Crowd waiting for Salvation Army Christmas dinner baskets (detail)

"The George Grantham Bain Collection represents the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s."

Keyword:Tree
Bain Collection at LoC:

Tree Day Barnard College class of 1911
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[George Jay] Gould Home seen through trees Lakewood N.J.
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Sir H.B. Tree and Elsa Mackay
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Mischa Elman leaning against tree playing violin
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Christmas Tree Market New York City
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Viola Tree
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Helen Keller standing by tree
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Flathead Indians holding pre-Christmas family gatherings on the west side of Glacier National Park, in the dense forest of evergreen trees that skirt the Rocky Mountains
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Child Actor's Christmas Tree N.Y.
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German biplane anchored to tree in Poland
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Arbor Day N.Y. Public School 1908
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Tree Day Barnard College, Miss Plant and The Owl of 1910
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Tree Tea Garden
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Christmas Tree Madison Square N.Y.
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New York City lodging house Christmas tree
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Children leaving police Christmas tree
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Christmas Tree Children's Temporary Home N.Y.

Big Tree, Rangoon
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N.Y. Police Dog Treeing Tramp
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Keyword: Christmas

Christmas shopping
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Packing for the Christmas Ship [for sailors in the European fleet and victims of what was at the time, 1913, still a European war]
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Raffle for [or with] a Christmas goose
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A load of Christmas packages
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Christmas shoppers on 6th Ave. 1910
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Christmas street peddlers
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Christmas toys in shop window
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Dr. W. W. Christmas
and Dr. Christmas elsewhere:

Dr. William W. Christmas
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Dr. William Wallace Whitney Christmas "had an exceptional career as a North Carolina aeronaut."
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Salvation Army Christmas dinner
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Taking home Salvation Army Christmas dinner
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Crowd waiting for Salvation Army Christmas dinner baskets 1908

Suffragette night paraders

Los Angeles Airplane Hat

Beggar, with dog, Hoboken, N.J. (detail)

News photographs of New York City, early twentieth century
George Grantham Bain Collection
LoC

One Boy, One Girl, One Drawing
Catherine Ryan

MINE! YOURS!Vigna-Maru apologizes to Goddelijke Gladiolen for non-attribution, even though she was unaware that the links she ran were originating, if that's the word, there. Someone from GG wrote to her about it.
In the early days I didn't understand a lot of that, how important it was to those doing the slog, and I just threw things up with abandon.
One time I had a distinct psychic hit from Plep of irritation and whatever it is that people feel when they feel they aren't being given credit they're due. Another time it was the late lamented dublog. Doing all the work of digging out the sources and putting them up and then seeing someone else put those same links up and knowing that others may see that and think they did the work rankles. It's like the Intellectual Property disputes.
Too much like them for me. I try to avoid plagiarism, or really what it is I try to avoid is the feeling of accomplishment when it isn't earned. But what's most important is the work.
What this is becoming because of all that work. We're making something that's too big for us to understand what it is. What it isn't, what it won't ever be, is a big pile of cumulative personal attainments, even though it's made out of almost nothing but that.
Sony is disgusting because of their business practices. Atomizing those business practices, even when no money changes hands, isn't progress.
It's tingly to see your site mentioned, especially by someone popular. And it's confirming to recognize and be recognized.
But that isn't what's central and important. A lot of the best art and photography I find on the net is in the public domain now. We need to get all the way away from a system of values that makes that less important than something that has a copyright on it.
Ours.

"INVASIONS is a large body of work related to the loss of privacy in contemporary society due to technology, surveillance, and the collection of personal data for commercial purposes. The subjects of these paintings often do not know their activities are being documented, much as we are unaware that we are documented daily by hundreds of hidden and not so hidden cameras."

Debra Goertz
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Stricoff Fine Art

Tiel li diris. Patroklo obeis la karan amikon :
Li elkondukis el tendo kaj donis knabinon rugxvangan
Al la senditoj, kaj tiuj foriris al sxipoj Ahxajaj;
Kaj ne volonte kuniris knabino. Dume Ahxilo
Iris plorante for de amikoj kaj tie sidigxis,
Sur la bordo de l' maro; rigardis li maron malluman...

Zamenhof

Recent spam-haiku:

Dulciana Peoples - sprang it's gainful, it's Petrina
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Ekewaka Clendenin - Re: wallflower wellturned heavy and dirty

U the man
illlustrations
Colin Johnson

Facial recognition in bees
Dental perception in narwhals
Recycled-tire spanking paddles
Assortativity in rapstar networks
collision detection
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link Boynton

An especially compelling journal entry from “I travel in your head – visual correspondent in The Netherlands” Aline Thomassen

Curious Frau has a well-done guide on using the search engine at bildindex for non-German-speakers. With a link to a bildindex tutorial with screenshots by saragrace.
Both of these persons seem to be costume designers.
Curious Frau's main page, while not having been updated since last August, nonetheless features a tutorial/guide to the search engine at Der Institut für mittelalterliche Realienkunde / Digitale Bildsammlun, from whence the following detail and click-through seasonal image.

Maria mit Kind (detail)
Tomaso da Modena
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uses frames.

Shell in Silk
Ruth Bernhard
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Forever Young: Bob Dylan & the 60s

Peter Fetterman Galleries

"The most important thing is that the music flow out to where it could bring enjoyment."
Jane Siberry stage dives into the arms of everyone
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link robotwisdom

Wooster documents the immune system response to Sony's viral infection of street culture.

Artdaily bids a sombre and spooky farewell

True banana reality amazing Nicaragua writer Blu
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link Wooster

Sloan's Boy
New Work
Helen Verhoeven
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link goddelijke gladiolen