"examined life" trailer

to build a home

Cinematic Orchestra "To Build a Home/Breathe" Dir Up The Resolution from Up The Resolution on Vimeo.

helen levitt dies at 95

Helen Levitt, Who Captured New York Street Life, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com

"no one does it like you"

song by department of eagles
video by patrick daughters

where the wild things are

where the wild things are
(official trailer)

pulchra fugit

mono no aware

mcginley & aesop rock

new work from ryan mcginley
(click on the image for a better view)


aesop rock -- the next big thing
from the believer compilation "cue the bugle turbulent" (2007)

simnch & vernon

"cage bird" series
photographs by marcio simnch


big red machine - justin vernon & aaron dressner
from the dark was the night compilation, benefitting the red hot organization.

byrne & eno

drawings by david byrne, from his book arboretum (2002)
more on the book here

david byrne & brian eno - strange overtones

steve mcqueen's film "hunger"

cinematic elegance.

thomas sterns eliot -- an excerpt

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot, from The Waste Land

JR's "women are heroes"

TRAILER " WOMEN ARE HEROES"
by JR

dumas & bird

marlene dumas - chlorosis (love sick). 1994.

andrew bird - not a robot, but a ghost

kawauchi & rubies

photographs by rinko kawauchi.
(more on the artist here)

rubies (ft. feist) - i feel electric (tiedye remix)

from the iGnome

The big day.

crowds like swarms of bees...............DAMN.



a prayer ceremony held in Islamabad, Pakistan.

(both from the Boston Globe's "Big Picture" -- Click on the photos for a better view)

flomen & magic

photogram by michael flomen

fangela - here we go magic
tunnelvision - here we go magic

(their self-titled album comes out in february.)

which reminds me:

(So far, she's my favorite.)

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

'thanks and have fun running the country'

McSweeney's is releasing a book on January 20 titled, Thanks and Have Fun Running The Country-- "a collection of letters from students to President Obama—questions, requests, and advice."

For example:

Dear President Obama,

I know you want to save the earth, but people don't want to clean. My life is to clean up all the world and help you to clean. I always dream of cleaning the world with you. I'll do anything for you because you are the president in this world.

Stephanie Gonzalez, age 7
Los Angeles

And also:

Dear Obama family,

When you move into the White House, turn on the heater so it won't be cold. You could also take hot baths in your new antique bathtubs. Or you could make hot tea and coffee. When I moved to a new house, I helped my dad. He took apart a chair and I carried pieces of it. If I were your helper when you move in, I could move everything! Have a nice day being the first family.

Nazrawit Dessie, age 7
Seattle

End of story--children never cease to amaze me.

on the front page today...

Front page of today's New York Times.

The acid attacks are not isolated to the November incident in Afghanistan. New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof titled his article on the issue "Terrorism That's Personal." I wasn't aware of any of this until my sister mentioned in a couple of weeks ago. The slideshow of the photographs accompanying today's article, including the three above, is here:

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/13/world/20090113AFGHAN_index.html

gursky & beebe

Photograph by Andreas Gursky

At Sagamore Hill Theodore Roosevelt and I used to play a little game together. After an evening of talk we would go out on the lawn and search the skies until we found the faint spot of light-mist beyond the lower left-hand corner of the Great Square of Pegasus. Then one or the other of us would recite — ‘That is the Spiral Galaxy of Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns each larger than our sun.’ Then Roosevelt would grin at me and say —
‘Now I think we are small enough! Let’s go to bed!’

--William Beebe

my best friend -- you inspire me.

http://bryanmeador.blogspot.com/