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It was in the late 1930s that [Walter] Anderson first succumbed to mental illness. He was diagnosed with severe depression and spent three years in and out of hospitals. Following his hospitalizations, Anderson joined his wife and small children at her father’s antebellum home in Gautier, Mississippi. The pastoral tranquillity of the "Oldfields" plantation provided an ideal setting for recuperation. During this period, he rendered thousands of disciplined and compelling works of art which reflected his training, intellect, and extraordinary grasp of the history of art.
In 1947, with the understanding of his family, Anderson left his wife and children and embarked on a private and very solitary existence. He lived alone in a cottage on the Shearwater compound, and increased his visits to Horn Island, one of a group of barrier islands along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. He would row the 12 miles in a small skiff, carrying minimal necessities and his art supplies. Anderson spent long periods of time on this uninhabited island over the last 18 years of his life. There he lived primitively, working in the open and sleeping under his boat, sometimes for weeks at a time.
He endured extreme weather conditions, from blistering summers to hurricane winds and freezing winters. He painted and drew a multitude of species of island vegetation, animals, birds, and insects, penetrating the wild thickets on hands and knees and lying in lagoons in his search to record his beloved island paradise. Anderson’s obsession to "realize" his subjects through his art, to be one with the natural world instead of an intruder, created works that are intense and evocative.
i suddenly realized i didnt understand the meaning of irony anymore. then i found out that im not the only one.
was gaining approval for the war in iraq just the administration gaming the post 9/11 end of irony?
duh:
In March 2003 we already knew that the Republicans were mendacious enough to stage a phony impeachment and steal an election. And we also knew that the brand name in an empty suit they call a president was a fool and that the people who were backing the war had been wrong about every single big ticket foreign policy issue since the mid 70's. We knew that the Democratic Senators who voted for the war resolution were re-fighting Gulf War I where many Democrats were ignominiously shown to be losers when they voted against a war that we went on to gloriously win. They were scared of being on the wrong side again. (And they blew it --- again.)
"Long before March 2003, I knew this. I'm nobody. And here you have these people who call themselves liberal intellectuals who were evidently taken in by a man who spoke in comic book dialog, a Laurie Mylroie friendly foreign policy team that was nuttier than fruitcakes and a mission being sold as a cakewalk that was to any lowly layman's eye the most daunting nation building task since WWII. Their delusional, unilateral preventive war doctrine alone should have been enough to jolt any self-respecting liberal into keeping his distance...
no superdome
When a federal judge ruled this month that a lawsuit brought by Thomas Shine, formerly a student at the Yale School of Architecture, against David M. Childs, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, could proceed, the architecture world was caught off guard.
It wasn't the accusation - that Mr. Childs appropriated one of Mr. Shine's student projects in a 2003 design for the Freedom Tower at ground zero - that seemed puzzling. The surprise was that Skidmore's motion for dismissal had been unsuccessful. For once, an accusation of architectural plagiarism had taken on a life beyond cocktail party chatter and snippy blogs.
vw camper/tent combos - the breadloaf-era 68-79
6 more from the arkansas vendor...
more from the arkansas photo vendor...
In 1939, at the suggestion of booking agent Willard Alexander, McKinley joined forces with Will Bradley (formerly Wilber Schwitsenberg) to form the "Will Bradley Orchestra featuring Ray McKinley." With McKinley on vocals and drums, the band's several hits included Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar, Down the Road Apiece and Celery Stalks at Midnight. McKinley left in 1942 to form his own group, The Ray McKinley Orchestra. The band was very well-recieved, but broke up after only 8 months due to external factors including the outbreak of the second World War. McKinley placed many of his players with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra just before he was drafted.sound links via put another nickel in...
this herber springs arkansas ebay seller has set up an ebay store from which they are selling scads of portraits. the following lot is being broken up. shots taken in front of a store by what im calling "the picture takin' bench."
bridge freezes before road
(untitled) inside tavern polaroids
the nomi song
TNS by RT
"It's not an archive of the rich and cool," Mr. Patterson noted. "It's about the tragic, glorious, sometimes depressing history of the Lower East Side."
In the 1960s, Danto "got bowled over by Pop Art," a movement that embraced the brash visual imagery of consumer culture. An encounter with Andy Warhol's Brillo Box in 1964 at the Stable Gallery in New York inspired him to write on the new movement--but for philosophers. "I thought, If that's possible [for a Brillo box to be perceived as art], anything is possible. It then occurred to me that I could write philosophically about this," he recalls. Danto was intrigued by the problematic relationship of the two Brillo boxes--the "real" Brillo box and Warhol's Brillo Box installation. Since the Brillo boxes look identical, Danto wondered, what makes one a work of art? This question led Danto to write his first book on art, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace.
rivercamps / cracker-modern "new ruralism"
The use by fine artists of mass-market and commercial cartoon imagery goes back decades -- both Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol were pursued by photographers for copyright violations (the artists tended to settle), and Jeff Koons famously litigated the String of Puppies case all the way to the Supreme Court (he lost). The Walt Disney Co. brought an infringement suit against Dennis Oppenheim for using small statuettes of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck in his sculpture Virus, with mixed results -- the artist was forbidden to sell the work but allowed to exhibit it. Karen Finley’s 1999 book, Pooh Unplugged, a rather scatological version of the children’s classic, forestalled a similar lawsuit by labeling the publication "a parody" on its cover. The issue is a hot one -- more recently, artists including Tom Sachs and Damien Loeb have been touched by copyright (and trademark) disputes. Stay tuned.
jumpin jive king of swing louis prima
Beloved punk icon Randy "Biscuit" Turner was found dead in his home Thursday afternoon, the same day a feature story about him appeared in the The Austin Chronicle.
Nationally, Turner was best known as the frontman for punk-funk pioneers the Big Boys. With the Big Boys, Turner subverted the rapidly entrenching dogmas of American hardcore punk in the late 1970s and early '80s with humor, eclectic songwriting and outrageous costumes.
With guitarist Tim Kerr, bassist Chris Gates and drummer Rey Washam, the Big Boys, which lasted from 1978 to 1984, became known for explosive and funky live shows. They slowed down punk tempos to allow for syncopated rhythms and played with nonpunk bands such as the Washington, D.C., go-go act Trouble Funk. The Big Boys can be seen as a direct precursor to funky rock acts such as the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Fishbone. The band's encouragement of audience participation made them iconic punk rockers.
stones boots
(claudine paris rehearsals 1977-79)
which doobie u.b.?
a blog oddly preoccupied with Michael McDonald, Cam'ron's Dipset crew and Disney Epcot. If you can fathom what the hell is going on, you'll find links to some great freestyle, mashups, remixes etc. There's even an R. Kelly video with its five parts synched up and played on top of one another. Not for the epileptic among you.via brian turner overdrive at wfmu blog
buyers guide 70's corvettes
semi-custom seat covers
from mark lombardi to sherman skolnick to...
google print / library search
rat rod pick of the week
1848 1889 map of jersey city
1872 map hudson county
1804 map jc waterfront
the drawing center bags it:
The Drawing Center, meanwhile, will not be moving to the site, Whitehead said. After weeks of discussion with the LMDC, Whitehead said, the museum was "finding it difficult to comply with the requirements."
The Freedom Center and the Drawing Center are parts of cultural space long planned at the World Trade Center site, which also would include a performing arts complex. But in recent months family members have waged a campaign to remove the two institutions from the site, saying they could include anti-American exhibits and distract attention from a planned memorial museum.
Debra Burlingame, the sister of an American Airlines pilot who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, applauded the Drawing Center's decision not to build on the site but said there is little point in continuing discussions with the Freedom Center.
"They're not telling the story of 9/11," she said. "They're going to have controversial programming that they cannot guarantee in perpetuity will be respectful."
this is a complete disgrace. no grass-roots support from the art community. none from artnet thats for sure. division within the drawing center board. no support from the dc for the artist amy wilson when the "victims families" (with the help of the daily news and gov pataki) conspired a mock crisis of content publicity scandal. respect for the victims = support for the atrocities intact war in iraq so just keep it the fuck to your self !?!? the institutions must now guarantee "respect" in perpetuality. does this mean no disrespectful ballets or plays too !?!? are these families going to stick around and vet all programs and exhibits on these hallowed grounds forever? are we talking about a theme-park of perpetual war supporting and 9/11 morning? who would want to function artistically under these restrictive conditions? i see artistic freedom of speech as we knew it, slip, slip, slippin' away. ...and nobody's saying nuttin'.
running on empty
via zoller
The fate of Edward Durell Stone's Two Columbus Circle may be uncertain, but one of the architect's early works, the 1939 A. Conger Goodyear House in Old Westbury, N.Y., has become a success story.
"Jesus, on the cross, in his waning moments of life, calls to the crowd below, 'Peter!' The apostle Peter hears the call and moves closer to his liege. 'Yes, my Lord, he says. Jesus calls again, 'Peter!' Peter approaches the base of the cross, 'Yes my Lord, it is Peter, I am here for you what do you need?' Jesus calls, 'Come closer Peter.' Peter is beside himself, wondering what the son of God might have to say to him alone... He climbs the cross. Jesus calls 'Peter, come closer.' Peter replies that he is coming. At last, Peter reaches Jesus on the cross, and says, 'I am here my Lord, what can I do?' Jesus says 'Peter? Peter? Is that you Peter?' 'Yes my Lord, I am here for you.' Jesus says 'Peter, I can see your house from here....' "
The producer of a low budget film is trying to convince the newly hired director of the quality of the work by telling him the big names they've gotten for the cast.
"First of all," he tells him, "We've got Gibson in the lead."
The director is surprised, "You got Mel Gibson?"
"Well, no," the Producer responds, "we got Marvin Gibson, he's a distant cousin who lives in Queens, but he's very up and coming. And besides, we've also got Redford."
"You got Robert Redford?" the director asks.
"No, we got Jeremy Redford, but he's very talented and has lots of acting experience from years of dinner theater. But," he says enthusiastically, " we've got Streisand and in a singing role."
"Barbara Streisand?" he asks.
"No, Elizabeth Streisand." The Producer responds. "But she's got a great voice. AND we've got Goulet."
"You got Robert Goulet?" the director asks.
"Yeah," the producer replies, "we got Robert Goulet."
gaylord fields 08.07.05
lots of sweet surface noise from these 45 rpm only selections - go mono !
recommendation *****
there was only one guy left, the last great bolero singer. rip ibrahim ferrer.
The father of general semantics, Alford Korzybski stated, "A map is not the territory it represents, but if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness". What this means is that our perception of reality is not reality itself but our own version of it, or our "map".[An expression coined by Eric Bell and popularized by Alfred Korzybski.]
science and sanity reviewed
the map is the territory (google(satellite)maps/sims)
the rug is not the territory
non-sites
polaroid man
the album covers of andy warhol
Warhol took the cover shot; though many assumed the model was Jagger, it has often been rumored to be a hanger-on at the Factory, Warhol's studio, named Joe Dallesandro. Then Braun realized there had to be an extra layer of cardboard to protect the record from the zipper; that layer features another Warhol shot of a different man, possibly the twin brother of Warhol's "boyfriend" and assistant Jed Johnson, this time in his jockey shorts.
Note that Warhol had nothing to do with the design of the Rolling Stones Records tongue logo, which has now become synonymous with the Stones themselves.
so who did design the tongue logo?
astor place cube expected back soon
Recently, hood ornaments have become a subject of performance art, in the form of tableaux vivants, or "living pictures."
Live performers will recreate hood ornaments at this year's Pageant of the Masters, an arts festival that has taken place each summer since 1935 in Laguna Beach, Calif. The theme of this year's pageant, which runs through Sept. 1, is "On the Road: A Crash Course in Art and Popular Culture."
As students of primeval D-ology know, A.J., who quit college in 1968 to create the first computer-generated Dylan Word Concordance, is most famous for going through Bob's garbage. This "garbology" action was part of a full-scale assault launched by the Dylan Liberation Front, a bunch of Yippie pot smokers who thought Dylan, the most angel-headed head of the generation, had fallen prey to a Manchurian Candidate-style government plot to hook him to sensibility-deadening hard dope. These findings were based on A.J.'s highly idiosyncratic interpretations of "Dylan's secret language," a code that, once cracked, revealed words like "rain" and "chicken" (as in "the sun is not yellow -- it's chicken!") to actually mean "heroin." It was Dylan's addiction that led the poet to make sappy records like Nashville Skyline and New Morning when his great gift could have been better used speaking out against Vietnam, A.J. contended. "Dylan's brain belongs to the People, not the Pigs!" was among the fervent cries back in 1970, as A.J. led the forty or so smelly hippies in his Dylanology class to Bob's home at 94 MacDougal Street, where they screamed for Dylan to "crawl out yer window" and answer charges that he had been co-opted. After an unsolicited DLF-inspired block party for Dylan's thirtieth birthday, which resulted in the NYPD shutting down Bleecker Street, and a long series of hectoring phone calls (the tapes were compiled on a Folkways Records release entitled Bob Dylan vs. A.J. Weberman, now a major Bob collectible), Dylan struck back.
Soviet constructivism, an artistic and architectural movement within the overall modernist movement of the early 20th century, was seen by its adherents as a method, not a style. However, constructivist buildings tended to share certain stylistic tendencies: sweeping lines, a distinctive geometry, cylindrical stairwells, "ribbon windows" and plenty of glass, as well as a general simplicity and an absence of frivolous decorative touches. Lightness and transparency, not the first qualities to spring to mind when one thinks of Russia, were prized.
Sadly, many of Moscow's constructivist treasures have already been sharply altered, are currently undergoing ill-advised "reconstruction" or are simply falling into ever-greater disrepair, and are thus threatened with total destruction. A few are relatively well-known, but the majority are scattered throughout the city, unnoticed and unsung. This guide, though not comprehensive, points toward a few lesser-known structures.
who threw the hot dog?
drunk vs stoned after-party raided by nypd
funhouse nyc
looking for a copy of that dukes of hazard theme song ? check under "D" or like "H" for hogans heros or like "F" for flipper...
Fast-forward to a little-known exchange between photographer/ filmmaker Hollis Frampton and sculptor Carl Andre in 1962. (3) Frampton suggests that Andre's typewriter poems are not concrete enough because they mingle sound and sight just as Rimbaud's poem "Voyelles" (1870–71) had done by assigning each vowel a color: "What must be brought about is the divorce of this whole precinct of our activity from the vague shapes of synaesthesia." Considering that Andre's poems were hardly mushy (the one in question is "roseroseroseroserose"), we can see just how far Greenberg's hardheaded approach had taken artists by the 1960s—indeed beyond Greenberg, who had by then retreated into his own kind of sensory haze called "opticality." (4)
when gospel was gospel
marion williams remember me