Lusiana Fashion

All Hallows

Beauty is always the result of an accident. 

Of a violent lapse between acquired habits and those yet to be acquired.

& your personal patron Saint-why not?

Mine?

COCTEAU
Saint Jean

The trouble about the Académie is that by the time 

they get around to electing us to a seat, 

we really need a bed. On his election to Académie Française 

We shelter an angel within us. 

We must be the guardians of that angel.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. 

We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity.

 Disavow anyone who provokes 

or accepts the extermination of a race to which he does not belong.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. 

Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I have lost my seven best friends, 

which is to say God has had mercy on  me seven times without realizing it. 

He lent a friendship,
took it from me,
sent me another.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. 

The pauper who has  made his pile may flaunt his spoils, 

but cannot wear them plausibly.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

Some shots off the TV of a restored version of F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. The 1922 German film, featuring stage actor Max Schreck, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. When Stoker’s widow won a copyright infringement suit in 1925, it was ordered that all prints of the Expressionist film be destroyed. But as vampire-movie expert Tim Kane notes, “the undead film continued to rise from the grave throughout the years.”

Happy Halloween!

Heart of Haiti (Part II)

It has been just over one week since I went to the San Francisco launch of Heart of Haiti at Macy’s in Union Square where I nibbled on jerk chicken with papaya salsa, drank watermelon lemonade, listened to and bounced to the music of Haitian performer Sophis Dorsainvil, and re-connected with Pascale Faublas, one of the skilled Haitian artisans/designers I met in Miami at Blogalicious several weeks ago (she remembered me right away!). I admit I felt a little guilty about having such a good time when so many people in Haiti are suffering. But I’m pretty sensitive in that way.

Jerk chicken with papaya salsa. Yummmm.

Haitian performer Sophis Dorsainvil

An image of designer/artisan Pascale Faublas sets off some of the Haitian artwork in the foreground.

Haitian designer/artisan Pascale Faublas & Me =) (Notice the hair.)

Dannie James =)

I now know what took me so long to not only respond to Sophis' Facebook friend request but to report back to all of you. I guess you could say I’ve been busy, which is true; but I realize that my avoidance has been for the same reason I took so long to get back to Marilyn, the girlfriend of my dear friend Dannie who recently passed away from cancer. Marilyn sent me an email requesting my mailing address so that she could send me a copy of Dannie’s obituary and I just. couldn’t. respond. You see, I've been grieving Dannie's loss and wasn't ready to physically touch his obituary. “Makes it real when you touch it,” is how I explained it to Marilyn when I finally got back to her just yesterday…and this is how I in turn can explain it to you. Writing this post (and finally "friending" Sophis) makes Haiti’s ongoing suffering real for me…even though it has been over 10 months since the earthquake. Call me crazy, but it’s true.

That being said, and as mentioned in a previous post, I intend to be an ambassador for Heart of Haiti and look forward to helping in whatever way I can. In the meantime, I will order gifts from the Collection online this holiday season which will put sustainable income in the hands of Haitian artisans and I encourage you to do the same. I did do a little shopping of my own in Macy’s last Saturday (boots, pants, lunch, etc.), but my most treasured purchase was a heart. A heart from Haiti. =)

ghosts iii

Анна

haunting tolstoy lovers & lovers

for centuries

this anna conceived by John Galiano
the novel is HERE
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ghosts ii

black mountain college

art teachers -Josef Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Franz Kline, and Robert Motherwell, and among their students were John Chamberlain, Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Dorothea Rockburne, and Cy Twombly. performing arts teachers the likes of- John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Lou Harrison, Roger Sessions, David Tudor, and Stefan Wolpe, and among the literature teachers and students-Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, Francine du Plessix Gray, Charles Olson, M. C. Richards, and John Wieners.

links
Mondoblogo
Black Mountain College
Artes Magazine
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haunting every movie he appeared in- BRANDO.

Ghosts Hunting ......

The Spirit of Halloween continues.... Celebrated each year on October 31, Halloween is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today. Straddling the line between fall and winter, plenty and paucity and life and death, Halloween is a time of celebration and superstition. Halloween has long been thought of as a day when the dead can return to the earth, and ancient Celts would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these roaming ghosts.

To conclude the Halloween theme, here is a selection of beautiful images of abandoned buildings.

Spooky, scary, haunting images

Window Light

I took this portrait using the window light in my loungeroom. I added a little reflection on the left to open up the shadows. Taken on my Leica M8 and converted to black and white with DXO. Carla

Corinne May Botz " Haunted Houses "

And the spirit of Halloween continues.....
Corinne May Botz is a photographer and chronicler of everyday spaces with secret, invisible histories. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. She is the author of The Nutshell studies of Unexplained Death and Haunted Houses.

" My venture into haunted houses began the summer following my college graduation. I was living in an old Baltimore apartment, where I passed the long hot days reading ghost stories by the female authors Edith Wharton, Charlotte Bronte, Ellen Glasgow, and Toni Morrison. I wanted to further understand the relationship among women, ghosts, and houses, but I didn’t want to escape into books like far too many women before me. Instead, I decided to use ghost stories as a means to voyage into the world, and embarked on a journey to photograph the interiors of America’s haunted houses. "

One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
—Emily Dickinson

Book cover