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Naomi White

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Scott Listfield

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Illustrator Ardneks: each of the images in “MARQUEES TROPiCA” were created while one song was being played on repeat. From above: 

MOONAGE ODDiTY Song: David Bowie — Space Oddity

CELESTiAL BROADCAST Song: The Jesus and Mary Chain — Just Like Honey

COASTAL JUiCEBOX Song: Tatsuro Yamashita — 風の回廊(コリドー)

STRAWBERRY LETTER Song: Jacks — 時計をとめて

SUNFLOWERMiLK ViBRATiONS Song: The Beach Boys — Don’t Worry Baby

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“Crowded Fields” by Photographer Pelle Cass

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Contempt (Le mépris) 1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard.

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Moscow (May 1978)

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Contempt (Le mépris) 1963, dir. Jean-Luc Godard.

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Agnès Varda

- Black Panthers

1968

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William Klein in Salut les Cubains (1964) directed by Agnès Varda

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We've forgotten why Joan Fontaine leans over the edge of a cliff and what it was Joel McCrea was going to do in Holland. We don't remember why Montgomery Clift was maintaining eternal silence or why Janet Leigh stops at the Bates Motel or why Teresa Wright is still in love with Uncle Charlie. We've forgotten why Henry Fonda is not entirely guilty and exactly why the American government employed Ingrid Bergman. But we remember a handbag. But we remember a bus in the desert. But we remember a glass of milk, the sails of a windmill, a hairbrush. But we remember bottles in a line, a pair of glasses, a passage of music, a bunch of keys, because it's thanks to them that Alfred Hitchcock succeeded where Alexander, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon failed: to become master of the universe.

Jean-Luc Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema

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From Colorado State’s 1903 yearbook.

My favorite owls that I’ve encountered are roosting here.

The imagery that Tumblr bizarrely deemed insensitive to community standards: Weblog ◆ Books ◆ Videos ◆ Music ◆ Etsy

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Mural Murals (Agnès Varda, 1981)

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Tadanori Yokoo, Asahi Beer, 1966

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Monday’s fire that ravaged Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, bringing down its spire and roof, struck during Holy Week. But even outside this key period in the Roman Catholic calendar, the cathedral draws visitors all year, some 12 million of them.

It is the most famous of the French Gothic cathedrals of the Middle Ages and is distinguished by its size, antiquity and architectural interest.

At the cathedral’s east end, the apse is supported by single-arch flying buttresses of the more daring Rayonnant Gothic style, especially notable for their boldness and grace.

“Our Lady of Paris” also features pointed arches, a ribbed vault, two 225-feet-tall towers on the facade, and large, intricate rose windows made of stained glass.

The cathedral is central to French history and a beloved national symbol. Notre Dame’s construction began in 1163 during the reign of King Louis VII and completed in 1345.

Images: Notre Dame Cathedral

Photos: Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Le Grice/ Getty Images; Edward Charles Le Grice/Le Grice/Getty Images, Library of Congress, L. V. Clark/Hulton Archive/Getty Images and Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

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Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

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Jeanne Oosting - birds, linocuts

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The lively and curious response to the shock of a strong individuality encountering an objective world, and perceiving and savouring its distance

French travel writer Victor Ségalen, defining his idea of the “exote”