A roll of film from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Emilio D’Alessandro rememembers: “These strips are from the early prints of the film, and Stanley screened them to check on the quality of the laboratory’s work.”
Photo taken from Stanley Kubrick and me, the compelling memoir of Emilio D'Alessandro, personal assistant to Stanley Kubrick for thirty years. A collection of heartfelt private memories spanning from A Clockwork Orange to Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick and me is a unique biography offering a completely different perspective on an extraordinary modern artist. Featuring more than 50 never-before-seen photographs.
Stanley Kubrick and me, a book by Emilio D’Alessandro and Filippo Ulivieri, Arcade Publishing, May 2016.
Read excerpts and reviews at www.emiliodalessandro.com.
Elizabeth Nourse - La Petite Soeur (1902)
“Welcome to Mars (Pennsylvania).” From 1976.
In the Mood for Love (2000) dir. Wong Kar-wai
Here’s the orbital period of our solar system’s 8 major planets (how long it takes each to travel around the sun). Their size is to scale and their speed is accurate relative to Earth’s. The repetition of each GIF is proportional to their orbital period. Mercury takes less than 3 months to zoom around Sol, Neptune takes nearly 165 years.
Pedro Covo (Colombian, b. 1988, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia) - Swimmers series Paintings: Acrylics/Oil on Canvas/Paper Instagram
KILL BILL Vol.2 // Aesthetics
Salvador Dali and Gala on the roof of his house in Portlligat, and at their back you can see the sea.
Black and white photograph