Abelardo Morell

I ran across some Abelardo Morell works the other day, and I can't stop looking. Here are some of my favorite images from his Museums series:

The Philadelphia Museum of Art East Entrance in Gallery #171 with a DeChirico Painting, 2005

Early Sunday Morning By Hopper - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007

Two Paintings by Zacarias Gonzalez Velasquez, Lazaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid, Spain, 2009

More M P

I'm dying to see this, but for the moment this is satisfactory. 

Mildred Pierce-Chapter 6

"But he looked so pitiful."

"Baby, they all do. That's what gets us."

The Way We Are Feeling

It's a Grease soundtrack kind of day:

I HATE this movie, but shit, I love the soundtrack.

Our feet just where they had to go

Lady and a Greyhound, Václav Brožík, 1895-7

The Last Post in Russia

Well, it's about time to head home to the states. I'd like to leave you, my faithful readers (hah), with one of my final impressions of Russia, which I predict will remain with me for many years to come:

"Ах, Джейк!" сказала Брет, "Как бы нам хорошо было вместе." 

..."Да," сказал я, "Этим можно утешаться, правда?"

Graffiti Collection

I've picked up the habit of collecting graffiti. Here's a look at some of my recent favorites from around St. Petersburg:

Who doesn't?

"Rap Sucks...Rock 'n' roll!"

This one was around the corner from one of Lenin with a swastika on his forehead =Awkward.

Suck it, skinheads!

I've also seen a lot of graffiti advertisements which I hate. Vandalizing buildings that have survived a revolution, the siege of Leningrad, and the collapse of the Soviet Union for your commercial interests is a dick move. Do what everyone else here does, and hire a babushka to push fliers onto the masses.