Olivia Newton-John, London, 1970.
Donald Glover and Maya Erskine in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Donovan, Seattle, Washington, 1967. Art by John Moehring.
Jacob Elordi in "Saltburn"
Fantasia (1940)
pacific northwest ballet 'waltz of the snowflakes' ♡
Detail. Salvator Mundi. Attr. to Leonardo da Vinci. 1500
“Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones. An emptiness began to grow. There’s something out there, far from my home. A longing that I’ve never known.” The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) dir. Henry Selick
HOCUS POCUS (1993) • dir. Kenny Ortega
Hand study of Hedy Pfundmayr
Excerpt from this story from the LA Times:
When Leo Sisco was growing up on his tribe’s reservation, he heard elders’ stories about the great lake that once sustained their people, and how it was drained and taken away from them.
This year, Sisco has been witnessing a remarkable transformation as Tulare Lake has reappeared on low-lying farmland near the reservation.
The chairman of the Santa Rosa Rancheria Tachi Yokut Tribe has been noticing the water is attracting many birds, and he has been coming regularly to the lakeshore to offer prayers and look out over the water, which stretches to the horizon.
“I am very happy the lake is back,” Sisco said. “It makes me swell with pride to know that, in this lifetime, I get to experience it. My daughters, my grandson get to experience the lake, and the stories that we heard when we were kids, for us it comes to fruition.”
Pa’ashi, they call it, the life-giving lake that once provided for their ancestors.
The water that has streamed in from the rain and snow this year has for the first time allowed many Tachi people to see the ancestral lake they consider sacred — the center of their creation story, a natural wonder that was obliterated long ago to become lucrative farmland in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Sisco and other Indigenous leaders say they believe Tulare Lake should be allowed to remain rather than being drained once again to reestablish agriculture, as was done so many times before, including after floods in 1969, 1983 and 1997. They say allowing it to stay would improve life in the valley by providing water storage and allowing the area’s original ecosystem to take root again.
Prized possession.
My cartoon for the latest issue of New Scientist.
Our world.
instead of a brain there is a mini haunted house in my head