A catalog of oddities, fascinations, and sundry ephemera by Judith M. MurrayTumblr (3.0; @youwillbeassimilated)http://judithmurray.net/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ph91Ff4E1qbkzabo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ph91Ff4E1qbkzabo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ph91Ff4E1qbkzabo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ph91Ff4E1qbkzabo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ph91Ff4E1qbkzabo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><span class="tumblr_blog">Via </span><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://expose-the-light.tumblr.com/post/21726445220/moonrise-and-the-temple-of-poseidon-at-sounio" target="_blank">expose-the-light</a>, via <a href="http://sisterhimalaya.tumblr.com/post/23710846107/expose-the-light-moonrise-and-the-temple-of" target="_blank">sisterhimalaya</a>:</p> <blockquote>Moonrise and the temple of Poseidon at Sounio, Greece</blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/23737630944http://judithmurray.net/post/23737630944Fri, 25 May 2012 09:14:00 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m49y1rorXJ1ql58wbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>For Grace [Coddington],</em></p> <p><em>You look beautiful in that light.</em></p> <p><em>Love,</em></p> <p><em>Bruce [Weber]</em></p> </blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/23460500390http://judithmurray.net/post/23460500390Sun, 20 May 2012 20:12:33 -0700sartorialistphotographievintage<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3rtxr1yyH1qz7b9so1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Excerpt from Terry Gross’s interview with Maurice Sendak. Hat tip to <a href="http://www.twentyfourbit.com/" target="_blank">this guy</a>.</p>http://judithmurray.net/post/22729401529http://judithmurray.net/post/22729401529Wed, 09 May 2012 12:53:50 -0700Maurice Sendakliterature<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m32btqYg1u1qzdvhio1_r4_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="tumblr_blog">Via </span><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://oldhollywood.tumblr.com/post/21821899305/anthony-perkins-in-the-trial-1962-dir-orson" target="_blank">oldhollywood</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Anthony Perkins<span> in </span><em>The Trial</em><span> (1962, dir. Orson Welles) </span>(<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=KkMcAQAAIAAJ&q=9783822820032&dq=9783822820032&hl=en&sa=X&ei=O6SYT7mtHsyd6AHjkc3KBg&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAA" target="_blank">via</a>)</p> <p><span>Photographer: Roger Corbeau</span></p> </blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/21851522947http://judithmurray.net/post/21851522947Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:55:48 -0700les films“I have too much respect for books, so to make a mark in a blank one seems like a violation. Then the neurosis compounds itself, because if you make a good drawing, you don’t want to screw the book up by making a bad drawing after. So I have a lot of sketchbooks that have one drawing in them - a whole shelf full.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/11/art-spiegelman-maus-comic-sketchbooks" target="_blank">Art Spiegelman, in an interview with the Guardian</a></p> <p>Via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://libraryland.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">libraryland</a></p></em>http://judithmurray.net/post/21582879195http://judithmurray.net/post/21582879195Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:34:00 -0700truthsartliterature<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2w5acESJ01qz7b9so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Rare photographs of John Dillinger in a Crown Point Court (click to embiggen). <a href="http://thetommyguntimes.blogspot.com/2011/11/john-dillinger-in-court-crown-point.html" target="_blank">The Tommy Gun Times</a> writes:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>Here’s a rare series of photos showing Johnnie getting a light, talking to his attorney (Piquett, the guy with the white hair), listening to a guy (Piquett’s assistant?) and for a moment, not looking like a guy who was about to perform a rather sensational jailbreak.</em></p> </blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/21581445331http://judithmurray.net/post/21581445331Sun, 22 Apr 2012 10:15:00 -0700historyphotographievintage<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2tprrTfUv1qzs3iqo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="tumblr_blog">Via </span><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://uncertaintimes.tumblr.com/post/21488228912/august-sander-bricklayer-1928-nevada-museum-of" target="_blank">uncertaintimes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>August Sander, <em>Bricklayer</em>, 1928</p> <p><a href="http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/detail?eid=215" target="_blank">Nevada Museum of Art</a></p> </blockquote> <p>What a photograph!</p>http://judithmurray.net/post/21512301684http://judithmurray.net/post/21512301684Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:32:00 -0700photographievintage<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2ney2RvF61qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="tumblr_blog">Via </span><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/21295053272/even-bad-coffee-is-better-than-no-coffee-at-all" target="_blank">nevver</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.” <br/> ― <a href="http://www.jeanbaptistemondino.com/photos" target="_blank">David Lynch</a></p> </blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/21328019753http://judithmurray.net/post/21328019753Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:15:07 -0700lynchisms<a href="http://www.twentyfourbit.com/2012/04/ethan-johns-interview-5789/">Rare New Interview with Producer Ethan Johns</a>http://judithmurray.net/post/21105979799http://judithmurray.net/post/21105979799Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:38:00 -0700musique<a href="http://www.drawastickman.com/episode1?o=66-69-32-67-82-69-65-84-73-86-69s66-89-58-32-84-72-69-32-66-65-78-68-69-69">Draw a Stickman</a>http://judithmurray.net/post/21098252838http://judithmurray.net/post/21098252838Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:20:29 -0700games“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>-P.J. O’Rourke</p> <p>Hee! Via <a href="http://firstbook.tumblr.com/post/20778123669/teachingliteracy-meanwhile-imh" target="_blank">firstbook</a></p></em>http://judithmurray.net/post/20968139088http://judithmurray.net/post/20968139088Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:15:15 -0700literaturedrolleries<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2dis9YuYA1qz7b9so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/s61zf/freddie_mercury/" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p>http://judithmurray.net/post/20967277482http://judithmurray.net/post/20967277482Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:52:57 -0700musiquephotographie<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m14rwn2SCe1qbr8m0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://judithmurray.net/post/19579756771http://judithmurray.net/post/19579756771Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:16:39 -0700installationsbook art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjxg6wKkF1qz7b9so1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjxg6wKkF1qz7b9so2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzjxg6wKkF1qz7b9so3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Clockwise: Daniel Day Lewis, Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton (click for larger)</p> <p>Photographs from <a href="http://www.simonannand.com/the-half" target="_blank">Simon Annand</a>’s <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/057123772X/ref=nosim?tag=simon0c-21" target="_blank"><em>The Half</em></a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em>When ‘The Half’ is called over the loudspeaker backstage, it is the start of a 35 minute countdown to facing the audience and there is no escape.</em><br/><br/><em>It is rare to see actors at this point in their work.</em><br/><br/><em>Over 25 years SIMON ANNAND has been given unprecedented access to photograph this in-between world that the audience never sees.</em></p> </blockquote> <p>On exhibit at the <a href="http://gallery.ideageneration.co.uk/blogs/909/view" target="_blank">Idea Generation Gallery</a> in London starting February 24; corresponding video <a href="http://vimeo.com/9043733" target="_blank">here</a> (worth a view).</p>http://judithmurray.net/post/17776076295http://judithmurray.net/post/17776076295Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:14:00 -0800photographieles films<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyq7fxTJYO1qz4s3wo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><span class="tumblr_blog">Via </span><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://inspire.2ia.pl/post/16870893020/anatomical-cross-sections-in-paper-by-lisa-nilsson" target="_blank">szymon</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>anatomical <a href="http://lisanilssonart.com/artwork/2431150_Profile_detail.html" target="_blank">cross sections in <strong>paper</strong></a> by Lisa Nilsson</p> </blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/16872883523http://judithmurray.net/post/16872883523Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:55:12 -0800art<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9kgfZwNl1qg39ewo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>Via <a href="http://futurisms.tumblr.com/post/16571491742/carl-sagans-cosmos-the-lives-of-the-stars-apple-pie" target="_blank">futurisms</a></p>http://judithmurray.net/post/16583511379http://judithmurray.net/post/16583511379Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:08:00 -0800drolleriesscience<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxpx22HxJA1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="tumblr_blog">Via </span><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tumblr.thedailywh.at/post/15758946789/this-x-that-know-this-taliban-appears" target="_blank">thedailywhat</a>:</p> <blockquote>Superimposed images of the same carousel from multiple angles — taken by Pep Ventosa at the Tibidabo amusement park in Barcelona. <a href="http://www.pepventosa.com/gallery.html?folio=the%20photographs&gallery=In%20the%20Round%20-%20Carousels" target="_blank">More here</a>. (<a href="http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/pic-of-the-day-a-carousels-memory" target="_blank">via</a>.)</blockquote>http://judithmurray.net/post/15780057707http://judithmurray.net/post/15780057707Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:13:37 -0800photographiefairy tales<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lF_C7BvAf_A?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi’s “Two Against One” (featuring Jack White)</p>http://judithmurray.net/post/15757717885http://judithmurray.net/post/15757717885Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:21:39 -0800musiqueles films<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwiztv1mhh1qz7b9so1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwiztv1mhh1qz7b9so2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwiztv1mhh1qz7b9so3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwiztv1mhh1qz7b9so4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a href="http://westcollects.com/westCollection/view_artist/artwork/2718" target="_blank">Tyree Callahan</a> paints with a typewriter (click to enlarge).</p> <p>Via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/offbeat/comments/njtib/painting_with_a_typewriter_xpost/" target="_blank">Reddit</a></p>http://judithmurray.net/post/14532302671http://judithmurray.net/post/14532302671Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:27:00 -0800artpaintings<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw5k5rBMOC1qz7b9so1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Groove in a vinyl record magnified 1,000 times, via <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/narfk/this_is_a_photo_of_a_single_groove_on_a_vinyl/" target="_blank">Reddit</a>.</p>http://judithmurray.net/post/14171169079http://judithmurray.net/post/14171169079Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:20:00 -0800musiquephotographie