Sunset last night at my home

This was the sky last night here in Palm Desert CA.  Some of these photos look like paintings.

The most BEAUTIFUL ACTOR ever: GARY COOPER (click on photos to enlarge)

He's just the right height, just the right body proportion, hairy in all the right places:  legs, arms, chest, who knows what else.  I'll bet those feet are gigantic, amongst other appendages!  (This might also be Steve McQueen...the face looks like it, but the legs are definitely uniquely long like Cooper's.)

The HOTTEST actor who ever lived
GARY COOPER

My mother and I have an ongoing discussion that there are so many remarkably beautiful, funny and interesting men today.   Seems as though the species is evolving to a more beautiful form.  I'm interested in men, so I wouldn't be able to make a subjective decision also about women.

Men seem  these days to be even more exceptionally beautiful, handsome and appealing than in the past (except when they shave their body hair).

Ellen DeGeneres, ironically, has at least one or two beautiful, sexy men on every day of her show.   Television shows have the most exquisite specimens of men as cast members.  Maybe that the definition of male beauty has grown more diverse than in the past.  It just seems that wherever I go there are so many remarkably hot men.  Maybe it's simply that I've become middle aged (50) and anything that is younger is more appealing.

So what a great time to live, huh!  When men are utterly beautiful, charming and hopefully evolving from Cro-Magnin.   Except of course, Republicans and religious extremists in any form.

This is beauty.......handsome beauty.  Look at the eyebrows, the long eyelashes, the perfect nose, the lips, the high cheek bones, the chin.   There is nothing else to change.  It is perfect in every way.

With a perfect hairy chest this man has lovely arms and body

He defines the male description of "GQ" decades before the magazine was borne.  I wonder how much Gary Cooper and Fred Astaire had an influence on style from each other.

Hairy chest with a lovely treasure trail.  Manly.   Not shaved and unnaturally feminine as is the ideal today for men today. 

Young and utterly the most handsome face to ever grace this stupid planet

Hairy chest with a lovely treasure trail.  Manly.   Not shaved and unnaturally feminin,e as is the ideal today for men today. 

VOGUE:  "Gary Cooper gave could face." (or the way the song SHOULD have been written)

Young with his gorgeous profile and gorgeous hairy chest

Long lovely legs, made to wrap around a face

So stunning in his early days in film

Stunning and handsome throughout his life

Absolutely mesmerizing

There was one man who for me has always embodied and been the very essence and representative of male beauty at it's very best.  That's Gary Cooper.  The photos I've included (I could have posted hundreds, actually) represents the various things that made him so beautiful.  He represents, for me, the ultimate representation of male beauty:  Tall, lean, fit, hairy, stunning face, well-groomed, amongst many other things.  He was also a very talented artist/actor.

I can't imagine that anyone on the planet wouldn't know who this man is.   But if you don't and would be interested to learn more, then click here.

Cool photo!

Time Picture of the DAY
Bedrock

Odd Anderson / AFP / Getty Images

A polar bear dries off in the sun after coming out of the water in his enclosure at a zoo in Berlin.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/today-in-pictures/0,31511,2006018,00.html#ixzz0v5wIbLti

Polar Bear will be extinct within 50 years

I just listened to the saddest profile on NPR a moment ago. The polar bear will be extinct within 50 years. There are now only 20,000-25,000 of these beautiful creatures still living. How can that be? How can something so noble be killed by something so ignoble such as the pathetic most base and disgusting animal, the human?

I quote from a Time Magazine article from 5/2009: "Polar bears have become the universal symbol of global warming, not so much because they're cute or cuddly (they're actually ferocious and not opposed to cannibalism.)" The photo above is from Time Magazine article and is by Fish and Wildlife Service / AP.

Since these ferocious, cannibalistic animals must become extinct I suggest that another odious, ferocious and cannibalistic creature become extinct. One that has contributed, and continues to contribute to the extinction of anything but their own:




















Interesting enough, the elephant, my favorite animal despite its association with politics shown above, is also an endangered species in some parts of the world. Perhaps there is only one species of elephant, the Republican one, that should become extinct?

The sooner the better. Before they exterminate the rest of the world.

I have always made a commitment to refrain from any politicization in this blog. I respect everyone's opinion, but I think that view is an anachronism these days.

I would prefer to create something more beautiful and an alternative to the hideous ugly barbaric and ignoble political world that we live in the US. I will continue the policy with this blog because part of the reason I even do this blog is to discipline myself to look at the world positively, instead of slashing my wrists, which is what one does if one watches news these days.

Forgive my lapse here. Ultimately, the thing that we should care about isn't politicians and faux politicians. But these beautiful creatures that we destroying. Elephants and polar bears.

Not the cartoon characters depicted in the Republican logo above.

A timeless quote from Edith Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
-- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)

Seems to be quite a relevant statement these days as well.

Photograph of Edith Sitwell by the brilliant Cecil Beaton, 1927

I love ELEPHANTS. Take a look at these elephant ARTISTS!

I've you've been tracking with this blog for a while, you know how much I love elephants (among other things). This is an amazing sight. These elephants are artists. See the painting of the tree by this wise old pachyderm!

I found these at a really fun website called Damn Cool Pics: Here was the caption: "these amazing images were made by the Elephant Artist Sri Siam at the Lamphang Elephant Camp in Thailand. It is hard to tell whether the elephants actually know what they are drawing, or that they have learned to imitate a teachers work or their caretaker is directing them how to draw. Nonetheless it is unnaturally fascinating to see them busy."




Check this out.....a self-portrait by one of the elephant artists:
Absolute beauty in every way.

GORGEOUS new building in China--what a wonderful structure

No, this is not a new dirigible! It's a new building. There's some really interesting architecture coming out China these days, particularly in preparation for the Olympics. This is a gorgeous structure, no?

Jason Lee / Reuters

People's Theater

The National Grand Theater in central Beijing, is lit by colored lights in readiness for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in October. (TIME Today in Pictures Thursday, September 17, 2009)

GREAT photo

TIME Picture of the Week August 4, 2009
NASA/Reuters

Ready for Lift Off
The space shuttle Discovery prepares to launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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I just LOVE elephants--more cool photos

TIME Pictures of the Week: Wednesday, Jul 29, 2009

Boris Roessler/DPA/Landov

Just Your Average Day in the Park
A sunbather and an elephant enjoy the sunshine in Frankfurt, Germany.

http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1913801_1916774,00.html

(Remember you can click on photos to enlarge)

TIME Pictures of the Week: Tuesday, Aug 04, 2009
Caters News/Zuma Press

All Aboard
A doting mother swan takes her brood of six under her wing at Bicton Park
Botanical Gardens, in Devon, England.

http://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek/0,29409,1915076_1919057,00.html

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Cool photos!

I found both of these cool photos on http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/28/really-stunning-pictures-and-photos/

Click on photos to enlarge

19. Reflect
A reflection from the louvre’s pyramid.

A reflection from the louvre's pyramid by franlumix: http://www.flickr.com/photos/franklumix/134418433/


46. Polar lights

Öxarárfoss in Iceland - Aurora Borealis

This photo is by Arnar Valdimarsson's: "Been going through my photos and I found a few nice ones from 2007. Here is another one of Öxarárfoss at national park, Þingvellir in Iceland. The Aurora Borealis was really active that night. Check out more of my Aurora Borealis pictures here : flickr.com/photos/arnar/sets/72157594571447028/ "

HERE's a COOL picture in every respect

Send cooling thoughts to those of us who live in this hellacious desert!







Sankei / Getty

Persistence
A polar bear named Gogo laps a fruit-filled ice cube at the Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan.

Beautiful Photos for the day

Wally Santana / AP

You Look Fabulous
A French Bulldog peers out from behind the stage curtain before modeling in a dog fashion show in Taipei. Photo from Time, Today In Pictures.

Maya Hitij / AP

Vertical Stripes
A young zebra stands next to her mother at the Berlin zoo.

Photo from Time, Today In Pictures.

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TENDERNESS--Really interesting photographer--gorgeous photo

What a glorious picture this is (remember you can click on any photo to enlarge).


I stumbled upon this really interesting photograph collection on flickr by this dude "frenchmeh". His "miscellaneous" set is really wonderful: please check it out:

frenchmeh. The blue cotton candy initially attracted me to the photos.



"Enlightened"


"Reflections"

Richard Avedon Photo--Elephants--Beautiful Photo

Richard Avedon-Master Photographer
"Avedon Fashion: 1944-2000"
A New Retrospective running at the International Museum of Photography in New York through Sept 6

Dovima with Elephants
Dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
(c) 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Audrey Hepburn
With Art Buchwald with Simone, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen and Dr. Regina, Maxim's, Paris, July 1959

(c) 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Shoe by Perugia
Place du Trocadéro, Paris, August 1948

(c) 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Stephanie Seymour
Dress and shoes by Chanel, Paris, September 1994

(c) 2009 The Richard Avedon Foundation

Source: Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1901308_1891214,00.html