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Archive for November, 2008

gratuitous tino moment

i’m having a sorta bad day so i had to put something distractingly cute up.
tino in his little parisien sweater will do.

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william eggleston

it makes me  happy when two things i love, photography and writing, come together in one brilliant place like this New York Times article on the new william eggleston exhibition at the whitney. to quote a favorite line describing the work: “hues of almost hallucinatory intensity, from a custard-yellow sunset glow slanting across a wall to high-noon [...]

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i saw the decemberists last night at the wellmont theater in montclair, nj. i had never been there and it was a sweet surprise. the 1920s theater was recently (and impeccably) restored and the inside showed off lots of pastel colors and an overwhelming amount of cameos of indians and other amiable strangers all over the ceilings and walls. [...]

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i got a new (ofcourse, old) couch at salvation army this past weekend. it was raining bad outside and i broke the hinge on my front door trying to get it in but here it is in all its envious green velvet glory. it feels luxurious to have a couch that is not threadbare and full of holes. [...]

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bone pickin’

i’m a little bit behind on this, but it was so exciting at the time that i realized i must document it somewhere. a few weeks ago i found a life-size anatomical model of a human spine in a dumpster while taking a back route behind a grim shopping center to get a cup of coffee. at first, as [...]

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new housemate

the jackalope is a creature of urban myth-a rabbit with the horns similar to that of an antelope or goat. while nature did not create such an animal, the myth has most likely originated from many sightings and capturings over time of real live rabbits with a rare condition that causes horn like growths to sprout from their [...]

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