Household trompe-l'œil

Oscar Wilde in a lounge made for him:
Secret doors in decorative floors:

Otto Dix Cool

There is a woman who runs a hostel in Berlin who looks exactly like this:
I think she pulls it off a bit better though:

What is this?

Historical face disfigurement

"And clenching your fists for the ones like us, who are oppressed by the figures of beauty"

New York Cholera Outbreak of 1832:Age & Malnutrition (Albrecht Durer):

World War I:
Anatomy lessons:

Lonely houses

"A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside." Loretta Young

A painting by Pavel Matyska:
Abandoned army barracks:
A rooftop in Rome:
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina:

Three strangely related images

I found this image, and thought it was quite amusing. Most conspiracy theories on the urban lay out of Washington D.C. usually involve inverted pentagrams and such, not the female reproductive system. Innovation in paranoia!

This painting by Julian Schnabel overlays a triangle (also representative of lady anatomy) in a decisively un-calculating way...
And this intervention between 'city' and 'uteri' by artists Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson in Reykjavík, is the most bizarre result of my associative search.

The two operas I saw this week

The Fairy Queen:

An opera/play/ballet. Story by William Shakespear (A Midsummer Nights Dream), music by Henry Purcell (1692), set and costume design by Paul Brown (love him!). A production complete with black winged dancers, someone hung upside down in a spider's web, giant stack of hay, and a suspended golden horse.

And L'Etoile:

Music of Emmanuel Chabrier. Complete with giant blow-up yellow chair (that was deflated on stage), Magritte-esque mimes, and Victorian princesses on razor scooters.

Mannequin voilé

Children on Aligators

What a curious bunch the Victorians were. Although I would also allow a child the exhilarating chance to triumph over a small wild beast.

Bendy Feathers

I do believe that creweling can express our innermost sentiments.

Your run of the mill UFOs.

B8 looks like the Guggenheim. I rather like G6.

Digging to China

This is what I always imagined it would take to dig clear through the earth's core.