watch | clara rockmore

electricity comes from other planets!

"Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Imperial conservatory of Saint Petersburg at the age of five. She studied violin under the virtuoso Leopold Auer, and remains to this day the youngest student ever to be admitted to the institution. Unfortunately, bone problems due to childhood malnutrition forced her to abandon violin performance past her teen years. That however led her to discover the newborn electronic instrument and become the most renowned female player of the theremin."

DOWNLOAD: CLARA ROCKMORE - THE SWAN [MP3]

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look | vivian maier

to look at her photos, you'd think vivian maier had the world on strings and could conduct all of its hazardous swinging, hollering parts into calm and silent little squares. you'd at least think she had some training. neither is true. vivian maier was a half-french nanny living in chicago, who tooled around the city between shifts, directing her rolleiflex at casually complex arrangements of hats, limbs and lines for a hobby. she shot constantly but never showed. not to anybody. she died, of course, and 100,000 unseen negatives went to auction, packed in crates. in fact they went shortly before she did when she stopped paying rent on her storage locker. her secret life's work was bought by a 26 year old real estate agent looking for old stock images of his beat. he paid $400. since the first set of negatives hit the scanner, vivian maier's photos (and their great american backstory) have been infecting everyone who gets their hands on them. our real estate agent, for example, is now a photographer with a powerhouse book deal and he's already collected $15,000 of funding for his vivian maier documentary. an award-winning danish film-maker signed on to the project without hesitation. galleries from northbrook to norway are scrambling to assemble exhibitions. the internet is all abuzz, as usual. and then there's you and me, who are new, but have already started to look at things differently. see more.

snowed like crazy and i took some nothing pictures of people walking around. shocker, i know.

happening | winter solstice lunar eclipse

the first in almost 500 years! see it tonight around 3am EST. i regret not having put half a damn word down here worth reading in months and am banking on this impossible coincidence of moon voodoo pulling me back around right. i take the cats acting funny, pulling never-before-seen ricochet jump moves off the bedsheets and bugging their eyes out at me nervous and suggestive like look out behind you, as proof of possible magic happening. now to the roof and see.

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look | alison scarpulla

it's about time somebody threw alison scarpulla a proper show of giant prints and got the girl rich already.

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look | devi arnold / patrick buckley

look | randy isely

watch | the strange rebirth of andre weil

yes! joel finally broke down and made the strange rebirth of andre weil public! you remember hearing about this, no? nine days in san francisco? brain damage and seizures? love and polaroids? the camera adds twenty pounds? joel also secretly started a rad new blog that i highly recommend you check every day, because it already has 98% of other blogs beat to hell. see if you can memorize this url: joelgarber.tumblr.com/

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