For Cindy
This is how it will be, our new life.
Every now and again, it is brought to my attention
that a great stumbling block to general recognition of my value to society and culture is that I fail to recognize the importance of being earnest.
All Things Must Pass
It’s an I Ching thing.
C-41 in Caffenol
Then peroxide and sun.
This woman in central Florida does the most mad and wonderful things with film, and I like to share things that I like.
Oh. And she’s really funny, and so are her friends. Her Flickr comment threads make for good reading.
from the comments
Phil Bebbington: Well, I am in Texas and spent my first night in Johnson City. I had Catfish served on a plastic plate whilst watching two drunks play pool – one swore he knew me and kissed me on the hand – this is only half the story, perhaps the material of a post, not sure.
They were barely able to walk when we were kicked out at 9 and yet almost managed to drive a straight line!
52 Editions | This Week’s Edition: Phil Bebbington
Storage, Winterset, Iowa (2009). Phil Bebbington.
8.5″x11″ archival pigment print. Limited edition of 275.
Every week, 52 Editions features a different photograph for $45, published in a limited edition of 275. This week’s edition may be familiar to Flockers and regulars.
Phil’s Winterset photograph will be available at this terrific price for seven days, after which it will appear permanently in the 52 Editions catalog at a price that is still damn good.
There are other fine photographs over there as well, so take a look. And do it soon.
Trailer for El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky. 1970)
The strangest movie I’d recommend?
Allen Klein presents an ABKCO Film.
My cat’s life is good
She can be feral, and then she can retreat indoors when the going gets rough.
She’s got a sweet sweet life. She gets to be a wild animal, then come indoors and be fed and petted and loved.
So any day now
Kelsey is flying to Paris, and Phil is flying to Houston.
Just think.
Handcuffed man steals Rockford police car
The suspect sneaked into the front seat of the uncaged vehicle while two officers were outside the car going over details of the man’s arrest, police said. The man was handcuffed from the back, but was able to get the cuffs in front of his body to drive the car.
Police followed the man on Interstate 90 and were able to get him to stop as he attempted to take the Division Street [Chicago] exit off the Kennedy Expressway.
It’s lonely in the modern world.
Even in your company, I feel so alone. (Dwell, September 2009.)
Unhappy Hipsters. (Thanks, Kate.)
My ideas about Looking-glass House
First, there’s the room you can see through the glass–that’s just the same as our drawing room, only the things go the other way. I can see all of it when I get upon a chair–all but the bit behind the fireplace. Oh! I do so wish I could see THAT bit! I want so much to know whether they’ve a fire in the winter: you never CAN tell, you know, unless our fire smokes, and then smoke comes up in that room too–but that may be only pretence, just to make it look as if they had a fire. Well then, the books are something like our books, only the words go the wrong way; I know that, because I’ve held up one of our books to the glass, and then they hold up one in the other room.
(From CHAPTER I. “Looking-Glass house.” Through the Looking-glass. Lewis Carroll.)
Felicitations, Phil,
on your natal anniversary. Now you are a big boy and can wear long trousers.
Keeping House
Rick told how he let the housekeeper go, and it set me to thinking. At times I’ve wondered whether for for a household to run happily, it’s best if there is someone whose primary job it is to do the bulk of the shopping and the washing-up and the home repairs and the tedious aspects of the yard maintenance and so on. You know. That stuff.
I think such people used to be called servants, and it’s no longer a popular profession. Nor is housewifery. And I have my own problems both with hiring help and helping myself.
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“Bad pinhole,” she said.
Fuji 200 C-41 developed in expired Fomadon LQN for 10 minutes. Presoaked and rinsed in water.
“Why do I keep trying?” my Flickr friend asked. ” I just can’t make myself stop wasting film on this whole pinhole thing.”
The ensuing conversation is a long one, I warn you, but it’s a good one. You might enjoy reading it even if you’re not into the whole pinhole thing. People talk about what constitutes waste, about learning by experimenting, about what film is made of, about how to save money on food, about pinhole cameras — and about paranormal phenomena.
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We Make Prints
We Make Prints From Your Digitalsmmnhrhuf is how it looked to me.
I spend too much time blissing out in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Essential Components of a Home Defense System
Your air rifle. Your crank phone. Your guard cat.
Hadj M´hamed el Anka | Chaabi algerien
By way of Excavated Shellac, where you’ll find more groove booty.
This sounds really good at 2:00 am here in the Driftless Region.
Perforation Problems
Handwritten wisdom and a heart full of soul from Iggy Pop, circa 1995.
it’s been a long road since then, but pressure never ends in this life. ‘perforation problems’ by the way means to me also the holes that will always exist in any story we try to make of our lives. so hang on, my love, and grow big and strong and take your hits and keep going.
all my love to a really beautiful girl. that’s you laurence.
iggy pop
(Thanks to Kate Theimer of ArchivesNext for pointing to this by way of Facebook.)
A Distinguished and Natural Cat from Norway
An informational video.
Twelve Meditations on a Dollhouse | IV. Meditation on the Great Hall
The Great Hall. Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle. (Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago.)
(We have skipped past Cinderella’s Drawing Room, where “the vases at each side of the door going into the Great Hall are made of carved amber over 500 years old. They came from the collection of the Dowager Empress of China.”)
“As you go around the corner, stop and look through the clear glass in the center of the chapel window. You will see the altar, and on this altar is a little tabernacle. On top of the tabernacle you will see a beautiful golden sunburst. In the center is a glass container holding a sliver of the true cross. This was given to me by my friend, Clare Booth Luce, when she was the Ambassador to Italy and had her first audience with the Pope. He gave this to her, and she gave it to me to put in the chapel of the Fairy Castle.”
January 10, 2010
I am not staying at a Hilton tonight.
Do people ever read the Bibles in their hotel rooms?
Yes! Each Bible placed in a hotel room has the potential to reach up to 2,300 people in its estimated six-year life span. Research from the hotel industry tells us [The Gideons] that approximately 25% of travelers read the Bibles in their hotel rooms.
Twelve Meditations on a Dollhouse | II. Meditation on the Dining Room
The Dining Room. Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle. (Museum of Science and Industry. Chicago.)
“The tapestries on the wall, which are needlepoint made in Vienna, are the smallest stitches that have ever been stitched.”
Among the items
visitors are forbidden to bring into the Jo Daviess County (Illinois) Courthouse:
Bludgeons.