“The game of billiards has destroyed my naturally sweet disposition.”
- Mark Twain, speech, April 24, 1906

Photo via vintagephoto

Via The Sartorialist

By David [Jubert of] Graphistolage, via randompictures

Via Centripetal Notion; related

Buster Keaton, via vintagephoto

Via seriouslythough, via flipnshoot

Left to right: Alfred Hitchcock, James Gregory, Vincent Price

Via vintagephoto; more Hitchcock here

Via all things amazing

Via proustianmemory:

William Faulkner (1897-1962): Alcohol

LIFE: Famous Literary Drunks & Addicts

A great photoset! Start here.

Federico Fellini photographed by Tazio Secchiaroli during the filming of 8½, via vintagephoto.

Found at We heart it. I welcome information on the photographer; WHI’s linkage isn’t helpful.

Via uncertaintimes:

Man Ray (1921)

Passport Photos

Nag on the Lake

Photos by René Maltête, via RuGuru.

That last one reminds me of Caspar David Friedrich’s The Monk by the Sea, a print of which hangs above my bed.

Illustration of magnetism by Caleb Charland, via today and tomorrow. The rest of Caleb’s collection, “Demonstrations,” is equally awesome, so check it out.

Love the composition of this photo—not to mention all things Fornasetti.

Via don’t touch my moleskine; previously