finally! my first experiment with liquid light. quite a while ago and for no decided purpose, i bought a medium format black and white negative of a (50s/60s?) marilyn monroe-esque nude from ebay. she is blonde, a bit nervous and awkward looking and sitting in front of what looks like a very amateur makeshift living room photo [...]
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let there be (liquid) light
Posted in art, olde things, people, photography on June 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
william eggleston
Posted in aesthetics, art, love, new york, people on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
bone pickin’
Posted in aesthetics, art, home, noir, the apartment on November 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
rooms with a view
Posted in aesthetics, art, ephemera, home, love, new york, noir, people, photography, places, pretty things on September 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
meryl smith’s art is way cool. maybe even a little too cool.
but i really do love her “tea shirt”
and her flower deer
and whatever the hell this creepy amazingness is called:
ok, actually i love all of her stuff but none more than her living quarters which were photographed by Todd Selby for his website, www.theselby.com. Click the image [...]
ye rin mok
Posted in aesthetics, art, love, people on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i love these photographs by ye rin mok.
go ahead, try to look at them without your sweet teeth hurting a little.
dotty attie
Posted in aesthetics, art, jersey city, new jersey on July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
from wikipedia.org:
Dotty Attie (born 1938) is an American painter. Educated at the Philadelphia College of Art, she has been exhibiting in museums and galleries worldwide since 1972. Her paintings are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Born in New Jersey, Attie is best known for her [...]
