More Antique Beauty

This photograph, "Ritti with fishing rod" was taken by Herbert List  in Switzerland seventy-seven years ago. Imagine that.

No Fault

Here's Ansel Elgort, the 20-year-old actor who is about to make some major waves in the film version of John Green's rather excellent book The Fault In Our Stars. Previously seen in Divergent, and the little-seen Carrie remake, Ansel is from an arty New York family (his father is a fashion photographer, his mother directs operas) and trained as a dancer before becoming an actor.  He also has musical ambitions. Would you believe that this baby face is attached to a 6' 4" body?   I hope he lives up to the hype.  He seems pretty adorable.

Supertwink Superstar 이종석

 

The best thing I saw today was this knockout video of a photoshoot starring my beloved Lee Jong Suk,  the twinkiest Korean TV/Movie star in all of twinkdom.  He will soon be appearing on TV screens everywhere in the new drama, Doctor Stranger.

Visually Similar?

 

Ususally, before I post a found picture on this blog, I try to find out where it came from, if I didn't already know, in order to identify the subject, and give credit and/or link back to the source of the material.  To do this I almost always kick off with a Google image search.  Sometimes it works and very often it doesn't. At best, I usually find lots of blogs that have posted the picture but don't seem to have any more idea than  I do of the picture's provenance.  Occasionally, I have found that I have already posted the picture on my own blog.

My favorite, favorite part of the Google image search is the selection of "visually similar images" they supply at the bottom of the results page, which are often so bizarrely off-base that they make me laugh. I wish I had saved it, but I once searched using a lovely black and white photo of a very beautiful shirtless male model and was told that it was visually similar to a picture of Eleanor Roosevelt. 

See the two "visually similar" photos above.  They are both pictures of human beings, and they both have trees in the background.  See?

Look at this photo:

You can see that this boy is the spitting image of this man:

I used be subscribed to the Tumblr blog of the boy below and I can't find it now, nor can I remember his name.  One of the things he did on his blog to was document his year-long journey from being quite obese to looking like he does in this picture:

He reminds Google of this:

Oh well.  But seriously, if anyone can point me toward his blog, I'll love you forever.

A Glimpse 0f Simpson

As they say in the U.K., "Phwoar!"