Sunday, January 30, 2022

Two favorite Jarmusch movies

Here are this blogger's two favorite Jarmusch movies

While I have seen most of his films, starting with the early black-and-white ones - and they are great too in their way and up to a point - for me, these two stand out.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai


 Could be described as one of the best Samurai movies.

And Only Lover Left Alive which I think has to be the best vampire movie ever.



 

 


Pangzai's Birthday

 Some days back was Pangzai Birthday, here he is celebrating it himself by himself


He came to prominence as a practitioner of Tornado beer drinking style which he developed, popularized and demonstrates here towards the end of this Twitter video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday, January 29, 2022

I am finally revealing my entire watch collection!

Jenni Elle



Everybody is a watch collector these days... I mean whatever brings in adsense revenue. 

After all, all you need to start is zero knowledge of the subject.

Margaritas at the Mall

Today's was margaritas at the mall.


Something like that.

 

We're just drinking margaritas at the mall

That's what this stuff adds up to after all


Magenta, orange, acid green
Peacock blue and burgundy
Drinking margaritas at the mall


 

Friday, January 28, 2022

Architectural Musings: Early 1990s Mass Public Housing

Architecture: some fine examples of the early 1990s (carry over Soviet) mass public housing, provided free too somewhere in Moscow.

 

These are what is crazily known in English as large panel system-buildings or by its German name Plattenbau although they were first built in the Soviet Union.

Built in 1994, about 30 years ago.






I love them... much more so than the modern "monolithic" concrete crap.





 And at close quarters








 

 

 










Soapbox photos: Early 1990s Mass Public Housing: Architecture: some fine examples of the early 1990s (carry over Soviet) mass public housing, provided free too somewhere in Moscow.   These ...

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Monday, January 17, 2022

RIP Nino Cerruti

 RIP Nino Cerruti


Well, unlike the (in)famous Baldwin dude, I was never measured nor costumed by him naturally just have at least one suit made of a fabric from his mill that his grandfather founded in 1881.


 

 

A good suit too and even better fabric!

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Dressing the Jewels

Here is another style tip - dressing your jewels.

Or is it just a curious observation.


So, dressing to the left or right? Which trouser leg, left or right?

Nobody cares.

The quote is from Thomas Fink's Man book.

How to Tie the Nicky Knot

the Nicky knot... one of the very few that start with tie seam side up, but the odd number of manipulations ensures, that the front side is up (faces forward) on completion of the knot.

Exploring bookcore: A revealing interview with Paul Winer of the Naked Man's Bookstore in Quartzsite, Arizona

Exploring bookcore*: A revealing interview with Paul Winer of the Naked Man's Bookstore in Quartzsite, Arizona



RIP Paul Winer. 
 
His famous bookcore outfit was a three-piece suit ... of three socks, one of which he wore on his genitals, for propriety's sake.
 

Yamen & EDA | RTS.FM Budapest x Bedroom | 07.01.2022

This could be nice for a morning exercise bash.

Saturday, January 15, 2022

Photos: Murals at a Metro Station and Other Photos

For today's photos here are some from last Sunday January 9, 2022.

These murals are at an entrance to the Chkalovskaya Metro station here in Moscow.

Chkalov was a famous Soviet pilot and in 1937 he made a record breaking flight from Russia to the US, I think.



Zemliznoy Val ul.


Zvezda Cinema.




Tverskaya at night.









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Brooklyn’s Most Cluttered Bookstore

Brooklyn’s Most Cluttered Bookstore

Friday, January 14, 2022

Photo Travel: Reportage Photography: T-34 Tank Museum

 I tank you today.

Yes, for today's visual (photo) adventure, here is a story in photos (reportage photography) of a visit to the T-34 Tank Museum somewhere north of Moscow.

 


Tanks various in front of the museum building.

This is from a couple of years ago, if memory serves. Probably the summer of 2019.

These first photos are from the viewing area in front of the museum building.

Here is a Vostok Komandirskie tank watch and the very tank pictured on the dial which is a T-60.


Tank for the inquiring minds - you can walk and climb on it - but cannot get inside.





The Tsar Tank.

The Tsar Tank was maybe the world's largest tank built by Russia in the first World War, and this is a full-size replica.

I don't think it was ever fielded though.




It was supposed to carry lots of machine guns.

Army repair of a T-34 tank under field conditions.





The T-34 tank on a pedestal which can be seen from a major road leading north of Moscow.











And now moving inside.