A little something

Here is a little something to get us through to spring.  Tom Waits and Tootie Ma do it for me.  You can purchase the album and support both Preservation Hall and their Outreach Program here.

via flavorwire

Art and Fashion

Alfred Palmer, 1942

"In fashion, the right thing at the right time is the right thing.  The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing."    Tom Ford  

When I heard Tom Ford say that in an interview recently I couldn't help but draw a correlation between fashion and the commerce driving contemporary art (much less politics).  Perhaps something to consider at your next portfolio review?

2-2-10

Don't mess with me Phil.  I am ready for winter to be over.

(This post was supposed to go up automatically yesterday and I am annoyed with Blogger for the scheduled post setting not working.  How often do you get to use a picture of a ground hog?  Once a year is how often!)

Care package

 

There has been a good bit of talking about the future of photography books recently.  Some interesting ideas, some not so much.  Noah Beil's artist book This is Not My Sky stands as an example of taking control of your own destiny.  The care with which he has hand set the type for the cover and colophon, printed the images and hand tied the binding informs the assembled photographs.  The photographs, of a place which is not his home, become a portrait of a photographer with a careful eye.  Someone who wants to show the same attention to the way the images will be experienced as that shown to their composition.  This is Not My Sky is a visual and physical inspiration.  He has made this book under the imprint Extant Books.  Lovely since extant is defined as still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost.  Care in art making should not be extinct or lost.