Gland Prix

I Love Julia Holter’s Music! “In the Same...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:26:14 -0500

I Love Julia Holter’s Music!

“In the Same Room” from the album Ekstasis (RVNGNL14).
Available March 8th, 2012 from RVNG Intl. Available for pre-order now:

www.igetrvng.com/shop/122

laughingsquid: American Manhood, “The Virile Magazine,” 1950s

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:44:29 -0500

laughingsquid:

American Manhood, “The Virile Magazine,” 1950s

Zuck

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:57:38 -0500

Zuck

Hmmm… Lartigue → Zissou → Wes Anderson → Zissou! Zissou,...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:46:02 -0400

Hmmm…

Lartigue → Zissou → Wes Anderson → Zissou!

Zissou, Rouzat, 1911 (1911-25) by Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Multi TV Screens by Fred Herzog It’s incredibly treacly...

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:36:16 -0400

Multi TV Screens by Fred Herzog

It’s incredibly treacly and nostalgic to say so, but I miss seeing black and white sets. Tube sets, at all, even. My writing detracts from this image - I apologize.

Pierre Boucher - “Chute des corps” (via Pierre...

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:35:00 -0400

Pierre Boucher - “Chute des corps”

(via Pierre Boucher (1908-2000) | La chute des corps, 1936 | Old Master & Early British Paintings Auction | 1930s, Photographs | Christie’s)

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:11:53 -0400

The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami:

patrickjoust:

If you want to find a magical situation, magical things, you have to go deep inside yourself. So that is what I do. People say it’s magic realism — but in the depths of my soul, it’s just realism. Not magical. While I’m writing, it’s very natural, very logical, very realistic and reasonable.

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- Haruki Murakami

Differences of Opinion

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:27:08 -0400

Differences of Opinion

Diane Selwyn

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 12:54:01 -0400

Mulholland Drive remains one of my favorite movies. Yesterday while browsing around on Netflix I inadvertently found two interesting bits of trivia surrounding one of the personaes played by Naomi Watts.

Watts plays Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn. They are alter egos of one another but also reflections and dreams of one another. Both are actresses. On Netflix I saw a cover for a movie that had, in the background, The Selwyn Theater.

That Selwyn theater, now the American Airlines Theater according to wikipedia, was located in NYC. There is another Selwyn theater: The Harris and Selwyn Theaters in Chicago.

The connection between theaters and Diane Selwyn is clear.

The derivation of the name Selwyn itself also interests me:

Selwyn is originally an Anglo-Saxon name, also occasionally spelt Selwin, deriving from ‘Sel’ (castle/house) & ‘wyn/win’ (friend), roughly meaning “friend in the house” or “friend in the castle”.

That’s also from Wikipedia.

And, of course, not only are Betty Elms and Diane Selwyn of the same host and could be considered companions in the dream world. There is also the pairing of Diane and Rita (aka Camilla Rhodes) played by Laura Harring. They become friends in Betty’s apartment building when Rita cannot remember who she truly is.

Potato, trike, stairwell

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:25:57 -0400

Potato, trike, stairwell

First lines of Murakami's 1Q84

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:11:06 -0400

First lines of Murakami's 1Q84

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:37:54 -0400

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com:

An organic artwork.

Parking lot at storm’s end

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:03:45 -0400

Parking lot at storm’s end

This guy is on Tumblr now - excellent! tomlegro: Season: 1989....

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:02:37 -0400

This guy is on Tumblr now - excellent!

tomlegro:

Season: 1989. Age: 12. Height: 4ft. 11in. Weight: 80lbs. Glasses: Taped.

Grigori Rasputin: He’s No Waldo

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:19:22 -0400

Grigori Rasputin: He’s No Waldo

"We could not have known and have only just learned–perhaps mostly from children from two to..."

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:48:18 -0400

“We could not have known and have only just learned–perhaps mostly from children from two to five–that a new kind of relationship between people in groups is brought into being by SX-70 when the members of a group are photographing and being photographed and sharing the photographs: it turns out that buried within all of us–God knows beneath how many pregenital and Freudian and Calvinistic strata–there is latent interest in each other; there is tenderness, curiosity, excitement, affection, companionability and humor; it turns out that in this cold world where man grows distant from man, and even lovers can reach each other only briefly, that we have a yen for and a primordial competence for a quiet good-humored delight in each other: we have a prehistoric tribal competence for a non-physical, non-emotional, non-sexual satisfaction in being partners in the lonely exploration of a once empty planet.”

- Polaroid’s SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible

Edwin Land in The SX-70 Experience

Listening to “Borders Of Dub” by c60crew on...

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:45:00 -0400

Listening to “Borders Of Dub” by c60crew on Mixcloud.com

(via Chad VanGaalen : Diaper Island out May 17th 2011)

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:15:30 -0400

(via Chad VanGaalen : Diaper Island out May 17th 2011)

(via Today’s Inspiration: The Noir Stylings of James R....

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:36:00 -0400

(via Today’s Inspiration: The Noir Stylings of James R. Bingham)

This work is pretty fantastic. I agree that the above piece that Leif describes as a work of art is just that.

Also, fucking creepy.

Got some rolls of film back today. Put some up on the flickr...

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:24:00 -0400

Got some rolls of film back today. Put some up on the flickr page. Please check them out and say something pleasant. Or say something nasty without using your keyboard to share it. Share, share. Lot’s of sharing these days.

Oh yeah, the lens. Just for giggles. It’s the Contax 50mm/1.7. That’s a Contax/Yashica mount piece of glass. Love it. It fits on one crummy camera that I own. And every time I look at pictures taken with it I begin to work the desperate, spreadsheet shuffle in my enfeebled mind. I imagine getting a bunch of old Contax gear and see T*’s floating in my head. Instead, I just keep rocking my reliable Nikons.

That I love.