Cool mugshots of Janis Joplin, with a vintage sepia lay-out, found on the web.

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Richard Avedon

In homage to Elizabeth Taylor, who died today, is a gallery of artworks based on her. Elizabeth was 79 years old,  she died in Los Angeles of heart failure. The artists who took the time to do these wonderful works showed they really loved her, or at least loved her image. Who wouldn't? She certainly made a mark and will be forever remembered.

Neal Turner

Alessandro Pautasso

Boris Chaliapin

Karen Townsend

Neal Turner

Andy Warhol

Emma Mount

Granados

Gloria Tarasca

Ralph Uelzhoeffer

Unknown (if you know, let me know...)

Tatiana Roulin

William Erhardt Winter

Miles Kelly

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Mug shots of four authors who wound up getting arrested.

Ezra Pound - Pound made anti-American radio broadcasts during World War II. He was arrested as a traitor in 1945. One of the 20th century's most influential -- and controversial - poets in the English language. His life's work is titled "The Cantos".

Emma Goldman - arrested February 11, 1916 for promoting birth control. How dare she? Her autobiography is titled "Living My Life".

Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) -  civil rights leader, author of "The Autobiography of Malcom X", arrested for burglary.

Dalton Trumbo - author of many famous screenplays, including "Roman Holiday", he was also blacklisted by Joseph McCarthy.  In 1947, Trumbo was sentenced to a jail term for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Good for him!

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Sandi's work is heavily influenced and inspired by mosaic, translated into recycled paper collage. Beautiful big transformed faces, layered from found bits of the right texture or color. Enchanting and different portrait works, many of famous faces ( Twiggy,above ).
Her website & portfolio is here.

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Taking an ordinary phone book, Alex Queral carves a face into this object of so many faceless names. With the book, a very sharp X-ACTO® knife, a little pot of acrylic medium to set detail areas and a great deal of talent, Queral literally peels away the pages like the skin of an onion to reveal the portrait within. Once the carving is complete, he will often apply a black wash to enhance the features and then seal the entire book with acrylic to preserve the work. However, he never loses the line registration; and the book remains quite pliable.

“It can be quite tense work sometimes because it takes a long time to finish and when you cut something away you can’t get it back again. Nearing the end of the carving and then suddenly having it ruined by a careless cut can be pretty crushing. You have to start all over again.” 

Sources: Projects Gallery, Flavorwire
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Gavin Nolan is a contemporary Welsh artist. Born in Cardiff, he was educated at Loughborough University and The Royal Academy of Arts, London. He has had solo exhibitions in London and Los Angeles. His 2010 show at Charlie Smith gallery featured portraits of celebrity suicides. He was one of the founding members of Rockwell Gallery in Dalston, London, which was from 2002-2007 an influential artists' run space.

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Johnny Depp

Some beef cake and cheese cake for you all, in honor of today's outstanding date!

No Bo Derick allowed... cause we give good face.

Scarlett Johanson

Paul Newman

Halle Berry

Zac Efron

Jimi Hendrix

Jean Seberg

Charlize Theron

Rudolph Nureyev

Kate Winslet

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Jim Morrison’s mug shot from 1963

1963
This may have been the first time Morrison, who was a student at Florida State University at the time, was arrested by the Florida Police (this time it was for drunkeness and petty larceny of a police helmet and an umbrella), but it wasn’t his last.

1967

Four years later on March 5, 1967 Morrison was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent exposure, profanity, and drunkenness during a Doors performance in Miami. 

1968
This mug shot of Jim Morrison, taken after the rock icon's January 1968 arrest at the Pussycat a' Go Go in Las Vegas, is at Hogs & Heifers Saloon along with his arrest report. Arrested near midnight, Morrison, The Doors' trouble-prone lead singer, was listed as 5-foot-11, 145 pounds, with brown hair, hazel eyes and "bad" complexion. Dressed in a green coat, purple shirt, black hat and brown shoes, Morrison gave his address as Penthouse C, 8721 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles.

1970
Sept. 23, 1970. Morrison and Darryl Arthur "Babe" Hill arrested for public drunkenness in Clearwater, Florida.

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Tony Curtis, the Bronx tailor's son who became a 1950s movie heartthrob and then a respected actor with such films as "Sweet Smell of Success," "The Defiant Ones" and "Some Like It Hot," has died. He was 85. The actor died at 9:25 p.m. MDT Wednesday at his Las Vegas area home of a cardiac arrest. His first wife was actress Janet Leigh of "Psycho" fame; actress Jamie Lee Curtis is their daughter.

"My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances in movies and in his paintings and assemblages," Jamie Lee Curtis said in a statement Thursday. "He leaves behind children and their families who loved him and respected him and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. He also leaves behind fans all over the world." -Via MSNBC

Here are some shots of the heart throb in his youth...

Some words from Tony-

"That's life. We're all brought up in a world that isn't the best place for us to be in once in a while. There are so many problems and we try to overcome them all. So these movies use these capsules of pain and anger, joy and love, to bring us, the audience, moments of joy and pleasure. And that's what they are. For me to do a movie like The Defiant Ones, I felt very strongly about that. I feel strongly that we, all of us, are brothers and sisters, and nothing interferes with that except our education, our background, where we grew up and how we should do it. If you eliminated all those negatives and gave us an open view of what life would be like, it would be different. Jack [Lemmon] and I dressed up like girls in Some Like It Hot. Nobody wanted to do that; they never made a movie like that before. Two leading men dressed up like women? Do you mind? There was enough of that going on in the streets without having it on the screen. You wouldn't believe the mail I got after that movie. "At last, Tony, at last!" They'd send me limousines, diamond necklaces and bracelets. I didn't realise how many doors it would open. [audience laughs] And everywhere I went I said, "No, I don't wear dresses at home." 
- From the Guardian,UK interview

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