[clayton cubitt's thought bubble]

See also:
claytoncubitt.com

Katrina: Operation Eden

Twitter

Contact

Home

October 20
Tauba Auerbach, ‘Stacking (YES), Stacking (NO)’ 2007

Tauba Auerbach, ‘Stacking (YES), Stacking (NO)’ 2007

October 19
Unknown, red-tipped double feathers image from Ann Demuelemeester’s splash page Also: “Cue the gulls on the soundtrack, the black wing print on a white cord motorcycle jacket, the delicate chains draped from the models’ hair bands, and it came to you: caged birds.”

Unknown, red-tipped double feathers image from Ann Demuelemeester’s splash page

Also: “Cue the gulls on the soundtrack, the black wing print on a white cord motorcycle jacket, the delicate chains draped from the models’ hair bands, and it came to you: caged birds.”

+

On Dali The Brand

“About 30 years ago Dali was still forced to go out and more or less hustle his pictures to pay his hotel bills. One evening, drinking in the St. Regis bar in New York, he ran into a machinery manufacturer from Cleveland, A. Reynolds Morse. Their minds met and Mr. Morse bought a Dali on the spot for a piddling sum, a thousand dollars or so. He also said, as Dali tells it, “Any time you need another thou, send me a picture.” Dali sent him a good many in the course of time - Morse now owns about 400 Dali works, and is building a private museum in Cleveland to display them. If he ever disposed of them at current market prices, from being a minor-league Cleveland millionaire he would become one of the 57 richest men in the world.” Dali’s Dollars, Robert Wernick for LIFE Magazine, part of an article on Dali’s money-making, 1970

Also, a thousand dollars in 1940 is about $15 thousand now, adjusted for inflation.

+
Junya Watanabe, Fall 2009 See also: The Lincoln catafalque Also also: Éva Nyíri, ‘Black on Black’ And also: Sandra Backlund, A/W09-10 And lastly: Bill Tong ‘Oral Sex Fixation’

Junya Watanabe, Fall 2009

See also: The Lincoln catafalque

Also also: Éva Nyíri, ‘Black on Black’

And also: Sandra Backlund, A/W09-10

And lastly: Bill Tong ‘Oral Sex Fixation’

+

David Lynch, ‘The Elephant Man’ opening scene, 1980

+
“ I do not take drugs. I am drugs. Salvador Dali
+
Philippe Halsman, ‘Dali and Rhinoceros’ 1956 (detail) See also: Père Ubu by Dora Maar, 1936

Philippe Halsman, ‘Dali and Rhinoceros’ 1956 (detail)

See also: Père Ubu by Dora Maar, 1936

+
Philippe Halsman, ‘Dali and Rhinoceros’ 1956 A print made after Halsman’s death sold at Christie’s for $2,301 in 2008. “In fact, Dali once described his amusement upon learning that a rhino copulates for an hour and a half and, like himself, has an anal fixation and is given to studying its own stool.” See also: Philippe Halsman, ‘In Voluptate Mors (Dali Skull)’ 1951 And of course: Philippe Halsman: Dali Atomicus

Philippe Halsman, ‘Dali and Rhinoceros’ 1956

A print made after Halsman’s death sold at Christie’s for $2,301 in 2008.

“In fact, Dali once described his amusement upon learning that a rhino copulates for an hour and a half and, like himself, has an anal fixation and is given to studying its own stool.”

See also: Philippe Halsman, ‘In Voluptate Mors (Dali Skull)’ 1951

And of course: Philippe Halsman: Dali Atomicus

+

Salvador Dali at the zoo in Paris jousting Vermeer’s ‘The Lacemaker’ with a rhinoceros c1955

+
“ What evil looks had I from old and young! Instead of the cross, the albatross about my neck was hung. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+
Chris Jordon, ‘Midway, Message from the Gyre’ photographs of the plastic eaten by (and killing) albatross and their chicks from the Pacific Ocean garbage patch. (via Sean Bonner) “These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.” See also: The photographic ethics used in the making of the images (no plastic was added or rearranged) Also also: the photographic gear being used Must see: a short video segment filmed in Midway called ‘Message in the Waves’ about the albatross and the plastic, watch to the end for a stunning moment when all the plastic bits (lighters, toys, toothbrushes, printer cartridges) are laid out on an otherwise idyllic tropical beach. Previously from Chris Jordan: ‘Running the Numbers’, where he visualized consumption and waste by creating images with our detritus, such as ‘Sans Seurat’ a recreation of Seurat’s ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ made from images of 106,000 soda cans, the amount Americans use every 30 seconds.

Chris Jordon, ‘Midway, Message from the Gyre’ photographs of the plastic eaten by (and killing) albatross and their chicks from the Pacific Ocean garbage patch. (via Sean Bonner)

“These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. 
To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.”

See also: The photographic ethics used in the making of the images (no plastic was added or rearranged)

Also also: the photographic gear being used

Must see: a short video segment filmed in Midway called ‘Message in the Waves’ about the albatross and the plastic, watch to the end for a stunning moment when all the plastic bits (lighters, toys, toothbrushes, printer cartridges) are laid out on an otherwise idyllic tropical beach.

Previously from Chris Jordan: ‘Running the Numbers’, where he visualized consumption and waste by creating images with our detritus, such as ‘Sans Seurat’ a recreation of Seurat’s ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ made from images of 106,000 soda cans, the amount Americans use every 30 seconds.

+

"The Vus"

Déjà vu: I feel like this has already happened before.

Jamais vu: Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant

Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant Elephant. WTF is “Elephant”?

Presque vu: Ugh, it’s on the tip of my tongue.

+
The Lincoln catafalque. “A catafalque is a raised bier or platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service.” “The catafalque was hastily constructed in 1865 to support the casket of Abraham Lincoln while the president’s body lay in state in the Rotunda. The catafalque has since been used for all those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda…”

The Lincoln catafalque.

“A catafalque is a raised bier or platform, often movable, that is used to support the casket, coffin, or body of the deceased during a funeral or memorial service.”

“The catafalque was hastily constructed in 1865 to support the casket of Abraham Lincoln while the president’s body lay in state in the Rotunda. The catafalque has since been used for all those who have lain in state in the Capitol Rotunda…”

+
Anthony Berger, ‘Abraham Lincoln, February 9th, 1864’

Anthony Berger, ‘Abraham Lincoln, February 9th, 1864’

+
Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of Abraham Lincoln’s sons to survive into adulthood, 1865, aged 22. He was practically an angel of death. His father was assassinated the year this photo was taken. In 1881 he was present at the assassination of President James A. Garfield. And in 1901 he was present when President William McKinley was assassinated. He’s often also listed as being present (on the left) in this amazing 1910 photograph of NYC Mayor William Jay Gaynor being shot, but that was someone else. This doesn’t even include the fact that Robert Todd Lincoln’s life was saved in 1864 by Edwin Booth, brother of soon-to-be Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth. If it were a movie I’d call bullshit.

Robert Todd Lincoln, the only one of Abraham Lincoln’s sons to survive into adulthood, 1865, aged 22.

He was practically an angel of death. His father was assassinated the year this photo was taken. In 1881 he was present at the assassination of President James A. Garfield. And in 1901 he was present when President William McKinley was assassinated. He’s often also listed as being present (on the left) in this amazing 1910 photograph of NYC Mayor William Jay Gaynor being shot, but that was someone else.

This doesn’t even include the fact that Robert Todd Lincoln’s life was saved in 1864 by Edwin Booth, brother of soon-to-be Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth.

If it were a movie I’d call bullshit.