torpedo the ark

Brigitte Bardot with a pink bath towel in 1959  Photo by Sam Levin     I.    The French film actress, singer, and animals rights activist Br...

The Three Jokers  (SA/2025)   'I have a terrible fear   I shall one day be pronounced holy ...  I do not want to be a saint, rather even...

Serge Gainsbourg and his Jamaican cohorts  (including Sly & Robbie)     I.    Joe Strummer and Mick Jones of the Clash were not the only...

1: Portrait of a Pumpkin 2: Sorry Cinderella - It Looks Like You're Gonna Be Walking Home   Stephen Alexander (2024)   Last week, on a f...

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin  strolling round Soho in 1977     I.    There are two main reasons why I love this photo.  Firstly, it feat...

Françoise Hardy (1944 - 2024) Photo: Vittoriano Rastelli (1966)     The French singer-songwriter Françoise Hardy has died and all over the ...

  Torpedo the Ark: images from posts published on  28 December (2013-2021)   Sometimes, it's interesting to look back and see what one w...

Three Cool Cats: CC, Room 8, and Henri, le Chat Noir     Opening Remarks     Some cats have so captured human affection that they've sec...

Jane Birkin (Dec 1946 - July 2023)     I'm very sad to note that - 32 years after the death of Serge Gainsbourg - Jane Birkin has died. ...

Photo of Jane Birkin by Tony Frank used for the sleeve of  Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)     As long-time readers...

  Claude Lalanne's L'Homme à tête de chou , as featured on  the cover of  Serge Gainsbourg's 1976 album of the same title      ...

Andy Warhol: Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (1980)  Top row: Franz Kafka, Gertrude Stein, Martin Buber, Albert Einstein and...