When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
― Robert Frank
Robert Frank: Political Rally, Chicago, 1956
french inspiration
Brigitte Bardot at the Cannes Film Festivals in the early-mid 1950s
Brigitte Bardot poses with Pablo Picasso and his work while at his studio in Vallauris on the Cote d'Azur, during the Cannes Film Festival in 1956.
(images sourced from multiple websites)
the. best. ever.
SWOON 💙thinking about color & light & warm on this sunlit sunday & beyond words grateful to Alex Brooks (in Lexington, Kentucky) for making me the best sketchbook I’ve ever had & in my favorite colors (&, he sent his fav pencils with it too!)
(palm) print of Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, born July 24, 1897, had her palm prints analyzed by palmist Nellie Simmons Meier four years before her mysterious disappearance. According to Meier’s analysis, the length and breadth of the famed aviator’s palm indicated a love of physical activity and a strong will. Earhart’s long fingers not only showed her conscientious attention to detail and pursuit of perfection but also revealed her ambitious yet rational nature. Her palm further reflected the reasoned and logistical manner of someone who considers all possibilities before making a decision.
Meier prepared Earhart’s palm print an analysis on June 28, 1933, and you can read it here, as part of the Library’s American Memory collections.
“There is a wide stretch between her thumbs and fingers and between the fingers themselves which, coupled with the shape of the nails, is indicative of an impatience over restraining influence either from individuals or the conventionalities of social life. The diplomacy indicted by the little finger enables her to conform to such restrictions for a certain period, and then the urge for physical and mental activity becomes so strong that she seeks escape by a flight in her plane,” wrote Meier in her 1937 book, “Lions’ Paws: The Story of Famous Hands.”
happy 100th birthday, Sister Corita Kent
rule 1 Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
rule 2 General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher. Pull everything out of your fellow students.
rule 3 General duties of a teacher: Pull everything out of your students.
rule 4 Consider everything an experiment.
rule 5 Be self disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be disciplined is to follow in a better way.
rule 6 Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.
rule 7 The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
rule 8 Don’t try to create and analyze at the same time. They’re different processes.
rule 9 Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It’s lighter than you think.
rule 10 “We’re breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for x quantities.” –John Cage
helpful hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything; it might come in handy later. There should be new rules next week.”
Corita Kent was born 100 years ago today.
lots of gratitude to Dirk Fowler for telling me about her & her work! I looked her up immediately later that day & am obsessed & told my screenprinting students at Charles Adams Studio Project & students at Texas Tech University School of Art about her ✨✨
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