They are stunned, shocked and left completely speechless. (As if they were chatting a lot otherwise.) These poor animals would really like you to put some clothes on –PLEASE!!
(via Sad and Useless)
They are stunned, shocked and left completely speechless. (As if they were chatting a lot otherwise.) These poor animals would really like you to put some clothes on –PLEASE!!
(via Sad and Useless)
Raquel Welch‘s TV Special Raquel With Love was filmed in 1980 and it’s vintage trip. About 4:15, is the start of a very gay, Mine Shaft, Tom of Finland-inspired sequence shot on the subway which then lapses into a disco free-for-all. Watch.
A collection of vintage Polaroid photos from the set of The Rocky Horror Picture Show are back in the hands of their original owner, thanks to the good Samaritan who found them after they were lost on a New York City subway platform in 2011. Brady Marter uploaded his surreptitious find, which includes shots of Tim Curry in and out of drag, to the website Collectors Weekly several years ago, saying that he had
“found these on the platform of the C train in TriBeCa in 2011…. some have writing on the back and Frankenfurter kissed the back of one.”
Marter was surprised when Larry Viezel said in the comments section saying he’d accidentally dropped the pics,
“These were part of a collection I bought from someone in New Mexico. These were used in making The Rocky Horror Scrapbook. I had it shipped to my office (I worked on the corner of Hudson and Canal) and was taking them home. A bunch fell out of my bag and I picked them up. When I got home I realized I missed one. Looks like I missed more than one! If it’s any proof, I’d be happy to show you the rest of the collection.”
The guy that found them was working just a few blocks away from where I was working in Manhattan at the time on Hudson Street when I lost them.
But he had since moved to the south. He was very gracious and returned them. I was incredibly grateful. He asked if he could keep one of them – the photo of the model of the church. I was happy to oblige. The photos are now back with the rest of my collection. I am very happy to have them back!”
So nice of Marter to return these. I might have tried to contact the people in the pictures (I know Nell Campbell, although I haven’t seen her in years and friends know Tim Curry) Otherwise, I might have have totally kept them not even thinking that the rightful owner could be found.
(via NewNowNext)
Just a few miles outside of New York City, there’s this sprawling, 57-room mansion that sits on 6 acres. It has a bowling alley, indoor tennis court, two bars, and a library. Its opulent interiors, with spiral staircases and multiple chandelier is entirely abandoned.
Built in the late 1930s, and last lived in in the 70s, the owner supposedly bought lavish mansions like this and left them to decay. The building itself, needs some TLC, but the collections inside remain untouched. If these walls could talk.
(via Atlas Obscura: Photos, Bryan Sansivero)
Why are deserted interiors so sad? I guess we can imagine the lives lived, now moved on to a new town – or the afterlife. Maybe we’ve all seen too many horror movies, but they just seem creepy. If you look at them as architecture gems to be restored, then you can see future lives lived in the same once-chic rooms. As with most things in life, it’s all about perspective.
Jeremy Sicile-Kira is autistic –and ARTistic. The 27 year-old has Synesthesia, a condition that produces a blending of the senses. In Sicile-Kira’s case, he can see people’s moods and auras represented in an array of colors, which he turns into paintings. Jeremy, who has very few verbal skills, tells PEOPLE through email,
“I see color in everything that is alive – in people, animals, plants, even butterflies. Color is evident in everything to me. I see people’s emotions translated into color when I look at them. I see more great colors in people’s faces depending on their mood.“
Jeremy’s mother, Chantal, says three years ago her son asked if everyone saw people in colors, like him.
“I said no, and that makes you special! He has this incredible ability to sense people’s personalities. He can see pain and sadness and happiness and joy. He has a true gift.“
After finding out he had synesthesia, Jeremy decided to start making artwork based on the colors swirling in his head. He meets with clients (if they live far away, he can Skype with them) in order to “read” their colors. It then takes him a few weeks to finish the painting.
“I can make people happy [with my art] and I just feel grateful to have a way to give back to the world of people around me. I hope [the recipients] feel happy about their life and greatly feel and realize they are beautiful on the inside as well as outside.“
Stephanie Rubino bought one of Jeremy’s originals at a silent auction to benefit autism two years ago.
“We video-chatted and he asked me questions and got to know me. He used a letter board to communicate with me and I could tell he was intensely focused on me and on finding out who I was.“
Three weeks later, Rubino, who has an autistic, received a canvas with waves of blended greens and yellows and blues and purples.
“The colors represented me so accurately. It’s beautiful. I could just tell that for him, he’s doing this because it comes naturally and he loves doing it.“
Jeremy’s first solo exhibit, Inner Dimensions, will take place in San Diego, California, starting Monday April 11, to coincide with Autism Awareness Month.
He hopes to sell enough of his paintings, which range in price from $175 to $1,800, to one day become completely self-sufficient.
“I see beautiful colors in my dreams and I wanted to see that beauty in real life,” explains Jeremy. “[Painting] calms me. I love the movement of the brush… It’s like a musician truly playing a beautiful instrument: both have great melodies.
Painting is a release for me.“
As an artist, this is so inspiring and kinda makes me tear up. I know, I’m a sap, but I love this guy.
(Photos, Chantal Sicile-Kira; via People)
Comedian Scott Rogowsky mocked up some fake book covers, with some realistic graphics, to see if people on the New York subway clocked what he was reading. Books with titles like
• Ass Eating Made Simple
• How To Hold a Fart In
Which I think maybe would have been more grammatical as, How To Hold In a Fart
Anyway, here are a few stills but the video is worth it. You get a lot more titles plus some pretty priceless reactions. It’s NYC, so people try to play it cool but they DO notice. Watch.
A mysterious Twitter account, @paprbckparadise has been tweeting out these children’s books, with some radical changes to the titles. Just my kind of reading.
OK, not $10 million. $9,975,000.
The UES former firehouse that was Andy Warhol‘s first studio is on the market. 159 East 87th Street, just east of Lexington, is a two-story building that dates from 1910. Art critic Blake Gopnik, who is working on a biography of the artist, told ArtNet News,
“As a successful commercial illustrator, Andy Warhol had spent the previous 13 years working out of his various homes. In 1963, he was only just becoming known as a fine artist, so it’s no wonder he didn’t invest in a fancier studio.“
Warhol was becoming a celebrity himself, both praised and reviled, just six months before debuting his now infamous Campbell’s Soup Can series. Gopnik said,
“The fire house only cost $150 a month, but it was a wreck, with leaks in the roof and holes in the floors, but it was better than trying to make serious paintings in the wood-paneled living-room of his Victorian townhouse, as he’d done for the previous couple of years. Andy moved into the firehouse on January 1, 1963, and his lease on it was terminated the following May —leaving a gap of more than half a year before he moves into the famous Silver Factory.“
Andy painted some his most famous and coveted series here, like Marilyn, Liz and his Disaster paintings. The building is, ironically, currently in use as an art storage facility and realtor Cushman & Wakefield resorted to some artsy language in the listing, saying that it,
“offers a developer a blank canvas to create boutique condominiums, a mixed-use rental or a luxury townhouse.”
For rent 50+ years ago for $150 a month; for sale in 2016 for $10 million. An early silkscreen of Warhol’s, like this Triple Elvis maybe a couple thousand in ’63. It sold at auction for almost $82 million. As an artist I’m asking, what’s a better return on your money?
(via Artnet News)
The decorating Novogratz family used to live around the corner from me in New York, and we have several friends in common. They bought my painting Make Your Mark for the W Hotel, and have been really supportive of my work and are just as nice as they seem. Last year they made a big move to L.A. and bought yet another house to redo. This time, it’s a castle!
Robert and Cortney have been blogging for People about the process —renovating a 1926 castle in the Hollywood Hills. Now we get to see the results in a new web series, The Castle Next Door: The Novogratz Family Take Hollywood.
The design duo is famous for their decorating shows on HGTV that featured their 7 kids; Wolfgang, 18, Tallulah & Bellamy, 17, Breaker, 15, Five & Holleder, 10, & Major. Cortney says,
“It took us about eight months start to finish and the kids were involved a lot more than they have ever been because they’re older now.”
Throughout the series, the family shares their tricks for updating their home with a fresh, modern look. You can see all 10 episodes (they're short) on People.com.