Marilyn Monroe lifting weights, photographed by Philippe Halsman (1952). When Halsman turned up for the photoshoot he was surprised to find weights sitting on her apartment floor, as weight training was not common for women in the 50s.
Michael Schur (creator/writer/actor of The Office and Parks and Rec) and I circa 1994. I took an improv class he taught his junior year of high school. I was about to be a freshman.
Woman Posing with Car Sporting Prototype Goodyear Illuminated Tires, 1961. These tires were never mass produced.
Stephan Bibrowski, a Polish man born with hypertrichosis in 1890. He later joined the Barnum and Bailey Circus, performing as “Lionel the Lion-Faced Man. (1901)
The ice man man delivering a 25lb block of ice. Photograph taken in 1928 in Houston, Texas. Circa 1928
Behind the scenes photo of Alice Krige, in costume as Borg Queen, and Jonathan Frakes, director of Star Trek: First Contact, 1995/1996
My wife’s Abuela gave me this pic of the three Americans who saved her village of Santa Poco Mexico in 1916. They are still admired to this day
Mel Brooks takes the cast of Young Frankenstein out for lunch in Beverly Hills during filming in 1974
Alan Turing – British World Was II code breaking hero and computer genius, persecuted after the war for his sexuality (RIP) – late 1940s
Thanksgiving 1970, my mom (17) got all done up because my uncle was bringing his best friend (20) home from college for the holiday and she had a crush on him. 10 years later they had my brother, and 15 years later they had me!
Monica Belucci, Michaela Bercu & Florina Kendrick as Dracula’s Brides in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992).