Regina Leader-Post
September 26, 1962
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
w.h. auden | musee des beaux arts
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| Pieter Breughel the elder |
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters; how well, they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
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| Thomas Hoepker |
Sunday, October 02, 2011
janet malcolm | struth on the bechers
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| Spherical Gas Tanks | Hilla & Bernd Becher |
Thomas Struth entered the Kunstakademie in 1973, and studiesd with the photographers Hilla and Bernd Becher. The Bechers are cult figures, known in the photography world for their typologies of water towers, gas tanks, workers' houses, winding towers, and blast furnaces, among other forms of the industrial vernacular.
"Eventually their meaning in the history of art will be linked more with their teaching and the influence it had than with their work."
I asked Struth about the influence on him of the Bechers' pedagogy.
"They were fantastic teachers in the way that they demonstrated the complexity of connections. When you met with Bernd and Hilla they didn't talk about photography alone. They talked about movies, journalism, literature - stuff that was very comprehensive and complex. For example, a typcial thing Bernd would say was 'You have to undertand the Paris photographs of Atget as the visualization of Marcel Proust.'"
I said, "I don't get it. What does Atget have to do with Proust?"
"It's a similar time span. What Bernd meant was that when you read Proust that's what the backdrop is. That's the theatre."
"Did you read Proust while you were studying with the Bechers?"
"No, no. I didn't."
"Have you read Proust since?"
"No."
"So what was the point for you of connecting Atget with Proust?"
Struth laughed. "Maybe it's a bad example."
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| SolarWorld Factory | Thomas Struth |
from Depth Of Field" by Janet Malcolm
The New Yorker, September 6, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
sasha frere-jones | merrill garbus
once the band has kicked in, nothing
can distract you from
the clarity
and oomph
of her voice,
a gorgeous instrument
that slides through dissonant squeaks,
flattening, pure tones,
and various throat noises.
she throws herself into her singing with equal parts
brio
and poise,
as if she's frustrated
that music isn't
harder.
from Critic's Notebook "Going Yard,"
The New Yorker, Sep 19, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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Monday, August 08, 2011
everyday abbey road
NORMAN. Counting down to the long awaited Feast Of The Holy Crossing, it was twenty years ago today! August 8, 1969, at 11:35 sharp, the commemoration right here on KRBY, Radio That's Way Beyond The Norm! . . .
from You Still Can't
by Ron Reed
Saturday, August 06, 2011
photos | ashland
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| apricots |
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| lithia park |
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| farmer's market |
iphone photos | click to enlarge
#1 and #3 treated with plastic bullet
#2 treated with camera bag
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
kirsten hively | project neon
all images are by kirsten hively
whose project neon was recently featured in the new yorker
click on any image to enlarge
1 st. paul's house
2 st. paul's house
3 orothodox cathedral of the holy virgin protection
4 new covenant holiness church
5 father's heart ministry centre
6 city chemist
6 city chemist
7 st. paul's house
8 new yorker, july 4, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
adam gopnik | the absence of impossibility
I was filled with feelings of helplessness and stupidity and impotence that I had not experienced since elementary school. Why was I so unable to do something so painfully simple? Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never any good at doing in the first place.
from "Life Studies: What I learned when I learned to draw"
Adam Gopnik
The New Yorker, June 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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