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TARRAH KRAJNAK, Master Rituals I: Ansel Adams | 2018 to Present

In 1983, the year before he died, Ansel Adams published Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, an influential account of the circumstances and technical considerations — the stories — behind 40 of his most celebrated images. Almost forty years later, I insert my own photographic archive over Adams' while using my body, hair, and hands to redact his words and alter, estrange and obscure his original photographs. The resulting images bear the physical traces of my body upon them; video recordings document the actions that produced the images. Together my new photographs, re-photographs, and videos reveal hidden poems and new historical narratives. Description: This interdisciplinary work consists of video, recorded performances, poetry, original photographs, re-photographs, and an altered book. It has been partially exhibited in many forms over the last few years.

via Marc

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There’s a new litter of coyote pups hanging out in the Graceland cemetery in Chicago. They are learning how to coyote.

Sound on!

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Summer of George!

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Slavoj Zizek on toilets, quoted in David Shields' How We Got Here

Maybe even more fun to watch:

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"Analog Intelligence” letterpress print by Amos Kennedy, Jr.

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ISSUE NO. 99 - Vanessa Stevens | Collé

In my work, I only use precut 1" strips of printed material, usually from magazines, which is more of a parameter than a theme. I hope the fragmentation removes the original meaning and replaces it with more formal ideas of color, composition, and texture. Abstraction is created from representation.

Instagram: @vanessa___stevens/

Filed under: “The simplest cut” 

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The first of Athena’s owlets this year leaves the nest

@wildflowerowls

Thanks to Bill J. Boyd for this photo of the fledgling on the morning after slipping from the nest. The young owl seems to be doing well, and it has since moved on from its position below the nest site to explore the territory around the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.

5/19/2025 - by Bill J Boyd - 2025 - Daily Photos - Bill J Boyd Photography

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From the “Read Obituaries” section of Show Your Work!

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Summer vibes mood board

(John Wayne/Gary Cooper / Brancusi / Sean Connery / Big Lebowski / Dee Dee Ramone / Charro / Saul Steinberg / Leo in OUATIH)

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King Tubby vs. Lee Perry’s console 

(The back cover of King Tubby Meets The Upsetter)

@johnniejohnstone.bsky.social:

Reading Dylan Jones’ forthcoming book 1975: The Year The World Forgot. Fascinated to read of Eno’s early ambient experiments and how he was obsessed by the back cover of King Tubby Meets The Upsetter - fuelling the idea of the studio as an additional instrument.

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That Time Poet T.S. Eliot Was Made a Deputy Sheriff in Dallas

In April 1958, T.S. Eliot spoke to an audience in Dallas of 7,000 people in a sports arena. That morning he’d been made an honorary “deputy” sheriff, given a badge, and a Stetson hat.

The rain beating on the roof once got so noisy that Eliot exclaimed, “The competition is considerable.” Once he stopped to let the rain have a full solo.

In his introductory remarks, he noted with relish that he had been made an honorary citizen of Dallas and a deputy sheriff during his visit here.

He thought it was funny that he, a deputy sheriff, should be reciting poetry.

Eliot, btw, got a standing ovation. In the audience was a young Larry McMurtry.

Photo above: T. S. Eliot with his sister, Marion at a family gathering in May 1958.

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“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”

Leonard Cohen.

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“Hello, is this someone with good news or money? No? Goodbye.” —Jason Robards, A Thousand Clowns

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Steven Hyden, in “The Most ‘CD Album’ Albums Ever, Ranked"

I know it’s possible to play Dookie on vinyl. You can purchase it on “baby blue” vinyl, apparently. Or, if you really feel like being swindled, you can play it on five different pieces of regular vinyl, courtesy of the 30th anniversary box set. But if you do this — I mean this respectfully — you are a sucker who has been brainwashed by the out-of-control, money-drunk vinyl industry. (Big Vinyl, if you will.) It’s one thing if you want to listen to a vintage Blue Note label jazz LP from the 1950s. Or the Crosby, Stills, And Nash album you got from your parents. Or that copy of Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream & Other Delights you purchased for $30 before realizing that Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream & Other Delights used to go for $1 at every Salvation Army store in the country. All those albums make sense on vinyl, because they originated during the vinyl era. But Dookie was released in 1994, the heart of the COMPACT DISC era. Millions of people bought it on compact disc, probably at the mall, and they stuck it in their big ol’ CD racks at home. Or in the glove compartments of their cars. Or in boxes currently collecting dust in storage lockers. Wherever that album is, Dookiewas sold on COMPACT DISC. Not on vinyl. NOT ON VINYL!

He's correct. The reformatting of the art for the vinyl is a travesty.

Green Day: Dookie CD and booklet