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Spawn, #9, introducing Angela. 1993. (Image...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:34:12 -0400

Spawn, #9, introducing Angela. 1993.

(Image Comics)

There’s not much point in being realistic in the comic world, but when the desire for powerful women characters collides with the desire for nearly nude women characters, the result can be delightfully ludicrous. Here we have the super hero as bombshell, almost literally. Angela, decked out in her gear for the first time ever looks more like the victim of an attempted gang rape than a warrior – female or otherwise – set for battle. Sure, she’s mostly naked, but for armored boobs and crotch, but check out the hair. Beyond being impossible to maintain and an imminent obstruction to dear Angela’s view, her coif appears to be already snagged in her own gear. Ah, the triumph of sex over pretty much everything — it’s a Marvel to behold.

Fallen branch of a palm tree, Key West, Florida. Photo by TPF.

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:20:05 -0400

Fallen branch of a palm tree, Key West, Florida.

Photo by TPF.

Line Drawing by Sir Shadow. NYC, 2013.

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:41:01 -0400

Line Drawing by Sir Shadow. NYC, 2013.

Line drawing by Sir Shadow, near Astor Place, NYC.

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:57:25 -0400

Line drawing by Sir Shadow, near Astor Place, NYC.

The neighborly thing to do with clothes that you don’t...

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:32:38 -0400

The neighborly thing to do with clothes that you don’t want anymore but are still worth wearing is to hang them out in front of your building. Usually someone will pick them up by the end of the day. Or if you just have a couple of hangars, you can hang them out there.

Photo by TPF.

Photo by David Guttenfelder. North Korean women perform in a...

Fri, 03 May 2013 05:21:53 -0400

Photo by David Guttenfelder.

North Korean women perform in a mass synchronized swimming show in Pyongyang, North Korea to celebrate the birthday of the late leader Kim Jong Il, who would have turned 70 on February 16, 2012. February 15, 2012.

You’re taking a risk when you do your art on a wall. Like...

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:04:10 -0400

You’re taking a risk when you do your art on a wall. Like a tattoo, it’s pretty much permanent, you can’t move to somewhere else. But then unlike a tattoo, it’s not that hard to just paint over it, tear it down, or in this case, build something in front of it. When I see art on a wall it feels oddly temporary.

Photo by TPF.

C Garbage dumpster, detail. NYC. Photo by TPF.

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:59:56 -0400

Garbage dumpster, detail. NYC.

Photo by TPF.

livelymorgue: Aug. 12, 1934: From the Mid-Week Pictorial, a...

Wed, 01 May 2013 23:43:39 -0400

livelymorgue:

Aug. 12, 1934: From the Mid-Week Pictorial, a squadron of bombers took part in a simulated air raid on London, “proving that the metropolitan area could not be defended from an attack by aircraft.” Photo: The New York Times

In one of the junk stores in Amsterdam there was a box of glass...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:20:00 -0400

In one of the junk stores in Amsterdam there was a box of glass slides. Several boxes, in fact. I’d never seen so many glass photo slides before, and it felt as though they should all be in a museum.

Who is this guy in the corner of the photo? It looks to me like a Dutch guy trying to be Salvador Dali.

Going original

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:13:00 -0400

I'm considering going purely original with Tiny Pink Frog, not reblogging anymore, except for emergencies. I'm sure this is mostly narcissism, but maybe it's the good kind of narcissism? Any thoughts?

From the Highline, NYC, 2013. Photo by TPF.

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:40:14 -0400

From the Highline, NYC, 2013.

Photo by TPF.

In a community garden, Lower East Side, NYC.

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 22:29:32 -0400

In a community garden, Lower East Side, NYC.

"When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way;..."

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:51:24 -0400

““When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.””

- Ingmar Bergman (via auteuriste)

"1922, January 28. A little dizzy, tired from the tobagganing; weapons still exist for me, however..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:33:33 -0400

“1922, January 28. A little dizzy, tired from the tobagganing; weapons still exist for me, however seldom I may employ them; it is so hard for me to lay hold of them because I am ignorant of the joys of their use, never learned how when I was a child. It is not only “Father’s fault” that I never learned their use, but also my wanting to disturb the “peace,” to upset the balance, and for this reason I could not allow a new person to be born elsewhere while I was bending every effort to bury him here.”

- The Diaries of Franz Kafka.

A man walks the scene of the explosions at the Boston Marathon....

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:59:00 -0400

A man walks the scene of the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (Kenshin Okubo/The Daily Free Press via Associated Press)

People’s Drug Store, Seventh & K, Washington, D.C.,...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:25:35 -0400

People’s Drug Store, Seventh & K, Washington, D.C., circa 1921.

The South Waiting Room at Grand Central Terminal, NYC, when you...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:40:14 -0400

The South Waiting Room at Grand Central Terminal, NYC, when you use the iPhone’s panorama mode, but don’t pan in a straight line the way it tells you to.

Photo by TPF.

mcsgsym: 【京色】Kyo-iro -...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:20:26 -0400

mcsgsym:

【京色】Kyo-iro - 京都のいろ。

―京都のいろ。京色。
日本の伝統的な、和を感じさせる動きのある彩りや文様で、四季折々の京都の雰囲気を、色彩を、表現したモーショングラフィックスを制作。

Weathered side panel of a Kershaw Ballast Regulator, (messed...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:00:43 -0400

Weathered side panel of a Kershaw Ballast Regulator, (messed around with on a computer).