Erich Sokol, PLAYBOY (January 1996)
Saturday, December 31, 2022
Friday, December 30, 2022
Tawnee Stone
Modeling Appreciation
The internet help make porn more accessible. It use to be one had to drive to the adult bookstore to purchase or rent porn. I was one who didn't care for renting because the last thing I wanted to do was return to the adult bookstore after doing my deeds. So, internet porn made life much easier.
While searching one evening in 2001 for porn, I remember finding Lightspeed Girls. Lightspeed Media was founded by Steve "Lightspeed" Jones, and his site featured barely legal 18+ girls. One superstar was Tawnee Stone.
The petite 5'3" brunette was considered "a successful pioneer of the single-model per website style," after joining Lightspeed in 2001. Years later, she still ranks top 25 on CoedCherry.
I think for me, four years older than Tawnee, she had that "girl-from-next-door" look: innocent, petite, and very pretty.
Born on December 30, 1982 in Plano, Texas, Tawnee Stone (real name: Tammy Saris) grew up outside Chicago. In 2001, she graduated from Crystal Lake High School and moved to Phoenix, Arizona to attend Arizona State University.
Ten years after appearing as a Lightspeed model, Steve Jones went to social media and announced the death of Tawnee Stone. As he reported, Tawnee had been killed in a car accident. Fans went to internet forums to share theories as to what may have happened.
A couple of years later, however, Tammy Saris (aka Tawnee Stone) tweeted "Still live [sic] and well, Happy New Year :)."
It was later revealed by Steve Jones that it was a joke and that he only planned to have his created character, Tawnee Stone, "alive" for 10 years.
Supposedly, she is happily married with two kids.
Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HisMajestysHarem/comments/s9wtgl/born_tammy_saris_in_texas_the_girl_who_came_to_be/
https://deadorkicking.com/tawnee-stone-dead-or-alive/
https://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?s=55c4baeb69233512ae0f7f6e4828629a&t=1169221&page=8
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2540840/
Monday, December 26, 2022
Maurice Utrillo
Art Appreciation
Born on December 26, 1883, Maurice Utrillo was a French painter from Montmartre quarter in Paris known for cityscapes.
There is a fascinating history on Maurice, when he was a baby. His mom, Suzanne Valadon, was the model for artists Berthe Morisot, Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Edgar Degas.
As told by Diego Rivera, "After Maurice was born to Suzanne Valadon, she went to Renoir, for whom she had modeled nine months previously. Renior looked at the baby and said, 'He can't be mine, the color is terrible!' Next she went to Degas, for whom she had also modeled. He said, "He can't be mine, the form is terrible! At a cafe, Valadon saw an artist she knew named Miguel Utrillo, to whom she spilled her woes. The man told her to call the baby Utrillo: "I would be glad to put my name to the work of either Renior or Degas!'"
In 1904, Utrillo took up painting, at the suggestion by his mother. He drew and painted what he saw in Montmartre. By 1920, his work garnered international attention. A few years later, the French government awarded him the Cross of the Légion d'honneur.
Lapin Agile (c. 1911-1914)
Montmartre, rue du Mont-Cenis (1934)
Place Jean-Baptiste-Clement (c. 1918)
Sources:
Wikipedia
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Saturday, December 24, 2022
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Stipe, Merchant, and Bragg sing Prine's "Hello in There"
BoingBoing recently published an article by writer Jennifer Sandlin that celebrated R.E.M.'s debut EP Chronic Town's 40th anniversary. An additional treat was another article where she shared a live performance video featuring Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, and Billy Bragg singing John Prine's classic "Hello in There" in Glasgow. As explained by Natalie Merchant, the performance was "a first concert stop before heading to the former Soviet Bloc just after the collapse of the Berlin Wall."
Source:
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/40-watt-club-in-athens-georgia-celebrates-the-40th-anniversary-of-debut-r-e-m-ep-chronic-town.html
https://boingboing.net/2022/12/18/michael-stipe-natalie-merchant-and-billy-bragg-sing-a-john-prine-classic-in-this-live-performance-from-1990.html
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
2007: Two Paintings Stolen, But Later Recovered, from MASP
On December 20, 2007, two paintings were stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP): The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch by Pablo Picasso and O Lavrador de Café by Candido Portinari.
The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch, is an oil painting done during Picasso's Blue Period of Wagnerian opera singer Suzanne Bloch, sister of violinist Henri Bloch.
Brazilian artist Candido Portinari's O Lavrador de Café is an oil painting depicting a black worker in a coffee plantation standing tall holding a hoe.
As reported by Reuters, thieves broke into the MASP just after 5 AM using hydraulic jack and a crowbar. The heist lasted three minutes. It was reported, at that time, the two paintings were worth about $55 million dollars. Picasso's painting alone was said to be worth $50 million.
The two paintings were recovered a few weeks later by São Paulo police.
Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904)
O Lavrador de Café (1934)
Sources:
Wikipedia
https://web.archive.org/web/20071230164038/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20071221/ten-uk-brazil-picasso-d3877cb_1.html
http://virusdaarte.net/portinari-lavrador-de-cafe/
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