Monday, August 31, 2009

Bedroom





Images by iosonolania, see her photostream here.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Bleach





Images by Emilie Bjork, see her photostream here.

Slit




Paintings by Nicola Stäglich.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Bleed




Images by pinkapples_x, see her photostream here.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Moment




Images by Laura Encursiva, see her photostream here.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Girls with Glasses





Illustrations by fish_bear, see her photostream here.

Pussy Cat






Steven Meisel's 2009 ad campaign for Lanvin, featuring Kristen McMenamy.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Scar





Images by James Mcloughlin, see his photostream here.

Relic






Antique, glass vial reliquary (1/2" by 3") containing a very substantial vestment and a whole tooth relic of the Reverand Mother Superior Therese of Bavoz. Abess of the Pradines, imprisoned during the French revolution and released from prison only three days before her planned execution. Wax seal unbroken and all in place. Comes in a linen pouch with a letter describing the relics. See the original listing here.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Ectoplasm





Medium, Dorothy Henderson, October 2, 1928

Materialization was the word used in the circles of psychical researchers to describe a phenomenon that first became common in séances in the 1870s: the summoning of spirit presences in the form of objects and of bodies, or of traces of objects and bodies—touches to the cheek or hands of the sitters, slaps or caresses or breezes as of something passing, sometimes fingerprints or other marks, the sounds of bells ringing or ethereal music, apported flowers and other gifts from the spirits, and, above all, ectoplasmic manifestations. These took two predominant forms: luminous, veiled, phantom-like beings, or revenants...
-from Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm by Marina Warner in Cabinet

Woods





Images by Sasha Nikitin, see his photostream here.

Witches





Images by Agnes Thor, see her photostream here.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Face Down





Images by Michela Heim see her photostream here.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Panties




The Curse





Stills from Molly Grows Up, a 1953 menstruation education film for teenage girls.

Monday, August 17, 2009