Yonago, Japan, 2019
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Santachiara Denis
Walstrom House by John Lautner,1969
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Alvalade metro station, Lisbon.
Tiles by Maria Keil.
December 12, 2001 Winona Ryder was arrested for attempting to steal thousands of dollars worth of clothing from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills. According to courtroom testimony, the store’s security team witnessed Ryder remove security tags from various items with a scissor before placing them in her bag. As the actress exited the store she was apprehended by several guards.
“Didn’t my assistant pay for it?” Ryder said as the officers rifled through her bag, despite having entered the store by herself.
Later, as the store’s employees deliberated whether to refer the case to the police, Ryder supposedly stood up, took the hand of a member of the store’s security team, and apologized.
“I’m sorry for what I did,” she said. “My director directed me to shoplift for a role I was preparing.”
The following year Ryder was found guilty of felony grand theft and vandalism and sentenced to three years’ probation, 480 hours of community service, and $10,000 in fines.
20 years ago today. Happy anniversary!
A John DePol Feathursday
This week we present signed, wood-engraved proofs of birds by the legendary American wood engraver John DePol, created for a 1991 letterpress edition of Texas author John Graves’s Self-Portrait, with Birds; Some Semi-Ornithological Recollections, printed by W. Thomas Taylor in Dallas at Chama Press in a limited edition of 330 copies. These prints appear as chapter heads in the book and present birds in their landscapes, rather than as ornithological renderings, in order to reflect the author’s view of birds as part of the natural environment.
There are a Bobwhite, some kind of passerine, an eared owl (maybe a Long-eared or a Screech), a Mallard, a Turkey, gulls, and some raptors. The book is not so much about the author as about the people who occupy a special place in his memory, all of them who in one way or another were associated with birds and contributed to the writer’s knowledge of them. Unfortunately, we do not hold the book (yet), just the prospectus and this suite of prints donated by our good friend Jerry Buff.
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Josef Frank (Swedish, born Austria, 1885–1967), textile design Anakreon, 1930s.
Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford 1978
