Love is hard to find

► OLAF BREUNING - Wow!

► Shona Mcandrew - Paper Mache, Aluminum, Acrylic and wig.

► Sandra Apperloo and her wonderful Pottery Parade. You might also like to visit her Artistic Moods blog. (via Oink!)

► Rare Photographs of a Very Young Diego Maradona.

► Anna Valpuesta Farré - Beautiful artwork.

The art of Amanda Oleander

Amanda Oleander captures the concept of living together so well. In her illustrations you can find the most typical and common representations of life as a couple. 

Today's links

► California in pictures - over 100 California-based photographers came together to document their home state, from the properties of tech billionaires to festivals for ‘blessed’ cats (via this isn't happiness).

Photographer: Ryan Schude

Photographer: Michael Rababy

Photographer: Eric Davidove

► Here's something good for dinner tonight...  and you'd also like the "Dance Through a Week to Beauty" pamphlet exposing the health benefits of dancing.

► Someone really likes Jake Gyllenhaal - Timely, topical and totally unverified information about Jake Gyllenhaal.

Face Masks now and then

 

Flu Masks From 1918-1919

► In 1918, influenza, the so-called Spanish Flu, or 91918H1N1, to give its proper name, claimed the lives of more than 50 million people in just 15 months. Masks were part of the drive to beat it. Flashbak (via Things Magazine)

►Masks have become a ubiquitous symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Mask Exhibition project, The Vicki Myhren Gallery hope to call attention to the significance and signification of masking as an issue of public health and a demonstration of civic responsibility. (via Kottke)

How has fashion developed over time?

The Fashion History Timeline is an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe.

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Russia in photographs & London's House of Dreams

► History of Russia in photographs - over 150 years of photographs capturing all sorts of scenes of Russian life.

From the Rural women of the USSR collection

► House of Dreams - "It’s a densely packed, colorful collection of found discarded objects crammed into the home of its artist-collector Stephen Wright in East Dulwich, an otherwise unremarkable residential area of southeast London. The museum is itself a living work of art that at first glance might seem like the psychedelic by-product of a pathological hoarder" [Global Graphica].

The art of arranging the everyday

► Things Organized Neatly well-ordered miscellany.

by Nova Ortiz-Riehle, age 10

About Men's Fashion

► Pip the Gentleman - The 54-year-old isn’t your average older gentleman. When he was 50 he became a model.

► Also meet The Big Sartorialist - The Papa Bear of Men's Fashion. Wonderful.

► Male outfits - This is ridiculous!

More via Eat Liver - Hipsters of New York.

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Splid, 34 - Only listens to Sigur Rós on vinyl, played on a deconstructed turntable powered by steam and burnt patchouli. "The harder it is to listen to something, the better it sounds.” Currently working on a breathable transparent mask.” Do you know how hard it is to scowl at people who don’t know the health benefits of drinking Yerba mate when half of your face is covered?!” Actively looking for people to form a band that will never play music so no one will ever have heard of them aside from themselves. . . . 📷: @greenpointers

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For you visual pleasure

 (My son & granddaughter)

But seriously - Every kid deserves an awesome dad by Gregory Baugher.

► Being a mother all across the world - Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc shares tales of unconditional, compassion and love between a mother and a child. 

►Visit these sites for more visual pleasures - Chromeography - In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump. SPEED Star & Random Things.

► I love this video (via swissmiss).

Bathroom Graffiti

Photograph by Ian MacAllen

►Toilets of New York - A photo blog created by Brooklyn graphic designer Ian MacAllen.

►The messages found in over 100 public bathroom cubicles from men and women were documented, analyzed and then finally compared providing a unique look at how the sexes privately differ on everything from sex and politics to spelling and pop culture. The Toilet Study via PASA BON!

► Sex, Love, and the Bathroom Wall - In a study that analyzed toilet graffiti by Nicholas Matthews, M.A - Males will compose graffiti propositioning for sex more often than females. Females will compose more graffiti that is romantic in nature.