un regard oblique

8.8.04

I'm trying to understand layers. I can't find anything online and I don't know anybody to tap for a quick how-to. It's simple, and I know these programs are more than capable, especially PIXIA. But there's an assumption of prior knowledge I just don't have. So I'm experimenting.

Child (girl) detail

Runyon/UT

Voyages Economiques
A Prix Tres Reduits
Hugo d'Alési
Gallica
BnF

7.8.04

La Creation Du Soleil, De La Lune, Et Des Etoiles Separation De La Lumiere Et Des Tenebres La Creation Des Poissons, Oiseaux Et Grands Animaux
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La chute de la Grande Babylone
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L'Enfer

Herrade de Landsberg
Gallica
BnF

Chemin de fer d'Orléans
Chemins de fer du Midi. Lourdes
Hugo d'Alési
Gallica
BnF

[The plundering of the King's cellar, Paris, 10th August, 1793 (i.e., 1792)] detail
Richard Earlom [a l'Université de Liège (Belgique)]
LoC
a .tif file (warning: 59 Megs!) shows the narrative clearer, there's heads on pikes, a woman putting a severed penis on a pike, drunkeness, ribaldry, a mendicant Jew with looted gold, the LoC description says there's a Native American woman with a severed head, though why she'd be there...

Deep Sea bass caught at the mouth of the Rio Grande

Robert Runyon 1881-1968
Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border Are a
Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin/LOC

also:
Woman in field (2)
Man and woman (2)
Woman and man
Runyon family at the mouth of the Rio Grande
William Thornton Runyon (on tree trunk), Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Reed, Albert W. Reed, Jr., and Lillian Runyon (Mahoney) at the beach, ca. 1920-1921
Armored Motor Car
Irma Dixon [public health nurse] and her automobile, San Benito, Texas, December 1920

Bella, a Maori guide sitting at edge of Rotorua geyser detail
Ice Palace at Leadville Colo.

The Choonbatty Loop on the East Bengal Railway

William Henry Jackson
LOC

Seven Pines
Haines Photo
LOC

For the brave young students in Soweto
Melvin Edwards
LOC

Afternoon of a Georgia faun
Michael Kelly Williams
LOC

6.8.04

"...because we have no representation"
myredself

A Mermaid Questions God

...religion is a thousand miles of coastline,
she is familiar with moon size, with tide changes.
She wears the cream of waves...

Kelli Russell Agodon
Verse Daily
06.Aug.04

This is a wonderful piece.