using time i have to kill time i need

Mon Aug 25
William Eggleston
Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
at the Whitney Museum of American Art
               on view  November 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009
One of the most influential photographers of the last half-century, William Eggleston has defined the history of color photography. This exhibition will be the artist’s first retrospective in the United States and will include both his color and black-and-white photographs as well as Stranded in Canton, the artist’s video work from the early 1970s. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States as well as to the Haus der Kunst in Munich following its New York presentation.
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[Seeing that I’ve never been to an Eggleston exhibit before, I’m excited beyond measure]

William Eggleston

Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008

at the Whitney Museum of American Art


on view November 7, 2008 - January 25, 2009

One of the most influential photographers of the last half-century, William Eggleston has defined the history of color photography. This exhibition will be the artist’s first retrospective in the United States and will include both his color and black-and-white photographs as well as Stranded in Canton, the artist’s video work from the early 1970s. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States as well as to the Haus der Kunst in Munich following its New York presentation.

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[Seeing that I’ve never been to an Eggleston exhibit before, I’m excited beyond measure]

Fri Aug 22
Is it just me, or did the old yellow streets signs in New York look much better than the current green ones?
(photo by Joey Meyerowitz)

Is it just me, or did the old yellow streets signs in New York look much better than the current green ones?

(photo by Joey Meyerowitz)

Philip-Lorca diCorsia is incredible.
that’s all.

Philip-Lorca diCorsia is incredible.

that’s all.

dear eggleston
dear eggleston
Thu Aug 21
The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. ‘Vámonos, amigos,’ he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.

Eli, The Royal Tenenbaums (via jessicap)

You think you might enjoy this, if you haven’t seen it already.

This goes to all you Wes/Jason fans.

Wes Anderson and Jason Schwartzman Shop for CDs and DVDs

(via ephemeron)

Obligatory cat reblog.

(via ephemeron)

Obligatory cat reblog.

Wed Aug 20

My friend, thesaurus

jenniferbleu:

I concure!  It’s good to see you again, by the way.  I noticed you hadn’t been on our crazy tumblr in awhile.  I look forward to your blogs or non-blogs or viral news…whatever it may be…let’s enjoy it!

you’re right. i should keep my lips tight and enjoy it. there are readers after all, and original bloggers do get credit.

it’s just something that have to get used to.

i’m glad someone is “looking forward”

have a good one :)

Hate my Job

jenniferbleu:

8:52 am.  I do not like to use the word hate, but I hate my job.  Allow me to vent for awhile, please.  This job has sucked all that was “me”, out of me.  Dress a certain way, Lie to look good, Don’t make friends.  I want to smile because it’s easy to smile, not because they say I have to put on a front that all is well.  I want to be friends with the girls in my office, I want to be me, again.  I haven’t had lunch with my friends since May because of this job.  I missed both of Bre’s bridal showers, all because of this job.  I’m exhausted in the evening, All I want is sleep.  I have intense headaches the minute I wake up.  I’m actually sad.  So many people have said to me, “No one likes their jobs.”  Thats not true.  Someone, somewhere has to love their job.  I want to love my job.

Wow Jenn, that job sounds awful for you. As sucky as corporate environments are, one should at least be able to enjoy it in the “gotta go what I gotta do” kind of way. And though you don’t like using the word “hate”, like many people don’t, I’m glad you realized that sometimes, just sometimes, one can say it and truly mean it.

Feel better though. Think of the green papers with the presidents on it that you’ll get a chunk of come Friday.

p.s. - don’t you agree that this response to your ‘I Hate Work’ post should be in your own personal comment section? maybe i’m not getting the whole viral point of tumblr, the whole idea that if i post this on my blog, then someone else will see it and post it on theirs and reblog and reblog and reblog. who came up with “reblog”?

that wouldn’t be blogging, would it? that’s just spread around news. that’s viral news.

ah.. i don’t know.

someone tell me i’m dumb and prove me wrong. convince me why the “commentlessness” of tumblr is incredible.

anyone.



Whatever happened to good ol' comments?

kaitziskin:

blaaaaaargh:

So, I know I’m still fairly new to this whole Tumblr thing, and really, really don’t know all the “cool kids,” nor do I care to, but it’s definitely annoying to finally post something that apparently interested a few people, only to have it reblogged by someone as though it were her post, and then reblogged repeatedly from her.

/whine

don’tbe a baby. she reblogged it from you which means you get the credit, ass.

I’m actually with Blaargh on this one.

I posted a similar post (except no one had reblogged me then) about the awkwardness of having someone else’s content on my page when all I want to do is comment on them. I don’t want their post to be my post. I had to bold that sentence because it’s the most important sentence of this whole paragraph.

This is common sense, but I’ll write it anyway: Comment allow people to get replies but still maintain their page as their page. For example, Kaitziskin, I recently reblogged a post of yours about serial rapist couples (haha) because I related to it. I reblogged a story I hope you would, honestly, chuckle at and find some sorta affinity with. And that’s great. That was my intention. But I looked at page yesterday and realized how strange your question my response to your question looked on my page. (All these italics are seriously meant to be heard. I’m stressing them like hell. haha)

The point is: Anyone here ever been on Blogpod, circa 2003-2004 or so (maybe even before, maybe even after)? Anyone here remember that site (it literally vanished off the internet)? Anyway, it was what I thought Tumblr was when I first signed on. A place where you have your own profile (although Tumblr obviously isn’t concerned about profiles, as it shouldn’t be), but more importantly you have your own blog, with our own posts. And when people comment, it shows up in a little box right under your blog. It keeps things traditional and very simple and you know exactly who’s posting to what. Not just Blogpod, but it’s the same with Blogger or any other blog site.

I understand what Tumblr is doing and the design is great and wouldn’t want it changed at all. But a comments tool would be ideal. My page would be my page and my comments will be comments on their own… not.. on my page. But that’s just me.

(in regards to the Blogpod comparison, the comments idea is the only thing that really matters. i’m sure tumblr isn’t concerned with being a community site, in a having a profile/list favorites/add friends kind of way. that doesn’t bother me. i just feel people’s pages should be peoples pages. the best example is this: if i want to read Ryan Adams’ posts, I would check Foggy out. And if I want to see what people have to say in response to his posts, I would check his hypothetical comments section, instead of going to someone elses page and seeing, mixed in with their individual and personal posts, Ryan’s ‘Bomb’ blogs, in the Corso sense of the word.)

the strangest thing is that no one else seems to be bothered by it.

that’s the number one thing i think should be changed.

i’m done though.

Tue Aug 19

nightmarish

kaitziskin:

too much reading about serial rapist couples. i’m never going to sleep tonight. great.

i know the feeling. i’m morbidly interested in reading about serial killers, even coveting encyclopedias on them. but then when i read ghastly crime after ghastly crime, that’s when shit starts to get nightmarish. i swear they are looking at me in the middle of the night (the dead ones, at least)

dradams:
louise bourgeois show at the Guggenheim. yummy. so good. 

96 years old. God bless her.
Unfortunately the documentary on her, which is playing at the Film Forum, has its last showing right now as I type this. Didn’t get to see it. Oh well.

dradams:

louise bourgeois show at the Guggenheim. yummy. so good.

96 years old. God bless her.

Unfortunately the documentary on her, which is playing at the Film Forum, has its last showing right now as I type this. Didn’t get to see it. Oh well.


rach:
I had no idea these four were in Vogue back in March.

Probably because the page managed to slip by you in the midst of a thousand ads.

rach:

I had no idea these four were in Vogue back in March.

Probably because the page managed to slip by you in the midst of a thousand ads.

Am I an awful person for wanting to buy this book?
Am I an awful person for wanting to buy this book?
The Ingmar Bergman Archives

Due out next month. Features listed within.
Retail is $200 but Amazon has the pre-order price of $126.
A wonderful complete document of the late director’s career in book form. If you aren’t a fan of Bergman, this book will make you one.———————————————————If anything, check out how great Taschen is.
The website has even incorporated a digital leaf-through of all 597 pages, something I wish they had done (or even had up now) for Kubrick’s book. (Just noticed that you can type in any page you wish to view)
Leaf Through

The Ingmar Bergman Archives

Due out next month. Features listed within.

Retail is $200 but Amazon has the pre-order price of $126.

A wonderful complete document of the late director’s career in book form. If you aren’t a fan of Bergman, this book will make you one.

———————————————————

If anything, check out how great Taschen is.

The website has even incorporated a digital leaf-through of all 597 pages, something I wish they had done (or even had up now) for Kubrick’s book. (Just noticed that you can type in any page you wish to view)

Leaf Through

jstn:

World’s Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million

yeah, that’s a definite shame. but it’s not surprising.

hopefully it’ll all end up in a museum someday. would be awesome to see.