“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other...”
— Jay Gould
— Jay Gould
Dec 2nd
JAY GOULD'S DIVERSIONS.
“…he laughed at the panic which he had made. Millions of money flowed into the coffers...
Dec 2nd
Steve Ellis, ‘Chucks Eat The Rich’ 2007
Dec 2nd
"There you have it. The bailout was meant to...
Dec 2nd
Top image: Maurizio Cattelan, ‘Untitled’...
Dec 2nd
Maurizio Cattelan, ‘The first, they said, should be...
Dec 2nd
"Your last project was actually both...
Dec 1st
“Hey it’s a pink moon. It’s a pink, pink, pink,...”
— Nick Drake
— Nick Drake
Dec 1st
Unauthorized, uncredited Tumblrist remix of my work. See...
Nov 30th
‘And When The Echoes Had Ceased, Like A Sense Of Pain...
Nov 30th
Russian Zenit 35mm Fotosnaiper
Nov 30th
Marty McFly's First Girlfriend Wants To Sell...
Nov 30th
Gerhard Richter, ‘Abstract Painting (894-11)’...
Nov 30th
Pitman Shorthand writing example, 1859 (via Amassblog)
See:...
Nov 29th
Watch
Soap&Skin, ‘Thanatos’ music video, directed by Benjamin and Stefan...
Nov 29th
“To live outside the law you must be honest.”
— Bob Dylan
— Bob Dylan
Nov 29th
My old Braun Nizo S56 Super 8, c1970, still loaded with...
Nov 28th
Restored Braun Nizo Professional ‘Jubilee Set’...
Nov 28th
‘The Truth About Women’ from the pages of a...
Nov 28th
Lloyd can tell your future and eat your leftovers.
Nov 28th
View from friend’s window, 5 am, Brooklyn
Nov 28th
American flag and bald eagle store gate, LES.
“Ben...
Nov 27th
Late night texting, Brooklyn
Nov 27th
Old Brooklyn building, streetlight, and cables.
Nov 27th
Old army jeep and old truck, Brooklyn late nights....
Nov 27th
Lloyd can hear your thoughts and can see your weaknesses.
Nov 27th
Sunset through the window, LES/Chinatown
Nov 27th
‘Romantics love violence, too.’ Slavs and Tatars...
Nov 27th
The BQE over Meeker, Brooklyn, misty night
Nov 27th
“In a properly functioning capitalist...
Nov 26th
“I think the reason few people want porn in their art is...”
— Twitter / Clayton Cubitt
— Twitter / Clayton Cubitt
Nov 25th
Stefan Sagmeister, detail of ‘Things I have learned in...
Nov 24th
Old junk cars, 5 am, Brooklyn
See also: Old cars, Brooklyn,...
Nov 24th
“I’m not young enough to know everything.”
— J.M. Barrie
— J.M. Barrie
Nov 23rd
Unknown contemporary cartoon update of the...
Nov 23rd
If loving airbrush-painted, velvet-coated...
Nov 23rd
Contemporist: ‘Contemporary Bathroom Inspiration from...
Nov 23rd
“Trying to look good limits my life.”
— Stefan Sagmeister
— Stefan Sagmeister
Nov 22nd
Stephan Doitschinoff, aka Calma, ‘Ars Moriendi’...
Nov 22nd
“My idea is that if I say I’m sorry, then at...
Nov 21st
Will Blanche, ‘The Newly Constructed Towers of the...
Nov 20th
Study: Photographs Help Ease Pain
Nov 20th
John Dickie, gold and silver Versace-logo-encrusted Mexican...
Nov 20th
Charlotte Gainsbourg music video, ‘Heaven Can...
Nov 20th
Abandoned taxi on fire, Manhattan, 2002
Nov 19th
Cracked crosswalk guides and manhole cover, Brooklyn
See...
Nov 19th
The new mid-career retrospective (1990-) book for Nick...
Nov 18th
“Hey hey, you know I’ve met a lot of cool chicks. But...”
— New Order, ‘Fine...
— New Order, ‘Fine...
Nov 18th
Steam footprints in the bath, 4:26 am, Brooklyn
See...
Nov 18th
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more...”
— William Blake
— William Blake
Nov 18th
Walton Ford, ‘Sensations of an Infant Heart’...
Nov 18th
My favorite kind of beauty is jolie laide,...
Nov 18th
“After a certain degree of prettiness, one pretty girl is as...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nov 18th
‘Beware pickpockets and loose women. New Orleans...
Nov 17th
‘Vintage Dizainier Scout Finger Rosary Ring’,...
Nov 17th
Facts Prove No Match for Gossip, It Seems
Nov 17th
Perou, ‘Perou Hirst’ 2009
See also: Zhang Huan,...
Nov 17th
Walton Ford, ‘The Debt To Pleasure’ 2006...
Nov 17th
“I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living. I Sin For A Living....”
— The Meatmen
— The Meatmen
Nov 16th
Walton Ford, ‘Dirty Dick Burton’s Aide de...
Nov 16th
“Who gossips with you will gossip about you.”
— Unknown, traditional
— Unknown, traditional
Nov 16th
Vintage orange SUV in the rain, BMW grill, Brooklyn late...
Nov 16th
Listen
Billy Bragg - ‘A New England’ 1983 (purchase)
From Siege’s Summer of 17 mix, songs that...
Nov 15th
Fonville Winans, Lafitte’s Blacksmith Shop, New...
Nov 15th
Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian c1930s
See...
Nov 15th
Fonville Winans, New Orleans Mardi Gras c1930s
Nov 15th
“The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another...”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nov 11th
A Note To Young Art Directors and The...
Nov 11th
The birthplace of the New Orleans Po-Boy, Martin Brothers...
Nov 11th
Where I come from it is customary to have a “door...
Nov 11th
Kids in the Hall Do Businessmen. All...
Head Crusher crushes businessmen heads A businessman makes a terrible pet French fur trappers...
Nov 10th
Evelyn Hofer, ‘Marianne Moore’s Gloves’...
Nov 10th
Back of my iPhone scratches
Nov 10th
KT in a Brooklyn doorway
See also: Congolese Sapeur in his...
Nov 10th
The entryway in Cynthia’s new building, Brooklyn
See...
Nov 10th
1960s Bolex-Paillard projector, Maracuja, Brooklyn
Nov 10th
Sophy’s KRINK(ish) bedroom wall
Nov 9th
Graciella as Alice
Nov 9th
Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables
Nov 9th
Old Men Who Dress In Women's Clothing,...
Nov 9th
Watch
So you think you want to be a photographer? Watch. (thanks René!)
Nov 9th
Rich Corporations Get H1N1 Vaccine Before...
Nov 8th
Watch
‘Escape from GDR’ (c1980s)
Filmed by a passing tourist, three men and a woman...
Nov 8th
Death of Peter Fechter, Berlin Wall, Kreuzberg 1962
...
Nov 8th
Watch
‘The Wall’ 1962
US Government ‘hearts and minds’ film on the first year of...
Nov 8th
Richard Avedon, ‘Brandenburg Gate #1’, Berlin,...
Nov 8th
Watch
’S-Bahn Berlin 1980’
See also: Short Films of Guy Bourdin. Normandy, France, 1974
Nov 8th
Richard Avedon, ‘Brandenburg Gate #4’, Berlin,...
Nov 8th
Snips and Snails
“What are little boys made of? Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails; That’s what...
Nov 8th
Evolution of my snappy cams.
Top, left to right: film...
Nov 7th
My antique crucifix haul this week.
The big one with the...
Nov 7th
“Largest most complete collection of genuine...
Nov 7th
“Fragment of Confederate battle flag. SOLD:...
Nov 7th
Unknown flappers, see: your grandma may have done...
Nov 7th
“We were never feeling bored, because we were never being...”
— Pet Shop Boys
— Pet Shop Boys
Nov 7th
Romaine Brooks, ‘Peter (A Young English Girl)’...
Nov 7th
Joseph Stella, ‘Portrait of Clara Fasano’ 1943
Nov 7th
Romaine Brooks, ‘La Baronne Emile...
Nov 7th
Romaine Brooks, ‘Una, Lady Troubridge’ 1924
Nov 7th
Unknown, Marguerite “John” Radclyffe-Hall, 1928
Nov 7th
Romaine Brooks, ‘Self-portrait’ 1923
Nov 7th
Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'
Nov 7th
Corey Arnold, ‘Swans Are Evil’ from ‘Human...
Nov 7th
Listen
Thom Yorke - ‘Black Swan’ (purchase)
See also: Josef Koudelka, black bird hanging from...
Nov 6th
Watch
Redfoxxworth, ‘Just chillin’ with my umbrella’ (via lovemedown)
Is it blackface...
Nov 6th
Minayoshi Takada, ‘Double exposure- nude and...
Nov 6th
Weegee, ‘Equestrian’, 1956
Also: ‘Booked on...
Nov 6th
Joel-Peter Witkin, ‘Elizabeth D, New York...
Nov 6th
Mitch Epstein, ‘West Side Highway, New York...
Nov 6th
Listen
Nitzer Ebb- ‘Control I’m Here’ 1989 (purchase)
From Siege’s Summer of 17 mix,...
Nov 6th
Prisoner’s daily ration, Strangeways Prison,...
Nov 5th
Dolores the bald German bear (via Awl)
Nov 5th
“Because if it’s not love then it’s the bomb, the...”
— The Smiths
— The Smiths
Nov 4th
Drawing my bath, 3:16 am, Brooklyn
Nov 4th
Watch
Hermann Nitsch, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1982
Nov 4th
My little brother and me, circa 9 years old, near Lake Tahoe...
Nov 3rd
Watch
Volkan Ergen, ‘kaleidoscope dowry’
See previously: ‘two wings two // eight mirror’
And...
Nov 3rd
Egon Schiele, ‘Mutter und Tochter’ 1913
Nov 3rd
Bob Basset, ‘New Leather Horse Mask’
See...
Nov 3rd
Listen
ZZ Top - ‘La Grange’ 1973 (purchase)
From Siege’s Summer of 17 mix, songs that were on...
Nov 3rd
Rubber Glove Seduction
Nov 3rd
My teacup pimpcup TheraFlu cup
Nov 3rd
The Sex Diaries - A Critical Reading of New...
Nov 3rd
Entryway, Jackhammer Jesus over my entry door, exit sign...
Nov 3rd
'AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT'
Nov 2nd
‘Toung Taloung’ PT Barnum’s White...
Nov 2nd
“First and Only Genuine Sacred White Elephant Ever...
Nov 2nd
“A white elephant is a valuable possession of which...
Nov 2nd
Mark Pashne, The ‘Plowden’ Guarneri del Gesù...
Nov 2nd
Gerda Hopfgartner, ‘Gavari Semiacoustic Violin’...
Nov 2nd
"...never in human history had we been more...
Nov 2nd
Coffin Couches, ‘Low Rider’ model, $3500 plus...
Nov 2nd
Al Farrow, ‘The Vibrator of Santa...
Nov 2nd
Al Farrow, ‘Skull Fragment of Heilige...
Nov 1st
Al Farrow, ‘Leg Bone of Santo Guerro’ Gears, Gun...
Nov 1st
Al Farrow, ‘Trigger Finger of Santa Guerro...
Nov 1st