TOM CLARK: a world of sheep

Finsbury190416: photo by streetmax, 19 April 2016

Threadneedle060514: photo by streetmax, 6 May 2014

Lime160215: photo by streetmax, 16 February 2015

AveMaria080415: photo by streetmax, 8 April 2015

Lombard190515: photo by streetmax, 19 May 2015

Eldon200515: photo by streetmax, 20 May 2015

_DSC0059 Paternoster Square, London: photo by streetmax, 5 March 2010

RoyalExchange300513: photo by streetmax, 30 May 2013

Leadenhall260517: photo by streetmax, 26 May 2017

Walbrook030817: photo by streetmax, 3 August 2017

GreatDover250612: photo by streetmax, 25 June 2012

Lime(3)150615: photo by streetmax, 15 June 2015

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Triton020715: photo by streetmax, 2 July 2015

Broadgate030815: photo by streetmax, 3 August 2015

Gresham080814: photo by streetmax, 8 August 2014

Bartholomew16026: photo by streetmax, 16 February 2016

DukesHead18046: photo by streetmax, 18 April 2016

Guildhall190917: photo by streetmax, 17 September 2017

Lloyds050916: photo by streetmax, 5 September 2016

Leadenhall091115: photo by streetmax, 30 August 2008

OldBailey030717: photo by streetmax, 3 July 2017

Lime(6)150615: photo by streetmax, 15 June 2015

where the grapes of wrath are stored

Lever Bros. advertisement for Lux Soap: Woman's Day, 1 September 1949 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE: (opening a box of Lux): "Why don't it have an electric eye the box flip open when it see me and hand itself to the Automat Handy Man he should put inna water already ... The Handy Man is outa control since Thursday, he been getting physical with me and I didn't put it in his combination at all ... And the Garbage Disposal Unit snapping at me and the nasty old Mixmaster keep trying to get up under my dress ... I got the most awful cold, and my intestines is all constipated ... I'm gonna put it in the Handy Man's combination he should administer me a high colonic already."

Lever Bros. advertisement for Lux Soap: Woman's Day, 1 May 1949 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

THE COUNTY CLERK: "So there I was sitting in front of Jed's store over in Cunt Lick my peter standing up straight as a jack pine under my Levis just a-pulsin' in the sun ... Weell, old Doc Scranton walks by, a good old boy too, there's not a finer man in this valley than Doc Scranton. He's got a prolapsed asshole and when he wants to get screwed he'll pass you his ass on three feet of in-test-tine ... If he's a mind to it he can drop out a piece of gut reaches from his office clear over to Roy's Beer Place, and it go feelin' around lookin' for a peter, just a-feelin' around like a blind worm ... So old Doc Scranton sees my peter and he stops like a pointin' dog and he says to me, 'Luke, I can take your pulse from here.'"

Brubeck and Young Seward fight with hog castrators through barns and cages and yipping kennels ... whinnying horses bare great yellow teeth, cows bellow, dogs howl, copulating cats scream like babies, a pen of hogs, spines bristling, give a great Bronx cheer. Brubeck the Unsteady has fallen to the sword of Young Seward, clutches at blue intestines squirting from an eight-inch gash. Young Seward cuts off Brubeck's cock and holds it pulsing in the smoky rust sunrise ...

Brubeck screams ... subway brakes spit ozone ...

"Stand back, folks. Stand back."

"They say somebody pushed him."

"He was weaving around unsteady like he couldn't see good."

KOTEX
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL
03/01/1952
INSIDE BACK

Kotex Co. advertisement for Kotex: Ladies Home Journal, 1 March 1952 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

Mary the Lesbian Governess has slipped to the pub floor on a bloody Kotex ... a three-hundred-pound fag tramples her to death with pathic whinnies ...

He sings in a hideous falsetto:

He is stamping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,

He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.

He pulls a gilded wooden sword and chops the air. His corset flies off and whistles into the dart board.

The old bullfighter's sword buckles on bone and whistles into the heart of the espontaneo, pins his unconsummate valor to the stands.

William S. Burroughs (1914-1997): from Naked Lunch (1959)

Kotex Co. advertisement for Kotex: John Whitcomb, Family Circle, 1 November 1957 (Gallery of Graphic Design)

El rejoneador Rodrigo Santos recoge un clavel. | by Emigdio Salgado

El rejoneador Rodrigo Santos recoge un clavel. Villa de Álvarez, Colima, México: photo by Emigdio Salgado (Millo Salgado), 27 April 2009

little horse

little horse: photo by Giovanni M, 1 June 2015

dog: photo by Giovanni M, 23 October 2016

horse: photo by Giovanni M, 4 December 2013

Goodbye horses: photo by Giovanni M, 7 March 2017

the jungle: photo by Giovanni M, 2 January 2017

the jungle

Brilliant Halloween cover @NewYorker art #cartergoodrich #trump: image via coverjunkie @coverjunkie, 23 October 2017

Lindsey Hemmer. Palm Springs, California.: photo by Ryan Schude, 20 June 2015

Magdalena Wosinska and her 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle. Highland Park, Los Angeles. January, 2014.: photo by Ryan Schude, 8 May 2014

Magdalena Wosinska and her 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle. Highland Park, Los Angeles. January, 2014.: photo by Ryan Schude, 8 May 2014

Magdalena Wosinska and her 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle. Highland Park, Los Angeles. January, 2014.: photo by Ryan Schude, 8 May 2014

Untitled: photo by Ryan Schude, 21 April 2016

Willie. In the bedroom he shared with his partner Sally until she died. He remembers her through her paintings.: photo by Ryan Schude, 4 May 2016

Garrett Cornelison and Pap Shirock with Garrett's 1967 Chevy Impala. Lancaster, California.: photo by Ryan Schude, 19 March 2016

Emily Caldwell with her 1963 Chevy Corvair. Malibu, California. November, 2013.: photo by Ryan Schude, 3 December 2013

The Peel Family. Julie, Chris and Elliott. Richmond, Virginia. September, 2013.: photo by Ryan Schude, 1 October 2013

Jen Kilcoyne and her 1976 Volkswagen Fastback Type 3 for Them and Theirs. St. John's Bridge, Portland, Oregon.: photo by Ryan Schude, 20 August 2015

Plasket Ridge. Big Sur, California.: photo by Ryan Schude, 6 December 2014

Chad Attie and his 1989 Volvo for Them and Theirs. Niland, California. March, 2015.: photo by Ryan Schude, 12 July 2015

3 comments:

Unknown4 November 2017 at 14:14
Hey Tom, I've been trying to catch up with your work here, reeling in the weeks but you're keeping 10 steps ahead. This post is so cool. streetmax's Matrix, Burroughs, Giovanni, and Ryan Schude pictures -- perfection from top to bottom. Sheep? Yeah, sheep.
TC5 November 2017 at 01:24
Yo, Tom, lovely to hear from you and esp on this post, pristine in its untouchability until this moment. My fave of all time!!

streetmax captures the mute truth of our stunned end-of-history world awfully well, I reckon.

I think the secret lies in the spacing of the figures. Our wonderful advanced apartness. No touching!!

But then how would I know. If a smart-smart iPhone 6 or next-app whatchamacallit came up and bit me, I'd never know what did it, and the device would probably be even more confused, if that's even possible, which I doubt.

All down to the spacing of the figures.
Unknown5 November 2017 at 16:46
old time physiology, and who among us can hit a curve ball anyway? And, esp., that Muybridge’s discovery in motion is only nearly confirmed in the bipeds!

Sunday, 29 October 2017

a world of sheep

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