BEAR WRESTLING WONDERLAND

"The creative individual is, in a sense, complementary to the society in which he lives, rather as a..."

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:13:07 -0700

“The creative individual is, in a sense, complementary to the society in which he lives, rather as a soloist in a concerto. Both the basic ideas of science and the key inventions of mankind have generally been conceived in the minds of individuals, while the effort to gain the data on which the ideas and inventions have been based, and the subsequent effort to turn them to good account, have required the contributions of many besides the inventor and originator of ideas. So the individual and the community are necessary to one another.”

- Niels Bohr

Neon Leon.

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:24:07 -0700

Neon Leon.

The Sheep Child by James L. Dickey

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:36:07 -0700

The Sheep Child by James L. Dickey:

I am here, in my father’s house.

I who am half of your world, came deeply

To my mother in the long grass

Of the west pasture, where she stood like moonlight

Listening for foxes. It was something like love

From another world that seized her

From behind, and she gave, not lifting her head

Out of dew, without ever looking, her best

Self to that great need. Turned loose, she dipped her face

Farther into the chill of the earth, and in a sound

Of sobbing of something stumbling

Away, began, as she must do,

To carry me. I woke, dying,

Russia In Color, A Century Ago

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:49:06 -0700

Russia In Color, A Century Ago:

Mitchum.

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:13:07 -0700

Mitchum.

Photo

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:24:07 -0700

Welles.

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 09:36:07 -0700

Welles.

Video

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:48:06 -0700

Head-On (2004) dir. Fatih Akin

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:13:07 -0700

Head-On (2004) dir. Fatih Akin

Video

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 04:48:07 -0700

"What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where..."

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:12:08 -0700

“What reconciles me to my own death more than anything else is the image of a place: a place where your bones and mine are buried, thrown, uncovered, together. They are strewn there pell-mell. One of your ribs leans against my skull. A metacarpal of my left hand lies inside your pelvis. (Against my broken ribs your breast like a flower.) The hundred bones of our feet are scattered like gravel. It is strange that this image of our proximity, concerning as it does mere phosphate of calcium, should bestow a sense of peace. Yet it does. With you I can imagine a place where to be phosphate of calcium is enough.”

- John Berger

Ronaldo.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:24:07 -0700

Ronaldo.

Karina.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:36:07 -0700

Karina.

Namath.

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:48:07 -0700

Namath.

The New Orleans Corner Store

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:12:07 -0700

The New Orleans Corner Store:

Following Katrina, the description of the process sounds eerily premonitory. To a proper uplander, it was not exactly restaurant conversation. More like kitchen table conversation, and for good reason: the New Orleans corner restaurant has always been, in more ways than one, an extension of the kitchen. New Orleanians did and do eat out much more frequently than the average American, and the regulars at Norby’s were very like an extended family.

More literally, these businesses were often the actual homes of their owners. Norby’s had been, though it had ceased being so by 1977. Clancy’s still was. There, behind the counter, three or four steps led up to the kitchen, which served both the restaurant and the owner’s home. You can still see that change in level between business and residence at Clancy’s, as you can at Patois, as you can at Parasol’s, further downtown at Third and Constance. It is the distinguishing characteristic of the New Orleans corner restaurant, or bar, or store.

While the roof volume shelters both house and store, the two meet the ground in notably different ways. The store is a single step up from the sidewalk, while the residence is several steps up, the usual height above the sidewalk in pre-ADA America, keeping the pedestrian from looking directly into the home and allowing the resident to view the neighborhood over the heads of passersby. Where there are street-level windows in the business (often, in a store, there are only high windows to make room for shelving), both windows and doors signal the difference in floor height. The break in floor height serves, simply and effectively, to distinguish the public from the private, without having to put space between them: a basic principle of New Orleans urbanism.

Yokoo.

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:24:06 -0700

Yokoo.

Video

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:36:07 -0700

Thursdays? Thursdays are for one too many cups of coffee,...

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:20:10 -0700

Thursdays? Thursdays are for one too many cups of coffee, getting stalked by coyotes, empty highways, and The. Monk.

ronartist: 17 Seasons in the NBA. 4 Championships.

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:48:07 -0700

ronartist:

17 Seasons in the NBA. 4 Championships.

5to1: George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:12:07 -0700

5to1:

George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic