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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
Oswaldo Aiffil of Asà pienso... ¿tú qué dices? posts some lovely photos of the work of street artist Ergo:
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
 If it's Wednesday, it must be time for another post from Christopher Higgs! Mr. Higgs does not disappoint; along with other great visuals we get a link to Kate Westerholt's gallery of cross-stitch samplers. Funny stuff...
posted evening of February 10th, 2010: 2 responses
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
More goodness from bright stupid confetti* -- today Mr. Higgs takes us to the site of Ansen Seale, who practices slit-scan photography. His botanical photographs are gorgeous but for sheer surreality it is hard to beat his nudes:
 * And today I discover the site's name is taken from Sylvia Plath's poem Years: O God, I am not like you
In your vacuous black,
Stars stuck all over, bright stupid confetti.
Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
| At The Great Whatsit today, I read S. Godfrey's photoessay about his friend Finley decorating garbage cans with wallpaper, with a link to an NY Times article about it. What a great idea! Finley has a gorgeous web site of her own, natch, where you can see some more of her junk-themed art. |  |
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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Today at Paul Habeeb's Latest Research, I find a link to the site of Jim Kazanjian -- whose otherworldly photography makes me think of nothing so much as of Escher, as if Escher had come back to life and gotten himself a digital camera and a graphics workstation...
So, wow; that is nice to know about. But on a whim I follow Mr. Habeeb's via link, to Christopher Higgs' journal bright stupid confetti -- and find myself overwhelmed by the insane quantity of beautiful, interesting pictures -- paintings, photography, posters... surrealistic videos... lectures on poetry (in English) by Borges... I'm pretty much blown away by this site.
 Update: More info about Jim Kazanjian at artistaday.com, where he was profiled last month.
posted evening of January 27th, 2010: 2 responses
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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Accompanying National Geographic's new article about the chimpanzees of Goualougo Triangle are some great videos, including a hilariously cute tape of one of the chimps discovering the hidden camera. Thanks for the link, Martha!
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
...and Peter Ross has a bunch of other photography of the detritus of Burroughs' life -- reminds me in a way of the Museum of Innocence.
posted evening of January 19th, 2010: Respond
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At Shorpy, Dave has posted a picture of New York's Little Italy from 1900 that is one of the nicest images of that iconic time and place I've seen: Be sure to look at the full-resolution copy of the picture -- the level of detail is fantastic.
 Also: Around the corner on Pell St. ...and one block east on Mott St.
posted afternoon of January 19th, 2010: Respond
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
Another image from Heimat is making me wish I could find some stills and clips from this movie online; but no luck. The opening shot of Paul has been all in black-and-white; as he reaches his parents' farm he looks in the window of the barn where his father is working at the forge; its interior is shot in color but you don't notice this at first because it is dark -- the camera pans to the bar of iron that Herr Simon is hammering and its orange glow just fills the screen. And just as quickly pans/shifts back to outside and black-and-white. (The gruff, happy interaction between father and son in the next scene is pretty affecting stuff also.)
Update: Found a couple of stills.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
 I happened on Matt Logue's E M P T Y L A project earlier this week -- impressive and beautiful! Impressive in a totally different way (and beautiful in a roughly similar way) are Masataka Nakano's Tokyo Nobody pictures -- rather than editing out the crowds and cars, Nakano waited for the moment when they were gone.
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