Anodyne
Friday, January 27, 2017
 

U-J3RK5: Byrne, Graham, Wall, Gibson
- posted by cjb @ 6:43 PM
Thursday, January 26, 2017
 

- posted by cjb @ 12:29 AM
 

Dusk. Cholla Forest, Techatticup Wash NV, 2017

(Thinking of David Wiesner's flying frogs)
- posted by cjb @ 12:02 AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
 

Fortified Door (Picture for Dan), 2014-7

Panel 1 of 15 panels, each 16" x 20", entire work 16" x 300"

Photographic sequence made at the place where Thom Glunt's single-take music video for the New Pornographers song "War on the East Coast" was shot in 2014; site located entirely through close reading of source footage.

In the video version of "War on the East Coast" the song's lyrics are lip-synched by Carl Newman, while Dan Bejar, the song's actual writer and singer, stalks along impassively beside him.

In 2014 I flew to Los Angeles to find and photograph what Bejar might have seen while his work was being performed by an imposter, and then again in 2015, 2016, and late last week, either because of dissatisfaction with the early pictures or because things had changed in the interval, forcing me to guess at, and later invent, what might or might not have been there in early 2014.

The picture's title alludes to a black folding security door glimpsed in the video which was removed the day before I arrived, and to the work of another Los Angeles- and Vancouver- based photographer whose methods I've sometimes borrowed, a la Newman, for my own purposes.
- posted by cjb @ 11:24 PM
 

Sketch for La La Land Tree, 2017
- posted by cjb @ 6:18 PM
 

- posted by cjb @ 12:31 AM
 

Scat and Rose survey South Pasadena from the air.
- posted by cjb @ 12:14 AM
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
 

Arlington, 2017
- posted by cjb @ 10:09 PM
 

3188 N. Nellis Boulevard, Las Vegas NV, 2017

Tied with the La La Land tree for the best thing I saw on this all-too-brief visit to America.
- posted by cjb @ 6:12 PM
 

Avikwame (4), 2016
- posted by cjb @ 5:50 PM
 

Avikwame (3), 2016
- posted by cjb @ 5:45 PM
 

Avikwame (2), 2017
- posted by cjb @ 5:38 PM
 

Avikwame (1), 2017
- posted by cjb @ 5:30 PM
 

Agave americana 'Variegata', 2017
- posted by cjb @ 12:47 PM
Saturday, January 14, 2017
 

East Coast Reshoot

405 SOUTH TO 105
105 EAST TO 110
110 NORTH TO 10
10 EAST TO 101
EXIT E 4TH, THEN SOUTH TO E 6TH

1. NW FROM 6TH W/ 2 DARK SPOTS ON WHITE BUILDING, SOUTH SIDE (WINDSHIELD)

2. NW TO NICODIM CORNER W/ STOP SIGN (FENCE/DIAGONAL WIRE/GALLERY LETTERS)

3. NEWMAN'S POV DOOR

3a. TREE!

4. DIAGONAL CROSS STREET TO CORRUGATED ROLLUP ON E SIDE ANDERSON

5. CRUNCHED MAILBOX ON DOOR JUST PAST ROLLUP

6. CURB GRASS BY BEJAR RIDE WHEEL

7. ELEVATED WALKWAY LEVEL RAIL
- posted by cjb @ 10:34 PM
Monday, January 09, 2017
 

Sketch for LA Tree, 2017
- posted by cjb @ 10:53 PM
Sunday, January 08, 2017
 

SEE YOU SOON FRIENDS!
- posted by cjb @ 8:48 PM
Friday, January 06, 2017
 

JW, The Storyteller, 1986



Edward S. Curtis, Storytelling - Apache, 1903

Brought to my attention 10 minutes or so ago by Mr. Clint Burnham.  The first big Got-the-drop-on-you moment of the new year.
- posted by cjb @ 12:00 PM
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
 

Winter light. Not claimed as art, but as evidence of increasing technical control.
- posted by cjb @ 12:05 PM
Monday, January 02, 2017
 
"The act of resistance means not only refusing to accept the absurdity of the world picture offered us, but denouncing it." (John Berger)
- posted by cjb @ 6:18 PM

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