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Psycho Killer
Peter Baker reviewing Psycho for Films and Filming. September 1960.
Via chained and perfumed.
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.)
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.
Death Drive in a Cadillac
While I was browsing old car manuals searching for Studebakers, I came across a series of Cadillac brochures which advance the Cadillac lifestyle. As far as I can tell, the Cadillac line moved from sophisticated continental gentlemen to predatory equastrian-based molestation to murderous anti-human technical landscapes.
1959:
1971:
1987:
Mosh Pits (Human and Otherwise)
From “Mosh Pits (Human and Otherwise)” by Dan Witz. Via today and tomorrow.
Shanty Towns
The New York Times:
Like a dozen or so other cities across the nation, Fresno is dealing with an unhappy déjà vu: the arrival of modern-day Hoovervilles, illegal encampments of homeless people that are reminiscent, on a far smaller scale, of Depression-era shantytowns.
What a miserable world we live in (link goes to the article).
The First 100 Days
All of this talk about “First Hundred Days” is really irritating, but here’s a cool graphic by GOOD Magazine:
(Via Matthew Yglesias.)