tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88280622009-11-08T08:39:25.025-05:00An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations;<br>by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson, Kimberly Lindbergs and Greg FerraraTom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.comBlogger5000125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-27867228074225878032009-11-06T12:36:00.002-05:002009-11-06T12:39:25.484-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/artists%20and%20animals/liztaylorandsandpiper.jpg"><br />Liz Taylor and sandpiper. <br /><br />Photo by Roddy McDowall.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-2786722807422587803?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-1140679493377006402009-11-06T12:31:00.003-05:002009-11-06T12:36:50.194-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/they%20were%20collaborators/TheyWereCollaborators1.jpg"><br />Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier and Shirley MacLaine<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-114067949337700640?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-5306154845010466322009-11-06T00:00:00.005-05:002009-11-06T00:07:27.173-05:00Born in 1912, Dmitri Baltermants was perhaps the most prominent photo-journalist the old Soviet Union (not the happiest place for journalism of any kind) ever produced. In this, the first of two samplings of his work, we join the mighty Red Army on the field of battle during the Second World War . . . which was already in progress.<br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB21.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB25.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB02.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB03.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB04.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB05.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB06.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB07.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB09.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB10.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB12.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB14.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB16.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB17.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB19.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB22.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB23.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB26.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB28.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB32.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB34.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB36.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB37.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB38.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/SBFridays/dmitribaltermants1/DB33.jpg"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-530615484501046632?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-28955042701488508972009-11-05T16:20:00.001-05:002009-11-05T16:22:24.212-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/artists%20in%20action/ArtistsinActionAngieDickinsonwalkso.jpg"><br />Angie Dickinson leaves the tarmac with a smile on her face and, perhaps, a song in her heart.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-2895504270148850897?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-70365838837228645442009-11-05T16:14:00.004-05:002009-11-05T16:22:46.522-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/faces%20of%20science/T280233-Albert_Einstein_robot_face_.jpg"><br />Albert Einstein <br /><br /><i>[this visage is the mask of the Albert Einstein robot developed by Hanson Robotics. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoBPkgjFIo4">Click here for all your uncanny valley needs</a>]</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-7036583883722864544?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-81040402907930052632009-11-05T16:06:00.001-05:002009-11-05T16:09:01.442-05:00Today's Adventure<br /><img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/adventures%20in%20the%20fight%20racket/SugarRayRobinsonwindingupthelefthoo.jpg"><br />Original caption:<br /><br />Sugar Ray Robinson winds up the left hook that will knock out Carl "Bobo" Olsen in the fourth round of their middleweight championship fight at Wrigley Field<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8104040290793005263?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-86102776675969889162009-11-05T00:04:00.000-05:002009-11-05T00:04:00.148-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/AllStarComics08-08.jpg"><br />from <span style="font-style:italic;">Two New Members Win Their Spurs</span><br />(by Gardner Fox, Everett E. Hibbard and Bernard Baily)<br />(All-Star Comics #8; January, 1942)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8610277667596988916?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-81443116333265076192009-11-05T00:03:00.000-05:002009-11-05T00:03:00.119-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/woodcut.jpg"><br />The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō V as Kan Shōjō<br />(Utagawa Kunisada; 1860)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8144311633326507619?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-86151835673333871752009-11-05T00:02:00.000-05:002009-11-05T00:02:00.856-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/wpaphotog.jpg"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8615183567333387175?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-22309668349575333642009-11-05T00:01:00.000-05:002009-11-05T00:01:01.836-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/portraitofviolet1885.jpg"><br />Portrait of Violet (1885)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-2230966834957533364?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-74048178589774660982009-11-05T00:00:00.000-05:002009-11-05T00:00:03.173-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/7375s8.jpg"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-7404817858977466098?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-83991316941049509432009-11-04T16:49:00.000-05:002009-11-04T16:51:12.164-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/treading%20the%20boards/VanoyeAikensandKatherineDunhamLAgya.jpg"><br />Vanoye Aikens and Katherine Dunham in <i>L'Ag'Ya</i><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8399131694104950943?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-36387670390335719092009-11-04T16:48:00.001-05:002009-11-04T16:49:13.991-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/faces%20of%20science/H407400-Jane_Goodall_British_primat.jpg"><br />Jane Goodall<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-3638767039033571909?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-2454707313711420502009-11-04T00:04:00.000-05:002009-11-04T00:04:00.394-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/February_1968-001.jpg"><br />Van Dyke Parks<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-245470731371142050?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-59631159060276301122009-11-04T00:03:00.000-05:002009-11-04T00:03:00.427-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/8847.jpg"><br />Delight (1956)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-5963115906027630112?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-72947076032141276962009-11-04T00:02:00.000-05:002009-11-04T00:02:00.189-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/2154451936_f9c050497b_o.jpg"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-7294707603214127696?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-85143543942329505232009-11-04T00:01:00.000-05:002009-11-04T00:01:00.280-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/pitfall-3.jpg"><br />Pitfall<br />(Andre de Toth; 1948)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8514354394232950523?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-16199777987007031402009-11-04T00:00:00.000-05:002009-11-04T00:00:01.538-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/P8.jpg"><br />Riot in Cell Block 11<br />(Don Siegel; 1954)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-1619977798700703140?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-17159672573093906732009-11-03T16:45:00.002-05:002009-11-03T16:47:44.417-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/broadcasters/JerryDoggettandVinScully.jpg"><br />Jerry Doggett and Vin Scully<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-1715967257309390673?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-69238101833114044182009-11-03T16:43:00.002-05:002009-11-03T16:44:52.350-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/artists%20and%20animals/ErrolFlynnandBesMudionboardtheZaca.jpg"><br />Errol Flynn and Bes Mudi aboard the Zaca.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-6923810183311404418?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-55345798445686917452009-11-03T16:40:00.001-05:002009-11-03T16:43:01.088-05:00<img src="http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp308/jlapper/treading%20the%20boards/TreadingtheBoardsOsgoodPerkinsWalte.jpg"><br />Osgood Perkins, Frances Fuller and Lee Tracy in <i>The Front Page</i>, 1928.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-5534579844568691745?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05730146625671701859noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-8744896528148600402009-11-03T00:04:00.001-05:002009-11-03T00:05:51.940-05:00Before<br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/marybefore.jpg"><br /><br />After<br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/maryafter.jpg"><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-874489652814860040?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-87236764288468404522009-11-03T00:03:00.000-05:002009-11-03T00:03:00.595-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/GAP0110-VP.jpg"><br />Dick Gregory<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-8723676428846840452?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-23396017651420071102009-11-03T00:02:00.000-05:002009-11-03T00:02:00.101-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/baxtersheva.jpg"><br />The Passions<br />(Les Baxter)<br />(Capitol Records; 1954)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-2339601765142007110?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8828062.post-43996296774930586952009-11-03T00:01:00.000-05:002009-11-03T00:01:27.607-05:00<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/tomasutpen/album7/moptops26.jpg"><br />The Mop Tops look down on all they have wrought<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8828062-4399629677493058695?l=tsutpen.blogspot.com'/></div>Tom Sutpenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15630234799410505676noreply@blogger.com3