Kelly Hamilton writes:
I’m sure people are sending you pictures of the beautiful sunset in Dublin yesterday evening. [harrumph!] It was pretty spectacular here in Newbridge too. I was under that orange sky. The rain was pelting down. Bonus double rainbow. The colours were so strong (no filter!). Sure where would you get it?
A sample of the intense media coverage surrounding actor Robert Mitchum’s 1948 arrest for marijuana possession.
A story, published in 2006 as part of the LA Times’ 125th anniversary read:
Sept. 1, 1948: Actor Robert Mitchum and starlet Lila Leeds were reportedly caught smoking marijuana during a police raid at the actress’ Hollywood Hills home. Two others were also arrested. Mitchum told police that he and another friend were in the neighborhood looking to buy a house when they stopped to visit Leeds and her roommate, dancer Vickie Evans.
The actor said he had trouble finding the home on Ridpath Drive, which one narcotics agent described as “ideally situated to be a ‘reefer resort.’ It is perched on a hillside, with no near neighbors, and well-screened by shrubbery,” The Times reported. Mitchum said: “The girls let us in and five minutes later Vickie went to answer the door and the police entered.”
Following his arrest, the actor “was by turns as full of remorse as one would expect from a top-bracket star,” the newspaper said. “At other times he was full of philosophy as one might expect from an up-from-the-ranks player who once said he arrived in California by bus with his wife and only $26.” Mitchum, 31, said at the time that the scandal was the “bitter end” of his film career. But the actor, who ended up serving a 60-day sentence, continued to make movies for years, up until his death in 1997.
Evans was later cleared of all charges by a jury. Actress Lila Leeds’ career was ruined by the arrest. She died in 1999.
MORE: Robert Mitchum’s 1948 arrest on marijuana charges (LA Times)
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The libidinous jiggling of a gelatinous cube captured by photographer Ryan Matthew Smith in 6200fps slomo.
Filmic loops reflecting on everyday urban and bucolic life by Strasbourg based photographer Julien Douvier, who uses a series of techniques to achieve the flow and pin-sharp detail of his polished übergifs.
Crystal clear portraits of Betta (Siamese fighting fish) by Banglok based photographer Visarute Angkatavanich.
Previously: Fighting Fish Portraits
Portraits by Sophie Gamand.
A rather superb image (top) taken in the aftermath of a burst water pipe on Harcourt Street, Dublin this morning.
(Pic: Dermot Kavanagh)
Palestinian pedestrians and a motorcyclist commute along a road between ruins of houses in Beit Hanoun town in the northern Gaza Strip.
A selection from an exhibition of new works by American portrait photographer Sandro Miller who has worked closely with actor John Malkovich and other ensemble members of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company for many years, creating, among other things, the award wining short film Butterflies.
Here, many of the iconic American art portraits that helped shape Sandro’s career have been fully Malkovich’d – a nod to one memorable scene from the movie Being John Malkovich.
Malkovich.
MORE: Photographer Recreates Iconic Portraits Using John Malkovich as His Model (My Modern Met)
(H/T: Wheety)
A stop motion timelapse from filmmaker Jeff Frost combining 300,000 photographs taken over the last two years: from riots and decomposing roadkill to optical illusions painted by himself inside abandoned buildings. The film – vaguely intended as an exploration of ‘creation and destruction’ – was made without graphics or visual effects.
It’s quite the visual treat and, if you can spare 12 minutes, well worth watching right to the end.
