+ Dolly Parton

I love old country music. They just don't make em like they use to. Ive been listening to old Dolly songs from the 60's and 70's. Her voice and personality is uplifting, relatable, and inspiring so i thought i would pay her a tribute. 

+ Shaolin Monks by Tomasz Gudzowaty

Photographs from Warsaw based Tomasz Gudzowaty, taken at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province.

http://www.gudzowaty.com 

+ Unknown Photographer Untitled (Strasbourg from Cathedral Roof), 1871

+ William Henry Jackson, Summit of Jupiter Terraces, 1871

+ pattern by Zdeněk Sýkora

+ Home

My friend Maddy's Text in the Street project for our 4D class

+ Stacks of Lumber Drying, Webster & Stevens, Seattle, WA. c. 1919.

+monowheels

Walter Nilson in 1933

A monowheel is a one-wheeled single-track vehicle similar to a unicycle. However, instead of sitting above the wheel, the rider sits either within it or next to it. The wheel is a ring, usually driven by smaller wheels pressing against its inner rim. Most are single-passenger vehicles, though multi-passenger models have been built.

Hand-cranked and pedal-powered monowheels were built in the late 19th century; most built in the 20th century have been motorized. Some modern builders refer to these vehicles as monocycles, though that term is also sometimes used to describe motorized unicycles.

Today, monowheels are generally built and used for fun and entertainment purposes, though from the 1860s through to the 1930s, they were proposed for use as serious transportation

sources: text is wikipedia

picture: http://firsttimeuser.tumblr.com/post/18606827699/monowheel-1933-walter-nilsson-inside-the-wheel

+ rediscovered

 i recently rediscovered my grandpa's camera that he gave to me in high school.  there was a roll half exposed within the camera so i took the rest last week, crossed my fingers, and got it developed and put on CD. here are the results! The pictures of my friend Jessica and I are at least 2 years old. I plan on taking more pictures with my camera and experimenting with things i am learning in my digital composition class.

this blur is at first frustrating, but maybe it was a ghost, or the light of his bright aura being captured in this antique cameras' pentaprism onto film.

tipi hostel in new mexico

these orchids were given to us by our kind friend Matt as a gift and their beautiful blooms lasted over a month.

a bountiful collection of delicious harvest of colorado produce last summer within a Lee Segal hand thrown bowl.

+ Yang Yongliang - Sleepless Wonderland

http://www.yangyongliang.com/

excerpt from Inside the Design Mind IV....

By Andrew Caruso

 Monday, February 11, 2013 8:00 am

AC: You intricately weave worlds of reality and constructed absurdity (fantasy). Visual clues and representational objects suggest the uneasy way these two worlds collide in your work, with viewers searching them as if reading a map. Why have you chosen to engage the viewer in this way?

YY: Because I am very complicated. My character can be divided in two parts, like Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [sic]. This piece of music has both a passionate and a peaceful side. I think I’m very similar. I like fantasy and passionate things as well as very peaceful and logical things. You can see that all of my works also have two sides: peace and danger, tradition and modernity, all combined.

I think my works are trying to express a great deal of information to the audience, but I don’t want everyone to understand my work in the same way I understand it. I want the viewer to interpret it in his or her own way. I think good artists should be inspiring and sensitive, rather than imposing their own concepts on an audience.

+ Gyorgy Kepes

Juliet’s Shadow Caged
1939. Solarized. Vintage gelatin silver print. 14 x 11 inches.

+ Marcel Gautherot

Marcel Gautherot (1910-1996) is a Frenchmen who lived in Brazil and spent half a century of his life traveling and photographing Brazilian land, architecture, and culture.

He came to Brazil in 1940, his interest in the country awakened by reading the novel Jubiabá, by Jorge Amado (1912 - 2001). After a brief journey around the Amazon, he settled in Rio de Janeiro. { http://www.itaucultural.org.br}

Marcel Gautherot, the ideal architectural photographer, made an epic undertaking in the late 1950s – photographing every step of the construction of the city of Brasilia, from untouched grassland to modern capital.
Gautherot photographed not only every stage of construction, but also the faces and homes of the workers. The result is a monumental and radical photo essay on this triumph of urban planning and architecture. { http://www.thamesandhudson.com/9780500515426.html }

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+ the context of content

Irina Ionesco (born on September 3, 1935) is a French photographer best known for erotic stills of her daughter Eva shot from age four to 11. Her controversial images showcase her young daughter in erotically charged compositions similar to work she had created previously with much older subjects.



The controversial nature of these images and the backlash from her exhibit was intense enough to result in her losing custody of her daughter, and later, as an adult, Eva Ionesco tried three times to sue her mother for emotional distress. In 1998 the French police confiscated hundreds of photographs from her mothers apartment.



Irina Ionesco spent the first half of her life touring cabarets as a contortionist and dancer, she came to photography late on when her partner at the time brought her a Nikon F camera. Her cabaret background is evident in her images, draping her models with lace beads and fake flowers. A quote from her states 'When Eva was born, because I'd come from the world of performing arts I wanted her to be part of it too. Nowadays it would be impossible.'



Blogs and photographers still debate the moral grounds of using her young daughter Eva as subjecture. Irina however has since moved on, recently being commissioned by fashion houses such as Givinchey and Vogue. "I love doing fashion photography, They're make-up people, stylists, but all anyone asks is for me to be me. They want my universe, my theatrical pictures, my literary memories. Anywhere I shoot, the pictures become mine."

text and pictures taken from:
http://atypicalfiction.blogspot.com/2011/11/irina-ionesco.html

+

A father singing to his children. Photograph by Eliot Elisofon. Leslie County, Kentucky, USA, December 1949.

+ Etta James

Singing legend Etta James dies at 73
By Todd Leopold, CNN
updated 2:35 PM EST, Fri January 20, 2012

Etta James was born Jamesetta Hawkins in Los Angeles to a teen mother and unknown father. (She suspected her father was the pool player Minnesota Fats.)

Her birth mother initially took little responsibility and James was raised by a series of people, notably a pair of boardinghouse owners. But she was recognized from a young age for her booming voice, showcased in a South Central Los Angeles church.

In 1950, her mother took her to San Francisco, where James formed a group called the Peaches. Singer Johnny Otis, best known for "Willie and the Hand Jive," discovered her and had her sing a song he wrote using Ballard's tune as a model. "The Wallflower," with responses from "Louie Louie" songwriter Richard Berry, made James an R&B star.

CNN's Denise Quan and Melissa Gray contributed to this story.

+ cafe from hell

‘Le Café de L’Enfer was a Hell-themed café in Paris’ red light district (aka Pigalle, the neighborhood of the Moulin Rouge), created in the late 19th century and operating until sometime around the middle of the 20th.’
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/06/the-cafe-from-hell/

+ Mountain Dream Tarot by Bea Nettles

The first photographic Tarot deck, produced in 1975. This deck has long been sold out but has been reissued by Bea Nettles herself and is available on her web site for only $20. It is included in The Encyclopedia of Tarot by Stuart Kaplan for its historical significance and beauty.

http://www.innerlightsociety.org/mountain-dream-tarot.html

+ Spirit Tree by Fe 108Aums on Flickr.

+

A woman hugged a wounded relative inside a mosque used as a hospital by those demonstrating against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Sana, Yemen. October 15.

Photography by Samuel Aranda.

and in contrast, a skateboard artpiece, artist unknown: