pretty surreal

Here is a short film by a Czech surrealist filmmaker named Jan Švankmajer. He works a lot with claymation and puppetry, though this one (probably my favorite) features niether...I guess you would call this stop-motion demolition animation, or something. The short is called "Johann Sebastian Bach: Fantasy in G minor," and was released in 1965...think of it as a sort of updated Fantasia. Watch this through to the end, it's totally worth it.

A Glove!

Here's a couple of images from a series of etchings done by a Belgian symbolist artist named Max Klinger. The series, published in 1881, is called "Ein Handusch" (or: A Glove), and is all about losing and finding a glove. Cool.

All I Want is a Silver Plated Tortoise

For more, see Huysmans' "Against Nature"

yard of blonde girls, micah p hinson covering jeff buckley

the animation is a little odd but this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard.

Anna Akhmatova part II

Anna was so cool that Modigliani took her as his muse.

Too True

"There are only two things that can destroy a healthy man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that is already three things, and there are a lot more." --Peter Altenberg, Fechsung

Joseph Cornell I Love You Really I Do

he often conceived of his boxes as love letters sending them to stars of the stage and screen