who all drift in and out of the women's lives.) They shouldn't have anything in common and they shouldn't like each other, and yet there is so much found family in this. So much wholesome comfort and people helping each other fix problems. So much arguing and so much unity.

(It surprises me not at all that this book was Quinn's reaction to the fear and anger that was 2020–2021.)

And I've waxed on enough. Quinn's hit a home run, to use one of Bea's sports metaphors, not only in terms of setting and character and plot, but also in general everything else. It balances the darker parts of the 1950s with their hopefulness for the future and the found family of the house. It talks about a lot of stuff that gets glossed over in the standard pop culture '50s, and while it doesn't dig as deep into some (marginalization) issues as it could, I understand why Quinn left the depth of those tales to people with lived experience.

If I say more, I'll be truly spoiling the experience of reading this, so please, if you're going to read a Kate Quinn book this summer, make it this one.

Out July 9.

*Of her 20th century novels; I haven't read her Romans and Borgias.

[forwangyibo]

Wang Yibo on 《时尚芭莎》 Harper's Bazaar cover, January 2024 issue.

Born in 1997, 26 years old, debuted for over 9 years. He is an actor, singer, dancer, professional racing driver. This time we use the body as a prelude to explore his emotional boundaries; using body language as a substitute for complex commentary and description. Embrace authenticity, what you see is what you get.

Photographer: 小刚curvart

Via 时尚芭莎 (Harper's Bazaar) - Weibo - 20231211

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE ART OF THE COVER PHOTO STILL @$!#*&% CONTINUES!! -- PART 2 OF 2.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the second handful of cover photos that I've used for my Tumblr blog over the past month, featuring such online finds as:

The late Sakevi Yokoyama (196?-2023), vocalist/lyricist/graphic artist for Japanese hardcore/heavy metal band G.I.S.M., performing in 1984.

The sensually-charged close-up photography of Harry Peccinotti.

The psychedelic sleeve art of British blues band CREAM, created by Martin Sharp for their second album "Disraeili Gears."

The dancing Tiger Woman from the British/Hammer horror film "Vampire Circus" (1972)

A tender photo taken at the former Southwestern High School, Detroit, Michigan, USA, during the class of 1987-'88, later borrowed by Swedish dream pop band, THE RADIO DEPT. 📸: Manny Crisostomo.

Movie poster design for the American sci-fi/horror/adventure film "The Mole People" (1956), distributed by Universal Pictures International.

A 2017 photograph titled "Circling the Small Ads (After Harland Miller)" by Miles Aldridge -- featuring fashion model Cleo Cliwek.

Film still from the American action/thriller film "The Warriors" (1979), directed by Walter Hill, and based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name.

Sources: IMDb, Mutual Art, Heritage Auctions, YouTube, Pinterest, Picuki, The Black Box Club, Detroit Free Press, various, etc...

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2024: THE DEATH I GAVE HIM by Em X. Liu.

Up next! Hamlet retelling but make it science + a locked-lab mystery (which is, of course, directly up my alley!). Horatio is the lab's resident AI, and I'm so excited to see how this goes.

[admiralgiggles]

As the crow flies 🤭

[fashionofemmacdwatson]

Emma Watson x British Vogue | Photo Shoot | London, England | January 2024

For the the January 2024 cover of British Vogue, Emma wore an upcycled t-shirt from Look 15 of the Maison Margiela Spring 2024 RTW Collection (not yet available).

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📸: Charlotte Wales via British Vogue

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the Perpetual Month. philip glass fucks.

[dadvil]

Jackson Wang x SuperELLE ‘24 February Issue