Anodyne
Sunday, July 31, 2016
 
Will I sell condos to Russians on occasion?

Probably.

I mean I do that.

I have a lot of condos. I do that.

But I have no relationship to Russia whatsoever.
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Friday, July 29, 2016
 

Still testing. 1/320, f13, 24mm.
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Test print for Gibby's Field, 2016
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Seized, 2016
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
 





Gibby's Field, 2016. Production stills, 35mm.
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Knight Flowers, 2016
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Monday, July 25, 2016
 

3741 Knight Street, Vancouver BC, 2016
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InkOff, 2016
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Announcing: Some Versions of Pastoral, a new solo exhibition of black-and-white and color photographs.

Fault Line Projects, Saltspring Island, early October 2016.

Exact date TBA here in due course.
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Sunday, July 24, 2016
 

















Maquette for Gibby's Field (Picture for Peter Culley), 2016, 24mm.

Dead poets' voices I have heard in my head
are not terrifying. 
                              They tell me like lovers
we are worth speaking to, 
                                          I am a branch
a singing bird will stand on for a moment.

 Like a singing branch I call out in return.  How
do otherwise?

(George Bowering, Kerrisdale Elegies)
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Sketch for Gibby's Field, 2016, 50mm.
- posted by cjb @ 7:22 PM
 
Guy Paints Over Shit Graffiti And Makes It Legible
- posted by cjb @ 5:00 PM
Thursday, July 21, 2016
 
Bruce Davidson:

"Each day I would appear on the block with my 4×5 view camera and a bag containing film holders, accessories, and a powerful strobe. The presence of a large format camera on a tripod, with its bellows and back focusing cloth, gave a sense of dignity to the act of taking pictures. I didn’t want to be the unobserved observer. I wanted to be with my subjects face to face and for them to collaborate in making the picture. I wanted the images to have a depth, tonality, and level of detail that could convey the mood of lives poised in a moment of time. During the two years I photographed East 100th Street, NASA was sending probes into outer space, to the moon and to Mars. Instead, I wanted to see into the inner space of the city and to focus sharply on people here on earth."
- posted by cjb @ 10:39 PM
 

Selbstportrait, 2016
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016
 

Plums, South Wellington, Late July, 2016
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Pete Appears to Me as a Spirit Animal, 2016
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Sunday, July 17, 2016
 

Bruce Davidson, Wales, 1965
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"The first Pokémon games, Green Version and Red Version, take this lost, whimsical experience and amplify its significance the way only a young child’s imagination could: a young boy leaves home and walks around the entire country to become, essentially, the best bug collector in the world. The handwringing that has always followed Pokémon’s popularity to claim it is essentially cutesy cockfighting has always missed the point that it was never really about fighting at all; that was nothing but a pretence for collecting, exploring, and discovering a grand, old, pre-urbanised world that a young kid could adventure through all by themselves."

(An exemplary piece of writing, alive to the pleasure of being-in-the-world and capitalism's ongoing colonization of that experience. One of the very best things I've stumbled across online.  That said, I am also organizing a surprise Pokémon safari @ PFB this afternoon with the help of a friend who loves the game, partially as business research, partially as social anthropology, and partially on behalf of another friend, a very old spirit being that many of you have met in person, who, like Pokémon or Miyazaki's Torotos & Catbus, definitely hails from that "grand, old, pre-urbanised world."  Photo courtesy L.)
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Friday, July 15, 2016
 

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Thursday, July 14, 2016
 

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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
 

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Homesite, 2016

"When you see me again, it won't be me."
- posted by cjb @ 9:34 PM
Saturday, July 09, 2016
 
"A strange man of uncomfortable shyness, who functioned best alone with his thoughts."
- posted by cjb @ 9:36 AM
Wednesday, July 06, 2016
 

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Citizen, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 9:04 PM
 

Picture for Owen, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 8:49 PM
 

482 West 37th Avenue, Vancouver BC, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 8:36 PM
Tuesday, July 05, 2016
 

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Cynara cardunculus, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 9:44 PM
 

Magenta Sunset, 2016
- posted by cjb @ 9:16 PM
 

2425 Quebec Street, Vancouver BC, 2016

Production still.

"You begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after." (Thomas Harris)
- posted by cjb @ 9:04 PM
Monday, July 04, 2016
 
Oscar and Ginger having a nap.
A photo posted by Stephen Shore (@stephen.shore) on

- posted by cjb @ 10:20 PM
Sunday, July 03, 2016
 
"Searching is a restless activity in which one moves toward possible locations of a lost object. The person who is searching has to select places in which to look, move towards them, and scan them; he must also select what to see."

 (Colin Murray Parkes, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life)
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In Clark County, NV, 2016
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Friday, July 01, 2016
 
"I’m not interested in having my pictures distributed instantly."
- posted by cjb @ 7:57 PM

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