Found on Imgur.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Book Covers: The Casual Optimist
The Odyssey, Homer (Coralie Bickford Smith)
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (Coralie Bickford Smith)
Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald (Coralie Bickford Smith)
2666, Roberto Bolano (Charlotte Strick)
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole (Gary Taxali)
The Train, Georges Simenon (Christopher Brian King)
The Art of Immersion, Frank Rose (Jason Booher)
Double Indemnity, James M. Cain (Evan Gaffney)
The Ethics of Interrogation, Michael Skerker (Isaac Tobin)
Columbine, Dave Cullen (Henry Sene Yee)
Images from The Casual Optimist, via The Book Design Review Twitter feed.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Cold Edge
Sleeping Giant
Blue Iceberg
The Blue Line
Images from The Cold Edge, an exhibition on Arctic photography, opening in The Copper House Gallery in Dublin on Thursday 13 September.
Images: Dave Walsh
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Elias Garcia Martinez's 'Ecce Homo' - make your own restoration
The art world was introduced to Cecilia Gimenez recently, due to the Spanish pensioner's spirited-but-misguided attempts at touching-up Elias Garcia Martinez's Ecce Homo.
You may scoff at her crude daubings, but could you have done any better? Well, here is your chance to find out. Go to ceciliaprize.com to have a go at making your own restoration to Ecce Homo. You can can win a poster of the restored work if you enter, but the real satisfaction is gained by taking part.
Here are El T's picks from the entries:
View more entries on the ceciliaprize's Pinterest page.
First image from NY Times.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Lance Saga: A Little Perspective
Just to give a little context to the furore surrounding the latest installment in the Armstrong chronicles: yes it appears that there is now little doubt that Lance Armstrong engaged in blood doping. But, even if he did dope, he still managed to win the Tour de France seven times against a load of other guys who also doped (see the infographic above for details). Which is still an impressive feat.
(El T is no Lance fanboy, by the way. Just for the record).
The infographic above is a little out of date; Contador was of course subsequently stripped of his 2010 T de F title, and Frank Schleck has been caught with a banned diuretic in his blood just weeks ago.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tony Scott 1944 - 2012
Sorrows come not in single spies, but in battalions...
El Tarangu was deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tony Scott. We've always had a soft-spot for his unashamedly populist, slickly-produced films.
Movies.com have this nice little tribute, featuring the first short film Scott ever directed, a more recent short film (Clive Owen playing opposite James Brown - how odd), and an interview with the man himself.
We would be remiss in not mentioning Tony Scott's most famous work. Top Gun, a film that caused a generation of self-assured, red-blooded men to rethink some basic principles with this scene:
You can be my wing-man any time, Tony.
Photo from People.com
Movies.com link via @scottEweinberg
Saturday, August 11, 2012
New Tom Waits Video: Hell Broke Luce
After receiving a number of cryptic, Tom Waits-related emails last week, El T was hoping that there was a tour announcement in the offing.
Sadly, it wasn't to be - although we were treated to a nice new video.
Go on tour, Tom, and come to Belgium.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Gore Vidal 1925 - 2012
By their witticisms shall ye know them:
In 1971, in the green room before The Dick Cavett Show, Mailer butted Gore Vidal in the face, having taken exception to the novelist's review of one of his books. Seven years later, at a party, he threw a glass at him and, by some accounts, including Vidal's ("I saw this tiny fist coming at me"), punched him. Still on the floor, Vidal announced: "Words fail Norman Mailer. Yet again."
El Tarangu very much enjoyed Julian, Vidal's historical novel on the Roman Emperor who attempted to reintroduce the worship of the Roman gods to the empire. For anyone who has yet to read any Gore, his selected essays are the perfect starting point (El T was introduced to the joys of Montaigne through this collection).
A huge talent, who will be sorely missed.
Quote via The Atlantic.
Friday, July 27, 2012
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