Edwardians, or “Teddy Boys” as they became known, are an English youth subculture that created a distinctive style by wearing clothes inspired by the Edwardian period that the tailors of Savile Row attempted to reintroduce after world war two. The term “Teddy Boy” came about as a result of a newspaper headline that shortened Edward to Teddy and subsequently to Teddy Boy.

All photos from photographer Ben Watts, via A Continuous Lean and Photographers Limited Editions.

i am a Fitzgerald lover and dilettante scholar, and Hemingway is woven into that world. a study in rival opposites - fancy and faux masculine, wordy and terse, gatsby and jake. Hemingway is said to have been a cross-dresser, a bad father and a drunk, but he still holds sway over our imaginations as the ultimate man's man. i like these photos b/c they're largely Hemingway the man, not the myth - a middle aged paunchy guy who liked fishing and writing.

cookie magazine is closing up shop, so i saved all the photos i liked before the site goes down. here be some favorites:

i can't do justice to the beauty of the following photos, or the rest found here. this is why we have art.
here is the description from 'the big picture':
Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France's Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled "The Berlin Reunion". Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by "land and sea monsters". The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult - but successful - expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart.

i'm still kind of torn about how i feel about the where the wild things are movie. i like me some spike jonze and reviews i've read say the movie is dark and weird and there isn't a happy ending. 

i read this recently in a NYT mgazine profile and i thought 'ok - this movie might really work':
Although he has no children of his own, his feeling for what it’s like to be a child seems to be stronger and more immediate than that of most people his age, and children are often drawn to him. Catherine Keener...who plays a divorced mother in “Where the Wild Things Are,” told me that her 10-year-old son, Clyde, once asked her why Jonze didn’t live with his parents; apparently Clyde didn’t realize that Jonze was an adult.

that makes me want to cry a little, not gonna lie.

has a song ever lifted you up and at the same time smashed your heart into 100 pieces the way graceland can? i think not. i listen to this song obsessively, in gulps, over and over.