jacktellslies: (ladies)
jacktellslies ([personal profile] jacktellslies) wrote2009-05-23 11:06 am

Post.

The lovely [livejournal.com profile] fasterpussycat was kind enough to send me a wonderful bit of post. I now have one of her stunning Virginia Woolf prints. It lives, at present, above my curios cabinet, facing the a print of Tilda Swinton with antlers in her hair made for me by [livejournal.com profile] cynical_ghost. Once I find it a worthy frame, however, I may put it above my typewriter with Whitney's mounted bugs. She sent a small collage piece including legs and fish, and a rather infamous book about a modern dandy and rent boy. She also sent a marvellous bit of Victorian technology: a stereoscope, one of those lenses that allows one to focus on two photographs taken of the same image from slightly different angles, causing the picture to appear to be three-dimensional. The photograph in question is of a seated young man, quite naked and playing the violin. I was almost disconcerted to find that he's my type exactly: lithe and distracted. He's delicious, Tamara. You know me well. Thank you ever so much!

[identity profile] cynical-ghost.livejournal.com 2009-05-23 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That Virginia Woolf portrait is absolutely stunning. I love how it's both soft and bold.

[identity profile] jezebellydancer.livejournal.com 2009-05-24 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
The drawing is beautiful, it reminds me of vintage portraits. Somewhere I think I have more stereoscope pictures, alas--no naughty ones. If/when I come across them, I'll let you know. Somewhere I've seen a vintage postcard of a topless or naked woman holding a lute with a floppy Renaissance-type hat on. I've seen that a variety of place, but never a nude youth.

[identity profile] fasterpussycat.livejournal.com 2009-05-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
So pleased that you are pleased, dear Jack.

I would like to see the Tilda portrait sometime....

[identity profile] fasterpussycat.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
*gasp*

That is gorgeous! Who is the artist?

[identity profile] earlofgrey.livejournal.com 2009-05-26 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It's [livejournal.com profile] cynical_ghost. She is an artist and maskmaker from Louisiana.