| Photo: long day... |
[Nov. 15th, 200905:17 am] |
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| ...To Fuck the Statuary! |
[Nov. 14th, 200906:00 pm] |
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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020928.html Crazy old hobo, holding up bags and drawing: Where's the moon? Where's the moon? If the earth is in Columbus Circle, then the moon would be on 64th and Central Park West! Come see my exhibition!
Hipster teen surrounded by giggling friends: Is your exhibition inside those bags?
Crazy old hobo: No, those are Michelle Obama's dresses. You want to be smart with me? Why don't you be smart and become an exhibitionist?
Hipster teen surrounded by giggling friends: Do you know what "exhibitionist" means?
Crazy old hobo: Of course! It's someone who goes to museums every day!
--1 Train
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| Florian Maier-Aichen |
[Nov. 15th, 200901:57 am] |
First time I saw his works at the "USA TODAY" exibition in Saint-Petersburg. So I was really interested in. But It was two years ago and there was almost nothing in the web but a few pics. Last time I often spot his name in a number of blogs. So///
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[Nov. 14th, 200909:14 pm] |
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Hi all
I'm going to ask what might be a really dumb question, but I really can't see the answer on my own....
I've been looking at various websites for reasonably priced hotels in New York City. I'm planning to travel there with a friend next summer and, as we're planning to stay for a week or so, we don''t want to stay in a hostel as we usually would. We're still looking to keep it as reasonable as possible though, and having our own bathroom and bed each (as opposed to bunk beds) is a must. However when i've been looking at various hotels on websites they never say whether the rooms include a bathroom or not. Is this common? If it doesn't mention a bathroom can I assume that there will not be one?
Secondly, can anyone recommend any decent hotels in NYC? I know it's a big place so all I can really say is that we'd like to be as central as possible but also keep it as reasonable as possible. If anyone has stayed in a particularly nice place recently could you possibly share?
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| Мечта |
[Nov. 14th, 200909:14 pm] |
вот так дажу лучше |
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| Группа Гнездо. Демонстрация. Искусство в массы. Лето 1978 г. |
[Nov. 14th, 200908:02 pm] |
Группа Гнездо была создана в 1975 году и существовала до 1979 года. В нее входили ученики Комара и Меламида - художники Донской, Рошаль и Скерсис.
"Одно из лучших произведений отечественного политического активизма, с моей точки зрения. Донской, Рошаль, Скерсис изготовили классический советский транспарант, но не с текстом, а с фрагментом абстрактной картины (кажется, Пауля Клее), вышли на перекресток улиц Дмитрия Ульянова и Вавилова, прямо к магазину «Академкнига», и направились в сторону Ленинского проспекта. Неприятности у них потом были, но все же акция оказалась, по сути дела, ненаказуемой. А это значит, что была решена главная концептуальная художественная задача – ускользнуть от однозначной интерпретации..."
Статья Кати Деготь "Десять акций группы Гнездо": http://www.openspace.ru/art/projects/109/details/998/ |
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| If Wiki Confirms It, It Must Be True. |
[Nov. 14th, 200909:00 am] |
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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020925.html Philly girl #1, pointing to picture: Hey! My dad once punched that guy in the face!
Philly girl #2: Benjamin Netanyahu?
Philly girl #1: Yeah.
Philly girl #2: Wait... isn't he from Israel?
Philly girl #1: Nope. He went to Cheltenham high school, same as my dad.
Philly girl #2: What happened?
Philly girl #1: My dad said, "if you poke me one more time, I'm gonna punch you in the face."
Philly girl #2: (silence)
Philly girl #1: He poked him.
--M60 Bus
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| борцы за мир |
[Nov. 14th, 200912:54 pm] |
 авторство общееееее за предоставленные материалы и идеи спосибо тоже нам .
записывать не будем , мы еще придумаем !МИРУ МИР ! ( ура , ТОВАРИЩИ ! ) |
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| навстречу Посланию Президента |
[Nov. 14th, 200901:31 pm] |
пророческий мультфильм - там и про сырьевую экономику, и про модернизацию, и про нанотехнологии. |
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| яволь! |
[Nov. 14th, 200901:02 pm] |
в этом выпуске Этногенеза:
мы, в целях борьбы со словами-паразитами, написали сценарий и слушаем немецкую ирину аллегрову, альпийскую программу "играй, гармонь", немного приличного джаза и прочие крутые вещи. |
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| 'The Three Things You Need' |
[Nov. 14th, 200912:17 am] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/ZSjz/~3/sHZsLjEAJUw/the-three-things-you-need.html I was talking to a friend yesterday when the conversation reminded me of something I heard long ago. When I took over at the magazine I used to edit, the previous editor spent several days training me and explaining his vision of the magazine. One of the things he said—I am by necessity paraphrasing, since I can seldom remember exact wordings—"The three things a reader really needs in order to participate fully in the life of this magazine are a spot meter, a densitometer, and a sheet film camera."
Of course, he left out a fourth necessity—"a darkroom"—probably because he was taking that for granted. It was a darkroom magazine, after all.
I'm guessing not many people reading these words would consider those three things to be essential to their photography! (But does anybody?)
Thinking of the same question, I started wondering what three things a reader most needs to fully participate in photography the way I most enjoy it. Without much thought, and I guess somewhat flippantly, I blurted out, "an internet connection, a pigment inkjet printer, and a bookcase." (Leaving out a fourth because I take it for granted—some way to create original photographic images in digitized form, whether that's a digital camera or a film camera and a scanner.)
Trouble is, it's been 24 hours, and I haven't improved on that list.
So my open-ended question (this is not a quiz, and there will be no test): What three things do you most need to enjoy or participate in photography the way you practice it?
I can stand some few flippant or humorous answers (I'm pretty sure I won't have a choice about that!) but I'm anxious to hear a few serious answers too because I'm actually sincerely curious.... Mike
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| You Know You're Drunk When the Evening Ends in a Bookstore |
[Nov. 14th, 200912:00 am] |
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http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/archives/020922.html Obviously inebriated brunette: So... I'm pretty sure I'm going to die tonight.
Obviously inebriated blonde: Well, if we do, I think I should put up a Facebook status so everyone knows.
Obviously inebriated brunette: I'm pretty sure the tox screen will show it.
(ten seconds later)
Obviously inebriated brunette: Kill me. Oh, wait, no need. I'll be dead in three hours.
Obviously inebriated blonde: Just don't go dying in my bed... that's creepy.
(five seconds later)
Obviously inebriated brunette: Um... did you just burp?
Obviously inebriated blonde: Yeah. Why?
Obviously inebriated brunette: Because it just went up my nose.
Obviously inebriated blonde: Now... that's legendary.
--Barnes & Noble, Midtown
Overheard by: NYLove
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[Nov. 14th, 200912:33 am] |
i've had to restart my acorn collection. the ones i had in the blue glass jar got moldy. z said i shouldn't have kept the cork lid on them, which is true. but i also think i put something in there from my wanderings that hadn't completely dried out - i think it was some sort of twig like thing, maybe a strange blossom from a tree. i can picture it, but i don't know exactly what it's called. so it all had to be thrown out and now i'm more discerning about my acorns and going to keep them in an open jar. actually i just threw out the cork lid to the one i had because it was moldy too.
the past couple times i've been to tyler i've collected some acorns. i'm noticing all the more how many kinds of acorns there are and all the interesting shapes and sizes. i rather like the smaller ones in this picture. they were rather green when gathered them. the grey green hue of some as they've dried out and aged is quite beautiful. also, the lines across the acorns from where their "hats" used to be is fun to notice.
been rather domestic today. cleaning jars and organizing craft goods. winding yarn balls and sorting buttons. also working on the breakfast book. so far i've got 46 pages and no where near done. realizing the muffin recipes may need some tweaking for the book i've been baking them constantly lately. i've improved so many of them now that i feel ashamed of the ones i've posted before. i may go back through my recipes list and make the corrections to them. the apple cinnamon with nut crunch topping and blueberry recipes have been greatly improved. they are so much fluffier and moist now, whereas they were rather dense and not as light as i'd hoped before.
tomorrow the rain finally leaves! |
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| the cooper union |
[Nov. 13th, 200910:47 pm] |
i visited the cooper union today and i LOVED it. i really did.
the vibe of the school was just awesome. everyone was really proud of what they do. and its small so everyone knows everyone and there's a great community. and even though its a very competitive school to get into, the competition sort of seemed to have faded once you got in because everyone is just there to do what they do best for themselves, not to show up anyone else. and i like that a lot. because i want to go somewhere where the bar is raised high, but where i don't feel so intimidated that i can't produce my best work.
and the space was just great. everything is in one building mostly, and the dorms are right across the street and the other building is down the street a little ways. and for your non-studio classes, you are mixed with the architecture and engineering kids as well and that's like super awesome because then you get to meet even more people. and that also means that they must have rly high end science/math courses which is a bonus. but even without those, they have some cool science courses directed at art students like patternmaking! that would be an ill course to take!
and its really cool because you don't declare a major, but you do kind of declare a concentration. but after your freshman/foundation year, you can take electives in anything without having to stick to a certain department. which is ill because i want to focus on drawing but i LOVE printmaking. OMG and they have a color photography print room. which is pretty rare considering color photography chemicals are mad toxic. i still would have to get the film developed at a store, but i could do my own traditional prints! and they have this MASSIVE enlarger. AND A HUGE PRINTER THAT YOU CAN PRINT ANYTHING FOR FREE. EVEN MY BUTT LIKE THE SIZE OF THE FILM LECTURE HALL SCREEN HAHAHAHA.
ya so basically, the school is amazing and i would absolutely love to go there.
as for my portfolio review, the guy seemed decently impressed. like i feel like i have A CHANCE. however slim it may be. (plus the one i had before was more promising i'd say so that makes me feel better lol).
anyway, he REALLY liked my mandelbrot boy print. he liked the idea of it and how it was less literal than a lot of my other work. he felt like it had more symbolism which added some depth to it i guess. he also thought i had a really good handle of the figure, but he wanted to see more. and he liked my weird "action" poses of putting on sweaters and what not. but he wanted to see everything on a bigger scale. and he wanted me to do more from my head and more just figure drawing. (oh isaaaac, you're totally coming over with some boba and sitting for me.)
he also said he wished i could do more prints, but he knew that that was asking a bit because its so time consuming and you need facilities to do it. he also said that i had a good grasp on color :D so basically i'm going to try to do at least one bigger painting. my mom suggested a big self portrait with bold colors like my pastel portrait, which i think would be the easiest for me to do in the ridiculously short amount of time i have left.
i have to:
- start my 3rd risd drawing
- finish the other two
- work more on the sweater series
- big scale figure drawings
- big scale painting
BAHHHH
I WANT TO GO THERE. |
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| Rolleis to Roll Again? |
[Nov. 13th, 200908:01 pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/ZSjz/~3/CqT6w_T8h1c/rolleis-to-roll-again.html By Adam McAnaney
According to this, a company named DHW Fototechnik GmbH has purchased the remaining assets of Franke & Heidecke GmbH as part of its insolvency process and plans to restart production of Rollei’s slide projectors, TLRs, and possibly even Rollei-35 cameras. It isn’t clear whether they will be able to use the Rollei name, as they will be required to license it from Rollei GmbH. DHW apparently plans to restart production with 20 employees, using 2,000 square meters of space distributed over three floors. Prior to entering insolvency, Franke & Heidecke had 131 employees. It seems that it will also be possible to have Rollei TLRs custom-built (the article speculates about gold-plated Rolleis, but I assume this was primarily a joke).
The article also states that it is unclear whether the Rolleiflex Hy6 camera will be revived, since certain intellectual property rights are held by Jenoptik and/or Eastman Kodak (the rights to the identical Leaf AFi were transferred to Phase One). Adam
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| One Young Veteran's Tour of Duty in Pictures |
[Nov. 13th, 200906:32 pm] |
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http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/ZSjz/~3/rKjWoPA4MpI/one-young-veterans-tour-of-duty-in-pictures.html 
Photo by Craig F. Walker
I'm posting this two days late for Veterans Day, but there is an excellent extended photo essay about one young serviceman's tour of duty at The Denver Post's Captured blog. The photos are by Craig F. Walker.
Oddly enough, people serving in the armed forces right now are actually safer than they were in the peacetime army of Ronald Reagan. Consider this definitely counter-intuitive finding of the economist Steven D. Levitt: ...Fighting two wars must surely be driving the death toll higher for young people, no?
From 2002 to 2008, the United States was fighting bloddy wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; among active military personnel, there were an average 1,643 fatalities per year. But over the same stretch of time in the early 1980s, with the United States fighting no major wars, there were more than 2,100 military deaths per year. How can this possibly be?
For one, the military used to be much larger: 2.1 million on active duty in 1988 versus 1.4 million in 2008. But even the rate of death in 2008 was lower than in certain peacetime years. Some of this improvement is likely due to better medical care. But a surprising fact is that the accidental death rate for soldiers in the early 1980s was higher than the death rate by hostile fire for every year the United States has been fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. It seems that practicing to fight a war can be just about as dangerous as really fighting one.
—Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner,
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes,
and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance ,
(William Morrow, 2009), p. 87
I hope that news is encouraging. I found it something of a consolation. Of course that does nothing to demean the sacrifice of those who did lose their lives in service (whether to accident or to hostile fire—or any other cause), and it is cold comfort indeed to those at home worrying about their loved ones on duty.
Have a safe weekend.
On deck for next week: Two lovely new photobooks, one of which I think is a rare must-have; Ctein on solar telescopes; and at long last, another installment in our ongoing albeit intermittent "Around the Web" feature.
-  Photo by Mario Tama. Members of the elite Navajo Code Talkers, the
famed U.S. Marine unit who delivered unbreakable codes during World War
II battles against the Japanese, salute before the start of the annual
Veterans Day parade November 11, 2009 in New York City. Thirteen of the
50 or so remaining Code Talkers participated in today's parade for the
first time. (Getty Images)
This one is from boston.com's "Armistice Day Remembrances" at The Big Picture.
Mike
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| Bill Callahan - Taken |
[Nov. 14th, 200912:37 am] |
And in every photograph of me taken by you
I look like a dog, the family dog
Just staring back at the lamps like nobody's business
Just staring back at the lamps like I know what's going on
And in every photograph of me taken by you
I look like a dog, the family dog
Across my mouth there is something,
can you call it a smile? cause do dogs smile? and smiles can fade
Smiles can fade
And this look on my face will never fade, never fade away
And in every photograph of me taken by you
I look like a dog, the family dog
Just staring back at the lamps like nobody's business
Just staring back at the lamps like I know what's going on
And in my eyes there is a look
Like I would never be able to tell you
Just how I feel without you
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