Just a guy with a blog (or five) and a love of film, liquids and words. Like WSB, I eat images. Like everybody else, I keep getting older; I just happen to write about it, from a particular angle, on the internet where everybody can see. Sometimes people pay me to write things. I also make little mov

Architectural, Event, Excessive, Flux, Hermeneutics, Joyful, Layered, Lyrical, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Repetition, Science fiction, Sensual, Slangy, Sprawling, Urban

Paul Poiret was born on April 20th, 1879 to a cloth merchant in the neighborhood of Les Halles, Paris. When Poiret was a teenager he took some of his sketches to Madame Cheruit, a dressmaker, who purchased a dozen from him. He continued to sell his sketches until he was hired by Jacques Doucet in 189

Art nouveau, Avant-garde fashion, Bright, Decorative, Dreamy, Feminine, Glamour, Grand, Moody, Mythic, Opulent, Quirky

Wafted across the rustling waters by spring breezes, the naked goddess alights on shore, long-limbed and emanating beauty that could only come from a more powerful and mythical world. Her arrival on her lovely scallop-shell boat, with her blonde hair flowing about her, signals a new era. She is born

Erotic, Ethereal, Fantastic, Mythic, Playful

Dreamy, Ethereal, Lyrical, Mythic, Quiet, Surrealist art