Jules Bastien-Lepage, Diogenes, 1873

Tom Samuelson, Owl and Mouse, Minnesota, 2013

Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali Knocks Out Cleveland Williams, Houston Astrodome, 1966

Thomas Hart Benton, The Twist, 1964

Gabriel de Cool, The Muse, 1895

"the content was something like I'd never seen before, anywhere, the level of mayhem, violence, dismemberment, naked women, loose body parts, huge, obscene sex organs, a nightmare vision of hell-on-earth never so graphically illustrated before in the history of art." ~ Robert Crumb on the work of S. Clay Wilson

A bit late but Richard Kadrey finally got a UK publisher for Sandman Slim!

"The best B movie I've read in at least twenty years. An addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece, Sandman Slim swerves hell-bent through our culture's impacted gridlock of genres... it's like watching Sergio Leone and Clive Barker co-direct from a script by Jim Thompson and S. Clay Wilson." ~ William Gibson on Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim novels

The Earth and the Moon in scale to each other in terms of both size and distance.

The Known Universe by American Museum of Natural History

Ivan Aivazovsky, Moon Night, 1885

Po' Boy Blues by Langston Hughes

When I was home de
Sunshine seemed like gold.
When I was home de
Sunshine seemed like gold.
Since I come up North de
Whole damn world's turned cold.

I was a good boy,
Never done no wrong.
Yes, I was a good boy,
Never done no wrong,
But this world is weary
An' de road is hard an' long.

I fell in love with
A gal I thought was kind.
Fell in love with
A gal I thought was kind.
She made me lose ma money
An' almost lose ma mind.

Weary, weary,
Weary early in de morn.
Weary, weary,
Early, early in de morn.
I's so weary
I wish I'd never been born.

Edward Hopper, Morning Sun, 1952

Henri Rousseau, Tiger in a Tropical Storm, 1891

Utagawa Hiroshige, Rough Sea at Naruto in Awa Province, 1856

Arnold Newman, Kurt Gödel, 1956

"Ford was renowned for his intense personality and his many idiosyncrasies and eccentricities. From the early Thirties onwards, he always wore dark glasses and a patch over his left eye, which was only partly to protect his poor eyesight. He was an inveterate pipe-smoker and while he was shooting he would chew on a linen handkerchief—each morning his wife would give him a dozen fresh handkerchiefs, but by the end of a day's filming the corners of all of them would be chewed to shreds. He always had music played on the set and would routinely break for tea (Earl Grey) at mid-afternoon every day during filming. He discouraged chatter and disliked bad language on set; its use—especially in front of a woman—would typically result in the offender being thrown off the production. He rarely drank during the making of a film, but when a production wrapped he would often lock himself in his study, wrapped only in a sheet, and go on a solitary drinking binge for several days, followed by routine contrition and a vow never to drink again. He was extremely sensitive to criticism and was always particularly angered by any comparison between his work and that of his older brother Francis. He rarely attended premieres or award ceremonies, although his Oscars and other awards were proudly displayed on the mantle in his home." ~ Wikipedia

Fernando Toledo, Hilaria, 2013