-- I just didn't think.
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Jun 30, 2008
Jun 26, 2008
strange shadows from the flames will grow
The basement is a place were all the junk is stored,
where bike chains are cleaned, brake pads replaced
& derailleurs adjusted. It's also a place where my
old stereo system holds forth---a 5 disc changer & receiver
that dates back to the mid-90s. I also have a ton of old cds
down there; as I looked through them, I realized there
wasn't a single pop album, except, maybe, all the old
Pavement albums (one of the best bands ever?).
It was all jazz (Miles in the Sky!! miles) or Grateful Dead, or Phish,
or something similar.
Nonetheless, I got a real kick out of listening to Terrapin Station.
I can't help it, love that song.
"some rise, some fall, some climb, to get to terrapin."
Whatever that means, but it comes at such an epic point in
the song, you can't help but be moved by it.
Jun 24, 2008
Jun 23, 2008
Prices Drastically Reduced . . . One Week Only!!!
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ampersandvintage.comWhen I say this,
I feel a bit like a raucous
rock station radio advertisement,
but each snapshot in galleries 1-13
on the website is just $3.
One week only (06.23-06.30).
& check out the new gallery.
I feel a bit like a raucous
rock station radio advertisement,
but each snapshot in galleries 1-13
on the website is just $3.
One week only (06.23-06.30).
& check out the new gallery.
Jun 22, 2008
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . keep your shoes on
Rescued these gals
from a house east
of MLK.
So modest---they
won't remove their
shoes.
anybody out there?
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Found this yesterday at the Paper Show here in Portland.
I haven't been so captivated by an object from the past in a long
time; I can't stop looking. I'm compelled to describe
its hold on me, but am afraid it will kill its power. Maybe
I just haven't had enough coffee this morning. Yes, I've spent
a few hours in my life listening to The Wall.
I haven't been so captivated by an object from the past in a long
time; I can't stop looking. I'm compelled to describe
its hold on me, but am afraid it will kill its power. Maybe
I just haven't had enough coffee this morning. Yes, I've spent
a few hours in my life listening to The Wall.
Jun 20, 2008
warm, memorable
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Distributed during the height of Kodak's Instamatic success in the 1960s, this type of promotional pamphlet perpetuates the idea that snapshots are the perfect medium for recording happy memories. Kids are the ideal subject, "simply follow their activities and keep your camera handy." Adults, on the other hand, are more reluctant, "Be Sneaky. Snap the shutter before your subject knows you are there." The point, of course, is to sell Kodak products --- "keep your camera loaded." As with promotional material of the past, Kodak seems aware that selling the myth of memory is not enough; snapshooters must also be happy with the pictures they take. Hence, we get a few tips that will, hopefully, create "pictures with impact."
Not that marketing ploys ever really mirror reality, but it's worth noting that real snapshots never actually feel this way. At least that's not my experience. Maybe it's the mixture of voyeurism & the fact that a snapshot is an artifact of a life once lived. It records a memory, but it's a dead memory. The connection is lost when the snapshot is given up; it's no longer a family photo. It has become a strange new narrative---one that, even if it records a seemingly happy moment, is tinged by something unaccountably surreal.
Jun 19, 2008
amateur, outsider
Chinese Kite Frame
Photograph by Thomas Smillie,
the Smithsonian Institute's first
dedicated photographer.
"It's very easy to be an amateur,
outsider librarian."
- from an interview with Rick
Prelinger of the Prelinger Library.
While I do not consider myself
a librarian (I have no sense for method),
I do think of myself as an amateur
cultural preservationist.
Thanks to Ross for both links.
_____________ Wear & Tear _____________
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Condition is equal to that
which was photographed.
Jun 17, 2008
Jun 13, 2008
Jun 9, 2008
Jun 4, 2008
Magic!! Superb New Tenderness
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"It has superb new tenderness. More inviting color, too.And, firmer, it is more economical because there is less
shrinkage when you cook it."
Thurston, Howard. Thurston's Book of Magic - Library of Magic Vol. 4.
3 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. Stapled pamphlet. 12 pp. 1920s. Published by Swift &
Company as promotional material for their Ovenized Premium Ham.
Howard Thurston
Jun 2, 2008
Jun 1, 2008
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