we didn't need dialogue... we had FACES.

magical photographs by my latest ohheartbestillohheavenhelpme-love: Eugenio Recuenco

I find the above photographic narrative (because this really is a narrative -- a film in stills, if you will) nothing short of magical. While viewing it, you are transported backwards in time to the real Golden Age of Film, the silent era, the days when Hollywood(land) was where Koreatown is now (I would know, I live in an apartment that once belonged to Mary Pickford!), when Charles Chaplin had the power and clout that the entire Disney industry does now, when -- as Norma Desmond so eloquently put it in Sunset Boulevard -- actors "didn't need dialogue; we had FACES." While viewing the photographs, you're watching Buster Keaton with Theda Bara, Louise Brooks, and Clara Bow in turn. You're seeing overly-stylized sets, which create more of a picture book feel on film than a photographic one. And the fashion... oh the hair and clothing and painted-on makeup!! To die, to die, and wake in a dream where women once again walk around like works of art, and men stroll the streets looking dapper in suits and caps.

Well, on that note, I'm off to go day dream the day away ♥

xxo,

R. Coco

paper cranes/ mystic planes.

My dear and darling friend Jessie, who writes and curates the fabulous blog Morning Passages, has a dear and darling friend named David Altobelli, who created the below work of absolute incandescence.

Sit back with a nice warm cuppa, and a kitten in your lap, and absorb:

Hammock - Breathturn from David Altobelli on Vimeo.

♥ R. Coco

p.s. I am so reminded of a baby sparrow I once rescued and cared for, named Hoover Clownface (you would not have believed his face. really.) There is something about seeing such a small and delicate creature up close, breathing. Aw. Godspeed, Hover Clownface. xxo.

p.p.s. Any of you sweetest loves who have us in your blog roll, it would be so wonderful of you if you could remove and then replace us in it, as we've just amended our blog handle. Thank you so, lovey doves!! xxo.