The Neverwas Haul


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Love this cool contraption on wheels.

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Photos by Libby Bulloff

Pierre et Gilles


The Pierre et Gilles style has known nothing but success since their first meeting and the beginning of their collaboration in 1976. Their photographs embellished with paint (these are unique works) have imposed this singular iconography inspired by images of pop, mythological, enchanting, burlesque, religious and erotic natures.

Pierre et Gilles create portraits and self-portraits which they address with provocation, irony, tenderness or gravity. "Self-portraits have determined our work from the start. It is a ritual, which allows to double ourselves like looking in a mirror; they reflect us and show us such as we are. They are also experiments, very personal research that we can only create with ourselves."


Read more about Pierre et Gilles | Buy latest book at Amazon

V E N U S W E P T

Beautiful conceptual art and fashion and print photography by Allan Amato.

High Concept from 666 Photography

Click on images to see them in their original size
Images by Marc Da Cunha Lopes - link

Holger Pooten Photography | via: andreaxmas

Marie-Antoinette


Sissi

from STUDIO ERWIN OLAF

A couple of photographs I liked from photostylist Sabine Pigalle.

tagged: frightening experiment in north carolina

"Now Michael Stipe is a photo-blogger. At FuturePicEnter, Mr. Stipe is putting one or a few photos up per day..."

He's always been quite the photographer and is currently posting daily photos providing us an interesting peak into his world.

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W E B T R A I L

* Tickets for a stretch of shows by alt-rock band Smashing Pumpkins at The Orange Peel sold out in just five minutes last night (Monday). See detailed article on the Around Asheville website. link

* The newly wide-ish release of "For Catherine", Ethan Hunter's first truly independent film, is available today on Netflix among other places. With a budget of just 5K it was shot entirely in Asheville, NC. Well done, Ethan Hunter and 207 Pictures, and I wish much success to you. view trailer on You Tube

x-posted to Around Asheville


* "Come in, it's a beast out there." With those words, Johnny Depp swings open the door to his sleek air-conditioned trailer and offers blessed relief from the brutal California heat wave. Read the interview with Keith Richards and Johnny Depp. Couldn't you just wrap all fours around him? link

* A small film about a short-lived rock star is making a big splash at Cannes. "Control," the story of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who committed suicide at 23," marks the feature-film directing debut of rock photographer Anton Corbijn. link

* A feast of phalluses, a plethora of public place peckers. New book, Bus Stop Knobs, brings together the world's well, best bus stop knobs. Hastily drawn for a moment of amusement and now immortalized forever in the most talked about coffee table book released this year. link

Today's Quote:
Regard your neighbour's gain as your gain, and your neighbour's loss as your own loss. --Tai Shang Kan Yin P'ien

Some local Atlanta folks are organizing an exhibit of Life on the Strip. They wrote they would like to hear from:

People who were hippies or are interested in hippies or this era (1967 - 1977) of great change in The South. Do you have some memories you'd like to share? Or some pictures of folks on The Strip or in The Park during those days of change for Atlanta and the world? Does your older brother or your parents? We are interested in anything. Posters, film, recording, anything you think should be shared. Let's get our story down right before "The Man's" official version is the only one available to the future. No one of us has the story. The story was all of us at once. Can you contribute your part?

Visit TheStripProject.com still under construction.

I had my picture taken all the time on the strip during this period; maybe I can find something of me and my friends. On second thought, do I want to see some of those pictures?

Related:

* Voices From The Underground (Press) - History and images, featuring East Village Other, Berkeley Barb, The Seed, etc.

* "The Summer of Love lasted three years in the South. I tried to capture some of that spirit in these photographs. They were shot over a 30 month period and many were originally published in The Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta's underground / anti-war newspaper." Photography by Carter Tomassi, Berkeley, CA, who has also worked on many major film projects. (let us not forget The Cockettes) link

Geldof Unveils Earth Series Plans

Bob Geldof and the BBC have unveiled plans for a website and television series that aim to record every human society.

The Dictionary of Man website and an eight-part television series, The Human Planet, will be made with help from BBC Worldwide, the BBC's commercial arm.Crews will travel the world to try to film the 900 separate groups of people that anthropologists believe exist. The makers hope the project will produce a definitive record of mankind.

He added: "Ultimately I suppose in some ways we're also building the world's family photo album."

The website aims to use the latest social networking technologies to allow individuals around the world to trace the history of their clan, tribe or family as well as contacting living members.

Geldof said it would create the largest ever living record of DVDs, books, films, photographs, art, and documented and personal accounts from people in every group in society. link

PARADISE LIFE

A Stunning Memoir about Recovery from Addiction

Author Christopher Keeley offers hope for drug addicts to get clean, to start over, and have a wonderful life

Addiction to drugs is like a lover that you crave for, the more you give in to it, the harder it is to let go. This unhealthy obsession can cause horrible consequences, not only to yourself, but also to your family and the people you care about. Author andaward winning photographer Christopher Keeley shares how he quit this nasty habit through Paradise Life, a profound collection of personal stories and photographs that inspire a spirit of recovery.

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As a recovering addict myself I find his book very interesting. His other web presence is also entertaining-- displaying art, activism, photographs, etc. Go have a look around.

Related:
From the Book
Daily Dreamtime
Intervention Organization
Secret Surrealistic Society

Robert Crumb retrospective curated by Todd Hignite just opened at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. It runs from March 16 to July 8, 2007. The show includes over 200 of the best examples of Crumb's art, spanning his prolific and rich lifetime body of work. [via]

NSFW
Here's 81 photos taken on the opening day.

ON THIS DAY - MARCH 16, 1968

1968 - Vietnam: My Lai Massacre

Carrying on the tradition of 'teaching' American values to the godless & the communist, Captain Medina leads a 'victorious' attack on the village of Xom Lang, near My Lai in South Vietnam.

While the upper brass circles overhead in helicopters,
Charlie Company enters the hamlet of My Lai 4 &
methodically & ruthlessly murders an estimated 347
civilians over an 8-hour period.

Most are women, children & old men. Some are slain by
bullets fired into their houses, others herded into small
groups & mowed down, & still more die when they are
hurled into a ditch & sprayed with automatic rifle fire.

The Army will first try to cover it up & the US media will
refuse to report it. Later they will portray it as an aberration,
one bad guy (Calley), one good guy (who stops it). Calley
is later convicted, sent to his room for being a bad boy,
then released.


Photograph of Kim Phuc (reprinted above) running from a napalm attack on My Lai with her clothes burnt off, one of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War. She recalls: "Nick Ut [the photographer,] took us to the hospital nearby and then he dropped us there and ran into the darkroom to develop the film that he took."

Lynn Rockwell has just passed away from lung cancer. Lynn was a photographer and lived in Halifax, NS.

This is Lynn on the left, with her daughter.

We will all miss her madly.

*UPDATE: Obituary
ROCKWELL, Eleanor Lynn - 53, Halifax, passed away February 3, 2007. Lynn is survived by her mother, Eleanor; daughters, Jennifer Lynn, Lindsay Sara; and her grandson, Noah David. She was predeceased by her father, David. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, February 24, in J.A. Snow Funeral Home, 2666 Windsor St., Halifax. In lieu of flowers, donations may be to the Lung Association of Nova Scotia or Canadian Cancer Society.
E-mail condolences to: snowfh@alderwoods.com

The Drop Dead Gorgeous Series

For anyone who has eaten the whole box, or bag, or carton the photographs in this series make light of our secret binges. Here, the consequences of indulgence are tabloid or monster movie deaths. Daniela Edburg’s Drop Dead Gorgeous both mocks and satisfies our cravings.

Born in Houston in 1975, Daniela Edburg grew up in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. She got her bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the National University in the excellence program at the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, where she still lives and works.

Images appear courtesy of Kunsthaus and Daniela Edburg, copyright © Daniela Edburg, all rights reserved.

A series of 12 delightful manipulated images by Daniela Edburg.

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Achingly beautiful.

After correcting an initial problem with the lens when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched in 1990, the floating astro-observatory began to relay back to Earth, incredible snapshots of the "final frontier" it was perusing.

Recently, astronomers voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble, in its 16-year journey so far. Remarking in the article from the Daily Mail, reporter Michael Hanlon says the photos "illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful."

To view the top ten Hubble Space photographs, CLICK HERE.

(via Ralph Metzner)

Manet and the Execution of Maximilian [info]

Five compositions, including three large paintings committed by Manet from 1867-1869, in response to the execution of the pawn in Napoleons' game, have been assembled for viewing for the first time in the United States. (It's been in the Tate in London for some of the time--editor)

Maxmillian, a reasonably idealistic Austrian archduke, was installed by Napoleon III as Emperor of Mexico. His taking the throne, thus deposing President Benito Juarez, was implemented to validate the French imperialistic invasion of Mexico. Juarez gathered his forces and reclaimed his title. Napoleon left Maximilian to his own devices. The sad emperor, sporting his beloved sombrero, was led outside the town of Queretaro and executed by a firing squad.

The accompanying albumen silver prints of Francois Aubert serve as historical interest and cross into the realm of art. Aubert was a French photographer commissioned by Maximillian to document the fringe element of his new subjects. It was also the fate of Albert to document the execution squad, casket, garments and body of the executed emperor. The bloodied, bullet ridden shirt and sombrero of Maximillian are exquisite.

The show is great. And the Emperor's shirt a humble emblem of vain and ill placed power. (via ~ coffeebreak)

At MOMA until January 29.

Dave LaChapelle

You may have read posts about the photographer, Dave LaChapelle, here. But I haven't been able to find anything new about him until recently on MySpace, where he keeps a journal. He's living on a farm in Hawaii and he's got The Men, War & Peace show Dec 2 in Berlin that's associated with the Helmut Newton group, which is as good as it gets so he's still at the top of his game.

Reading in his MySpace journal I see a courageous admission about him spending some time in a psyche ward and subsequently discovering he was bi-polar. For a popular photographer it could kill a career, but he doesn't care about that at all. He talks about a crushing breakup, high school, his family, his friends and more. It's been a soul searching couple of years for him and he appears to be content with the direction his life is going in.

His Vogue Homme pictures made me scream with fits of laughter. He says he got in trouble for them. I want to know if they're staged or did he just run into a Saturday night bingo game at Aunt Ruth's? What an oustanding talent. His journal is a fun read I wish for him continued success and peace.

MySpace
David LaChapelle Gallery

Letter from Patti Smith

November 4, 2006

It is 8 a.m. and I write from the breakfast room of the City Hotel in Buenos Aires. When I awoke I immediately remembered that it was Robert Mapplethorpe's birthday. I wished him Happy Birthday and lay there thinking that for 2/3 of my life I have awoken on this day with a birthday greeting for him on the forefront of my breath. Today feels somewhat special as today Robert would have turned sixty years old.

I am certain he would have thrown a wonderful party. There would be Dom Perignon for everyone. He would be quite excited as he dressed in just the right shirt and cufflinks with an absolute Proustian ardor, as Swann.

He was, indeed, in love. With his work, his possessions, his beauty, his life. And it is that excitement and vigor that I shall conduct myself today. Read More

For those of you who may not be familiar with his work, he did many erotic photos. But he also had other subjects and flowers were favorites that now show up on posters, etc.

In her new book, A Photographer's Life, Annie Leibovitz, our most famous photographer, places celebs side by side with surprisingly personal images of love and loss. An exclusive.

Sitting in her Greenwich Village office, wearing jeans and sneakers, Leibovitz explains how Sontag's death in December 2004—followed only weeks later by the death of Leibovitz's father—propelled her to make this book. "It totally came out of a moment," she says. "I had already done some looking at photographs of Susan—that was very hard—for a little memorial book. I had never taken the time to see what I had, really." She would weep and pin the pictures up on the long walls of an old barn at her country place in upstate New York. "And then, I got very excited, trying to look from 1990 to 2005, as if Susan was standing behind me." Leibovitz tears up and reaches for a box of tissues.

Photographer Annie Liebovitz does Newsweek, and shoots her own cover. What may be the most controversial aspect of Leibovitz's book is the intimate pictures from her relationship with Susan Sontag, and particularly the painful images of the writer when she was seriously ill with cancer. Don't miss the photos, especially the one she took the day after Sontag died. Just a very tender and beautiful piece.

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Bas Jan Ader - an intriguing conceptual artist whose last act was performed at sea.

From the Mediated website:

"Yesterday in Rotterdam I visited the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, which is quite an interesting spot. Of note was a retrospective of conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader, who disappeared in 1975 while doing a solo sailboat journey across the Atlantic, as part of his “In Search of the Mysterious” project. At the show there were a number of short films, some photographs (often of similar scenes from the films) as well as other odds and ends. The photo above is titled “I’m too sad to tell you” and was created as a postcard in 1970."

"Apparently there’s quite a cult interest in Ader, and I found the work strangely affecting. Here’s an Artforum article on Ader from 1999."

Mediated » Bas Jan Ader

All Roads Lead To Music

At times I may be totally immersed in music which leads to endless reading, researching and downloading. I've been obsessed lately since my last computer died taking my music along with it before I took the time to save it.

My musical mining abates somewhat when I run across an outstanding photograph or piece of artwork and I head off to explore all things beautiful to look at.

Next I might be entertained by the meltdown du jour, starring Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh. I'm distracted by this latest clusterfuck until I discover something good like the leaks from The Mars Volta's August 22 release, Amputechture, which sends me right back into music mode via slsk and bt.

All roads lead to music.

Wednesday | WebTrail - 2 Flicks on a Flickr, Coffins, "F", Nate & Di, Hanging Dolls

In May 2004, Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan hung three plastic "children" from the ancient oak in Piazza XXIV Maggio, Milan's oldest tree. The exhibit was expected to remain on the square for a month but Franco Di Benedetto, a Milanese man, was so horrified by the installation that he tried to "liberate" the dolls. He took a ladder, climbed up the tree, cut through two of the ropes with a hacksaw but fell to the ground while trying to free the third dummy. He was eventually fined and sentenced to 2 months in jail, later dropped. Link

Would you call this art? I'd fight for his right to call it art if it's his/her vision but I personally wouldn't be fulfilled creatively if I had made the hanging dolls. I do find this odd and quirky expression of art uplifting in my own strange way. Some say art is no rules, only chaos.

Stoneth's Poverty series on Flickr is very powerful and thought-provoking. Lots of street people and the homeless in downtown San Francisco are given a voice through him. Nicely done. Link

What is it exactly that listeners find so compelling about a couple of left-leaning college dropouts from Aiken, S.C. who smoke a lot of pot and have no background in radio internet technology or, for that matter, comedy? Link

Brought to you today by the letter "F". Studies reveal we read web pages in an f-shaped pattern. Interesting read with graphics. Link

Mark Dery giving a talk this Friday and among other things, he'll speak about the popularity of post mortem Victorian photographs on eBay. Can anyone please tell me who really wants to see-- let alone buy -- a picture of someone's dearly departed child in a coffin? Gruesome doesn't even cover it. Or I'm just not strong enough for it. Link

Enjoy Jilly's collages, fabric art, embellished books and more. I bet she has fun making this stuff. It's just so joyful and lively.

Authorities Shut Down Sadomasochistic Dungeon

At least six men traveled from across the nation and South America to have their genitals mutilated in what Haywood County authorities described as a sadomasochistic dungeon.

Sheriff Tom Alexander and District Attorney Michael Bonfoey this morning announced the arrests of the men in connection with the illegal castrations. The sheriff and prosecutor said the victims were willing participants.

The victims met the men through a locally produced Web site that published photographs of men engaging in sadomasochistic behavior. Yahoo! shut down the site in December 2004. The castrations took place last year beginning in March and continued through November, according to police documents.

During a search of the home on Wednesday, investigators found DVD recordings of the castrations.

Mondo Fucking Bizarro. This happened in the next county over from Asheville, NC. Just a regular house on a normal road. Do you ever really know who lives in the houses on your street? Is voluntary castration going on in your neighborhood? Eek!

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JACK ABRAMOFF TALKS ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIPS WITH JOHN MCCAIN, TOM DELAY, AND OTHERS

"You're really no one in this town unless you haven't met me," Jack Abramoff tells contributing editor David Margolick in the April issue of Vanity Fair (on sale now in New York and Los Angeles, and March 14 nationally). Such lies are not just lies, but dumb to boot—"This is not an age when you can run away from facts. I had to deal with my records, and others will have to deal with theirs."

An insider tells Margolick that Abramoff blames competing Republican lobbyists and Arizona Senator John McCain—with whom Abramoff says he's had a contentious relationship—for his downfall. Abramoff tells Margolick that McCain staffers deliberately humiliated him, doling out embarrassing e-mails to the press.

"Mr. Abramoff flatters himself," Mark Salter, McCain's administrative assistant, tells Margolick. "Senator McCain was unaware of his existence until he read initial press accounts of Abramoff's abuses, and had never laid eyes on him until he appeared before the committee."

Abramoff says, "As best I can remember, when I met with him, he didn't have his eyes shut. I'm surprised that Senator McCain has joined the chorus of amnesiacs."

Abramoff is well aware of his peril: "In a different era I'd be killed on the street or have poison poured into my coffee," he tells Margolick.

Abramoff admits to gaining 50 pounds due to stress and tells Margolick that sending him to prison is "stupid," saying, "Let me teach English, history, music. Or let me sweep floors at the reservation. Instead you'll be paying to feed me to sit in a jail."

"I was a killer. I killed for my clients, and it eventually killed me," Abramoff tells Margolick. "Or I eventually killed me. And there were a lot of other hands on the knife."

"My so-called relationship with Bush, Rove, and everyone else at the White House has only become important because, instead of just releasing details about the very few times I was there, they created a feeding frenzy by their deafening silence. The Democrats are going overboard, virtually insisting I was there to plan the invasion of Iraq. This is why this non-story grabbed headlines for weeks."

Abramoff discusses his relationship with:

President Bush, who claims not to remember having his picture taken with Abramoff. According to Abramoff, at one time, the president joked with Abramoff about his weight-lifting past: "What are you benching, buff guy?"

Tom DeLay, who once referred to Abramoff as one of his closest friends. Abramoff explains his working relationship with DeLay, saying, "I didn't spend a lot of time lobbying Tom for things, because the things I worked on were usually consistent with the conservative philosophy." Abramoff has "admired Tom DeLay and his family from the first meeting with him," he tells Margolick. "We would sit and talk about the Bible. We would sit and talk about opera. We would sit and talk about golf," Abramoff recalls. "I mean, we talked about philosophy and politics."

Ken Mehlman, who recently claimed he didn't really know Abramoff. According to documents obtained by Vanity Fair, Mehlman exchanged e-mail with Abramoff, and did him political favors (such as preventing Clinton administration alumnus Allen Stayman from keeping a State Department job), had Sabbath dinner at Abramoff's house, and offered to pick up Abramoff's tab at Signatures, Abramoff's own restaurant.

Newt Gingrich, whose spokesman Rick Tyler tells Margolick that "Before [Abramoff's] picture appeared on TV and in the newspapers, Newt wouldn't have known him if he fell across him. He hadn't seen him in 10 years." A rankled Abramoff says "I have more pictures of [Newt] than I have of my wife." Abramoff shows Margolick numerous photographs: "Here's Newt. Newt. Newt. Newt. More Newt. Newt with Grover [Norquist, the Washington conservative Republican Über-strategist and longtime Abramoff friend] this time. But Newt never met me. Ollie North. Newt. Can't be Newt … he never met me. Oh, Newt! What's he doing there? Must be a Newt look-alike.… Newt again! It's sick! I thought he never met me!"

The April issue of Vanity Fair is on sale now in New York and Los Angeles, and March 14 nationally.

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THE DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER

An Oscar nominated film with a South African connection is the short documentary "The Death of Kevin Carter", by Dan Krauss.

Carter was a member of the "Bang-Bang Club" of photojournalists who became (in?)famous in the early nineties for their work covering violence in the townships.

*In 1994 Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for this image of a starving child in the Sudan.

For a more complete description of Carter's dark but fascinating life visit this link, or buy the book "Bang-Bang Club" (highly recommended).

[via: South Africa Blog]

*I guarantee that you'll never forget that photograph.

principia discordia
(or "How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her")

Mixing found objects and stolen headlines, fine art drawings and photographs, police tape and musical scores, Principia Discordia is a limited series of 100 collages by Paul Watson.

Very ambitious project of collages and currently working on #44.

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Burroughs' Birthday Party

Feb. 4-March 5: William S. Burroughs' 92nd birthday will be commemorated at the Beat Hotel's First InterZone Beat Festival with an exhibition of Harold Chapman's photographs of Beat luminaries and performances by singer-songwriter Grant Hart, founder of 1980s post-punk favorite Hüsker Dü.

(via maud newton - via gadling)

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"I have been a witness, and these pictures are my testimony. The events I have recorded should not be forgotten and must not be repeated."

WITNESS the Photography of -James Nachtwey-

US Military 'Shuts Down' Soldiers' Blogs

"Something I cannot reiterate often enough is how monumentally misbehaved Iraqi street kids are," Hartley's blog continued. "But some of them are just so darn cute, you can't help but want to squeeze their little faces - until they suffocate."

The Army took him literally, even though Hartley said he was aiming his satire at those who believe Iraqi civilians' lives have little value.

Some of Hartley's readers got the point. Others did not.

One of Hartley's Web entries on April 24, 2004, carried a photograph of an Iraqi man's partially burned corpse clothed in a bloodied white tunic. Hartley's photo caption was a take on the "I [heart] New York City" slogan. His version: "I [heart] Dead Civilians."

In response, a visitor wrote: "Is this a joke or what? This whole blog gives a bad taste in the mouth."

Hartley replied, "It leaves a bad taste in your mouth? That's sorta the point."

Link [via]

This guy should have be free to write what he wanted, no matter how offensive. Perhaps he is now. His book is on sale at Amazon.

.....very interesting, if disturbing.

A startling report has emerged this weekend that the U.S. has used napalm fire bombs in Iraq and then lied about it to the British government.

According to The Independent, the U.S. used 30 MK77 firebombs – a new generation of incendiary weapons - during the initial Iraqi invasion between March 31 and April 2 2003.

Like white phosphorus ammunitions, napalm has a strategic role when used against civilian populations. Napalm not only produces a sticky burning gel that adheres to the skin as it burns through, leading to loss of blood pressure and eventually death in a short period of time, but it also releases clouds of carbon monoxide that can kill by asphyxiation. (Everyone will remember the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of the naked girl in Vietnam, running down the road screaming as her skin burned with napalm.)

A 1980 UN convention banned the use of napalm against civilians - after those pictures shocked the world.

America, which didn't ratify the treaty, is the only country in the world still using the weapon.
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It is now time for the international community to hold the White House and the Pentagon responsible. In particular, those in the Bush administration and the top ranks of the military who approved the use of such weapons and then knowingly lied about it need to be help accountable. Our leaders need to know that we the citizens of the United State do not support the use of chemical weapons in any fashion and categorically abhor the enrichment of ammunitions with depleted uranium.

And if the U.S. will not take responsibility for its actions, then the international community needs to hold them accountable.

Freiheit und Wissen has a thoroughly researched post and add'l info.

I saw photographer Gregory Colbert on tv this morning, but somehow photographer just doesn't do him justice. After the New York opening of his Ashes and Snow exhibit in March, the exhibition will soon begin it's migration around the world in the first ever Nomadic Museum. The show contains 130 large images and a one hour film.

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Fredrik Odman Photography
Veddy, veddy nice. (via - ollapodrida)

I ran across a blog today by R Crumb. More precisely, it appears to be written by Aline about their daily lives, events, and appearances She speaks of making art, attending the Paris fashion show with her friend, the weather, life with Robert and surviving a recent media blitz at their home. The site, with news and the weblog is in conjunction with his new presentation, The R Crumb Handbook, which is out now, March 2005.

The R Crumb Handbook, is 440 pages in hardback, including hundreds of drawings, cartoons, photographs, a free CD of Crumb music and never before seen material from his personal archives, The R. Crumb Handbook is the most comprehensive presentation to date of the life, trials and ideas of one of the most influential artists of the last 40 years. It's gotta be great! Crumb Blog

{Sudie's Web Trail} - rated R today
:: Pagan Moss has a nice writeup in the Seattle Weekly this week.

:: North Korea reveals that they have nuclear weapons. Later, we'll try to get the Pope to admit he's Catholic and authenticate that a bear....well, you know.

:: WTF? Nature lovers take it literally NSFW (seen @ The Wildhunt Blog)

:: The annual Pazz & Jop is interesting to read the different music critics' favorites. (Christgau et al.) Half-assed cheesy with the pre-requisite top40, but critic cred salvaged with the inclusion of some actual talent.

:: Naked, probably NSFW and Not Naked - Galleries of breathtaking beauty by photographer, Joris Van Daele.

:: Hey, Johnny B: Will try and post my answers to your music meme soon - Johnny Bacardi. I've had pc problems since Saturday and just getting back online.

Today's Quote
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. ~Emma Goldman

Spreading bloglove far and wide --- xoxo

Daily Web Trail

:: NYTImes has a nice piece on Dr Ecstacy, Andrew Shulgin. He also has a blog, Ask Dr Shulgin, which isn't being utilized often enough.

:: Rushkoff covers exactly what we're discussing at my house today about the Iraqi election: "How do you feel? Are the elections real? Do they vindicate Bush and his posse at all? Are they simply a happy side-effect of an otherwise disastrous war?" How can you not be touched by their enthusiasm?

:: I've not posted about LaChapelle in awhile, but he's definitely due. Here are some great photos from Sundance screening of Rize, by celebrity photographer-filmmaker David Lachapelle. His first film chronicles a dance movement in South-Central Los Angeles known as "krumping," a high-energy dance where the performers dress as clowns.

{Today's Quote}
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. ~Tom Robbins

Photography by Eugenio Recuenco. His portfolio is extremely striking.

"Jump ball, jump ball! Get it, get it!"
Uh, "First and 10, do it again!"

"Oh, shit. I can't remember the new one. Graner! Help me out!"

"Aw, fuck, Lyndie. Take the leash and drag this fucker outta his cell while I cut the clothes off the others. Fuckface! Yeah, you! On your knees!"

"Oh, no. Not that again!"

"No, we're gonna try something new. It's called 'Naked Cheerleaders'!"

Prosecutors unveiled new graphic photographs and videos from Abu Ghraib prison on Monday as they tried to portray the soldier accused as the ringleader of the abuse scandal there as a sadistic thug who punched detainees for sport, posed smiling next to the bloody face of a detainee and bragged about forcing an Iraqi woman to let him photograph her naked.

Specialist Graner betrayed little emotion inside the courtroom but smiled and joked outside. Walking in Monday morning, he told reporters: "We're going to find out what kind of a monster I am today."

Spoken facetiously, poor bastard hasn't a clue how right he is. More...

Web Trail
The Orifice of Homelandabsurdity - is now opened and ready for bidnezz. Conceived and brought to fruition by Cyndy Roy.
The election is over. The fight is not. Turn Your Back On Bush.
Ashcroft Goodbye Card - from the gang.
Made You Think - What's that funky smell?
Jane Fulton Alt - Fine Art Photography (below)



Fallen Angel