Showing posts with label salvador dali. Show all posts
Showing posts with label salvador dali. Show all posts

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Because Three Salvador Dali Posts in a Row is Surreal

Who would you most like to see cast as Salvador Dali in any of the three motion pictures currently being planned about the surrealist:

Johnny Depp,

Al Pacino,

or Peter O'Toole?

I think I would enjoy seeing Johnny Depp, but only if it doesn't conflict with his rumored portrayal of Freddie Mercury.

That will be truly surreal.

Friday, May 18, 2007

Reading the Body


This is from a post on an interesting new blog, Genderquake on tattoos and body writing:

One thing that fascinates me about these images is their insistence on corporeal legibility: the body can easily be read by casual observers. Tattoos aren't the only forms of inscription that lead to this legibility: when I was pregnant. I felt like my body was suddenly the subject of discourse, and that strangers could easily "read" my body to learn that I would soon be a mother.
The public availability of both pregnancy and tattoos as topics for conversation certainly resonates for me. My partner gets attention now from strangers about her ink in ways very similar to the stray comments that had been made about her pregnancies. Both sorts of conversations seem to encourage an immediate intimacy which is very striking, and both tend to be about a recognition of a kinship (I have one of those too...).

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Surreal Line


Salvador Dali from What's My Line? Surrealism in action.