Dancers Among Us

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Literary greats in bathing suits

10 of em at flavorwire.

Here's Truman Capote in short shorts.  summerrrrrrr

aurora borealis

Northern light paint the sky over Icelandic volcano.  more

What a great picture.  Coming across this was like finding a $20 in my back pocket.

World Press Photo of the year

A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011

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Great portrait of John Coltrane.  I'd love to find a print of it to frame.  I wonder what painting he's standing in front of.  It's almost like a Franz Kline, but it's not.. oh trusty google, you can't give me all the answers.

From the Archives V

steady as she goes

weekend beach fun

It might be a little chilly, but still a nice beach weekend. This dude has got it figured out. This'll be me in about 20 hours, including the sweet sandals, plus a pint glass in hand.

thank you,

Discovery.

i feel like janelle right now

Radio Rahim

Fog Happens

We tried to sail on Sunday, but got turned back at the break by a layer of fog you could cut with a butter knife.

Michael Sherwin

From his Flux Series:

“In this series of large format inkjet prints, I set the camera to automatically take pictures each minute as I walk along familiar paths. Then, the collection of photographs is brought into Photoshop, where I create a large canvas and randomly drop each image into the larger composition. I am interested in the patterns formed between the individual images and the collective montage, as well as questioning the inherent stasis of the photographic image.”

– Michael Sherwin

William Eggleston plays the piano

William Eggleston, one of the most important American photographers, the man who legitimized color photography in fine art, is apparently also a fine pianist. I had the privilege of shaking his hand and having a quick chat with Bill (sobriquet, since we're tight now) at the opening of his LACMA/BCAM show. Here he is playing.

Carter:Obama :: Woody:Ryan

I just came across this in the archives, and it seemed like an appropriate, if not unpopular, time to post it. Ryan and I spent Nov 4 at a call center, trying to sway swing states in Obama's favor. I took this picture of him, and a few weeks later spotted a mirror image of Woody Allen stumping for Carter. I thought it made for a pretty funny diptych.

Blinky Palermo and William Eggleston Opening

A week from tonight, I'm going to be lucky enough to attend LACMA's opening of Blinky Palermo's Retrospective 1964-1977 and William Eggleston's Democratic Camera: Photographs and video, 1961-2008. My oh so thoughtful and generous friend and right coast nanook-counterpart was nice enough to get me on the list. It's going to be quite a show.

Photographer :: Ruben Cox

Photographer Ruben Cox' show "River Pictures" opens at the Hi-Lite in downtown LA this Friday. It's a photo essay of lazy summers on the river in his hometown of Highland, North Carolina in 1990s.

Curator Audrey Landreth notes, "Cox's images capture real moments that speak to a greater experience: an American experience of fleeting summer and youth, the thrill of cool water on warm rocks; of goose bumps and distant laughter, of not wanting the sun to go down."

By appointment only. Let's go.

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