NOSTALGIA

"Nostalgia - It's delicate, but potent.  Teddy told me that in Greek, 'nostalgia' literally means 'the pain from an old wound.'  It's a twinge in your hear far more powerful than memory alone.  This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine.  It goes backwards, and forwards...It takes us to a place where we ache to go  again.  It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel.  It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved."

- Mad Men episode 113, "The Wheel"

users are losers.

apparently the illustrator of this comic didn't get the message.

old orient

Photofilia: David Hamilton

Maurizio Anzeri

threading over old family images adds a new dimension, and whimsical character to his photographs.

Louise Despont

"The possibility of recording time in pages — through a book of drawings is what led me to work in stop motion animation. Both the drawings and the films are about the passage of time and the possibility of the imperfect becoming whole through series. Hand drawing the variations on each print is very akin to the process of animating. With each print the drawing shifts and moves — and begins to come to life as a moving image."

Photophilia: Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell turns entire rooms into camera obscura by projecting images of landscapes into them and shooting the results.

Archive: Ruckus! Amereican Entertainers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

images via Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Photofilia: Eleanor Hardwick

Eleanor Hardwick.  16 years old.  yes she really is that young.  She is incredible and is comparable to Tim Walker.  her dreamscapes make me feel fuzzy, warm and happy.

images via flickr and eleanorhardwick