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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william eggleston
Posted in aesthetics, art, love, new york, people on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
true love.
Posted in aesthetics, love, new york, people on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
quite awhile ago domino magazine did a tour of the apartment of belongin to couple amedeo and kazu of blonde redhead. it is so lovely that i thought it worth mentioning again. see the whole article here.
who is seeing amanda palmer?
Posted in aesthetics, love, new york, people on August 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
american museum of natural history | nyc | summer 2008
Posted in aesthetics, love, new york, places on July 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.”
[john burroughs]
oh
happy day.
andrew and i went
to the museum of natural history.
we took alot of photographs
and looked like tourists
i’m sure. later we
got hot dogs
and coconut
ice bars in
central
park.
coney island 1.13.08
Posted in aesthetics, my art, new york, noir, places, tagged new york, photography on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
it was really cold. i bought coffee on the boardwalk in one of those little blue and white grecian paper cups. it tasted faintly of bbq sauce and i drank it all like it was a vial of magic liquid with the words “drink me” on it. unlike alice, i didn’t shrink and i just [...]
