December 30, 2012
Frank Gohlke: Gwinn Estate
Frank Gohlke Gohlke early photographs of the landscape of the Texas towns---especially Wichita Falls---in which his family had resided when he was a child lead to him being chosen to exhibit alongside the likes of Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams and Bernd and Hilla Becher in the now legendary New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape show at the George Eastman House in 1975.
Frank Gohlke, Gwinn Estate, Bratenahl, Ohio, 1997
I haven't seen his latter work---his photographs of the Sudbury River that flows in eastern Massachusetts when he worked with color film and a 5X7 inch view camera. I understand that his photographs of 40 mile waterway are a mixture of a celebration of its beauty and a critique of the pollution from the surrounding industry.
December 25, 2012
happy holidays
on vacation:
Gary Sauer-Thompson
Suzanne, Ari and I are at Victor Harbor for the Xmas week. Suzanne then goes back to work for week, before we have ten days or so at American River on Kangaroo Island.
December 22, 2012
Hubble: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula
This object is a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula:
Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas.
December 11, 2012
Urban Landscapes: Andrew Lucas
From Urban Landscapes
Andrew Lucas, Donuts and Steamed Dogs, 2012
It is a juried exhibition of fine art photography by artists from around the world by Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado in the US. More from the exhibition here.
December 10, 2012
Grateful Dead: Bill Graham Tribute concert
The Bill Graham Tribute concert was on 11/3/91 at Golden Gate Park Polo Fields, San Francisco, California. The Grateful Dead section saw a laid back country groove, with guest appearances by John Fogerty and Neil Young. The atmosphere was that of a festival; the mood of the mostly young people was relaxed and joyous. It is a nice moment.
It was a free concertcalled called "Laughter, Love and Music" and was attended by about 300,000 people Vince Welnick was on keyboards for the Grateful Dead. Welnick remained a member of Grateful Dead and the band's keyboard player until Jerry Garcia's death in August 1995, when the group disbanded. Welnick suffered from depression badly and it eventually killed him.
December 9, 2012
Kate Breakey: studio photography
Kate Breakey, formerly a South Australian, now American.
Kate Breakey, cantaloupes, from Still Life
Breakey has won international recognition for her large-scale, richly hand-colored photographs including her acclaimed series of luminous portraits of birds, flowers and animals--Small Deaths.
December 2, 2012
the Stones' great lost country album
The Rolling Stones have finally begun to assemble and release their vast archives.
From Some Girls deluxe Version. Many say that Some Girls is the last great Rolling Stones album. Tattoo You, which was comprised of outtakes from several previous recording sessions going back to Goats Head Soup (Rolling Stones, 1973), was released as an excuse for the 1981 tour rather than a fully-conceived album.
The context is late-seventies New York, from which it draws much of its inspiration, punk music, disco and Keith Richards’ heroin habit.
This is Disc 2----bonus cuts from the original Some Girls sessions that have been bootlegged in various forms over the years
It's the Stones' great lost country album. It's been sitting in the archives for 30 years. Songs like "Don't Be a Stranger" or "I Love You Too Much" are standard-issue Stones that aren't far from the more formulaic music the band would routinely settle for on Steel Wheels and beyond.