stef & stripes part 2


shoes: london
ankle bracelet: kabul
lingerie: rome
body: landed on planet earth 47 years ago

"Therefore to this dog will I render praise and favour"


Un perrito ha muerto. Se llamaba Charlie, autrement dit Sir Charles o le Baron de Charlus por su infinito aplomb y su elegancia al vestir, en los dias de lluvia, su impermeable beige con estampado simil burberry. 

Caballero con las hembras y valiente a la hora de correr a los demas machos, fueran ellos dogos o pits, ovejeros o caniches, Charlie llevaba las cicatrices y los dientes rotos del viejo guerrero. 

Siempre discreto a la hora de manifestar sus afectos, solo una vez, hacia el final de su vida, me dio un beso en la mejilla: quede emocionadisima. 

Mi amigo Charlie se muriò en mis brazos, y de eso solo puedo decir, que la muerte debe ser muy parecida al nacimiento: hay intimidad y lucha, sangre, gritos, miedo, amor, y el traspaso de un alma.


retrato de Charlie por Martina, de 9 años

Charlie en su ultimo dia



mine eye hath play'd the painter


It is the first mild day of March.
Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
--It is the hour of feeling.

William Wordsworth


the god of small things

ph: Muzaffar Salman / Reuters

"a Free Syrian Army fighter feeds a stray cat in Aleppo" 

"Taking a photo is actually an attempt to capture the feeling a specific scene creates so that when you see that image you can recall the feeling and share it with your close ones. As such, photography is about feelings, rather than images."

-Muzaffar Salman 

super interesting interview with the photographer here

disco nap


protection

 

para todos los callejeros y sus protectoras... para mi perro MILO... estes donde estes mi amado... cualquier pista se agradece y se recompensa:

 miloperdido@gmail.com           
 

   


chateaubriand moments



Chaque homme porte en lui un monde composé de tout ce qu'il a vu et aimé,
et où il rentre sans cesse, alors meme qu'il parcours
et semble habiter un monde étranger. 
- Voyage en Italie

Which is the inner world, and which the strange outer one I only seem to inhabit? I find it hard to say, but this morning I stepped out of a dream in which you had come back only to lose you again
straight onto our misty hillside, on which my dog flashed in and out of the gloom like a fiery little deer - and it was a fairy tale all the way through....

the three ages of man/le tre età dell'uomo


5 years old: If a bad guy comes along Stef... just call me with your cell phone, and I'll come flying, LIKE SUPERMAN! And I'll knock him out - LIKE THIS!!

19 years old: You really do my head in Stef - can we get together? I know all there is to know about love.

46 years old: It's the feminists' fault all the men turned gay - not me though - I can handle a liberated woman like you.

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5 anni:  Se arriva un cattivo Stef… mi chiami col tuo cellulare e io arrivo volando, COME SUPERMAN! E lo faccio fuori…così… guarda…. COSI!!!



19 anni: Mi fai stare troppo male… posso venire a casa tua? Sull’amore non ho niente da imparare.



46 anni: Colpa di voi femministe se adesso sono tutti gay… tranne io, quelle come te le so gestire.


the personal is political part 2

my American sisters voted my man Barack Obama back into the White House, plus all the would-be and have-been Republican rapists got voted out of office, I'm happy, hope you're happy too and remember: Equality Is Relaxing

 

my willem dafoe interview, in the current issue of l'optimum





Yes it's in French and no I won't translate (for now), but suffice it to say, the man is every bit as inspiring to talk to as he is on stage and in celluloid... a true artist, a fighter and a thinker. Photos by the talented Satoshi Saikusa, styling by the lovely Yasmine Eslami, creative direction by Aldo Buscalferri, who reminds me so much of John Lurie, and a huge thank you to the one who made this happen for me: Alessandro Russo!

new york icons

debbie harry at coney island 1976

klaus nomi and cookie mueller by anthony scibelli, thank you peter nolan smith for the photo

kim gordon walking on her bass, sonic youth show in the netherlands 1991, photo by rien post