un regard oblique

29.2.08

27.2.08

Bolivar Youth Orchestra delivers

He who invented hearts...

24.2.08

uh-oh

21.2.08

jars of...

The real Mean Monkey's got the labcoat on

19.2.08

Republican militiawoman, Barcelona, August 1936
Gerda Taro
ICP
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via TOP

Raveonettes at TSoAF
"Dead Sound" video at vice records

18.2.08

"These recording were made with the acoustic rather than the later electronic system. They were probably made in 1927 or 28. I have only my memory to rely on now. I obtained copies of these in 1959 and I recall being told that they were recorded in the late 1920s. Hearing them now the performances sound beautiful and steady, but when I heard them in the late 1950s for the first time, they seemed painfully loose and almost disorganized. I can also remember that when I first played these for the younger court musicians in the late 50's they thought the recordings had been made by some shrine musicians in some remote part of Japan. They were shocked and could not believe that the recordings were made by their own grandfathers even after I showed them the labels with the names of the musicians on it."

Japan Pre-World War II Recordings
Garfias UCI

15.2.08

Las Rayas Blancas: Conquista

12.2.08

The rooster had nothing to offer the chickens but rape, oratory, and a flashy uniform.

Only to say that this is what's missing from all that scientific exegesis and assumption.
No animal in any laboratory will ever express, nor will any controlled research ever document what's caught here by the being it was directed toward.
Love.
Daily Coyote

10.2.08

regurgigate the rich black bile

6.2.08

They are not staring at you...

Olivier Laude
What makes a great portrait
at Conscientious

4.2.08

“I am very anxious, with seven children on land and seven in the sea.”

29.1.08

I thought so

24.1.08

Gravedigger
Willie Nelson video badass perfection
via Ben Greenman/New Yorker
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Night Terror
Laura Marling
via SF-J/New Yorker

22.1.08

During her career at LIFE, Mieth produced hundreds of photographs and dozens of photographic essays. This article focuses on her most famous single photograph: a portrait of a monkey. This image has taken on a life of its own, beyond the intentions of the photographer or the editors of LIFE. It also sheds light on editorial practices at LIFE and exemplifies key aspects of Mieth's career at the magazine.

Meaning, memory and misogyny:
LIFE photographer Hansel Mieth's monkey portrait
Dolores Flamiano at BNET Afterimage
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Rhesus monkey sitting in water 1939
Hansel Mieth at Monroe Gallery

North Platte Neb. 1938 or 39
Hansel Mieth

"You cannot photograph without a point of view"
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Hansel Mieth 1931

Hansel Mieth at LoC
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film on and images by Hansel Mieth at PBS
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"This is a woman who lived through and documented fascist Germany, the Depression, the early migrant stream, McCarthyism, the Japanese internment - and did this as a woman in a male-dominated profession."
Nancy Schiesari on Hansel Mieth
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"Hagel [Otto, Mieth's husband, partner, collaborator, lifelong love] became a U.S. citizen in 1945, and in 1948, Life asked them to return to their hometown in Germany, which they hadn't seen in three decades. But shortly after their return to the United States, they were asked to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee. They refused, and although Life published their photographs from Fellbach in 1950, they received few additional magazine assignments in the charged anti- communist climate of the time."
Mieth obit at SFGate
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The primary archive of Mieth and Hagel's work seems to be at the Center for Creative Photography at Univ. Arizona, where it appears to be locked and chained behind a JSTOR wall. Not just that, but the images would seem to have already been online at some past moment, and to have been subsequently taken off, or down.
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