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In the early 1950s, Nurmi was close friends with James Dean, and they spent time together at Googies coffee shop on the corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. She explained their friendship by saying, "We have the same neuroses." Dean allegedly repudiated their friendship toward the end of his brief life. As Hedda Hopper related in a 1962 memoir that included a chapter on Dean: "We discussed the thin-cheeked actress who calls herself Vampira on television (and cashed in, after Jimmy died, on the publicity she got from knowing him and claimed she could talk to him 'through the veil'). He said: 'I had studied The Golden Bough and the Marquis de Sade, and I was interested in finding out if this girl was obsessed by a satanic force. She knew absolutely nothing. I found her void of any true interest except her Vampira make-up. She has no absolute.'"
The 2010 public radio documentary Vampira and Me by author/director R. H. Greene took issue with Hopper's depiction of the Nurmi/Dean relationship, pointing to an extant photo of Dean and Vampira sidekick Jack Simmons in full Boris Karloff Frankenstein make-up as evidence of Nurmi and Dean's friendship. The documentary also described a production memo in the Warner Bros. archive citing a set visit from "Vampira" while Dean was making Rebel Without a Cause. The Warner Bros. memo was first mentioned in the 2006 book Live Fast, Die Young: The Making of Rebel Without a Cause by Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel, who were given access to the Rebel production files. An interview Frascella and Weisel conducted with actress Shelley Winters also uncovered an instance where Dean interrupted an argument with director Nicholas Ray and Winters so he could watch The Vampira Show on TV.
Vampira and James Dean?
Maila Nurmi dressed as a sexy witch version of Vampira in 1956. After taking the year before off and mourning, this was the first Halloween she actively celebrated after the death of her close friend James Dean. With her is another long time friend Jack Simmons, dressed in a costume of questionable taste… James Dean as carwreck survivor still undergoing plastic surgery.
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The haunting and odd friendship of James Dean and Vampira ( Maila Nurmi)
Guy Le Tattooer
Wow, this guys work is nuts. There's something really simple yet real original about it. Check out more work here. You will enjoy!
Lady and the stamp
A book is often judged by its cover, a woman can never make a first impression twice… Promiscuity, like a stamp that says “Approved”…mayombe 2010
Bardot, Bro!
The creepy looking Forever Alone meme got a complete 3D makeover by artist Henning Sanden. Check out the actual printed model below. Pretty weird and fun.
FOREVER
ALONE
Via: Ramaged Reality
Put the shot glass down.
Pick up a book.
Shark Week
is over folks. See you next year.
hey. are we rock stars yet?
the most laid-back and languishing piece of bubblegum pop you'll ever hear about a school shooting.
"I LOVE the song 'Pumped Up Kicks' by Foster the People, So sexy! Puts me in the best mood, plus they are totally hot!" Paris Hilton Tweet Re: Lollapalooza performance
Pumped Up Kicks
The FTP boys are friends with, well, benefits “we were friends first” says Foster the Peoples Mark Foster of his BFF bandmates
Aλλά η μέρα ήτανε ζεστή και ποιητική,
ο ουρανός ένα γαλάζιο ανοιχτό,
το Aλεξανδρινό Γυμνάσιον ένα
θριαμβικό κατόρθωμα της τέχνης,
των αυλικών η πολυτέλεια έκτακτη,
ο Καισαρίων όλο χάρις κι εμορφιά
(της Κλεοπάτρας υιός, αίμα των Λαγιδών)·
κ’ οι Aλεξανδρινοί έτρεχαν πια στην εορτή,
κ’ ενθουσιάζονταν, κ’ επευφημούσαν
ελληνικά, κ’ αιγυπτιακά, και ποιοι εβραίικα,
γοητευμένοι με τ’ ωραίο θέαμα—
μ’ όλο που βέβαια ήξευραν τι άξιζαν αυτά,
τι κούφια λόγια ήσανε αυτές η βασιλείες.
Μαζεύθηκαν οι Aλεξανδρινοί
να δουν της Κλεοπάτρας τα παιδιά,
τον Καισαρίωνα, και τα μικρά του αδέρφια,
Aλέξανδρο και Πτολεμαίο, που πρώτη
φορά τα βγάζαν έξω στο Γυμνάσιο,
εκεί να τα κηρύξουν βασιλείς,
μες στη λαμπρή παράταξι των στρατιωτών.
Ο Aλέξανδρος— τον είπαν βασιλέα
της Aρμενίας, της Μηδίας, και των Πάρθων.
Ο Πτολεμαίος— τον είπαν βασιλέα
της Κιλικίας, της Συρίας, και της Φοινίκης.
Ο Καισαρίων στέκονταν πιο εμπροστά,
ντυμένος σε μετάξι τριανταφυλλί,
στο στήθος του ανθοδέσμη από υακίνθους,
η ζώνη του διπλή σειρά σαπφείρων κι αμεθύστων,
δεμένα τα ποδήματά του μ’ άσπρες
κορδέλλες κεντημένες με ροδόχροα μαργαριτάρια.
Aυτόν τον είπαν πιότερο από τους μικρούς,
αυτόν τον είπαν Βασιλέα των Βασιλέων.
Οι Aλεξανδρινοί ένοιωθαν βέβαια
που ήσαν λόγια αυτά και θεατρικά.
Aλλά η μέρα ήτανε ζεστή και ποιητική,
ο ουρανός ένα γαλάζιο ανοιχτό,
το Aλεξανδρινό Γυμνάσιον ένα
θριαμβικό κατόρθωμα της τέχνης,
των αυλικών η πολυτέλεια έκτακτη,
ο Καισαρίων όλο χάρις κι εμορφιά
(της Κλεοπάτρας υιός, αίμα των Λαγιδών)·
κ’ οι Aλεξανδρινοί έτρεχαν πια στην εορτή,
κ’ ενθουσιάζονταν, κ’ επευφημούσαν
ελληνικά, κ’ αιγυπτιακά, και ποιοι εβραίικα,
γοητευμένοι με τ’ ωραίο θέαμα—
μ’ όλο που βέβαια ήξευραν τι άξιζαν αυτά,
τι κούφια λόγια ήσανε αυτές η βασιλείες.
Well The Priemer League Season anyway.
With the 72 football league clubs already one game in. Its time for the big boys to join in with the action.
Let the Football begin
Mask worn by makeshift doctors during the Plague. The beak was often filled with scented materials such as amber, balm-mint leaves, camphor, cloves, laudanum, myrrh, rose petals, and storax.
MASKS WORN DURING THE
PLAGUE
(Kinda reminds me of Spy vs Spy)
Is it just me or does the mask remind you of the classic strip from Mad Magazine, Spy vs Spy? It's crazy!
"All women do have a different sense of sexuality,
or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough."
- Angelina Jolie
Marilyn Monroe in Laurel Canyon photographed by Milton Greene in 1953
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Machine Gunnin' Bear
Really funny street art peice by PHAG done in LA. Giant bear holding a machine gun in the urban jungle. Do you know where you are? Your in the jungle baby, your going to die!
Via: Melrose and Fairfax
