Juan Carlos Cardesin

self portrait with funnel
ink / paper
2011

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c.14 May 1923
Great Neck, L.I.

Dear Mr. X:

Thanks ever so much for the copy of "Flaming Youth." I had of course been reading it as it appeared in the Metropolitan and enjoying it immensely. It will be a great pleasure to start from the beginning and read it thru as I had missed several installments.

Who in the devil are you? Do you know at least a dozen people have asked me if I wrote it. I wish I had but I'm sure I didn't--so who did. Tell me immediately and oblige

Yours Admiringly + Gratefully

F Scott Fitzgerald

Bettina Gilois

Hollywood, California
2011

Nikon D3000
1/13 second
F/3.5
ISO 800
27 mm (35mm equiv.)

Harry Goaz Says . . .

"Everything around here has been spanked and now the yak has escaped from the zoo!"

Breaks Into, Part IV

Naked man breaks into home.

Cooks food.

Takes shower.

Not this one, but the one next door.

Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton in Luca Guadagnino's, "I Am Love".

2009

Club Silencio

142 rue Montmarte
Paris, France

1.) cocktail bar
2.) art deco theater
3.) reflective dance floor
4.) stage
5.) smoking room
6.) arts library
7.) all of the above

The Escondite

Los Angeles, California
2011

pet friendly patio*

David Lynch

Perhaps surprise is not on the menu of today's moviegoers.

They want reassurance, domestic fairy tales come true, not the astonishment that Jean Cocteau demanded of art.

So all hail the American fringies, those filmmakers who make something different out of next to nothing.