February 2012
1 post
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"Martial Solal is a nuclear physicist of the...
- C. Michael Bailey (allaboutjazz.com)
Feb 2nd
January 2012
2 posts
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"Words are the children of reason and, therefore,...
- Bill Evans
Jan 27th
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Marylin Monroe
by Eve Arnold (1912 - 2012) “I want to be the tripod, the light meter, the motor drive.” - Eve Arnold on using the simplest equipment. and other personalities as well
Jan 13th
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November 2011
4 posts
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Jazz Is My Religion
JAZZ is my religion and it alone do I dig the jazz clubs are my houses f worship and sometimes the concert halls but some holy places are too commercial (like churches) so I don’t dig the sermons there I buy jazz sides to dig in solitude Like man/Harlem, Harlem U.S.A. used used to be a jazz heaven where most of the jazz sermons were preached but...
Nov 26th
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Paul Motian (1931 - 2011) - The Picasso of the...
Paul Motian, a drummer, bandleader, composer and one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 80 and lived in Manhattan. The cause was complications of myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood and bone-marrow disorder, said his niece, Cindy McGuirl. Mr. Motian was a link to groups of the past that informed what jazz sounds like today. He had...
Nov 26th
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albums of the week 47
1. ALL WE’RE SAYING - Bill Frisell 2.BANG! ZOOM - Bobby McFerrin 3. JAZZ CUBA VOLUMEN 1 - Chucho Valdez 4. HISTORY MYSTERY - Bill Frisell 5. FREEDOMLAND - Yellowjackets 6. AS IS…LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE - Avishai Cohen 7. RIO - Keith Jarrett
Nov 18th
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The world's most expensive photograph (to date)
Rhein II - Andreas Gursky ($4,338,500)
Nov 9th
October 2011
4 posts
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Bob Dylan by Barry Feinstein
Oct 23rd
13 notes
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"Everything good I have done, I have done on a...
- John Hodgman (who played the PC guy in Apple’s iconic “Get a Mac” advertising campaign).
Oct 11th
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Drawing Inspiration: Murakami
artworks by Micah Lidberg more
Oct 6th
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"There is no reason not to follow your heart. ......
Oct 5th
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September 2011
3 posts
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FUJIFILM X10
Sep 27th
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"A lot of my pictures are foreplay but the best...
- Nobuyoshi Araki
Sep 15th
7 notes
4 tags
"I have a piece of art on my vagina. Not one...
- Shauna Taylor (cover launch issue of Garage magazine, tatoo by Damien Hirst, photographed by Hedi Slimane)
Sep 2nd
2 notes
August 2011
4 posts
3 tags
Pentax Q
Aug 25th
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"A feature film is twenty-four lies per second"
- Michael Haneke
Aug 14th
15 notes
3 tags
albums of the week 46
1. LIVE AT “1444 GALLERY” & THE COMPLETE “77” LP RECORDINGS 1960 - Scrapper Blackwell with Brooks Berry 2. DO THE RUMP! - Junior Kimbrough & The Soul Blues Boys 3. THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION - T-Bone Walker 4. BUDDY AND THE JUNIORS - Buddy Guy, Junior Wells & Junior Mance 5. TROUBADOUR LIVE - Eric Bibb with Staffan Astner 6. MIDDLE OF NOWHERE -...
Aug 8th
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"Art is the highest form of intellect, and the...
  - James Mtume
Aug 4th
July 2011
8 posts
6 tags
Lomo LC-A+ Russia Day Limited Edition
Jul 26th
7 notes
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Thank you Roy Ayers, Count Basie, Beastie Boys,...
- Amy Winehouse (liner notes from the album Frank). R.I.P. the most beautiful creature.
Jul 23rd
5 tags
Lucian Freud (1922 - 2011)
Jul 22nd
8 tags
Introducing Tricia Lawless Murray
Jul 20th
4 tags
Making True Grit
by Jeff Bridges complete set
Jul 19th
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Jazz Album Covers of Alex Steinweiss (1917 - 2011)...
more album covers
Jul 19th
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SMALL Space for Living
Jul 18th
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albums of the week 45
1. HERE WE GO AGAIN - Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis featuring Norah Jones 2. ONE FOR YOU, SADAO & BONA LIVE - Sadao Watanabe & Richard Bona 3. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT - Pat Metheny 4. TO BILLIE WITH LOVE FROM DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER - Dee Dee Bridgewater 5. STANDING ON THE ROOFTOP - Madeleine Peyroux 6. HOUNDS OF LOVE - Kate Bush 7. TUBULAR BELLS - Mike Oldfield 8....
Jul 2nd
June 2011
2 posts
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"It's not where you take things from - it's where...
- Jean-Luc Godard
Jun 29th
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"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that...
- Jim Jarmusch
Jun 14th
May 2011
5 posts
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One of the best parts of my job is getting to see...
- Ryan McGinley
May 29th
7 tags
Lomo LC-Wide
May 20th
Architecture
Early-twentieth century Modernism greatly transformed our lives, liberating the human spirit from untold decoration. No longer needing to draw attention from God, all aristocratic attempts at ostentation have fallen away. At last we avail ourselves of mechanical aids far beyond our human powers, attaining the freedom to shape things at will. I decided to trace the beginnings of our age via...
May 13th
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Voyager Golden Record
List of Music from Earth » Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. First Movement, Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter, conductor. 4:40 » Java, court gamelan, “Kinds of Flowers,” recorded by Robert Brown. 4:43 » Senegal, percussion, recorded by Charles Duvelle. 2:08 » Zaire, Pygmy girls’ initiation song, recorded by Colin Turnbull. 0:56 » Australia, Aborigine songs,...
May 12th
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albums of the week 44
1. THE CENTENNIAL COLLECTION - Robert Johnson 2. BURNING HELL - John Lee Hooker 3. HOWLIN’ WOLF - Howlin’ Wolf 4. MOANIN’ IN THE MOONLIGHT - Howlin’ Wolf 5. I FEEL GOOD - John Lee Hooker 6. STONE CRAZY! - Buddy Guy
May 2nd
April 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Popeye Camera: Four Corners Edition
Once upon a time a small camera company looked at a Black slim camera and wished it could be the color of the sky. Carefully mixing the cyan into their molds, they emerged with one of the rarest ultra wide and slims ever created, the Popeye camera. Within months the production run was sold out to buyers in Asia. But 150 of these cameras had slight imperfections, and only the most perfect...
Apr 22nd
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Art attack in Washington: Gauguin had it coming
Martha Richler: The ‘art vandal’ Susan Burns had good reason to be angered by Gauguin’s soft porn Earlier this week, a woman named and shamed as Susan Burns entered the National Gallery in Washington DC and attacked with her fists a priceless Gauguin painting of two nudes - you know, one of the many he churned out in Tahiti. She’s been labeled a...
Apr 9th
February 2011
2 posts
4 tags
Making Tron Legacy
by Jeff Bridges complete set
Feb 28th
3 tags
Making Crazy Heart
by Jeff Bridges complete set
Feb 28th
3 tags
Hitchcock rocks!
Feb 17th
3 tags
"Film lovers are sick people"
- Francois Truffaut
Feb 7th
January 2011
4 posts
Jan 26th
10 tags
albums of the week 43
1. DUKE ELLINGTON & JOHN COLTRANE - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane 2. SUPER SUPER BLUES BAND - Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters & Bo Diddley 3. THE FREEWHEELIN’ BOB DYLAN - Bob Dylan 4. HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED - Bob Dylan 5. MOONDANCE - Van Morrison 6. THE BLUE NOTE YEARS - Paolo Frescu 7. BREAKFAST ON THE MORNING TRAM - Stacey Kent 8. RACONTE-MOI… -...
Jan 26th
7 tags
Ghosts
“I arrived in Ndutu only days after a huge bush fire had ripped through the area, burning down a vast number of majestic acacia trees. You could smell ash and cinders in the air. The destructive power of these fires is immense. I found many empty, whitened tortoise shells and saw disorientated impala and dik-dik wandering around with nowhere to hide. And then, a cheetah appeared on the...
Jan 17th
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Frame 36, the last frame of the last roll of...
Jan 2nd
December 2010
7 posts
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For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in...
PARSONS, Kan. — An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful color film and still the most beloved. That celebrated 75-year run from mainstream to niche photography is scheduled to come to an end on Thursday when the last processing machine is...
Dec 29th
5 tags
albums of the week 42
It’s the time of the season again BING CROSBY: THE VOICE OF CHRISTMAS - Bing Crosby A JOLLY CHRISTMAS FROM FRANK SINATRA - Frank Sinatra JULIE…AT HOME - Julie London A WINTER ROMANCE - Dean Martin THE CHRISTMAS SONG - Nat King Cole CHRISTMAS COOKIN’ - Jimmy Smith HAVE YOURSELF A SOULFUL LITTLE CHRISTMAS - Kenny Burrell CARLA’S CHRISTMAS CAROLS - Carla...
Dec 22nd
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"Looking at a painting by Pablo Picasso is like...
- Johnny Depp
Dec 22nd
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The Subjektiv: 4-in-1 German Lens Kit
by Photojojo Plastic Lens Module Pinhole Module Glass Lens Module Zoneplate Module
Dec 20th
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Dec 10th
6 tags
I Am A Camera
King of the Paparazzi Ron Galella has been called a “creep,” a “parasite” and a “stalker.” These are just a few of the litany of insults hurled by the talking heads in “Smash His Camera,” a new documentary about the preeminent American paparazzo.  The film gets its title courtesy of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who allegedly ordered her Secret Service agent to do just that after...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 3rd