Pictures I like

[Todd]

A very powerful banner ad. 

[ludwigii]

Giulio Aristide Sartorio : Il Circeo (1909)




https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Giulio_Aristide_Sartorio%2C_il_circeo%2C_1909.JPG

[Todd]

California passed a law limiting the sale of certain types of "assault weapons" (ie, semi-automatic rifles with "high capacity" clips).  The law went into effect 1/1/17.  The very craft legislators put in place regulations pertaining to stocks, pistol grips, and flash suppressors.  The Colt AR-15 is a popular rifle that was one of the high profile targets of the legislation. 


Original AR-15:




Fans of this weapon have come up with modifications that make the weapon conform to the law.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

This made me laugh a LOT (click to enlarge)

[Sergeant Rock]

(ie, semi-automatic rifles with "high capacity" clips

Not clips, magazines. Hollywood always gets this wrong too.

Sarge

[Todd]

Not clips, magazines. Hollywood always gets this wrong too.

Round these parts, people use the words clip and magazine interchangeably, or did when I used to target shoot frequently a couple decades ago.  Maybe things have changed, or maybe it's a regional/military thing.  I know the strict usage would be clip for something like an M1 and magazine for something like an AR15 (or M16), but common usage often doesn't make such distinctions.  But I'm sure you knew that.

[NikF]

This is from a book titled (I think) 'Discovering Japan' from the second half of the 1980s, by Ed van der Elsken. There's also a cool collection from the mid-50s featuring jazz musicians which I might have a copy of.

[Ken B]

Feminism in action. Fight the powers that be!

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

We're going down that route are we, Ken B?

Here's someone I admire:

[kishnevi]

Or this lady, Sarah Schenirer, who probably did more to advance women than any of the Swedish ladies, simply through teaching girls, at that time and place a radical idea

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Hadn't heard of Sarah Schenirer before. Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

[Ken B]

Hadn't heard of Sarah Schenirer before. Fascinating! Thanks for posting.

Ditto.

[Mirror Image]

Some photos of Barber I think are quite good:

[Todd]

[Spineur]

This one is for Thefabulousalian

[Florestan]

[ludwigii]

Pablo Ruiz Picasso : Death of Casagemas (1901)




The artist`s friend Casagemas shot himself in a Parisian café in 1901. It is commonly believed that this profoundly affected Picasso and started his "Blue period".

[NikF]

Guy Bourdin. 1970s.

Selling the product without it being front and centre. Glamour and desirability as part of a narrative that's almost the antithesis of their earlier, traditional representations via Conde Nast. I love that.

[George]

[NikF]

^Good stuff.