Tuesday, December 2, 2008

(no pussyfooting)

"Dancehall - The Rise of Jamaican Dancehall Culture"
'Tenkamaru; In a Tunnel' Tochigi 2005, from Decotora by Masaru Tatsuki
Araki, Sawa Suzuki
Michael Itkoff
Philip-Lorca diCorcia, W, September 1997 # 3

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Insouciance+restriction

Hana Kinbaku 2008 © Nobuyoshi Araki
Yuko Torihara, LA
Hana Kinbaku 2008 © Nobuyoshi Araki
...At heart she was indifferent to it,
little flashes of sun
on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

cold hands

"I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction."
Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre

Circuits, by Kevin Greenberg, from Lost in the lights

Gabriele Basilico, Le Touquet , 1984, from DATAR
Mark Kimber, Moonrise over airport from Edgeland 2008
Untitled #3, Murmansk, Northern Russia, 2005, by Simon Roberts
Carsten Peter

Monday, November 3, 2008

almost there

Li Wei
Doug Aitken, Migration
He's back: Kim Jong Il watching football

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Sarah Small

Leroy Watching Sandy
The Lawyer and the Gynecologist

Lonely Lakers Man
Water Jesus

She has been taking a Polaroid of herself everyday for 11 years. website

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Anastasia Cazabon



windows

Pieter Hugo, In Tyrone Brand's bedroom, 2006
JENNY BRILLHART, Royal Carribean Parking Lot, 2008, oil on panel
INGMAR ALGE, Höchst Nr.1c, 2003, oil on canvas

Jay Mark Johnson -- Swept Away

"...this can be read, in view of the inclusion of the element of time in Johnson's images, as a compelling visual reflection on the nature of time itself as a destructive maelstrom that washes away all that is but transient.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Asako Narahashi

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" W. Blake
I look back over my life
I try to find analogies
there are none.

Give me a world
you have taken the world I was

Erwin Olaf

Erwin Olaf, from RECENT WORKS, Hope, Portrait 5, 2005

Monday, October 13, 2008

Julia Niemczynowska

I met her in Montreal last weekend. See her website here.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Masao Yamamoto

Untitled #1527 (from Kawa = Flow), 2008, 6 x 9 inch Gelatin Silver Print

Monday, October 6, 2008

Todd Hido

Together with William Basinski for a cocktail of sapping nostalgia.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Touch

Great look at Touch by Fact Magazine.

Song of the day: "Weak 4 Me" by Nite Jewel