Titian’s title (1538) is, Venus of Urbino, but she’s clearly Danae, contemplating a remote act of sexual congress with a god.
That golden shower signifies the life force. Myriad artists aspire to its quickening light.
Leo Saul Berk 
Blake Haygood, the tragedy of insufficient projection
Mary Ann Peters, evoking Robert Sund: It’s easy to see in the insect world/ How many pilgrims have fallen to their knees.
Jeffry Mitchell, Daisy Cloud. There’s a reason the movie’s called, Pull My Daisy.
Jaq Chartier (sex as electric avenue)
Jeffery Simmons, contact, egg and sperm
Jason Salavon, more contact
Gretchen Bennett (the man himself is the means of his trajectory)
Michael Knutson (point of explosion)
Darren Waterston (sky merging with earth)
Bing Wright, Zeus after, because even for a god, there’s a moment after.
OHHHHHHHHHH. What a trip. (But on sex,etc and art:for another time.) On “Pull My Daisy”:
I am amazed that I recognized Alice Neal, the painter, based on seeing photos of her years ago and not that young. It was great to be able to “pause” at the credits. The names. I only know of Robert Frank’s photos because someone said that my street photographs reminded her of his work. 1959.
Thanks for the gift. I didn’t know of the film.
I laughed at the narrator saying it was a typical Lower East Side (NYC)apartment. It appears to me to be a loft, based on the windows.
But my first spouse did have a tenement apartment on the Lower E. Side, with similar sink, when we met in the mid-1960s.
1959. I was a 19 year old senior in an upstate
NYS teachers college. I’d be home, rarely, to Brooklyn (where the Gowanus Canal they mention in the movie is located). I’d go to Greenwich Village by myself and hang out, observing, which I’d been doing since age 16.
More historical value than movie, for me. Not a “bad” movie. The reflection in the mirror, on the bathroom door was a wonderful visual (at about 2lminutes). (I often take photos using mirror reflections on the street. So many movies do it,too. Frank was ahead in 1959.)
The movie was SO pre-feminism. Good to be reminded. And the subtitles in Italian are a good language lesson. Thanks so much. There are some names I now want to “google”.
I realized, via visual memory, a bit later, that Alice Neel’s name was spelled wrong in the “Pull My Daisy” film credit at the end. I wondered when typing the comment, but used the film credit’s spelling. I just checked. The film credit list has the wrong spelling for Alice Neel. How about that, speaking of the movie being pre-feminism.