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November 10
1960s Bolex-Paillard projector, Maracuja, Brooklyn

1960s Bolex-Paillard projector, Maracuja, Brooklyn

November 9
Sophy’s KRINK(ish) bedroom wall

Sophy’s KRINK(ish) bedroom wall

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Graciella as Alice

Graciella as Alice

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Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables

“People might think it is a bit of a laughable affliction but I have a genuine fear of greens it’s not just that I dislike the taste of sprouts or broccoli, but the actual sight of them fills me with dread and I could never touch them.” (via)

See also: Finally, someone else with my diet
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Old Men Who Dress In Women's Clothing, Worship A Jewish Zombie, Often Molest Children, Somehow Still Influential
November 8

So you think you want to be a photographer? Watch. (thanks René!)

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Rich Corporations Get H1N1 Vaccine Before Poor Schoolchildren

(society advised to inoculate itself completely before the disease spreads too far.

See also: Oh Really?)
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‘Escape from GDR’ (c1980s)

Filmed by a passing tourist, three men and a woman desperately swim across the Spree to escape East Berlin, as a GDR gunboat rushes to intercept them.

See now: a happier use of the Spree

And also: The Spree at night, from the dock at Bar 25, Berlin

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Death of Peter Fechter, Berlin Wall, Kreuzberg 1962 “Peter Fechter was a German bricklayer from East Berlin who, at the age of eighteen, became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall’s border guards while trying to cross over to West Germany.” After being shot he lay there crying for help for an hour, to no avail. After his cries stopped, East German border guards retrieved his body. See also: Lee Miller, ‘Dead SS Guard in the Canal’, Dachau, Germany, 1945 And also: Crushed baby bird, Eastern Kreuzberg, Berlin Also also: S Mark Gubb, re-enactment of the death of Peter Fechter, 2007

Death of Peter Fechter, Berlin Wall, Kreuzberg 1962

“Peter Fechter was a German bricklayer from East Berlin who, at the age of eighteen, became one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall’s border guards while trying to cross over to West Germany.”

After being shot he lay there crying for help for an hour, to no avail. After his cries stopped, East German border guards retrieved his body.

See also: Lee Miller, ‘Dead SS Guard in the Canal’, Dachau, Germany, 1945

And also: Crushed baby bird, Eastern Kreuzberg, Berlin

Also also: S Mark Gubb, re-enactment of the death of Peter Fechter, 2007

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‘The Wall’ 1962

US Government ‘hearts and minds’ film on the first year of the Berlin Wall, including footage of escapes, successful and failed.

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Richard Avedon, ‘Brandenburg Gate #1’, Berlin, after the wall came down, New Year’s Eve 1989 See also: But the fading divisions between the sides are most apparent among those with no memories of the wall or the G.D.R., the generation born after 1989

Richard Avedon, ‘Brandenburg Gate #1’, Berlin, after the wall came down, New Year’s Eve 1989

See also: But the fading divisions between the sides are most apparent among those with no memories of the wall or the G.D.R., the generation born after 1989

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’S-Bahn Berlin 1980’

See also: Short Films of Guy Bourdin. Normandy, France, 1974

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Richard Avedon, ‘Brandenburg Gate #4’, Berlin, after the wall came down, New Year’s Eve 1989 See also: David Hasselhoff in piano scarf and blinking leather jacket almost getting hit by a firecracker on the same night

Richard Avedon, ‘Brandenburg Gate #4’, Berlin, after the wall came down, New Year’s Eve 1989

See also: David Hasselhoff in piano scarf and blinking leather jacket almost getting hit by a firecracker on the same night

November 7

Snips and Snails

“What are little boys made of? 
Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails; 
That’s what little boys are made of.

What are little girls made of? 
Sugar and spice and everything nice; 
That’s what little girls are made of.

What are young men made of? 
Sighs and leers and crocodile tears; 
That’s what young men are made of.

What are young women made of? 
Rings and jings and other fine things;
That’s what young women are made of.” -Robert Southey (attributed, 1820)

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Evolution of my snappy cams. Top, left to right: film Yashica T4 (classic black model, I used from around 1994-2008), Sigma DP1, the first “pocketable” (if you’ve got big pockets) digital camera with a big sensor, I’ve used since it came out last year, and the Canon S90, which I’m currently testing as its replacement, since I can put it in my pocket and not look like I’m too happy to see you. Bottom, iPhone/S90 comparison.

Evolution of my snappy cams.

Top, left to right: film Yashica T4 (classic black model, I used from around 1994-2008), Sigma DP1, the first “pocketable” (if you’ve got big pockets) digital camera with a big sensor, I’ve used since it came out last year, and the Canon S90, which I’m currently testing as its replacement, since I can put it in my pocket and not look like I’m too happy to see you.

Bottom, iPhone/S90 comparison.