December 2010
50 posts
Your Teena Marie Fix is Right here →
Missing Lady T? As usual, ?uestlove has your back.
“The American elite is almost beyond redemption… . Moral relativism has set in so...”
– Charles Dickens (via azspot)
Whoa.
Christmas Tree
notesfromapart:
David Hockney, Vogue Paris 1985
Agnes Martin “Untitled #1” 2003
Lisa Tyson Ennis “Topiary Study” 2006
Christmas List....
Currently wishing for….
1.) Out of print books by Fran Leibowitz
2.) A trip to Cape Cod (winter is the best time to go!)
3.) Those amazing Celine boots
4.) A long, lazy afternoon at Tartine
5.) A job (with health insurance!) for my best friend
I should probably note that I’m not going to get any of these things, and that’s okay. (Well, except for #5. That’s not okay.)...
Untitled from Africa: Gems and Jewels Series,...
untitledgraphy:
Love the second picture — the girl looks like so many girls and women I’ve known.
Good-bye, Hello
The estimable Tragos signed off of Tumblr this weekend, much to the dismay of those of us who have benefitted from the wonder he brought to the web. Feel free to peruse his archives if you were not fortunate enough to make his acquaintance.
In the meantime I see that I’ve got a number of new followers whose blogs I’ll be perusing over the holidays. Welcome! If there’s anything...
A Pile of Gems: Free Prints! Seriously, take them. →
quesofrito:
Over the years, we accumulate various prints around the studio - test prints, work prints, prints for shows, etc. I’ve had a big stack of 8x8 in. and 6x6 in. work prints hanging around the studio for several years. I’ve been meaning to do something with these fora long time . Give them away, throw…
I encourage all of you to take advantage of this offer. Christmas is coming...
"Person(s) of the Year"
conscientious:
There is a certain silliness to that whole “person of the year” thing. But it’s kind of interesting to compare Mark Z. with Julian A. - one doing away with all our own secrets and being celebrated, the other one doing away with our government’s secrets and being in the dog house.
The Photon Fantastic: Three Takes on Portraiture →
photonfantastic:
Vince Leo on Avedon:
The one point that never changes for Avedon is that the moment of exposure is a social moment. It’s “not a picnic or a wedding” but an intense “unearned intimacy” in which the individuality of both photographer and sitter are engulfed in a visceral, “almost erotic”…
"Standing in front of a man holding a placard with... →
Speaking of Frustrated White Men, why hasn’t Dale Peck gotten on his high horse about Franzen yet? Because the most vicious critic of 2005 is now doing useless shit like this. Oh.
(Save me, Yiyun Li and Javiar Marias! Save me, Maile Meloy! Save me, Jim Crace and Cormac McCarthy and all those who are still writing, against the greatest of all odds, decent literature!)
America's Most Overrated Writer
Alexander Nazaryan goes IN on Jonathan Franzen:
Franzen embodies the left-leaning mirror image of the Angry White Male of the ’90s, the archetypal conservative middle-class Middle American whose fury, stoked by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, burned in the face of affirmative action and political correctness.
His Doppelganger, the Frustrated White Male, is more sophisticated but no more enlightened...
