While visiting the great Edward Weston at the Getty, saw another astonishing photo exhibit by the daringly amoral photographer Luc Delahaye. As this fascinating story in Artnet about a gallery show four years ago reveals, he worked as a war photographer in Bosnia, but after a few years there had to give up the traditionalContinue reading “Department of a Thousand Words”
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A Strong Relationship — With Yourself
That’s what Texas photographer Kelli Connell depicts in a compelling series of photographs, some of which can be found in an interesting exhibit at the Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai. As I mention in the story for the Ventura County Reporter: One of the most striking displays in Larramendy’s small but appealing gallery is aContinue reading “A Strong Relationship — With Yourself”
The New Bear Market
Truly original thinkers come up with lots of ideas and inevitably, some of them are pretty wacky. This site features lots of Tom Toles: here he’s so far outside the box one has to wonder a little…but it stuck with me, this morning when the stock market headed negative for the year, so it’s worthContinue reading “The New Bear Market”
The Host: Best Enviro Movie of the Year
What is an environmental movie? Is it a movie that uses the beauty of wilderness to make us fall in love with the earth, as for example Into the Wild, or Brokeback Mountain? Is it a movie that explicitly tackles an environmental issue, such as Erin Brocovitch, or The China Syndrome? Or is it aContinue reading “The Host: Best Enviro Movie of the Year”
Famous Blowhard Falls for Global Warming Hoax
This is rich: a clever Englishman recently faked a paper in the heretofore unknown Journal of Geoclimactic Studies, supposedly by a team of brave researchers. "They" claimed to have found proof that global warming was caused by an obscure oceanic bacteria, and were publishing the truth at great risk to their scientific careers. Our dataContinue reading “Famous Blowhard Falls for Global Warming Hoax”
Sunday Morning on the Planet: A Heaven in Books
Sometimes I wish I could live in a Ben Katchor painting…or watercolor.
Bad Review of the Year
Wow. Robert Christgau, once the man who reviewed every record under the sun for the Village Voice, absolutely devastates Joni Mitchell’s new record in Rolling Stone. Yet I’m sure he would agree that this in no way diminishes Joni Mitchell’s better songs. (Mitchell’s work continues to shine — just hear what Prince does with herContinue reading “Bad Review of the Year”
I Only Wish There Was Some Way to Avoid This Terrible Tragedy…
In which the Onion proves as adept as imitating CNN as it already is at imitating the New York Times. http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf Preemptive Memorial Honors Future Victims Of Imminent Dam Disaster
What Kind of Jerk Drives a Hummer?
Now we know: (h/t: Andrew Sullivan)
Global Warming: There Will Be Snacks
Why fight global warming when you can use it to bake cookies in your car? That’s what folks in Los Angeles are saying, now that they’ve found a way to cook delicious chocolate chip cookies on their dashboards. Somewhere Andrew Bird, a much-loved alternative rocker, must be smiling. In his droll and quite wonderful songContinue reading “Global Warming: There Will Be Snacks”
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