Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall at the 27th annual Academy Awards in 1955. (Via Life Magazine)

Confessions of a geek - I love researching the origins of words. So imagine my gasp of delight when I came across this site. 

Mysteries of the Vernacular takes you through a journey of discovery to the etymological source of words through beautifully quirky stop animation. Amazing. 

Wonderful advice via advice to sink in slowly. Illustration by Owen Davey. 

Parkurst, Johannesburg

South Africa

"The Flapper", Life Magazine, 1922

I adore this little embroidered love note from Cornflower Blue Studio

Amazing poem. Super special memories.

I carry your heart - e. e. cummings

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling) i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

A life lived noir

I absolutely love the theatrical narratives of Ilse Leender's photography. Suspicious movements is noir and a little playful, amazing.

Ah summer, you may be hiding the sun but that's not going to stop me cranking up the sunshine vibes.

In the Gutter is the title track of Low Line Relay's first EP and delivers atmospheric wooziness and awesome sound structures. 

“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”

Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut

"Dahling"

Vintage Harper's Bazaar cover from 1949. 

It's a Family Affair

This I love. Evoking lazy hazy summer vibes with dreamy prints and cool and floaty shapes, Family Affairs have got this summer's look sorted. Lovely.

Fantasy

"...choose your favorite ice cream combination at the 105 years old gelateria in Marseille and do a round on the carousel..."

Clyde

"…fill your grandma's wicker basket with the apples from her backyard, fresh baked bread, jam and champagne and meet your best friend in the park for brunch…"

Artist Eero Saarinen’s endearing list of his wife’s good qualities, circa 1954.

F Scott Fitzgerald reciting John Keat's "Ode to a Nightingale" in his own inimitable way.

Dolly Parton, photo by Andy Warhol.

Fabulous.  

“Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.”

― Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies

Words to live by. Especially in times when I've lost circulation in my hands due to arctic winter conditions.

Art print "The Invincible Summer" by Matthew Kavan Brooks on Society6

Shadows

Stumbled across Mariell Amelie's photography the other day and oh my days, did I ever fall in love with her work. Take Shadows for instance:

So playfully shot, like a noir version of Alice in Wonderland starring a grown up Alice who's fully embraced the darker and more decadent side of life.

A re-working of Hitchcock's The Birds? Perhaps.

Sinister shadow birds and Tippi with some serious attitude.

Pierrot the clown with sass and a kick-azz bowtie.