Star of the Cabaret Voltaire

Emmy Hemmings in Ascona, 1918 -

Because I am a seaman's child, stem from the sea, life itself is to me a journey over the sea,
and I never see the shores, as if the land, which I don't know yet and which awaits me, were
sleeping in peace. It might be my homeland or a strange land that I will love. I don't know.
Always it was the adventure which I did not seek and which befell me, and each journey was
called 'Call and Response.'
-Emmy Hennings in 'Ruf und Echo:Mein Leben mit Hugo Ball' 1953

...Hennings preferred to keep from history most of the creative work produced during her long career as a member of Munich and Zurich’s Avant-Garde inner circles, as it would unfortunately also reveal a long career as a morphine addict, prostitute, and hustler, who frequently promoted free-love, anarchy, and social revolution, and spent several stints in prison, at least once for forging passports for draft dodgers. 

[click on one of the images for more about emmy]

beatrix ost

Outré, yet Uncontrived

Beatrix Ost was born in Germany at the start of World War II. But it was art, not conflict, that shaped the life of this practicing Tibetan Buddhist who is best known for her Edwardian outfits, dramatic personal style and joie de vivre.

Beatrix Ost is both a writer and artist. 

I find her fascinating 

and inspiring on so many levels

{stills from beatrix ost for stylelikeu - click above to watch}

Colette and toby

this is colette and her little dog toby...

{yesterday it was new years eve and i fell in love a little black dog.

we did not bring him home because the time is not right.

i came home and told fugu that we will wait till next year to adopt a little

puppy brother or sister for him to play with...}