... you can settle in for a long night of conversation.
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Monday, 28 January 2013
Sunday, 27 January 2013
An expansive, shapely hairdo.
That's Richard Avedon photograph, at the Barneys New York Pinterest site, which pictures some things you can buy at Barneys and some thing that (presumably) expand your mind into a shape within which you might decide to buy some things at Barneys.
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Friday, 25 January 2013
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Monday, 21 January 2013
At the Ice Cold Café...
... we see the Wisconsin Capitol building reflected on the glassy clear and oh-so-thick ice of Lake Mendota, where hearty men fish and full-blooded dogs romp, while timid souls linger on the shoreline and fret about safety. It's America, baby! It's Wisconsin! There is room for the bold individualists and the hand-wringing collectivists. All contribute to the molten mush of human thought here in this moment we were made for. God bless Madison, Wisconsin, and God bless the United States of America.
ADDED: The full-blooded God dog:
The hearty men:
Closer:
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Saturday, 19 January 2013
At the Swan Lake Café...
... you were right. Those really were swans out there on icy Lake Mendota this afternoon.
Friday, 18 January 2013
Photo taken, just now, without getting up from my desk.
ADDED: Dialogue:
MEADE: Did you get video?
ME: No, stills work better.
MEADE: It was blinking.
ME: It could have been winking. Birds in profile. How do you know when they are winking at you?
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013
Somehow the Google mind has arrived at a more appropriate portrait for me...
... when you search for my name.
For the longest time they had a photo I'd done with an exaggerated expression pretending to have time traveled into the future. It was for a post making fun of the idea that the time stamp on a digital photograph proves when the photo was taken. (I reset the camera's date far into the future.) I'd link to that old post, but I'm afraid of boosting it somehow in the mysterious mind of Google which operates who knows how. I like the new photograph (which is actually kind of old, maybe from 2004 or 2005).
I also like the info about who else people who search for me are also searching for. Is it odd for me to be in that set? I guess not!
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For the longest time they had a photo I'd done with an exaggerated expression pretending to have time traveled into the future. It was for a post making fun of the idea that the time stamp on a digital photograph proves when the photo was taken. (I reset the camera's date far into the future.) I'd link to that old post, but I'm afraid of boosting it somehow in the mysterious mind of Google which operates who knows how. I like the new photograph (which is actually kind of old, maybe from 2004 or 2005).
I also like the info about who else people who search for me are also searching for. Is it odd for me to be in that set? I guess not!
Sunday, 13 January 2013
"Rehearsals sap my pep... tell me what I have to do and I'll do it."
Said the actress Clara Bow (in 1929), who did it like this:
... in "Kittens" (1926). And this:
... in "Wings" (1927), which was the first movie to win the "Best Picture" Oscar. Bow said it was "a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie." When Bow was criticized for her bohemian ways and "dreadful" manners, she said :
I'm reading about her this morning, after clicking to her Wikipedia page from the Wikipedia page "Pin-up girl," which has a list of "Notable pin-up girls" sorted by decades, beginning with the 1920s. I was researching the topic of pin-up girls after Meade called attention to this current ad:
We had a conversation about the nature of 1950s pin-up style, and it got me looking for the classic Betty Grable pin-up, which I think it emulates — peeking back over a raising shoulder and smiling as if to say Go ahead and look at my ass. Grable's pic is the one pic that appears on the Wikipidea "Pin-up girl" page, but I was interested in seeing the first pin-up, and the first couple names on the 1920s list didn't click through to a pin-up style picture. Clara Bow's did. If you count this:
Tell me what I have to do and I'll do it. She's only 15 there. Can you just hear the photographer directing her how to arrange her fingers and where to move her shoulder and even her eyeballs?
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... in "Kittens" (1926). And this:
... in "Wings" (1927), which was the first movie to win the "Best Picture" Oscar. Bow said it was "a man's picture and I'm just the whipped cream on top of the pie." When Bow was criticized for her bohemian ways and "dreadful" manners, she said :
"They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They are snobs. Frightful snobs... I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!"In 1931, when she was 26, she got married and retired from acting. She moved to a ranch in Nevada, and lived until 1965.
I'm reading about her this morning, after clicking to her Wikipedia page from the Wikipedia page "Pin-up girl," which has a list of "Notable pin-up girls" sorted by decades, beginning with the 1920s. I was researching the topic of pin-up girls after Meade called attention to this current ad:
We had a conversation about the nature of 1950s pin-up style, and it got me looking for the classic Betty Grable pin-up, which I think it emulates — peeking back over a raising shoulder and smiling as if to say Go ahead and look at my ass. Grable's pic is the one pic that appears on the Wikipidea "Pin-up girl" page, but I was interested in seeing the first pin-up, and the first couple names on the 1920s list didn't click through to a pin-up style picture. Clara Bow's did. If you count this:
Tell me what I have to do and I'll do it. She's only 15 there. Can you just hear the photographer directing her how to arrange her fingers and where to move her shoulder and even her eyeballs?
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Can you think of a new way to do some photo portraits?
Here's one that's pretty cool. The apt title of the photo set is "Blow Job." (Safe for work!)
By the same artist — Tadao Cern — who did the Van Gogh portrait I pointed you to yesterday.
Maybe Cern got his idea for those "Blow Job" pics from the fashion photography cliché of blowing a fan at the model to make the clothes and her hair look more active and interesting. I feel like there should be a movie scene — in something like "Bruno" or "Zoolander" — where the fan is turned up way too high.
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By the same artist — Tadao Cern — who did the Van Gogh portrait I pointed you to yesterday.
Maybe Cern got his idea for those "Blow Job" pics from the fashion photography cliché of blowing a fan at the model to make the clothes and her hair look more active and interesting. I feel like there should be a movie scene — in something like "Bruno" or "Zoolander" — where the fan is turned up way too high.
Friday, 11 January 2013
"Some time ago a stranger asked me to make his portrait... So I did. I sent him the image and I never heard back from him again since that moment."
"Not long ago I saw one painting and I felt that it was very familiar to me. And then I got it — It was a copy of my photo! I did a little research on that and it seem that the guy who [copied] it is quite well known around... His name is Vincent Van Gogh or something..."
(More here.)
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(More here.)
Thursday, 10 January 2013
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