All Alone! Whether You Like It Or Not, Alone Is Something You’ll Be Quite A Lot.

Weimar Girls, by Louis Braquet. Drawings, paintings, and prints at Louisbraquetart.etsy.com

Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse now directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 1979

A roll of film from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Emilio D’Alessandro rememembers: “These strips are from the early prints of the film, and Stanley screened them to check on the quality of the laboratory’s work.”

Photo taken from Stanley Kubrick and me, the compelling memoir of Emilio D'Alessandro, personal assistant to Stanley Kubrick for thirty years. A collection of heartfelt private memories spanning from A Clockwork Orange to Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick and me is a unique biography offering a completely different perspective on an extraordinary modern artist. Featuring more than 50 never-before-seen photographs.

Stanley Kubrick and me, a book by Emilio D’Alessandro and Filippo Ulivieri, Arcade Publishing, May 2016.

Read excerpts and reviews at www.emiliodalessandro.com.

Love those stretch marks, so naturally beautiful

Emilio Jiménez

Daffy Duck - The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)

Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.  

The bagh naka is a claw-like weapon from India designed to fit over the knuckles or be concealed under and against the palm. It consists of four or five curved blades affixed to a crossbar or glove, and is designed to slash through skin and muscle. It is believed to have been inspired by the armament of big cats, and the term bagh naka itself means tiger’s claw in Hindi. (Source)

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