Saturday, June 27, 2015

Jan Mankes: Twee roosjes in glas, 1912


Man Ray, Hand to Lips1936


Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe - Hands, 1917


Knud Lonberg-Holm, New York, Times Square, 1923.


Well at least that's cleared up


I am

I'm anxious,excited and hopeful for the first time in so very long.
I'm also, seriously confused and terribly worried.
I'm finding it nearly impossible to concentrate on the moment to moment in the moment.
I'm imagining scenarios with outcomes to rival Disney Movies.
I'm worried my chest hurts, and this time it's not a coronary event.
I'm very chilly in a room on a day of humidity and heat.
I'm wishing for the younger more desirable me to now be.
I'm seeing her in my thoughts right now.
I'm missing her right now so much so that I'm scared.No, worried.
I'm not falling in love. I can't be. I never really was when I thought I was.
I'm sure of that now.
I'm sure we've never even touched and that's fine.
I'm reaching out to her though.
I'm     

CITIZEN KANE Hearst Castle by Julia Morgan The indoor mosaic-tiled pool is inspired by Roman baths.



W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage


Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind.



Friday, June 26, 2015

How the signs apologize


Aries: *Scoff* Yeah I (guess) I'm sorry...
 

Taurus: Lol oops
 

Gemini: Oh man I am so deeply offended that I even thought about hurting someone like you that is SUCH A MASSIVE PISS BABY CALM DOWN
 

Cancer: Literally repeats "I'm sorry" for thirteen years straight
 

Leo: What the fuck I don't have anything to apologize for???
 

Virgo: Ugh I'm so sorry i just want so badly to convey to you that i apologize
 

Libra: I am sorry, but I want you to know I was still right.
 

Scorpio: I am shit and you need to wipe me from your ass to be free of me.
 

Sagittarius: Oh shit I did that? Sorry mate
 

Capricorn: *Doesn't apologize for anything ever*
 

Aquarius: They never do anything wrong to be honest
 

Pisces: I AM SO SO SO SO SOOOO SO SO SORRY ARE YOU HURT HOW CAN I CARE FOR YOU I AM THE DIRT UNDER YOUR SHOE I AM SO SORRY

THESE ARE MORE THAN PHOTOGRAPHS-THEY HAVE THE MAKINGS OF NOVELS. PLAYS. Curran Hatleberg was born in 1982 in Washington, D.C. and received his MFA from Yale University. He has traveled the United States extensively to photograph over the last ten years. He currently teaches photography at Yale University and Cooper Union. His work has been shown in galleries nationally and internationally, and he is the recipient of the 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund, the 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant, the Richard Benson Prize for excellence in photography, and is the winner of the 2013 Annual Juried Competition at The Camera Club of New York. His photographs are included in a number of private and public collections, including the Center for Contemporary Photography, the Yale University Museum of Art, the Williams College Muesum of Art and the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University. His work has been published frequently, in magazines including Harpers, the New York Times Magazine, Vice and the Paris Review; and books including, most recently, The United States (2003-2013) from Mossless Publishing. His forthcoming monograph Lost Coast will be released by TBW Books in Fall 2015.











Nude Female in Bone, Egypt ca. 5th century via Walters Art Museum, Creative Commons


patrick joust:


Of course it's cheap


This daguerreotype dates from around 1840 to 1860–could it be the earliest photo of a cat?


My ex-wife's Year-Book picture and a few images of her post separation by Tony Gonzalez




War post card 祖父の第二次大戦中の写真を淡々と貼る|VIPPER速報


Pink dog piano recital.


High-school students in the Dutch West Indies, 1950s.


Ed van der Elsken. Coney Island “Wax museum”, 1962


Davenport High School (Yale Joel. 1953)


The Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia.







Chicago, 1965 Danny Lyon


OMG ITS R2D2!


Out of nowhere...Justice Thomas notices for the first time how well Justice Kenndy carries himself in a robe


R.B.Kitaj: Garth...Now this, this is a crappy painting


Edward Steichen, Drizzle on 14th Street, NYC, 1925.