Cool site

http://ffffound.com
Its a bookmarking site for photos and well... anything.

1020 53rd Street Oakland California (View from my window)

Home Street Home

Found this today under the freeway where San Bruno meets Division (in SF) and it reminded me of Lee´s adventure (its even under a freeway). Its actually embroidered into a piece of card board, gotta love homeless people with a sense of humor!

Postcards are ready!

So, my Potrero Hill guide in postcard-form is now neatly wrapped in envelops with a little map on the front so no one will get lost and it can be found at Christopher´s Books for $ 4.00. It´s at 18th and Missouri, not so far from the SF campus and it´s a really cute little store on a nice little street. Happy location hunting!

Interactive Mapping!

This video is of Daniel Rozen's wooden mirror project. Its an interactive map of your body using over 300 wooden chips and motors.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZysu9QcceM

Archive [dot] org

Check this site out yall! Its great! I wanted to share this map specifically because its a promotional video for Oakland, done in 1928!


The wonderful thing about this website is, not only because you can get so much information easily, but because lots of it you can download and use for your own work perhaps. Its great. Check it out.

http://www.archive.org

Friday's walks

personal guide

After the Funeral by Dylan Thomas

After the Funeral

(for Ann James)

After the funeral, mule praises, brays,

Windshake of sailshaped ears, muffle-toed tap

Tap happily of one peg in the thick

Grave's foot, blinds down the lids, the teeth in black,

The spittled eyes, the salt ponds in the sleeves,

Morning smack of the spade that wakes up sleep,

Shakes a desolate boy who slits his throat

In the dark of the coffin and sheds dry leaves,

That breaks one bone to light with a judgment clout'

After the feast of tear-stuffed time and thistles

In a room with a stuffed fox and a stale fern,

I stand, for this memorial's sake, alone

In the snivelling hours with dead, humped Ann

Whose hodded, fountain heart once fell in puddles

Round the parched worlds of Wales and drowned each sun

(Though this for her is a monstrous image blindly

Magnified out of praise; her death was a still drop;

She would not have me sinking in the holy

Flood of her heart's fame; she would lie dumb and deep

And need no druid of her broken body).

But I, Ann's bard on a raised hearth, call all

The seas to service that her wood-tongued virtue

Babble like a bellbuoy over the hymning heads,

Bow down the walls of the ferned and foxy woods

That her love sing and swing through a brown chapel,

Bless her bent spirit with four, crossing birds.

Her flesh was meek as milk, but this skyward statue

With the wild breast and blessed and giant skull

Is carved from her in a room with a wet window

In a fiercely mourning house in a crooked year.

I know her scrubbed and sour humble hands

Lie with religion in their cramp, her threadbare

Whisper in a damp word, her wits drilled hollow,

Her fist of a face died clenched on round pain;

And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.

These cloud-sopped, marble hands, this monumental

Argument of the hewn voice, gesture and psalm

Storm me forever over her grave until

The stuffed lung of the fox twitch and cry Love

And the strutting fern lay seeds on the black sill.

-- Dylan Thomas

blogs we read

I wanted to contribute my list of blogs i like to read:
(not all of them are photography, just interesting spots on the internet)

http://ilovehotdogs.net/ ---cult movies, really good but mostly obscure & not mainstream. Amazing screen shots!

http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com -- really really amazing photography blog run by Laurel Ptak. She chooses international, young photographers that you would not necessarily see anywhere else. I think her taste leans mostly towards conceptual photographers. Every week there is an archive section that uncovers someone's fascinating online archive.

http://vivavenacava.blogspot.com/ -- Vena Cava blog, they post a lot of art/design/fashion/movies/photographs/music/everything that inspires their high fashion line. I like their taste!

http://tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogspot.com/ --this is a fashion blog, this girl is 13 years old. I can't put this in words, she's become sort of an internet celebrity.

http://weloveyouso.com/ -- Spike Jonze's blog. Other people help him update, but you can see what posts he makes. All sorts of interesting collections of stuff, most of it has to do with Where The Wild Things Are.