Thursday, September 30, 2010
I like these old Cream of Wheat ads.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
A Fiat on Grand Avenue in Maspeth A Rolls Royce in Astoria. A Chevrolet in Glendale. A Chevrolet on the Upper West Side. A Dacia near the Pinocchio Playground in Glendale.
Monday, September 27, 2010
I and many others (possibly hundreds of people) woke at 7am on Monday to this unbelievable sound: The man is blasting a foghorn and announcing that all vehicles on the street must be moved lest they be towed and ticketed. The same drill occurred on Friday, though I was unable to capture the sound that [...]
Monday, September 27, 2010
I look skyward with the risk of remembering a specific line of poetry, one of many bad lines from the infinite acres of horrible verse I wrote in grade school and high school. This line lingers in my mind not on account of its merit but because I just can’t shake it. Looking skyward out [...]
Saturday, September 25, 2010
I am still finding my way with this Etude Magazines project. I just thought I’d share The Road To Success, a full-page cartoon from The Etude Magazine, October, 1913. Click the image for a bigger version. I like the bodies flailing head-first into the pit of illiteracy, the river of failure, and the giant hand [...]
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
A few years ago I scanned and posted the pages of “Faces of Laos“, a picture book I found in my father’s desk drawer after he died. The book was familiar to me, having appeared on coffee tables and book shelves throughout my childhood, but it surprised me to find the slender volume among my [...]
Sunday, September 12, 2010
A few months ago I got an e-mail from someone I did not know, and with whom (as far as I know) I have never corresponded. The message said: “The polaroid you found of ice in a strainer is used in the installation menu of the PS3 game Heavy Rain. They used the frame of [...]
Monday, September 6, 2010
I picked up a stack of old papers a few months ago, and I just spotted this interesting depression-era relic. It’s a 1935-1936 mermbership card for the Unemployed League of Lower Luzerne County, in Pennsylvania, compliments of Allan’s Shoe Store at 10 North Wyoming Street in Hazelton, PA. I just thought it was interesting. Are [...]
Thursday, September 2, 2010
I lately have dreams in which I seem to rattle off facts, arcane facts of the specialist, facts that only the kenner* would know, facts spoken by me with alarmingly erudite authority, fluid cognition and intellectual confidence. The portion of my brain which monitors these dreams, that part which tries and fails to remember dreams, [...]
