Menswear boutique in London.

Swedish model.

The Harmon Trophy is a set of three international trophies, to be awarded annually to the world’s outstanding aviator, aviatrix (female aviator), and aeronaut (balloon or dirigible).

Maarten van Heemskerck was one of the leading Dutch portrait and religious painters of the sixteenth century, famous for his depictions of the Seven Wonders of the World.

ANDREAS is a novel of violence and naivety, pathos and melancholy. Set in the eighteenth century, it tells the story of a young Viennese aristocrat who intends to travel alone to Venice as the first stage of his “Grand Tour”. On his journey, he acquires an unsavoury servant who unleashes a trail of destruction and violence which taints and corrupts Andreas’s first experience of love. Andreas’s loss of innocence takes place in the misty alleyways and gloomy palaces of Venice, whose masked inhabitants confuse and entice him, the women either madonnas or whores indistinguishable behind their masks.

Richard Hugo was an American poet. Primarily a regionalist, Hugo’s work reflects the economic depression of the Northwest, particularly Montana.

Farmer, Dying

Seven thousand acres of grass have faded yellow
from his cough. These limp days, his anger,
legend forty years from moon to Stevensville,
lives on, just barely, in a Great Falls whore.
Cruel times, he cries, cruel winds. His geese roam
unattended in the meadow. The gold last leaves
of cottonwoods ride Burnt Fork creek away.
His geese grow fat without him. Same old insult.
Same indifferent rise of mountains south,
hunters drunk around the fire ten feet from his fence.

What’s killing us is something autumn. Call it
war or fever. You know it when you see it: flare.
Vine and fire and the morning deer come half
a century to sip his spring, there, at the far end
of his land, wrapped in cellophane by light.
What lives is what he left in air, definite,
unseen, hanging where he stood the day he roared.
A bear prowls closer to his barn each day.
Farmers come to watch him die. They bring crude offerings
of wine. Burnt Fork creek is caroling. He dies white
in final anger. The bear taps on his pane.

And we die silent, our last days loaded with the scream
of Burnt Fork creek, the last cry of that raging farmer.
We have aged ourselves to stone trying to summon
mercy for ungrateful daughters. Let’s live him
in ourselves, stand deranged on the meadow rim
and curse the Baltic back, moon, bear and blast.
And let him shout from his grave for us.

In the early 1960s, the CIA’s Special Activities Division began to recruit, train and lead the indigenous Hmong people in Laos to join fighting the Vietnam War, named as a Special Guerrilla Unit led by General Vang Pao. About 60% of the Hmong men in Laos were supported by the CIA to join fighting for the “Secret War” in Laos.

Paz de la Huerta, great NYT article about a legend in the making.

Margaret Howell ads are the BEST.

Rhinoceros, 2005

The Analysis of Beauty is a book written by William Hogarth (18th century English painter, satirist, and writer) and published in 1753, which describes Hogarth’s theories of visual beauty and grace in a manner accessible to the common man of his day.

The Last Movie

Nice frames from Han Kjobenhavn.

Fall/Winter 2010.

Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada.

Hedi Slimane’s perfume for Dior, 2004.

Poul Henningsen was born in 1894 in Ordrup, Denmark and became Denmark’s first expert in lighting theory.

Heinrich Harder. German artist who illustrated prehistoric animals.

Günter Haese

More Adolf Hoffmeister collages here.

Interview with my art critic Jorg Heiser.

More on Frank Hurley.

Hendrick’s Gin. Lovely bottle design.

Speaking of design, find fashion and elegant pieces for wholesale clothing online.

Dree Hemingway. Yes, related.

Joris-Karl Huysmans  – Against Nature.

Annika von Hausswolff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruomi_Hosono

Vilhelm Hammershøi. Amazing Danish painter. Truely the poetry of silence. Imagine a Tarkovsky camera floating through these empty rooms (like this sequence shot from The Mirror). As if carried by birds.

 Heinrich Hoffmann. German psychiatrist who wrote some of the most horrific children’s stories.