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Who is this? 
Brithdate: January 30, 1882
Check this link to get an answer.
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? (an impotant question)
Today is the 97th anniversary of the birth of louie louie. He is a good photographer
With his sister Rosemarie 
1940.
His early life in Jerusalem.. (youtube).
Beauty and Brain (Tilda and I)
His bathroom monologue 
He likes to bike.
Eiko Ishioka, Multifaceted Designer and Oscar Winner, Dies at 73
The Tokyo native who later moved to New York began her convention-defying career in Japanese advertising but eventually expanded it to include design work for Broadway, the movies and Cirque du Soleil.
Eiko Ishioka 
石岡 瑛子, Ishioka Eiko, July 12, 1939, Tokyo – January 21, 2012, Tokyo
In a career marked by great versatility, Ishioka won a Grammy Award in 1986 for best album package as art director for Miles Davis’ “Tutu.”
Her sets and costumes for David Henry Hwang’s Broadway play “M. Butterfly” earned her two Tony Award nominations in 1988.
Faye Dunaway
1) Eiko Ishioka (with Faye Dunaway) for Japanese department store, Parco
2) Faye Dunaway Peels an Egg – (youtube)
The Fall 
See The Fall – trailer (Previous post – Captive Girls)
Our first marriage from the Fall (youtube)
Bjork Cocoon (youtube)
Eiko Ishioka filmography
A Tribute to Ishioka
Tilda Swinton on Virginia Woolf (Telegraph)
When Tilda Swinton first discovered Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’, she embraced it as a practical guide to living. Fifteen years later she played the gender-hopping hero on screen. Now, as a new edition is published, the actress maps the obsessions behind Woolf’s revolutionary novel
Roger Fry’s portrait painting of Virginia Woolf
Virginia 
Via
25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941
Painting of Virginia Woolf by her sister Vanessa Bell
Recently departed Etta James was also born on Jan 25.
Etta James January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012
She would have been 74 years old today.
Funeral set for Saturday
Etta James her lonely sound
She was an accident, born to a fourteen-year-old black girl in Depression-era Los Angeles. She never knew her father, but thought that he might have been the famous white pool player, Rudolf “Minnesota Fats” Wanderone, whom she met in the nineteen-eighties.
Salon five great youtube moments
Filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos hit by a motorcycle. R.I.P
Happy birthday Jim Jarmusch. Jan 22, 1953. he is a Water Dragon.
Some trivia from (IMDB )
(via)
On why Jim Jarmusch dedicated “Broken Flowers” to Jean Eustache.
There’s something in him that I want to carry in myself: making a film the way you choose to make it, true to yourself without being concerned with the marketplace or anyone’s expectations – just the pure spirit of wanting to express something in your own style. That’s very important to me.(via)
Jim Jarmusch is working on a new film – a vampire movie no less! – featuring Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska and John Hurt, to be shot in Germany, Morocco and Detroit in early 2012. (wiki)
What happend to his Nikola Tesla Opera?
Music sucks in 99% of commercial films.. in complete agreement here with Jim Jarmusch on(Youtube)
(Repost – his Mitchum stories are too funny.)
Thunder Road 
Robert Mitchum..
J.J. in Bored to death
A quote from J.J..
The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.
Ozu Yasujiro (Jim visited his grave in Japan)
Not dead, no broken flowers, no stranger in paradise.. mystery train? maybe..
definetely coffee and cigarattes..and let’s spend a night on earth driving taxis all over the world.
Jan 22 birthday people
Antonio Gramasci
“Device to Root out Evil” (via JTWINE) Dennis Oppenheim passed away a year ago.
Stab Bats 1991
Two objects 
Museum in Tokyo (Photo by Mario A )
The Museum of Contemp. Art Tokyo (MOT) shows his work in a separate room, a smart gesture. (Thanks to Mario A )
Buildings Poking Their Eyes Out
1997 2’ x 16’ x 5’
A: One Eye Out, B: Two Eyes Out, C: Four Eyes Out
Corrugated fiberglass, rolled galvanized metal, wax, fiberboard, pigments
Photo: Erma Estwick
Dennis Oppenheim 
(Previous post has many links to interviews, his bio etc)
SOPA black out protest makes history – Amy Goodman
Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act
If you hate big government – no 2 SOPA
Take action – google message here
We answer your questions during wiki black out.
See more quote from Emmanuel Levinas
Jan Groover dies at 68. (NYtimes)
Jan Groover, whose relentlessly formal still lifes of mundane objects brought a sense of Renaissance stateliness to postmodern photography, died on Jan. 1 in Montpon-Ménestérol, France, where she had lived since 1991. She was 68.
Using a variety of camera formats to affect perception and plane, Jan Groover creates complex, abstract spatial arrangements in her still-life, portrait, and landscape photography. Her images demonstrate her craftsmanship in the darkroom with their finely-wrought delicacy. A painter by training, Groover makes reference to art history in her photographs, from Renaissance perspective drawings to Cezanne’s tabletops.
Pears from Sals Blog (Still life research)
Vintage Kitchen Still Life
Triptych (SFMOMA)
12 January 1906
His work is based on the ethics of the Other or, in Levinas’ terms, on “ethics as first philosophy”. For Levinas, the Other is not knowable and cannot be made into an object of the self, as is done by traditional metaphysics
Levinas Text(via)
Other birthdays
Alice James 
or or Mrs William James
Water color portrait by John Singer Sargent
Born On January 12, 1856
Eve Arnold a famous Magnum photographer who showed Marilyn reading James Joyce died at 99.
Parting Glance (lens.blogs NYtimes obit)
“Eve was a dynamo,” Ms. Meiselas said. “She might have been small and compact, but she was just unbelievably productive and hugely generous.”
She was outspoken, too. “She didn’t hold back in a gang of men. She was very present and encouraging and generous, in a sense — to me as a young woman, but also in a collective spirit.”
Silvana Mangano at MoMa looking at Brancusi, photo by Eve Arnold
Eve Arnold self-portrait 
Click to see large 
Bruce Chatwin interviewing Indira Gandhi ( Photo by Eve Arnold)
See Andy Warhol photos from Magnum collection (see him exercising, using toilet as his chair)
Guardian selection
Stephen Colbert interviews Neils deGrasse Tyson
Lunar 
Tom Sachs
Black hole lensing 
– Moving Side by Side
Tom Sachs Nasa
