These bastards... theradavist.com/trump-admini...

Things seen while walking with camera the other morning before the heat set in.

Half plate tintype, Arches National Park, 2012. Made with my 8x10 handmade sliding box camera. I miss the whole wet plate thing, but it is a lot of work to take it in the field and be careful with the chemicals in nature.

"Back in the old days" when I was an employee and client at commercial photo labs, Pallas gave you your negatives and contact sheets back in envelopes like this. (No mini lab stuff here.) I hear most people these days don't even want their film back, just scans. Weird!

lagowski.bandcamp.com/album/strang... #audio #montage #maniwa #japan #moon #synthless

@ihcilon.bsky.social here's those Do'a cassettes I mentioned. (I guess that was on Instagram 😂) it's not bad music. I was expecting much worse. 😉

Digging through old cassettes of radio shows, mostly from WMSE in the late eighties or early nineties. So far this has The Residents, Legendary Pink Dots (I think it's LPD), then maybe Karl Blake or Lemon Kittens? Interesting mix so far

From a recent alley wandering with cameras.

The Bluesky discover feed is reminding me why I left twitter a decade or so ago.

Ralph Steadman talks ink splatters, Gonzo journalism, Hunter S. Thompson, and ageing as an artist in this candid interview. #RalphSteadman #GonzoJournalism #FearAndLoathing #InkArt #PoliticalSatire #Illustration

Another disappearing collage.

Decades ago I learned that Vincent Price had some cookbooks back in the '60's so of course I had to get them. He was apparently quite the cook and food connoisseur.

"Let's see what a bunch of weird pedals sound like together." 😵‍💫 Where is that voice sound coming from? My guitar loop?! Nutty!

I have a dozen of these 6 minute cassettes I bought in the 90's to use for sound samples, and thought I'd use them as "singles" for my music. Turns out one side only has one channel of audio while the other is two channels of stereo. Oh well!

I usually use a 24mm, 35mm or 50mm for my urban scenes, but used 100mm on my Canon F-1 on this roll of film. I need to do that more often.

Definitely did not get Seven Hours Sleep. Let's see if this helps.

I can’t even comprehend how much was spent on the fireworks seemingly surrounding our place. Total war zone, completely insane.

The dot studies continue.

A new dot study

Safe keeping

Funny to think I've had this ink cup thing (is that what it's called?) since at least the 1980's. Maybe earlier even. It was design to clip on your Masonite drawing board.

I expect to find handwritten recipes, newspaper clippings of recipes or coupons tucked inside vintage cookbooks, but this was interesting. Kids drawing? Abstract artist's doodles? Used as a bookmark or tucked away for safe keeping? I kind of like it!

head over room40.bandcamp.com

Wow, quite the lineup!

New tiny zine from closeups of my abstract art.

I think I forgot to post this dot study. Tar on grocery bag paper.

I forgot I had this endless loop cassette! What is on it you may ask? Running water and some old synth sound, early 80's "industrial" synth noise perhaps. I guess I made it but don't remember doing it!

I'm finding some cool things as I catalog my vintage cookbook collection. Can't believe I hadn't seen some others things before. This was in a cookbook that is probably from the 1910's to 1920's.

😵‍💫 youtu.be/cBuZf2Ay_-A?...

The one synth I wish I had kept, the Prophet 600. I'd probably know how to use it better now. 😉

The worst part of getting old is have no f*ing clue what all these music genres are these days. Maybe it's all a Monty Python skit and people are just making shit up. 🤣

Three

My vintage cookbook collection is fun on its own, but I really like finding what newspaper clipping or handwritten recipes people have left in them.

#bookclub #tapes

International Times, No 98, November 1971 designreviewed.com/artefacts/in...

Sunset Barbecue Cook Book - 1960. One of my favorites from my sprawling collection of vintage cookbooks and cook booklets. Filled with the great illustration style seen on the cover, and Sunset actually had very good recipes.

Art of the day Takaya Katsuragawa

Current 93’s second album 'Dogs Blood Rising' 1984, finding David Tibet leading a phalanx of co-conspirators - Steven Stapleton, Diana Rigerson, Steve Ignorant (Crass), among them - into fractious, psychoacoustic heck boomkat.com/products/dog...

Dang! Repo Man playing at the Oriental Theater WITH the Circle Jerks playing live too?! Sold!

Escape from New York, 1981

Paul Rand: His Work from 1946 to 1958, Alfred A. Knopf, 1959 designreviewed.com/artefacts/pa...

Bluesky's obsession this week is showing me sunset photos. Yeah, I know, I should not look at the discover feed.

From my Untold Stories series, 4x5 black glass ambrotype. 2012

Good description

@rockettemorton.bsky.social ok, I knew there was a reason I thought I heard about this 25 or so years ago... I have a bootleg of it! Slightly different name, looks like the same tracks tho. I don't remember who I got it from.

Those wacky guys from Milwaukee... Couch Flambeau "Rock With Your Sock On" 1983/87