January 16, 2010
With a new name and a new identity, Andy Warhol introduces filmmaker Jonas Mekas to his innovative pose.
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January 16, 2010
At the Factory with Andy’s latest find, The Velvet Underground, collaborator Paul Morrissey has tuned in and turned on. With a discreet turn of the head John Cale senses what is happening and is keen to succumb to the new habit.
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January 16, 2010
At first appearance this image suggests that Andy has clearly had enough of Mick’s relentless talk about himself. A closer reading reveals Mick’s displeasure that his friend prefers the company of others not even in the room.
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January 16, 2010
The fourth, unforeseen miracle in this image would only become apparent several centuries later.
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January 16, 2010
Medieval allegory bespeaks a folly to come, in the form of grandiloquent banality. Researchers at the University of California (Davis) recently identified a previously unknown Latin inscription in this image, discovered from X-Ray analysis of the book teetering on the nun’s head (historically taken to be an image of folly). The text, “Non ultum. Quis es vos usque?” roughly translates as “Not much. What are you up to?”
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January 12, 2010
Ireland’s Ronnie Delany unexpectedly wins Gold for Ireland in the 1500 metre final, pipping Australian favourite John Landy to the post. In the Olympic tradition, Delany is the first to console his worthy adversary.
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January 12, 2010
Col Elliott of Glenroy is immediately on the blower to his mate Bert Adams: “He was robbed!”
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January 12, 2010
Still from Greg Macainsh’s legendary 1974 film Sharpies.
Narelle from Bayswater is trying to hook up with her friend from Wantirna. Amid the heat, agro and deafening roar of the Coloured Balls, she is hungry and needs to bot a smoke.
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January 12, 2010
Bored and disinterested, Donna declines to meet Narelle at the Four‘n Twenty Pie stand. Shane and some of his mates have offered to take her to Northcote and get a souvlaki from Ulysses. Their excitement is self-evident.
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January 12, 2010
Moments before using his hand for a more tasteful pragmatism, Secretary of State Kissinger was snapped picking his nose.
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