Tuesday, 4 March 2014

Bright Ideas


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Cities of Tomorrow #3, New York, N.Y.: photo by Jim Rohan, 23 February 2014


the failing organism
impatiently
to the construct personality:
"You and your bright ideas
on fire
in that bag over your head again."





 Mr G Gets Another Bright Idea: photo via Rosa Lichtenstein (Born-Again Mystic)

WESTINGHOUSE MAZDA LAMPS
LIFE
09/20/1937
p. 112

Westinghouse Electric Corporation advertisement for Westinghouse Mazda Lamps: Life, 20 September 1937 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

WESTINGHOUSE MAZDA LAMPS
LIFE
06/01/1942
p. 18

Westinghouse Electric Corporation advertisement for Westinghouse Mazda Lamps: Life, 1 June 1942 (Gallery of Graphic Design)


IMG_5423: photo by locaburg, 17 March 2006


Self (Holga wet plate) Wet plate glass negative in a Holga. Me, sleeping on the floor of the New England School of Photography. It was a long exposure. I took a nap: photo by Jim Rohan, 9 February 2014


Untitled (myself, shopwindow reflection, Stockholm): photo by Hans Söderström, 9 September 2013



Untitled (bunnies, Kungsträdgarden, Stockholm): photo by Hans Söderström, 12 October 2013


Bright Ideas, New York, New York (sidewalk figure, Brooklyn Bridge): photo by Jim Rohan, 18 February 2014

6 comments:

  1. People are so hardened any more, the pathos doesn't seem to touch them -- bustling past the downed bunny, dead to its predicament --

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  2. Yes, this is bright, funny and painful. That was my first reaction, which I've tested under experimental conditions, i.e., I viewed this in the dark before dawn and then again following the first difficult dog walk. People being hardened seems like a generous evaluation. Blindness comes into it somewhere also. Curtis

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  3. Maybe the auld body (the one we're doing our best to forget) really knows how this all pans out.

    Light and heat and lithium are burning everything away.

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  4. The bunny still standing looks suspiciously smug to me.

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  5. Eureka! It’s time I took a bath—that should shock the daylights out of me.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_%28word%29

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  6. Perhaps it's those unnaturally large eyes.

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