We showcased SHY-GUY (1947) and SELF-CONSCIOUS GUY (1951), but now its time to ask yourself "HOW HONEST ARE YOU?" A high school basketball team gets in a bit of a mix-up thanks to a nosy girlfriend who needs to ask herself the question. What you saw, and what you heard are very different things, and…Read more HOW HONEST ARE YOU? Vintage Educational PSA {c. 1950}
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{MUSIC MINUTE} The Original “Stroll” circa. February 1958
"The Stroll" was a slow rock n roll dance popular into the mid to late 1950s embraced by cool teens across America. Classic concept: boys on one side, girls on the other - the paired up couples then strut their stuff down the line. A precursor to the iconic Soul Train Line ... we…Read more {MUSIC MINUTE} The Original “Stroll” circa. February 1958
{MUSIC MINUTE} Burt Bacharach “Theme from The Blob”
Indescribable... indestructible... insatiable... It crawls... It creeps... …Read more {MUSIC MINUTE} Burt Bacharach “Theme from The Blob”
{STYLE WISE} ANTONIONI’S “ZABRISKIE POINT” +BLOW IT UP!!!+
Our latest addition to the altar of E.O.F. {STYLE IDOLS & DIVINITIES) was the impossibly stunning Mark Frechette, whose stardom originates as the handsome hero of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1970 counter-culture cult classic Zabriskie Point. We thought it apropos to delve into the fantastic and fundamental stylish-ness of this poignant and severely under-rated film. Whilst the flower…Read more {STYLE WISE} ANTONIONI’S “ZABRISKIE POINT” +BLOW IT UP!!!+
E.O.F {STYLE IDOL} + MARK FRECHETTE +
What do all of our E.O.F. {STYLE IDOLS & DIVINITIES} have in common? Perhaps its a lust for life? A certain je na sais quois . . . the X-factor; whatever you want to call it, these men and women are imbued with a magnetic spirit that entices us to go above and beyond- and…Read more E.O.F {STYLE IDOL} + MARK FRECHETTE +
Diary of a Small Town: Vintage Dreams + Nightmares {Vintage Style Moody Mood Board Inspiration}
We have quite the tale in store for you today at The Eye of Faith. . . This one is taken from the darkest depths of our imagination and tells the hidden tales of a quaint small town, not too far from where you sit. It could be any small town, but this one…Read more Diary of a Small Town: Vintage Dreams + Nightmares {Vintage Style Moody Mood Board Inspiration}
{STYLE IDOL} Jean-Michel Basquiat
+ jean michel basquiat {French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miˈʃɛl baskija]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988} 1. artist. style icon. 2. academic; a little underground; a little street; archaic African; American hip-hop; Classic; Refined; Cultured; Gritty; Nitty; Bad Ass; Post-Punk; Anti-Conservative; Painted. Layered; Tough; Rugged; Tribal; NYC. 3. timeless. 4. cool. + I don't listen to…Read more {STYLE IDOL} Jean-Michel Basquiat
E.O.F. STYLE IDOL: Peter Beard {Into the Wild}
HALF BYRON / HALF TARZAN - Bob Colacello on Beard in "Holy Terror" + {b, 1938} Who wouldn't want to be Peter Beard ? The "wayward wasp" from New York City was born to wealth, coming from an aristocratic family (his great grandfather founded the Great Northern Railway in 1857; his grandfather, Pierre Lorillard III, a…Read more E.O.F. STYLE IDOL: Peter Beard {Into the Wild}
PHOTO BLAST!!! Time Traveller’s Academy {Vintage Style Inspiration}
The question of time travel is a query as old as time itself. And while science struggles to bring to the forefront the pure mechanics of it all, lucky individuals throughout the centuries have inexplicably found themselves doing the time warp. Indeed, countless stories of men and women lost between the vortex of the past,…Read more PHOTO BLAST!!! Time Traveller’s Academy {Vintage Style Inspiration}
“STOKER” – The Life and Styles of the Rich and Sophisticated . . .
"Stoker" is one of those films that only come out once in a blue moon; when we've all done our chores, and said our blessings to the universe - then we get a film like "Stoker". Complex, beautiful, provocative, wonderfully acted, great dialogue, and stylistically beyond are some words you could use to describe it,…Read more “STOKER” – The Life and Styles of the Rich and Sophisticated . . .
