Bettie Page R.I.P.
Posted December 12, 2008 
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Comments(0) And a song from Athens, GA based Madeline Adams Betty Page from her album “Kissing and Dancing”.
Archive for the 'photography' Category
Another Dragoncon, come and gone
Posted September 1, 2008 Comments(0)
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An homage to some of the hottest women I’ve photographed at the convention ’05-’08. Nerds gone wild!
2008 Summer Olympics
Posted August 9, 2008 Comments(1)
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I’ve got to hand it to ya China, I was impressed by the opening ceremony! Photos from Boston Globe. Never mind you used the mind of director Zhang Yimou, who The Party had earlier banned the work of for seeming critical. I’ve enjoyed at least six of his films myself, and we won’t call this egg on your face (no pun). My country loves to first persecute, then later revere, it’s artists as well.
Consider me “visually stunned”…
Blog from Antarctica!
Posted October 15, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) I haven’t gotten around to interviewing DJ yet for the podcast but meanwhile check out his blog from the frozen bottom of the earth. Is this the 3rd or 4th season he’s gone down now? Congratulations on the engagement as well!
*ed note: 8/08 Iceblog dropped from blogroll until such time that reports might resume from down under. Just trying to keep the blogroll with as fresh of stuff as possible*
New ATL based art site
Posted October 6, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) Buddy Jasonaut and some others are involved with a new site Art Relish. Check it, bookmark it, and for lawd’s sake darlings…relish the local arts!
LoveJoy Columns
Posted August 10, 2007 Comments(2)
Comments(2) Like many cities, Portland, OR (PDX) is changing quickly. C’est la vie – I came late to the game myself. But my personal beef is with destruction of landmarks from Van Sant’s Drugstore Cowboy. They knocked down the St. Francis hotel, one of the more dramatic examples. And while I’m not positive about this, I believe the opening ‘home movie’ shots of the crew cutting up where shot under the LoveJoy viaduct, now gone. This used to be my bike route when I worked in the bottleshop of a nearby brewery. There is still a ramp off the Broadway bridge that leads in this direction, but it isn’t the great seedy view over warehouses the Pearl district still was in the late 90′s. I’m sure all those yuppifucks enjoy their current high rents, views and conviences, not to mention those fat developer’s bankaccounts, but anyway…
The good news is: common sense did prevail enough to be sure another artistic landmark was preseved. Back in the late 40′s, Greek railroadman Tom E. Stefopoulos drew these great chalk drawing on the concrete columns that supported the viaduct during his spare moments working as a switchman. The columns were saved and now sit half a block north of NW Everett and 10th in front of some flash condo building. True, what you see are large photo reproductions encased in plexi of the actual drawing that lie beneath, but in the name of preservation, this was most likely the best route to go. You can see some more of my personal shots of the columns in their new home here. Also, for cultish fans of the film, an exploration of “hats on beds” that ties into a C. McCarthy novel.
More photographers
Posted June 25, 2007 Comments(1)
Comments(1) I’ve been coming across some heavy hitters lately, like the stark Jock Sturges (who I first thought to be NAMBLA, but quickly realized he was presenting something far more challenging to our culture), and the japanese great Nobuyoshi Araki; as well as subject matter, like the abandoned island of Gunkamjima. And here’s another sex freak found through Flickr, Peter Klaushorst, does photos and paintings of either whores/models, or has had a phenominal amount of girlfriends…
But I especially love this emerging age of social networks that brings you in contact with people like Akif Hakan Celebi.
You can see his Deviant Art profile, also an interview he did with Ukranian MAX magazine. Also don’t neglect his main site and spend some $ if you can!
