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Ann Agee
I’m not an academic. I’m just a lover – hungry, voracious – I like it all. – Ann Agee In March, while at Davis for a recruitment day, I attended a lecture from visiting artist Ann Agee, who works...
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weekend silliness: Robot Monster
Robot Monster promo You can watch the full length movie, though I don’t recommend it. Someone could do a book of just weird promo shots from all the terrible sci-fi B-movies made during the ’50s.
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USGS Photo library
Jim Vallance I found the USGS Photographic Library, which is a neat little repository. I looked around briefly and was struck by these aerials of the Mt St Helens eruption. It occurs to me that I’ve...
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Jackson in the West
William Henry Jackson The USGS Library also contains some public domain files of the early western expeditions. These Jacksons are from the Hayden expedition in 1871 and are titled, respectively:...
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Michael Lundgren
Michael Lundgren On Issuu, Lundgren has a mock-up of his Transfiguration series as a unconventionally long book with 4 images side by side in each spread instead of the usual 2. That doesn’t seem to...
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singles: Matt Black
Matt Black, Kingdom of Dust National Geographic did a write-up. Some photos from the series are also up in the ground floor of City Hall for the summer (til 9/19) as a part of The Valley/El Valle.
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Sanna de Wilde The World Eco Garden of Butterflies and the Dwarf Empire – is situated in the mountains of southern China near the new city of Kunming. Created in 2009, it is a tourist attraction...
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Loma Prieta
I know exactly where I was at five o’clock on October 17: at the entrance to Golden Gate Park at the Arguello Gate. I was on Arguello Boulevard facing the park, so I was facing Santa Cruz and the...
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On archives
Photographers: Nakata, Wilshire, Haugerud, Fisher The photos are from USGS‘ collection of Loma Prieta photos. That second to last one is Tom Brokaw writing his on-air speech. I’ve never heard of any...
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single: Lucy Carolan
Lucy Carolan Merry Xmas, all and everyone! I don’t know who this saint is, but I’m fascinated with his walking stick with gourd, which I associate with Asian mythological figures. (via ello)
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single: Marci LeBrun
Marci LeBrun (via Humble Arts. The Radical Color show looks good – it’s curated by Jon Feinstein and is at Newspace, Portland, til 3/30)
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State archives
Inmate photograph album, San Quentin Inmate Numbers: 18998–19003 Found this in the Records of the California Department of Corrections, San Quentin State Prison, which is part of the California State...
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