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Bruce Davidson, Wales, Great Britan, 1965

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David Hockney (b.1937)

from The Arrival of Spring, Normandy (2020)

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Kostel svatého Josefa, Senetářov, 1969-71

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Hotel lobbies, restaurants, & discos from the book, 'International Hotel and Resort Design' by PBC Intl. (1988)

1-2. Durham Hilton designed by One Design Center

3. Cincinnatian Hotel - designed by Edwards Design Group

4. Kinshasa Intl. - designed by Wilson Gregory Aeberhard

5. Hyatt on Collins - designed by Hirsch/Bedner Associates

6. Hyatt Regency Tech Center - designed by Wilson & Associates

7. Grand Bay Hotel - designed by Jeffrey Howard Associates, Diana S. Sepler Interiors, Regine's Interiors

8. International Crossroads Sheraton - designed by Interior Design Force, Inc.

9. Radisson Plaza VII - designed by CSA, Inc.

10. Castle Hotel & Casino, Atlantic City - designed by Kovacs and Associates

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Trans-Allegheny Asylum/Weston Hospital IV

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🦅 HBD @preakr !

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Panchimalco, located 17 km to the south of San Salvador. November, 1st. Celebration of the Day of the Dead, El Salvador 1985, Jean Guamy.

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There’s a weight a gambler can accrue by accepting financial backing. It’s like any weight a person in debt accrues. It builds and builds, has a life of its own. There also is a moral weight a man can accrue. This is the weight created by his past actions. It is a weight which can never be removed.

THE CARD COUNTER (2021) dir. Paul Schrader

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Suzanne Treister 1991-1992 Fictional Videogame Stills

In the late 1980s I was making paintings about computer games. In January 1991 I bought an Amiga computer and made a series of fictional videogame stills using Deluxe Paint II. I photographed them straight from the screen as there was no other way to output them that I knew of apart from through a very primitive daisy wheel printer where they appeared as washed out dots.

The effect of the photographs perfectly reproduced the highly pixellated, raised needlepoint effect of the Amiga screen image. Conceptually this means of presentation was also appropriate in that it made it seem like I had gone into a videogame arcade and photographed the games there, lending authenticity to the fiction.

The first seven works on this page form a series titled, ‘Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise?’

Many of these works were shown in London at the Edward Totah Gallery in March 1992 (view installation) and later that year at the Exeter Hotel in Adelaide, Australia. In 1995 the ‘Q. Would you recognise a Virtual Paradise?’ series was shown in London at the Royal Festival Hall in the exhibition It’s a Pleasure, curated by Leah Kharibian.

Recent venues: Somerset House, London, 2018 view installation ; Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA 2019 and tour; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019/20 view installation

The original Amiga floppy disks which stored the image files are corrupt, but the photographic art works remain.

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Stapleton Kearns - Blue Night, Waterville VT, ca. 2018

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No quarter, Greg Girard

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From Mirror Worlds by David Gelertner (1991)

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My favourite Holmes adaptations (in no particular order) -> #2 The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

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the very rare phenomenon of a volcano producing vapor rings/volcanic vortex rings. Mount Etna today (April 5, 2024) by Boris Behncke

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The Golden spiral, Hannsjörg Voth, Morocco, photo Ingrid Amslinger, 1994.

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Beware Cars Lizard Point Cornwall 24. 6. 24

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Tacoma, Washington. (June 2021)