#Richard Seymour

[thingstol00kat]

form is function

you have 5 seconds and you create an impression on an object and its utility

#ted talk #beauty #design #function #richard seymour

[robertocustodioart]

Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon 1994

#stephanie seymour #richard avedon

[sorrydetka]

disappointment

synecdoche, new york (2008) dir. charlie kaufman // autobiography of red by anne carson // bojack horseman, 3.07 // the long and short of it by richard siken // fallen angels (1995) dir. wong kar-wai

#synecdoche new york #bojack horseman #fallen angels #charlie kaufman #philip seymour hoffman #wong kar wai #michelle reis #web weaving #parallels #web weave #anne carson #autobiography of red #richard siken #film web weave #fallen angels 1995 #richard siken crush #intertextuality

[pop-life-my-life]

Stephanie Seymour photographed by Richard Avedon for Versace, 1993

#stephanie seymour #richard avedon #versace #1993 #1990s #fashion photography #90s fashion #photoshoot #black and white #fashion model #90s supermodels

[isabelleneville]

@perioddramasource: PERIOD DRAMA APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Five: Favourite Period Drama Film - Anne of a Thousand Days (1969)

#anne of a thousand days #perioddramaedit #perioddramaweek2023 #richard taylor #genevieve bujold #michael johnson #irene papas #lesley paterson #peter jeffrey #henry viii #anne boleyn #George Boleyn #Katherine of Aragon #elizabeth i #Edward Seymour #jane seymour #thomas howard #my edits

[changingtimechangingpace]

Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon for Gianni Versace, 1993.

#Stephanie Seymour #Richard Avedon #gianni versace #Accessories #1993

[smthngcandy]

Naomi Campbell, Kristen McMenamy, Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Shalom Harlow and Aya Thorgren for Versace Spring/Summer 1993

Photographer: Richard Avedon

Stylist: Simone Colina

Hair: Oribe

Makeup: François Nars

#fashion #editorial #fashion magazine #naomi campbell #kristen mcmenamy #kate moss #stephanie seymour #christy turlington #linda evangelista #shalom harlow #aya thorgren #90s supermodels #versace #richard avedon #françois nars #simone colina #oribe

[riddle-me-grits]

Movies I Wish Existed | The Secret History (1993)

“I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the only story I will ever be able to tell.”

#if an adaptation of this fucking book can't include young Philip Seymour Hoffman as Bunny then I do not want it #I'd really prefer James Spader as Charles honestly but he was veering much too old for the part #especially as Kidman's twin #so I went with Christian Slater because he is my beloved and I love when he plays preps that go feral #the secret history #richard papen #henry winter #bunny corcoran #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay #charles macaulay #movies i wish existed #because an adaptation of this book close to its actual release when Hollywood was in its prep school/academic hellscape peak #would've been so good #and by so good i mean extra as hell #dark academia #90s

[knockeddeadv5]

Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon

#stephanie seymour #richard avedon #b&w #sheer #taz #labeled #fave

[earlymodernbarbie]

Lesley Paterson as Jane Seymour and Richard Burton as Henry VIII in Anne of the Thousand Days

#henry the eighth #henry viii of england #henry viii #king henry viii #henry tudor #anne of the thousand days #richard burton #Lesley Paterson #jane seymour #queen jane seymour #anne boleyn #tudor history #the tudors #english history #tudor era #tudor england #tudor period #tudor rose #period film #period drama #costume drama #vintage movies #vintage films #catherine of aragon #1960s cinema #1960s movies #tudors #tudor #tudor dynasty #house of tudor

[a-state-of-bliss]

Versace Spr/Sum 1993 - Stephanie Seymour, Naomi Campbell & Christy Turlington by Richard Avedon

#fashion #Versace #Stephanie Seymour #Naomi Campbell #Christy Turlington #Richard Avedon

[robertocustodioart]

Marcus Schenkenberg and Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon 1993

#marcus schenkenberg #stephanie seymour #richard avedon

[river-sam2]

Christmas of Aquanauts.

-Marineville, mid-December.

Troy Tempest the Captain of Stingray, ex-Captain Bradley Holden and ex-WASP oceanographer Gordon Tracy were drank in the corner of the Pub.

“You should be very grateful to Phones.”

Brad, who was drunk and a bit preachy, turned his attention to Troy.

Troy shrugged and looked Gordon as he asked help him.

“Certainly, it's probably thanks to him that those lovely ladies didn’t get mad at you.”

Gordon smiled mischievously.

“Come on , you guys are sooo merciless for me.”

Troy gestured as he surrendered to them, and reached for the fried fish.

“Haha, I gonna get water.”

Gordon got off the chair.

“Hey, I still not drank so much.”

Brad laughed cheerfully.

------

-Meanwhile in the control tower…

“achoo…hey, anybody taking about me?”

Phones sneezed, and Sub-Lieutenant Fisher who was playing chess by himself, jumped his shoulders in shock.

“Bless you.”

“Thanks.”

“I hope that person is not Titan.”

Fisher said, and he looked back to chess board.

“Yeah…I don‘t wanna see they found a rockabilly band and held the countdown concert in here.”

Phones sighed.

------

“Christmas is almost here.”

Gordon smiled happily.

They got off the pub and walking to Residential area. As they approached there, Christmas lights were decorated everywhere.

“By the way, does Spectrum also celebrate Christmas?”

Nobody knows Brad joined Spectrum, except few people including Troy and Gordon.

“Nah…our boss is very strict man. I will work that day, and hope I could eat Christmas cake.”

-Actually, Colonel White got angry because of troublesome guys in his organization including Brad aka Captain grey. But this is another story-

“Gordon, will you spent Christmas holiday with your families?”

Troy asked.

“Yes, I‘m looking forward to our family get together.”

“That‘s good! I hope you will enjoy. ”

“Thank you.”

“I hope The Aquaphibians will enjoying Christmas under the sea and we will spent peacefully this holiday.”

When Troy said that, Brad and Gordon smiled, because they remembered Troy‘s episode about he and Barry Byrne.

-----

-Spectrum Control Center.

“Oh….I wish I could join them...”

ex-WASP Seymour Griffiths as Lieutenant Green sighed in front of the computer.

“Anything fun?”

Captain Magenta came into the room just a little faster, it looks like he is an impatient man.

“Hi! Captain grey went our old workplace and he drank with friends after his job.”

“That’s too bad. However, I will in trouble if both of you get out of here, because you guys are relatively sane in this organization…”

The impatient Irishman scanned his ID, logged into the control room computer, and set up various apps 1.5 times faster than he could speak.

“You forgot Captain Ochre.”

“WHAT?”

Magenta opened his eyes and shook his head, as if to tell Green not to say that stupid thing.

“What's so sane about the craziest Guy in this organization? and I should educate him with Captain Scarlet‘s Opening Sequence.”

“What are you talking about?”

“No, forget it.”

Magenta looks cursing about Ochre, but Green smiled and took over the business because in fact, he understood Magenta trusts him and Ochre.

“You are going to off-duty aren‘t you.”

“Yes.”

“So you should go to the dining hall and you will found something you like.”

Magenta grinned.

“Ohhh, I wonder what's there…Bye, Captain.”

-----

Later…

#stingray #thunderbirds #captain scarlet and the mysterons #troy tempest #gordon tracy #bradley holden #captain grey #phones #lieutenant green #seymour griffiths #sub-lieutenant Fisher #geogre sheridan #captain magenta #patrick donaghue #captain ochre #richard fraser #have a nice christmas #christmas #gafanfic #ga fan art #river sam2 #doodle #christmas 2023

[annabolinas]

Anne of the Thousand Days Review: Part 2

Alright, here's part 2! Spoiler alert but this movie has some shockingly regressive views about women... no, not just by the male characters in it.

Absurdities only mount as Henry visits Anne in person in her Tower cell and offers to let her live and have custody of Elizabeth if she agrees to an annulment. Anne utterly refuses; while this is completely the opposite of what the real Anne did, this is an understandable deviation, as it is more straightforwardly heroic. Anne lying that she committed adultery with “half your court”, though, is not only baffling, but an insult to the real Anne’s memory. I know that sounds harsh, but bear with me. In the movie, Anne seems to fling this lie at Henry to wound his fragile masculinity, as seen in her remark that he should “look, for the rest of your life, at every man that ever knew me and wonder if I didn’t find them a better man than you!” But Anne shifts far too rapidly from crying out at her trial, “They were innocent as I am innocent! Any man, no matter who he is, who says the contrary, is a liar!”, to freely lying and stating that she’s an adulteress. There’s no buildup, no rhyme or reason that the audience can see as to why she would do such a thing. Moreover, the real Anne never confessed to adultery, twice swearing on the Eucharist that she was innocent of all charges. Anne of the Thousand Days’ portrayal of its Anne as flippantly and falsely confessing to adultery and incest undermines her real-life courage and bravery in maintaining the truth until the end, even on peril of her soul’s damnation. It’s incredibly disrespectful, to say the least.

Above all, the movie fails on an emotional level. Not only does it sag in the middle with its pacing and excitement, but it fails to create a compelling or believable relationship between Anne and Henry, the movie’s two leads. The marketing for this movie played up its romantic aspects, even if it is really more reminiscent of a boss sexually harassing young female interns; its poster reads, ‘He was King. She was barely 18. And in their thousand days they played out the most passionate and shocking love story in history!” However, the movie fails to convince audiences of a core part of its story - the romance, let alone the believability of Henry and Anne’s relationship. There are usually two ways adaptations go with Henry and Anne’s relationship. They either have Henry and Anne, after some point, have a genuinely loving relationship until it goes horribly wrong (e.g.  The Tudors, Blood, Sex, & Royalty) or portray Anne as stringing Henry along to win a crown (e.g. Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), The Other Boleyn Girl, Wolf Hall to an extent). Anne of the Thousand Days takes a third choice and goes the route of portraying Henry as sexually harassing an initially quite unwilling Anne. Henry’s attraction to Anne is never explained, as in the first scene (chronologically), he’s drawn to her before she says a word, even ordering Wolsey to break her romance with Percy. Why? Is it just because he wants her in his bed? After all, Henry declares at one point that he’s never been refused by a woman; maybe he finds the challenge exhilarating. But if so, why does he remain fixated with her after she insults his words and poetry, even though he says there’s no better way to end his interest than by doing that? Indeed, Anne later says that Henry wants to know whether she’s guilty because “that would touch your manhood and your pride”, indicating that he is touchy about such subjects. Apparently, though, he’s not sensitive enough to abandon Anne after she blasts every part of his personality at the start of their courtship. Why does he still try to woo her for six years, throughout which Henry admits that “Not once have you said, ‘I love you’”? To be clear, it’s not an impossible scenario, but it is perhaps the farthest thing from romance imaginable.

In other words, what are we supposed to think of Henry and Anne’s relationship? Far from being a passionate romance turned toxic, Anne of the Thousand Days portrays a toxic relationship driven by lust on Henry’s part and ambition on Anne’s part, a relationship where supposedly, they only love each other for one day. Such a characterization of any relationship, let alone the fascinating and complex one of the real Henry and Anne, would be too reductive. Henry starting to hate Anne immediately after she falls for him not only is too simplistic for viewers, but not even supported by the movie. Henry continues to love Anne and behave affectionately towards her after they sleep together until she gives birth to Elizabeth, meaning there are at least nine months of mutual love between them in the movie’s timeline! 

Even the ending of Anne of the Thousand Days, despite its seemingly-empowering voiceover of Anne narrating how Elizabeth will be a great queen, is hampered by an unwillingness to face the full tragedy of her death. In real life, Anne was at most 35 when she was beheaded on false charges, and in the timeline of the movie, she’s around 29, following the 1507 birth date. Anne’s death is presented as poignant, as she remarks on the May flowers growing just as she did on her coronation day. But the absence of her execution speech, in what I can only assume is an attempt to highlight its somber brutality, is in fact borderline disrespectful to the real woman. While unlike Anne Boleyn (2021), this film does not purport to present Anne’s side of the story through a feminist lens, it is still galling that in place of the real Anne’s words, the writers inserted a fictitious monologue about Elizabeth’s greatness, which the real Anne could never have known! The real Anne Boleyn was a highly intelligent, ambitious, and reform-minded queen executed by her husband on false charges. Not only was her death, along with the deaths of the five men accused with her (never mentioned in the film!) a grave miscarriage of justice, but it was a tragedy. Much of its tragic nature derives from the fact that Anne left her toddler daughter, as far as she knew, dependent on the whims of her father and a bastard. There is no way she could have known, that anyone could have known, that Elizabeth would become queen. Anne of the Thousand Days giving Anne this knowledge makes sense out of a senseless, brutal demise, almost implying that there was a silver lining to Anne’s death because her daughter became queen.

It once again defines a woman by her reproductive history, and the film follows in a long tradition of claiming Anne’s real worth lay in her womb and the great queen it produced, her tragic downfall notwithstanding. Despite its ostensible focus on Anne Boleyn, the movie, like so many films then before and since, fails to understand - arguably, does not try to understand - historical women like Anne on their own terms. Women, in this mindset, must always be defined by their relation to a man or an exceptional woman. It’s not enough that Anne was an exceptional woman in her own right, that women are inherently important on their own, not by virtue of their family. Anne of the Thousand Days, at a time when cinema was pioneering in so many ways, is rigidly traditional in its views of women. Dramatic license with history needs to both fulfill a satisfying dramatic aim and at least be in contact with the facts; Anne of the Thousand Days’ portrayal of its titular queen’s death fails on both counts.

Needless to say, I didn’t like this movie. Its costumes, sumptuous pageantry, and strong performances from Genevieve Bujold as Anne, Anthony Quayle as Wolsey, and John Colicos as Cromwell, cannot make up for the fact that the rest of the film’s parts are either mediocre or simply bad. Why then do so many people think fondly not just of Genevieve Bujold’s Anne, but also this movie? Part of it must be nostalgia - it would have gained a special place in the hearts of Tudor fans who grew up in 1969 and the following decade. Its accessibility for purchase on platforms like Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and Youtube, also meant it gained more popularity than the far superior 1970 BBC miniseries The Six Wives of Henry VIII, which is only available on DVD and the platform Britbox. But I’ve argued in this review that Anne of the Thousand Days is just as inaccurate as more scorned depictions like The Tudors; in fact, I firmly believe that on the whole, Anne of the Thousand Days has more inaccuracies in its plot and characterization than The Tudors! Why, then, in spite of its major inaccuracies, does Anne of the Thousand Days retain a reputation for authenticity? 

The fact Jonathan Rhys Meyers looks nothing like Henry VIII in The Tudors and has little of the real king’s imposing majesty is surely part of it. More to the point, though, The Tudors’ propensity towards sex and nudity in its first two seasons meant it seemed louche and vulgar compared to the sober and slow-paced Anne of the Thousand Days. If Natalie Dormer’s Anne was criminally overlooked by critics because of her show’s disreputable appearance, then the opposite has occurred with this movie. Genevieve Bujold’s great performance has managed to elevate a quite mediocre and often horribly reductive movie into the hallowed halls of the Period Drama Pantheon. It’s time for a broader reappraisal of this movie: one which dethrones it for good.

#tudor era #the tudors #anne of the thousand days #anne boleyn #genevieve bujold #richard burton #henry viii #thomas cromwell #thomas wolsey #catherine of aragon #katherine of aragon #jane seymour #elizabeth i #tudorerasource #ya so... hot takes #if anyone wants to watch a really good but underrated Anne #might I suggest #Dorothy Tutin in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) #available on DVD #Britbox #pirating sites #and OK dot ru #literally such a good performance she needs more love

[strathshepard]

Christy Turlington, Nadja Auermann, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour and Claudia Schiffer by Richard Avedon for Versace FW1994 

#richard avedon #versace #groups #christy turlington #cindy crawford #stephanie seymour #nadja auermann #claudia schiffer

[changingtimechangingpace]

Stephanie Seymour by Richard Avedon for Gianni Versace, Versace Jeans Couture, 1993.

#Stephanie Seymour #Richard Avedon #gianni versace #Versace Jeans Couture #1993 #jeans #supermodel #icon