…and I believe this one was based on pages in a Robert Musil book!  Copyright Natalie Czech 

…and I believe this one was based on pages in a Robert Musil book! 

Copyright Natalie Czech 




This one started out as a series of crosswords in the International Herald Tribune. Copyright Natalie Czech

This one started out as a series of crosswords in the International Herald Tribune.

Copyright Natalie Czech




Some people call Natalie Czech an artist and some people call her a photographer. I don’t know what the proper title is for her and don’t care, and I doubt that she does either. Czech, who lives in Dusseldorf, is having lots of fun with old government aerial photography — layering pictures on top of each other, blending the lines in Photoshop, and just generally messing with things digitally until they stop looking like old maps and old windows and old scraps that have been left behind, and they start looking like chemicals and modules and representations of how we live now. Copyright Natalie Czech

Some people call Natalie Czech an artist and some people call her a photographer. I don’t know what the proper title is for her and don’t care, and I doubt that she does either. Czech, who lives in Dusseldorf, is having lots of fun with old government aerial photography — layering pictures on top of each other, blending the lines in Photoshop, and just generally messing with things digitally until they stop looking like old maps and old windows and old scraps that have been left behind, and they start looking like chemicals and modules and representations of how we live now.

Copyright Natalie Czech




Thurston Moore’s Advice on Love

This is why Sassy was the most beloved teen magazine ever. They got Thurston Moore to write an advice column for their readers. Check out what he said to this 14-year-old girl — how crazy is it that I still need to hear this advice at 31?

I’m a lonely 14 year-old. I’m not pretty, outgoing or interesting. Why do guys only like beautiful girls? Anonymous

Thurston says: Because the majority of guys are too stupid and insensitive to realize a person like you may possess qualities of beauty. Become aware of what’s beautiful within you and cultivate it. Don’t be afraid of men. Be true to yourself, and hopefully an honest love will come your way. The more you have confidence and belief in your own beauty, the more likely this is to happen.

H/T to Britticisms for this one




“Palazzo Rezzonica” Of course it’s possible that I’m making that analysis because Matthias is a fairly young (born 1965) German who has had to ask those questions for all of his life. Contemporary Germans do know something about the weight of history, about the guilt of acquisition. Matthias is, like W.G. Sebald was, a German who understood that the weight and the guilt belongs to all Europe. Copyright Matthias Schaller

“Palazzo Rezzonica”

Of course it’s possible that I’m making that analysis because Matthias is a fairly young (born 1965) German who has had to ask those questions for all of his life. Contemporary Germans do know something about the weight of history, about the guilt of acquisition. Matthias is, like W.G. Sebald was, a German who understood that the weight and the guilt belongs to all Europe.

Copyright Matthias Schaller




“Palazzo Volpi” When these rooms are stripped of people, they seem leadened and burdened with wealth and all the secrets that money inevitably keeps. It seems that the rooms will last, and the awful things that were done to buy them, while their human owners fade away. All these deeds, the rooms shout to us, and for what? So that we can remain and so that you can crumble to dust? Copyright Matthias Schaller

“Palazzo Volpi”

When these rooms are stripped of people, they seem leadened and burdened with wealth and all the secrets that money inevitably keeps. It seems that the rooms will last, and the awful things that were done to buy them, while their human owners fade away. All these deeds, the rooms shout to us, and for what? So that we can remain and so that you can crumble to dust?

Copyright Matthias Schaller




“Palazzo Loredan” I’m cheating a little bit here because these are technically color photographs, but Matthias uses so little light in this series (Controfacciata) that the interiors seem darker than most B & W. Schaller has done a number of different series dealing with interiors, not people, but this 2008 series of ancient and wealthy Venetian homes on the Grand Canal is my absolute favorite. Copyright Mattias Schaller

“Palazzo Loredan”

I’m cheating a little bit here because these are technically color photographs, but Matthias uses so little light in this series (Controfacciata) that the interiors seem darker than most B & W. Schaller has done a number of different series dealing with interiors, not people, but this 2008 series of ancient and wealthy Venetian homes on the Grand Canal is my absolute favorite.

Copyright Mattias Schaller




Welcome to German week at Stereoscopic Magic. One of the things I didn’t expect about having a blog was that it would help me track, day by excruciating day, how long it’s been since I’ve had a proper vacation. (Yes, I’m one of those insufferable people who doesn’t consider domestic trips to be “vacations.”) I’m limping through April, and my trip to Berlin is in sight (next week! I swear), and to celebrate I’ll be posting German photographers all week long. First up is Matthias Schaller, of Dillingen. This picture is called “Palazzo Mocenigo.” Copyright Matthias Schaller

Welcome to German week at Stereoscopic Magic.

One of the things I didn’t expect about having a blog was that it would help me track, day by excruciating day, how long it’s been since I’ve had a proper vacation. (Yes, I’m one of those insufferable people who doesn’t consider domestic trips to be “vacations.”)

I’m limping through April, and my trip to Berlin is in sight (next week! I swear), and to celebrate I’ll be posting German photographers all week long.

First up is Matthias Schaller, of Dillingen. This picture is called “Palazzo Mocenigo.”

Copyright Matthias Schaller




tartanspartan: Dunes, Oceano — Edward Weston, 1936

tartanspartan:

Dunes, Oceano — Edward Weston, 1936



On a related note, I watched Mahogany for the first time this weekend. Oh. My. God.

Why didn’t anybody TELL me???

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