above us only sky 6:32 AM

Slow steps.

Not really a post about photos, but a post by an artist who has intrigued and engaged me all day.

Jan 11

I wrote this. I wrote this when I was twenty-two years old, right before I got married, right after my partner scraped together $400 to fly to California to live on a boat with me and drive all night to Las Vegas and drink hard drinks in Laguna Beach at ten in the morning and I posted it on Livejournal when I had a very public and alarmingly popular one. That was more than seven years ago and this past fall someone transcribed it, made it into a JPG and suddenly it was on ffffound and even more suddenly after that it was on thousands of people’s blogs. Literally thousands. But it was credited to Anonymous, which I guess is understandable since seven years is a long time to keep track of who wrote something on a Livejournal. My friend Erin found and told me about it, she had remember it all those years, and at first I was so embarrassed. Of everything I’ve made why did it have to be this melodramatic thing, made before I really knew anything at all? IT IS SO MELODRAMATIC. But my possessiveness is greater than my self-consciousness because when I see that some people weren’t even going along with Anonymous but saying they wrote it themselves I kind of want to claw their eyes out. It’s my melodrama. (Although one person credited it to Harvey Milk and that was the best)

Anyway, I wrote that.

A blog post by Helena Kvarnström, whose novella I really want to read.

usual suspects 7:52 PM

The Usual Suspects, by Karrin Anderson

never to young to learn how to kill 7:27 AM

Interesting take on the warrior child vs. the child-like warrior.

Ali Ali/EPA/WSJ

Craig F. Walker/Denver Post

Had really liked Walker's essay on this young American soldier. The boy's had a longer relationship with Fisher than his new bride!

Military Camp, Arpad Kurucz

time and space 8:23 PM

John Clang's exploration of shifting time in urban landscapes seems a lot less political - but then again may be I politicised Sam's work in my own head because the subject matter is a lot closer to my heart.

Which reminds me of of Sam Kang Li's work on Multipl-city:

But I would argue that the fragmented figures in Clang's work doesn't help evoke any intimacy - the jarring cut outs is anything but subtle perhaps. To that end, Sam's work technical execution is perhaps more successful in accomplishing that, although it does lack the layered depth of Clang's.

conscious seeds of this delight 11:37 PM

I have too much love for this Duane Michals photo right now.



Too much.

Artwork$ 11:36 PM

Who says you can't put a price on art?

EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927)

Joueur d'Orgue, c. 1898-1899
USD$686,500 (Christie's)





EDWARD WESTON
1886-1958
NAUTILUS
USD$1,082,500 (Sotheby's)





DAVID LACHAPELLE
Last Supper (Jesus is my Homeboy), 2003
USD$134,500 (Phillips de Pury)