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Photography by Ellen Rogers
An interesting series of photographs from Ellen Rogers. The figures seem to exist in an over processed anachronic void.
There are some really phenomenal pictures in this series, but I hesitate to clutter this page with a long series of photographs. Instead, I suggest you view the whole set on her site. There isn’t really a designation where one set ends and the next begins, but all of her sets are interesting.
The Chalk Cliffs on Rügen, 1825-26
To be honest, I don’t know much about the names dropped below, but the book about Caspar David Friedrich linked above is worth checking out or even buying.
[Caspar David] Friedrich’s own destiny is part of the psychological landscape of his age. In almost every one of the poems by Wihelm Müller that Schubert set in his Winterreise, there are lines that seem to mirror the painter’s distraction and dread of human contact:
Durch des Bergstroms trock’ne Rinnen
Wind’ ich ruhig mich hinab–
Jeder Strom wird’s Meer gewinnen
Jedes Leiden auch sein Grab. (Irrlicht)(Down the mountain stream’s dry gullies
I calmly pick my way
Every stream will reach the sea,
Every sorrow finds its grave.)
Waffle Shop/Talk Show
If you find yourself in Pittsburgh between 11PM and 3AM Friday and Saturday nights, there’s only one place to get great waffles with your talk show and that’s Waffle Shop. They also have a brunch on Sundays if your sleeping patterns are a bit more conservative.
If you happen to be interesting, hop up on stage for Talk Show:
Lamp, Ice, Ink, Dimensions Variable
Kitty Kraus, Untitled, 2006, lamp, ice, ink, dimensions variable.
A lightbulb is placed in a block of ice and ink. As it melts, the ink spreads about on its own accord. More views at various stages here.
Via VVork.
Conclave Obscurum
Don’t ask me to explain what it is, but if you can get it to load it’s worth the wait.