Agnès Varda’s gorgeous film The Gleaners and I is screening at the Walker Art Center this Friday, incidentally. Now’s your chance to enjoy it on a big screen: walkerart.org/calendar/202...
Still from raiders of the lost ark where Indy jones tells Marion not to look at the destructive super natural force of the opened Ark.
california atheist when these stories scroll by
we all sometimes lay around on our $70,000 rugs?
also seems like an explanation for the trans sports panic - parents turn into vicious monsters protecting their investments
the "60 Minutes" puff piece that came out before the Epstein files was so bad, he was dropping theories (that would take 50 years of research to prove) and bragging how he has lined up a bunch of rich people to pay him $200k to be their "longevity guru" (which, alas, didn't work out for Epstein)
this era of fractal euphemisms for “grifter”
trying to talk myself out of stopping at every vintage place on road trips and then I read this…
"blizzard of '26" "trapped inside Birdland" are the ingredients of an apocryphal all-night jam session
not that it's a favorite, but curious as to what aspect was so revolting!
The artist asleep on a pillow, his right arm to his face. Magritte Asleep Duane Michals 1/25
Duane Michals
René Magritte Asleep, 1965
❝𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮❞ an affirmation of resilience and morale for Black Americans recited by Rev. Jesse Jackson at Wattstax, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972 #RIP #BlackHistoryMonth
Conscientious definitely in this list - I just looked and it says 2002!? incredible
blog 1.0 / gen X bias confirmed that eventually corporate stuff goes 404 and one person passion projects live on for 20+ years (eg @greg.org )
essential documents of American life - Kanopy (in this case LA Public) has an excellent selection. "Aspen" (1991!) is really accessible place to start watching
Alberto Giacometti
Selbstbildnis (Self Portrait), 1920
Silsersee (Lake Sils), 1921 – 1922
Monte del Forno, 1923
happened to be on market for the giant rally yesterday- really strong energy
feel like it’s a title as important as Frank “the Americans” Evans “American Photographs” - Getty needs to have an always in print paperback
amazing work RIP! (“Ed Ruscha with Books” (1970))
there's one location (#47) that didn't have an address that I actually drove around looking for in Newport Beach (which has only a small industrial area, so figured I might get lucky, but alas). Newport Beach is a bit out of the zone of the rest of the dots, but that's where LB was born.
the box set (drool) is for the real fans and should be $$$, but Steidl should at least keep a paperback of Industrial Parks in print!
one takeaway from looking at the locations is: buildings that seemed shoddy or short term look strikingly similar to how they looked over 50 years ago. and to @tylergreenbooks.bsky.social point about nihilism and concentration camps - temporary becomes permanent.
if you want to see what the locations in the book look like today (or are in Orange County and want to rephotograph them) I made a map of nearly every place in the book.
maps.app.goo.gl/t4oXZSihaguF...
Baltz's key work is out of print (love Steidl, but important books should not be 'collectors only') - full version is on archive dot org if you sign in and check it out
archive.org/details/newi...
"your large wall" - salesforce custom fields for client room dimensions
strong recommendation on this and also their 2022 album “activities”
Dig the music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFQ...
wonderful SF arts news - local treasure Randall Kline of SFJAZZ has managed to secure funding for 100 units of subsidized housing for artists and their families. Good Dexter Gordon anecdote behind the project.
got distracted reading an article about how kids today are too distracted.
