Mark Bringelson

“The School #9 building at sunset in downtown Los...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:21:02 -0700

“The School #9 building at sunset in downtown Los Angeles.”
Photo: Andi Elloway.
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obscureandoffbeatcinema: A Summer Place (Delmer Daves,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:29 -0700

A Summer Place (Delmer Daves, 1959)

One of those really good Bad Movies out of the 50s, nearly impossible not to watch with glee even while you’re aware you’re bored out of your skull. It feels like the entire film is shot on the beach or in cliff houses overlooking the beach …. water, water, surf, ocean, all very Jungian and female …. but this particular sequence gets Freudian all of a sudden with its phallic airplane on hard cement.

“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:13:38 -0700

“You only demand clarity because you’re too comfortable within your vagueness; You only feel insufficient because you’re extremely fearful of unconditionally caring.”
— Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959.

"Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:12:26 -0700

“Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.”

- Brian Eno (via mttbll)

1bohemian: Dennis Stock. Igor Stravinsky in the studios of the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:07:08 -0700

1bohemian:

Dennis Stock. Igor Stravinsky in the studios of the Colombia Records, 1957

2 in 8

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:50:10 -0700

I’m emerging from doing two operas in the last eight weeks. The first in Chicago (a remounting of Astor Piazzolla’s MARIA DE BUENOS AIRES, in April); the second in Long Beach (Michael Gordon’s VAN GOGH, written as a concert piece and never staged before, just closed last weekend). A remarkable, dizzying, and intensely unforgettable 8 weeks for me.

with John Meyer, in VAN GOGH at Long Beach Opera.

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:48:00 -0700

with John Meyer, in VAN GOGH at Long Beach Opera.

In the center scaffold, with the brilliant Luna Negra Dance...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:39 -0700

In the center scaffold, with the brilliant Luna Negra Dance Company, in “Maria de Buenos Aires” at Chicago Opera Theatre.
Photo: Liz Lauren

with Peabody Southwell, in “Maria de Buenos Aires”...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:40:54 -0700

with Peabody Southwell, in “Maria de Buenos Aires” at Chicago Opera Theatre.
Photo: Liz Lauren

"Often a curious psychosis existed in the theater such as I had not known before."

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:37:16 -0700

“Often a curious psychosis existed in the theater such as I had not known before.”

- Isadora Duncan

Photo

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:34:59 -0700

“Das Gelbe Fenster” by Blinky Palermo, 1976.

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:28:57 -0700

“Das Gelbe Fenster” by Blinky Palermo, 1976.

Scribble, Deface and Decode

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:26:18 -0700

“I am forever urging my students to mark up their books, to scribble, deface and decode. It’s only by interacting with the books we admire at the sentence level that writers can begin to unlock the secrets of how one’s heroes have accomplished their magic.”
—- Mark Sarvas, who has just redesigned The Elegant Variation, his lit blog.

“Untitled-1” by Amy Yao.

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:24:34 -0700

“Untitled-1” by Amy Yao.

davenport-6: Went to the observatory tonight and looked at a...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:13:43 -0700

davenport-6:

Went to the observatory tonight and looked at a few things through the telescope. For the first time, I saw the rings of Saturn, but the moon was the only thing I could try to capture with my phone. (at Franklin Miller Observatory)

David Wojnarowicz's Journals

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:15:19 -0700

David Wojnarowicz’s journals (from 1971 - 1991) have been digitized and can now be viewed in their entirety here.

gaws: Me by Noah

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:11:15 -0700

gaws:

Me by Noah

1bohemian: Paris 1954 Photo: Inge Morath

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:29:50 -0700

1bohemian:

Paris 1954

Photo: Inge Morath

Jork Weisman photographing Andrea Albertini asleep at the...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:27:41 -0700

Jork Weisman photographing Andrea Albertini asleep at the Chateau Marmont.
Photo by Brad Elterman

wallpapermag: Bar Oppenheimer by artist Tobias Rehberger, New...

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:20:29 -0700

wallpapermag:

Bar Oppenheimer by artist Tobias Rehberger, New York

Am I in search of Emma Peel? No. But if I was, I would look here.