A new biography came out on Karl Lagerfeld that incidentally supports our rectification. See See the original post here. BTW, if it didn't I would re-rectify; I have done that a few times as rectifying living or recently dead people is always problematic.
Without thinking too much about it in specific terms, I was showing the America I knew and observed to others who might not have noticed.—Norman Rockwell This is a famous illustration that American painter Norman Rockwell did for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 4 Freedoms. https://youtu.be/mr9mPha3Eas Rockwell was born on February 3, 1894, and always wanted... Continue Reading →
that's a lot of septiles While we have looked at a preponderance of septiles in people with health problems (Roger Ailes, Tsavertich Alexei) and even alcoholics (Fitzgerald), this time we see them in Alexander McQueen's chart -- he has 7. Marc Jones wrote that this preponderance indicated fatalistic thinking -- that the person could not... Continue Reading →
We rectified Mr. Gorey to 10:23 PM in Chicago Illinois on February 22nd, 1925. This puts Saturn 14 Scorpio 19 Rx in the first house suggesting he had a strong emotional connection to his work -- he enjoyed creating his characters, and watching the tableau play out. They were his playthings and children (trine Uranus... Continue Reading →
This Pinterest board that has many of his designs for various Hollywood movies. He was born on March 3 1903 at 11:05 am in Naugatack, Connecticut as Adrian Greenburg to an ex-New Yorker father and a native Connecticut mother. Both sides of the family were Jewish. He was apprenticed to Irving Berlin after his graduation... Continue Reading →
Henry Dreyfuss is not a household name, but his designs are objects that fill and beautify our homes like the Royal Quiet de Luxe Typewriter, the Westclox Big Ben alarm clock, the Western Electric desk, vacuum cleaners for Hoover and the AT&T desk and Princess line phones, the round thermostat for Honeywell (cloned by Nest... Continue Reading →
da Vinci whole house with fixed stars Astrologically Leonardo We have adopted the traditional 10 of Sagittarius ascendant for a wandering mind, as the Maestro did not physically travel far. Its symbol is "a teacher giving new forms for old symbols, " and hearkens to the higher faculties of human understanding with the keyword of... Continue Reading →
The Legend Our header picture is of the young Karl Lagerfeld at Chloe. Lagerfeld was creative director of Chanel, the French house founded by Gabrielle Chanel, for 36 years. In 1983, Alain Wertheimer, the co-owner of... Continue Reading →
article about Vivian Maier's color exhibit in Chicago.
Edward C. Caswell is #182 in the Jones 1000. I could not find much on him accept this article from "The Villager" online. “It was an ant with a crumb twice its size in its jaws slowly making its way over the twigs. It occurred to me that if I was that little ant, the... Continue Reading →
Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, Westchester County, New York the same year as fellow artist, Edward Hopper. The Tappan Zee Bridge now separates the two counties, back then it was a ferry service. Their art, unsurprisingly, is quite similar, desolate landscapes with few people and the two took similar methods, if only by their... Continue Reading →
