“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” - Dorothy ParkerTumblr (3.0; @earwigbiscuits)http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7e46b29998933986a2921b887540cb28/tumblr_ml4kfaeLWW1qbm7yoo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(<a href="http://www.xdcr.com/mwj/Pince-Nez-Glasses.html">via</a>)</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/47760206770http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/47760206770Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:28:22 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/dcaf6aebce4680a9fca19f29b0b5c27d/tumblr_mkpkc13nv51qbrdf3o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://mothgirlwings.tumblr.com/post/47073498017/alice-in-wonderland-1915" class="tumblr_blog">mothgirlwings</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>“Alice In Wonderland”</strong> (1915)</p></blockquote>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/47076205074http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/47076205074Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:33:28 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/45e2c117014656e8cef5f53c4afd67a7/tumblr_mjb5gs54ZJ1rikbdbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://teetywoo.tumblr.com/post/44847890054/amusements-prize-bingo-halifax" class="tumblr_blog">teetywoo</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Amusements & Prize Bingo, Halifax</p></blockquote>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45386437489http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45386437489Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:24:01 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/75d741b82413ebb0198d54da49f2bde1/tumblr_mhy04wyDo41qz5q5oo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://muscavomitoria.tumblr.com/post/45379156645" class="tumblr_blog">muscavomitoria</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a href="http://wrongsideoftheart.com/2013/02/ecstasy-ekstase-1933-czechoslovakia-austria/">Poster for Ecstasy (Ekstase) (1933, Czechoslovakia / Austria) - Wrong Side of the Art</a>)</p></blockquote>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45381734614http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45381734614Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:23:56 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/29224b4238df8e4c0bef9600d2e9d899/tumblr_mjoaifzlrF1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45375252008http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45375252008Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:59:03 -0700mountainviewcemetery<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7e9e191bc5f8963913af5c9fc536de44/tumblr_mj911npjGw1qzix81o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/45364220519/folly-or-saintliness-by-jos-echegaray-ethel" class="tumblr_blog">centuriespast</a>:</p> <blockquote><h3>“Folly or Saintliness” by José Echegaray</h3> <h4 class="artist"><a href="http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=4842">Ethel Reed</a> (American, born 1876)</h4> <p class="caption">1895. Lithograph</p> <p class="caption">MoMA</p></blockquote>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45369618655http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/45369618655Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:47:33 -0700“Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is, ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, THAT’S the great puzzle!”<br/><br/> - <em>Lewis Carroll, <em>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</em> (via <a href="http://liquidnight.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog">liquidnight</a>)</em>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/43705086385http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/43705086385Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:28:27 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d3324e3f7b10a904217ff6e794c7ce3a/tumblr_mi1mxabtnU1reiapso1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://macleodsbooks.tumblr.com/post/43088891064/women-of-paris-by-andre-maurois-photographs-by" class="tumblr_blog">macleodsbooks</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><em>Women of Paris</em> by Andre Maurois (photographs by Nico Jesse)</p></blockquote> yay, I’m the lucky girl who snagged this onehttp://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/43704866478http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/43704866478Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:24:46 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/5055fe16d571f8436bde3dce834ef7df/tumblr_mi578d9ibG1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Harper’s Bazaar</em>, 1961 (<a href="http://head-collection.blogspot.ca/search?updated-max=2012-07-31T12:06:00-04:00&max-results=13&reverse-paginate=true">via</a>)</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42982309955http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42982309955Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:00:13 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3a54f0dbaf4ca9bf82373e3f93e318f9/tumblr_mi3bt21F9V1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Tombstones, Holy Trinity Churchyard, Hinton-in-the-Hedges</em> ~ watercolour by John Piper, c.1940 (<a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17248/tombstones-holy-trinity-churchyard-hinton-watercolour-piper-john/">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>)</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42903189282http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42903189282Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:43:00 -0800Recording Britain<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mekq0gt99d1r0320so1_r2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://moronicalake.tumblr.com/post/37275960809/olivia-de-havilland-ca-1945">moronicalake</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><small>Olivia de Havilland ca. 1945</small></p> </blockquote>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42818348950http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42818348950Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:33:14 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/aabc3ebbe349349f490433b651a95c91/tumblr_mhmw8pjMBa1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Arrangement of 12 Female Mannequin Heads, Each With Distinct Physiognomy and Period Hair Style</em> ~ photograph by Dr. Peter Weller; German, c.1920s-30s</p> <p>(<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/190017078?rpp=20&pg=1&rndkey=20130203&ft=*&where=Germany&what=Gelatin+silver+prints&who=Peter+Weller&pos=1">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>)</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42172564485http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42172564485Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:46:01 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/655f8486998fdb0814d608eaef45573b/tumblr_mhmctklAAx1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>Mabille de Bellême, la louve d’Alençon</em>, by Éric Leclerq</p> <p>History of Mabel de Bellême, the wicked and conniving wife of Roger II de Montgomery, the 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. She was killed in 1079 in her bed by one of the many nobles she had dispossessed.</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42144121242http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/42144121242Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:46:00 -0800book cover<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/70c5be86ef7f46cdafca07e195199745/tumblr_mezf60i1p81r9m2eto1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5ecf6ed95a5e39b3ce6f9ffc179b6763/tumblr_mezf60i1p81r9m2eto2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://malalibido.tumblr.com/post/37843934072/jane-howarth-the-ladies-glamorous-ladies">malalibido</a>:</p> <blockquote> <div class="caption"> <p><a href="http://www.janehowarth.com/Welcome.html">Jane Howarth</a> - The Ladies</p> <p>Glamorous ladies discard their fashions and their adornments and head for the seduction of the shimmering surf and shingle. Upon their distraction scavenger gulls descend and feast on the picnic of kid leather gloves, pearl necklaces and other delightful items left abandoned on the sand.</p> </div> </blockquote>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/41830524784http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/41830524784Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:51:14 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5deb31aaec84c293867d3d712184e69c/tumblr_mhf0cwP4731qbm7yoo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, “Hairy Helmet #2,” 2008</p> <p>Woven and braided natural and artificial hair (<a href="http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/manufractured/artists/arnardottir.html">via</a>)</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/41829074567http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/41829074567Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:34:08 -0800hairart<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/7443269b0a65f4669085587bbeaaa9ef/tumblr_mheznidbmq1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Cindy Stelmackowich, “Eye Wreath,” 2011</p> <p>Victorian human hair wreath, metal wire, taxidermy eyes. <a href="http://www.patrickmikhailgallery.com/artists/cindy-stelmackowich/">Patrick Mikhail Gallery</a>, Ottawa</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/41827805767http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/41827805767Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:18:00 -0800hairart<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/778997d6d990fa95f21a32f79fb43405/tumblr_mguv2qa0U91qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Aqua Net</strong> ~ John Scarpati, chromata print on canvas, 2012 (via <a href="http://www.laluzdejesus.com/shows/2012/Scarpati/Scarpati2012.htm">La Luz de Jesus Gallery</a>)</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40898415981http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40898415981Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:28:02 -08001980sSunset Striphairsprayphotograph<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6nq5n8kWz1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span class="Apple-style-span">Wig and its carrying case, with other luggage. George Silk, 1962 (<a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/0a6e8137b98d322d.html">LIFE</a>)</span></p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40741268699http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40741268699Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:34:26 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/23e3c56d7a796773ad0a5f47d8f82c08/tumblr_mgebr8rIQ91qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Princess Theatre, 55 East Hastings, perhaps sometime in the 1920s. </p> <p>via <a href="http://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/exterior-of-princess-theatre-at-55-east-hastings-street;dc">City of Vancouver Archives</a></p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40159059770http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40159059770Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:09:07 -0800downtown eastsidevancouverhastings street<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/537921d65ca883f037882c9dd40d6d76/tumblr_mgcd6ultoM1qbm7yoo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Grand Studio, Whitby, Ontario</p>http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40072606168http://earwigbiscuits.tumblr.com/post/40072606168Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:44:00 -0800cabinet cardVictorian