Historical figures who look like they could be members of NME feted haircut indie acts.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

1. John Constable

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

http://www-utenti.dsc.unibo.it/~cerioni/ig/ImmaginiJC/constabledagiovane.jpg, even.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

http://worldofwonder.net/wimages/hitler-tm.jpg

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

http://lettresbacpro.free.fr/images/rimbaud.JPG

― Laney (Laneyje), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Victorians/oscar490x20.jpg

― darin (darin), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fashion-era.com/images/Victorians/oscar490x20.jpg

― monkeybutler, Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

hahahahaha xpost

― monkeybutler, Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

http://libarts.wsu.edu/history/this-month/images/graphics/augustus.jpg

― Pablo (Pablo A), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

This is going to link out because it's huge, but...

http://hsci.cas.ou.edu/images/jpg-100dpi-10in/18thCentury/Napoleon/Portraits/Napoleon-Young.jpg

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, even better:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/4/4c/Napoleon_-_1.jpg

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

http://images.scotsman.com/2005/02/07/burnsnighti.jpg

― zappi (joni), Thursday, 27 October 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

― sibsi (sibsi), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

ive never seen so many pictures of british sea power before!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 27 October 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.wooop.de/gfx/paintings/std/bilder_egon-schiele-selbstportraet-mi-08892.jpg

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Thursday, 27 October 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Franz Liszt:

http://mclub.te.net.ua/images/art/artist_4779.jpg

― Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

http://libarts.wsu.edu/history/this-month/images/graphics/rasputin.jpg

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.susa-literatura.com/emailuak/beckett/irudiak/beckett-ezkerrean.jpg

― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

This thread is quite the eye-opener. If that's Samuel Beckett, he could easily grace the cover of The Wire right now.

― moley, Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.franzferdinand.co.uk/cms/asset_store/image/b_200509235034718.jpg http://www.artpiazza.com/images/Artworks/AndongWang/Pope1.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.artpiazza.com/images/Artworks/AndongWang/Pope1.jpg http://www.franzferdinand.co.uk/cms/asset_store/image/b_200509235034718.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

not an actual historical figure but nonetheless a perennial rock haircut inspiration:
http://www.newsarama.com/Other_Publishers/Prince_Valiant.jpg

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

(dunno about the haircut but the attitude is spot-on; i see VVN as a bassist)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.meaus.com/AlaxanderBust.gif

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh wait...

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 27 October 2005 20:45 (twenty years ago)

http://rym.waglo.com/images/hussein

― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

It goes beyond haircuts: Constable looks exactly like Alex Capranos, doesn't he?

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

http://i.infoplease.com/images/poe.gif

― jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/William_Henry_Harrison.png/485px-William_Henry_Harrison.png

― jdubz (ex machina), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sinewaves.it/cinema/truffaut-francois.jpg

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

TWEE!

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/images/aleister-crowley.jpg

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/2BOSIE.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 27 October 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bestofrussia.ca/images/volkonskSG.jpg

― casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:42 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bestofrussia.ca/images/muraviev.jpg

― casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

http://digilander.libero.it/biblioego/isoubave.jpg

― casey (t. fiend), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

geez! nabokov was a real hottie

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Saturday, 29 October 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

http://ito.gn.apc.org/Trotsky_Mugshot.jpg

http://www.poetryconnection.net/images/Rupert-Brooke.gif

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Sunday, 30 October 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

trotsky was the first person i thought of when seeing this thread!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 30 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

http://www.braungardt.com/Philosophy/Nietzsche/nietzsche.jpg

― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Sunday, 30 October 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

geez! nabokov was a real hottie

according to boyd's and schiff's biographies of VN, he gained an insane amount of weight in about TWO WEEKS after he quit smoking - and went from this...

to this:

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

Seconding Space is the Place:
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~kmz/img/egon5.jpg

― xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:50 (twenty years ago)

Ack! Sorry! Didn't realize that was so huge. Here.
http://egonschiele.museum.com/images/schiele1914.jpg

― xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/platforma3/fotoweb/duchamp.jpg
On the evidence here, Duchamp basically WAS a feted haircut indie act.

― xero (xero), Sunday, 30 October 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/untitled1.jpg

― Patchouli Clark (noodle vague), Sunday, 30 October 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

Franz Liszt looks ace!

Why does schiele look so terrifyingly odd? he's been photoshopped, surely?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/religion/judas-iscariot/judas1.jpg http://cover6.cduniverse.com/MuzeAudioArt/160/166731.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 30 October 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.laveco.com/images/Laszlo%20Varadi.jpg

― ABBAtoir, Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

OOps.
http://www.laveco.com/images/Laszlo%20Varadi.jpg

― ABBAtoir, Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG00/3on1/radioshow/chicago_files/l&l.jpe

― late adopter, Monday, 31 October 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

http://www.4to40.com/images/legends/Wittgenstein/Ludwig_Wittgenstein_during_WWII.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i still contend that antonio gramsci was the original corny indie fuXor:

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/g/pics/gramsci.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Literary/Portraits/keats.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 31 October 2005 00:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rosezone.com/postcards/images/1341.jpg

"Bassist T E Lawrence ponders the group's forthcoming album during a break in their tour of the Middle East" [Photo: Anton Corbijn, NME 1985]

― bham, Monday, 31 October 2005 10:08 (twenty years ago)

Thread needs more women

http://212.84.179.117/i/Louise%20Brooks.jpg

"Louise's new e.p. My Lost Umbrella is out soon on Sarah Records"

― bham, Monday, 31 October 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/05/article-2082640-0F58B8A300000578-613_224x354.jpg

hitler

― nakhchivan, Monday, 16 May 2016 17:12 (ten years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.bauhaus100.com/fileadmin/_processed_/8/9/csm_Consemueller_Erich_Marcel_Breuer_Harem_46c49d5c72.jpg

― fetter, Friday, 15 November 2019 10:52 (six years ago)

...with the swagger of Oasis:

https://www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/560xh/public/products/five-martyrs.jpg

― fetter, Friday, 15 November 2019 10:55 (six years ago)

Good one!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c1/e9/85/c1e98570507114a23df13c3d7abb0c31.jpg

Proto Belle & Sebastian EP cover.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 15 November 2019 10:56 (six years ago)

Omg

― Irae Louvin (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 November 2019 11:00 (six years ago)

https://sequoia-forum-media.s3.amazonaws.com/prod.cirrostratus.org/2012/08/06/14/614212d6-171e-4fe3-88f7-dd3be21ac0d6_size3.jpg?response-content-type=image%2Fjpeg&AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAYU7NIXDBVRTFTLGB&Expires=1573819333&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEDMaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCICFqqO5JeclAp4zF8xLHhvm%2Fktyd63SPTGZkP9SK8jqIAiBcB%2FOFc5ow4yAQGdvjq46TrvybohsFuDjXVKeOnTZ14irRAghcEAAaDDU5NDgxMzY5NjE5NSIMCevn2Syg3fp%2BrBeSKq4CpUknCgJAxHNyqC4AO6D1vwlZQg0TSmX6vSiE52dt7AWuivyEoVncSYITe7UN1I%2FVjHLwMdLBQI55ElvM5Qy1phuyKf%2BnqO2LiLG8vkRjbK0FEFWhgkTZXsSp0mgW0hh2bmd%2FGGRiiWJjqg5iGV3rAefbvlQGxZOnnpWt%2Fpgute6H0LSh58qk5zHUgOVTkZpxaGYyJOHQ%2BU3ehXiOY6aIMx5xBhSQT7Aue7i4mLh8MicC0yjkCRsywaa%2BFpuj5HyjvGgSIDm1C3TTsj8pYRquXXanZcY8ule%2BlJpjt1sP0DKqXbv8YN1BN4xnNoGNi9qh5eUOlkV1tt69jJD4xluK7I9MWcD1QkAaqD7o%2BlAcvlM4HZ%2Fj3gdOjYJ0LrdlsuXbJZ8%2BoZEiBlC%2BA42fKTowsoO67gU6zwKtMmKNQN%2BlAvM0ea5C1wWrlIc%2FPQ76ovK3PdzE7ydiUZjUys4hERZOeqsX4MyqiGhkNNLZC%2BEboTASpdgyC4FnahQFzWqyzB8MUwlqYBKc8v1akw1xtRYI45unt9FmESNssjAEzBd1xJUZJjQu3IbFNEptzPzxErWfpVbxgHCvQOnRUGN2XXXh0VybQUqHHGkUWZXjrW7fFIqW6ZI4b%2Fhuu2ovVQDOKdrvsTWfP1raripolkXdEB%2FXbe0Nz6eMlkdJTuuFAxvX6H%2FjojY%2F7FMgBNH2usQjkRuBVw9JarMQSjtaRcSXNNLgXAP17v7PjT2SR79A%2FKMfXIXGV5BLPdm3AMckU0S9sajPKuPAow%2F8Imx3qYOwyFhbduNsIykNp9YYYIZuESEgjcn%2B%2FJEOrftep86%2FFblCcJEOPeY8dy3wC2yPJUTl%2FO5Is9bcCUrZsA%3D%3D&Signature=hnCuFLCt0bZ7llZ%2F05nX%2Fr1V6mU%3D

― pomenitul, Friday, 15 November 2019 11:03 (six years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Robert_Walser.jpg

― pomenitul, Friday, 15 November 2019 11:05 (six years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.