I am an old lady at heart. I love music from the 20's through the early 70's. I have a deep love for Frank Sinatra and am determined to marry someone who can sing like him one day. I love lace, pearls, and anything vintage.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Happy Birthday Frederick Austerlitz Fred Astaire
10 May 1899 - 22 June 1987“When you talk about Fred Astaire, you talk about heaven. What more can I say?” - Johnny Green, Hollywood Speaks! An Oral History, 1974
“He was not just the best ballroom dancer, or tap dancer, he was simply the greatest, most imaginative, dancer of our time.” - Rudolph Nureyev, 1987
Fred Astaire was simply one of the most influential performers in film history. Not only did he revolutionise the way dance was performed and captured on film, he also had a profound influence on music and hollywood in general. In a time when the world needed something joyous, they got Fred Astaire; a talented, charismatic performer whose charming smile was exactly what movie-goers wanted. Notorious for being a perfectionist and crippled with self-consciousness he floated across the screen with effortless grace that continues to amaze today. Though he was never convinced of it, there can be no doubt that he achieved perfection.
And at age seventy-eight, he broke his left wrist while riding his grandson’s skateboard.You know, you so-and-so, you’ve a little of the hoodlum in you. - James Cagney on Fred Astaire in Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, from Top Hat (1935)
Weegee: Soldier’s Farewell, 1942
Typejunkie: You’re Missed - Kareem Gouda
Butterflies and Birds Sculptures by Paul Villinski
Live in a Bubble
A project from Swiss design group Micasa Lab. The Cocoon 1 is a sit in, chill in, relax in, live in bubble with reconfigurable cushions to really personalize the space. A retreat that simultaneously informs the world of your need for solitude while giving you full access to the world around you.
Altered maps by Shannon Rankin
A woman stands before limestone cliffs in the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec, September 1934.
Photograph by B. Anthony Stewart, National Geographic
Via Glitter Guide.
Diana Dors
You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via wordsthat-speak)
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
Franz Kafka, Letters To Milena (via kafkaesque-world)
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
Kurt Vonnegut (via dulcetdecember)
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