today's surreal bit
03.30.07 @ 01:18PDT Wednesday, March 28th
the everyday
"Banality? Why should the study of the banal itself be banal?
Are not the surreal, the extraordinary, the surprising, even
the magical, also part of the real? Why wouldn’t the concept
of everydayness reveal the extraordinary in the ordinary?"
- Henri Lefebvre, "The Everyday and Everydayness" -
03.28.07 @ 21:03PDT Tuesday, March 27th
duo, part deux
03.27.07 @ 21:57PDT
03.27.07 @ 01:11PDT Monday, March 26th
duo
03.26.07 @ 00:23PDT Sunday, March 25th
"A study of mentally ill children discharged from community hospitals,
published in January in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found the
proportion of children diagnosed with bipolar disorders jumped from
2.9 percent in 1990 to 15.1 percent in 2000."
So....is the problem that kids are getting increasingly bipolar?
Or that doctors are too quick to make a diagnosis? Or perhaps
PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES are getting more voracious and
giving dangerous scrips to children???
03.25.07 @ 21:07PDT Friday, March 23rd
fucking OUTRAGEOUS
Michael Riley, 34, left, and his wife, Carolyn Riley, 32, are shown in
Hingham District Court during their arraignment, in this Feb. 6, 2007
file photo in Hingham, Mass. The two have been charged with murder
in the overdosing death of their 4-year-old daughter Rebecca.
You can read the article HERE:
http://outrageous.notlong.com
03.23.07 @ 22:35PDT Thursday, March 22nd
Gedi Sibony:
"Simplicity of shape does not necessarily
equate with simplicity of experience."
03.22.07 @ 23:31PDT Wednesday, March 21st
Leonard Cohen:
"I have to finish it to know
whether it deserves to survive."
03.21.07 @ 23:24PDT Tuesday, March 20th
which?
Which pictures do not empty themselves?
03.20.07 @ 20:12PDT
03.20.07 @ 00:18PDT Sunday, March 18th
heroes
It is wrong to create heroes;
It's not possible for them to fit
into the perverse folds of one's
imagination.
03.18.07 @ 13:16PDT Saturday, March 17th
lyric
Well most of all nothing much ever really happens,/
and God rides high up in the ordinary sky/
Until we find ourselves at our most distracted/
And the miracle that was promised creeps quietly by.
(Nick Cave)
03.17.07 @ 12:13PDT Friday, March 16th
eat your heart out
yes, this is the view out of my window.
especially nice when it is cloudy....
03.16.07 @ 00:31PDT Wednesday, March 14th
....
03.14.07 @ 00:28PDT
03.14.07 @ 00:21PDT Monday, March 12th
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03.12.07 @ 01:13PDT Saturday, March 10th
Note:
Only boring people say they're bored.
03.10.07 @ 23:22PDT Friday, March 9th
till.
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03.09.07 @ 00:13PDT Thursday, March 8th
quote.
"Kindness is in our power,
even when fondness is not."
-Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
03.08.07 @ 03:19PDT Tuesday, March 6th
Burbank McDonalds
03.06.07 @ 03:09PDT Monday, March 5th
Public Service Announcement
Being observant is not a crime.
03.05.07 @ 22:57PDT Sunday, March 4th
Some notes about area photography
The Indecisive Moment
For the last two years I have been working on a series that I call
"area photography". The subject matter I gravitate toward is
unspectacular, and the images are a mischievous reaction to
"epic" photography.. In area photography there is no "decisive moment":
what is captured is a comma rather than an exclamation point.
This series is an exploration of the ephemeral, the peripheral.
Questions are not answered; the story is implied but never spelled out.
The images are not symbolic but merely present. The ambivalence I feel
regarding the "monumental" or "significant" in art creates a tension
between meaning and meaninglessness that is expressed in this work.
I work in found situations and with objects already present in the scene.
Others may see fit to "de-ordinarize" their imagery, engineer it to produce
a surreal or unfamiliar effect. I reject this convention.
The aesthetic behind area photography is ancient. It is in the Japanese
tea ceremony, found poetry, flawed pottery. It is in the overlooked and
the rejected. The periphery is moved to the center.
Area photography simply says, "What about this?" BH
It is wisdom that sees the ordinary with amazement." – Lao Tzu
03.04.07 @ 03:31PDT Saturday, March 3rd
another new photo
03.03.07 @ 01:54PDT Friday, March 2nd
Amazing shot!
I saw this today in an article on global warming.
This photo is real - animals grazing in the foreground
of a power plant underneath a rainbow. Wow. 
03.02.07 @ 17:34PDT