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Above: The partial set from Citizen Kane consists of a foreground doorway and the butler (Paul Stewart), while Kane (Orson Welles) stands on a distant soundstage floor.
Below: The final, deep-focus image was completed with a matte painting by Chesley Bonestell. The live-action elements of the doorway in the foreground and Kane in the background were optically composited with a painted hallway, columns, and floor. The distant reflection of Kane on the floor was painted as well.
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But on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a pair of Brooklyn émigrés are stubbornly resisting their surroundings at a beautiful outdoor restaurant in the Tulum jungle named Hartwood. Earlier this month my husband and I faced each other across one of Hartwood’s hard wooden tables on a warm January evening. Under a black sky pricked with stars, with what must have been every song Bob Marley ever recorded seeping through crackly speakers, we capped off a two-week vacation that had taken us to Mexico City and Mérida, eating as far off the tourist circuit as we could.
It’s a lovely place, Hartwood, with its oil lamps, its palapas painted some Hamptons shade of white, its Swiss Family Robinson meets Apartment Therapy aesthetic.
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so when i was in college i tabbed out a shitload of liz phair songs. i had two live shows on vhs (yes, this was before youtube) that i acquired through the 6’1” mailing list…and basically studied tape to get the tabs as accurate as i could.
anyways, i kind of neglected it once i got tumblr up and…
I know this isn’t fashion related but it’s still funny nonetheless.
I admit it, I’ve done “Fuck, Kill, or Marry” for the entire Downton Abbey cast. Never even turned on Jersey Shore.
