tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8309181120283829492024-02-06T18:26:35.080-08:00A is for Aye-Aye: An Abecedarian AdventureAn alphabetical journey through the
the New York Public Library's Picture Collection, where over a million image clippings provide an idiosyncratic visual history of the world.Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-60904483311226909022014-04-23T13:13:00.001-07:002014-04-23T13:13:53.972-07:00<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">an oracle, oysters, Oregon, and Offices.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I think our Aye-Aye may have to eat </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">those oysters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If I don't steal them first.</span><br />
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<br />Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-34502425254956530902014-02-05T13:31:00.000-08:002014-02-05T13:36:27.515-08:00Optometry & Oracles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm working towards a new world based on images for the letter O. </div>
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I love the many images associated with optometry such as those above and below, especially the ghostly hand projection below.</div>
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In addition, there are some beautiful images associated with opera.</div>
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However, so far ia m beginning to work with "Offices, 1945" and an "Oracle - The Pythia from Delphi." I'm thinking of adding some Oysters and an open window on Oregon...<br />
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Thanks to Forest for these Scans!Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-66619661233631723162014-01-14T14:23:00.001-08:002014-01-14T14:23:38.751-08:00O, Abecedarian...I'm writing this at the Mid-Manhattan Library, home to the Picture Collection, where I've been investigating the letter O today. Naturally, the hundreds of images I looked at today are still spinning around in my mind, refusing to take a concrete form, but some of my favorite folders contained within the letter O include Oysters, Offices, Opera, Oracles, and Optometry... (and that doesn't even include Oregon or Obelisks.) How will they form a world?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Offices - 1954, Color Dynamics, Pittsburgh, 1946</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Operas - Bellini (Samuel Ramey in I Puritani, NYT Nov. 30, 1986)</td></tr>
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<br />Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-50411518287272848872013-10-21T12:11:00.000-07:002013-10-21T12:11:06.071-07:00Back in the Alphabet Soup Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to my <span style="font-size: small;">fantast<span style="font-size: small;">ic <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>ain<span style="font-size: small;">t <span style="font-size: small;">F</span>ra<span style="font-size: small;">ncis College </span></span>intern, Alex <span style="font-size: small;">James, I'm finally back in the alphabet soup</span></span></span></span> again. As I jump back into <i>A is for Aye-Aye: an Abecedarian Adventure</i>, I'm pondering the transition between lettered worlds.<br />
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Knights knitting in Krygystan?</div>
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Trying to solve this has sent me back to my ABCs. I haven't reached a solution, yet, but researching other abecedarys (or alphabet books) is certainly a lot of fun. Just for starters, there are the following:</div>
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And that's just the tip of the alphabetical iceberg...</div>
<br />Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-55234244350654631332012-09-09T16:02:00.002-07:002012-09-09T16:02:29.433-07:00After a six month hiatus, I'm back at work on <i>A is for Aye Aye</i>.<br />
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For those of you who are new to the project... <i>A is for Aye Aye: An Abecedarian Adventure </i>is a celebration of the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=all&col_id=482">New York Public Library's amazing Picture Collection</a><i>, </i>a repository for over one million images collected for over 90 years. The images are arranged alphabetically in Categories ranging from A & P Food Stores to Zoological Gardens, pasted on large pieces of cardstock and labeled by hand. You can check out these images (60 each week!) in beautiful little green portfolios and take them home to scan or just stare at. <i></i><br />
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In this short film, a young girl wanders into the collection and encounters the image of an Aye-Aye, a lemur from Madagascar which you can see an image of below. The Aye-Aye leads the girl through a series of alphabetical worlds created from images in the collection, and then finds herself outside in the real world being followed down Fifth Avenue by the Aye-Aye and a few of her other new-found friends from the Picture Collection. <br />
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The Aye-Aye looks like this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Aye-Aye, From ANIMALS: A-L</td></tr>
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You can read more about my process by going back to the blog's
beginning, but I just wanted to create a visual summary of the work I've
done so far. <br />
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My very first sketch for a world drawn from the letter D, which I hope to elaborate on is here :<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D is for Desert and Dirigible</td></tr>
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The letter E has proved (not surprisingly) to be Elusive, but the letter F looks like this:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">F is for Forest and Fortune-telling</td></tr>
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The Letter G:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">G is for Gauchos, Giants, and Gibraltar</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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The Letter H:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H is for Hypnotism, Hair, and Hawaii</td></tr>
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The Letter I:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I is for Ivory, Incense & Ice</td></tr>
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The Letter J:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">J is for Justice, Junks, and Juggling</td></tr>
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The Letter K:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K is for Knights Knitting in Krygystan</td></tr>
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The Letter L:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">L is for Lapps, Lunchboxes, Labyrinths and Lighthouses</td></tr>
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The Letter M:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M is for Magic Carpets, Masks, Mermaids, and the Maya on May Day</td></tr>
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The Letter N:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">N is for Newsstands, Nurses and Nigeria in Niagara Falls</td></tr>
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The Letter Z:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Z is for (Great) Zimbabwe and the Zodiac at the Zoological Gardens</td></tr>
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So, eleven worlds from eleven letters have been sketched so far, and I plan to move on to complete the project in plenty of time for the collection's 100th birthday in 2015.Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-87477362458692476762012-02-07T08:27:00.000-08:002012-02-07T08:27:07.556-08:00G is for Gauchos in the Garden of Forking Paths<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Starting with a few images from my Picture Collection research for <a href="http://aisforayeaye.blogspot.com/2011/03/f-is-for-forest-and-g-is-for-gaucho.html">the letter G</a>, including:</b></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><b>I put them together adding some grass, creating a miniature Matto Grosso in the foreground replacing Queen Elizabeth...</b><br />
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<i> I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.<br />
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<i>A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.<br />
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Ts'ui Pen must have said once: I am withdrawing to write a book. And another time: I am withdrawing to construct a labyrinth. Every one imagined two works; to no one did it occur that the book and the maze were one and the same thing.<br />
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In the work of Ts'ui PĂȘn, all possible outcomes occur; each one is the point of departure for other forkings. Sometimes, the paths of this labyrinth converge: for example, you arrive at this house, but in one of the possible pasts you are my enemy, in another, my friend.</i><br />
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I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.</i><br />
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<b>And so, in my Garden, a fractured chorus line of 1940s gauchos joined the last renaissance man's seventeenth century giant to frolic on the grass in the shadow of Gibraltar...</b><i><br />
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As the old song says, I'd like<br />
<i>A little less conversation, a little more action please<br />
All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me<br />
A little more bite and a little less bark<br />
A little less fight and a little more spark<br />
Close your mouth and open up your heart and baby satisfy me<br />
Satisfy me baby</i><br />
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One for the <a href="http://aisforayeaye.blogspot.com/2011/04/sketch-of-letter-h-for-hypnotism.html">letter I</a> (follow link and scroll down to see the materials I pulled the collage elements from):<br />
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And another for <a href="http://aisforayeaye.blogspot.com/2011/04/tending-to-my-knitting-in-krygyzstan.html">the letter K</a>, "Knights tend their knitting in Krygystan":<br />
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Enjoy!Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-23585719583978858862011-07-20T11:04:00.000-07:002011-07-20T11:21:33.056-07:00Nurse on the Run<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdxMtPr-cK3FdLiGU84RIcZhnH-irgpIkCJ-9Mq9t9XRJyymytgfUu9XTvakn0iYf0Zq9ZC49dY6d1f1vbwIeTgBnSoXQyRDTLZ8wH1vl3Jnpq6Ji0tKk-T2f4W41Utfyl6p2c0US7Rhy/s1600/N+mock-up+2+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdxMtPr-cK3FdLiGU84RIcZhnH-irgpIkCJ-9Mq9t9XRJyymytgfUu9XTvakn0iYf0Zq9ZC49dY6d1f1vbwIeTgBnSoXQyRDTLZ8wH1vl3Jnpq6Ji0tKk-T2f4W41Utfyl6p2c0US7Rhy/s400/N+mock-up+2+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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This sketch for the letter N (incorporating a bird hunter from Nigeria, two images of Niagara Falls, Mike's Newsstand, and a Nurse on the run) reminds me an oft-quoted remark from a Sri Lankan monk who now lives in West Virginia:<br />
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"Somewhere in this process you will come face-to-face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill utterly out of control and hopeless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way and you just never noticed. "<br />
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henepola_Gunaratana">Henepola Gunaratana </a><br />
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A nice thing to remember in this heat wave...Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-9221137116318870152011-07-18T18:58:00.000-07:002011-07-18T18:58:28.258-07:00Nurse Nancy Beats the Heat, plus Nigeria and NiagaraI am afraid I've been enjoying summer too much to make may posts lately, and now have a backlog of material from the letter N.<br />
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So, without further ado, I'm going to upload a few scans from the picture collection's wonderful treasure trove of images of nurses, starting with a historical potpourri:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">13th Century Nursing Sister</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">16th Century nurse, pictured in a 1959-60 Abbott Labs publication</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1910 graduating class of African American nurses</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gibson girl nurse from the early 1900s</td></tr>
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Some of my favorite images of nurses are from the covers of romance novels:<br />
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Once I started traveling, I wanted to go further afield, and a few images from Nigeria caught my eye.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Despite the objectifying gaze of this 1938 photo, the strength and beauty of its subject are palpable.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1996 celebration of Kwaghir by the Tiv in Gboko</td></tr>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">These photos made me want to find out more about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabar">Calabar</a>, a city in South-Eastern Nigeria, which has been a center for trade since at least the 16th century. I also wanted to learn more about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiv_people">Tiv</a>, who celebrate Kwaghir with traditional puppet shows and storytelling in their capital, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gboko">Gboko</a>, which is in North Central Nigeria. A long time ago, my dad had mentioned <a href="http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001%7E%21110438%210">The Oni of Ife</a> to me, he is the spiritual leader of Nigeria's Yoruba people and the current Oni, who prefers the spelling Ooni, has <a href="http://theooni.org/">his own site</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-45908006086918812292011-06-10T14:16:00.000-07:002011-06-10T14:18:22.504-07:00Noise Annoys (and Delights)Maybe it's because it's the dog days of summer, but I'm wading slowly through the letter N. I've found a bevy of nurses and other N images to add to last week's NEWSSTANDS, but I've been slow in scanning them.<br />
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But the folder I wasn't expecting to find is the folder for NOISE. It's not really something you can SEE, is it?<br />
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My father's birthday is coming up soon, and he was a guy who loved noise. In fact, I still have a few mix tapes he gave me. There was a little box to check on some tapes that said "noise reduction." On one tape, my dad scrawled in "HELL NO!!!!!" next to that box. He liked it loud, and you can read about it in a collection of his work, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blues-Chaos-Writing-Robert-Palmer/dp/1416599746"><i>Blues & Chaos: The Music Writing of Robert Palmer</i></a>, which comes out in paperback in September. So in honor of my dad's birthday, I'm going to just load up a few pictures of NOISE, transcendent and annoying here.<br />
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Strangely enough, I found an image in this file made by my father's friend <a href="http://www.davidkatzenstein.com/">David Katzenstein</a> in this folder. It even, inexplicably, had a stamp on it from Tangier, a city they visited together:<br />
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This is one of a large group of images about the experience of noises that might make you plug your ears:<br />
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There are also a couple of images paired with text about Moms who can't hear themselves think or get their babes to sleep. As a person who's experienced both ends of this, I couldn't resist them:<br />
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There are couple of images about things that block or prevent noise:<br />
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But I really love the methods and machines for measuring noise:<br />
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This last one is one of my favorites, especially since I've been feeling recently that my mission in life is to make remedial music films for visual people (a.k.a.sonically challenged people like myself).I <b>AM</b> a Synthane Noisometer.<br />
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Maybe.<br />
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Hopefully I'll get the professional help I need at <a href="http://www.flahertyseminar.org/">this year's Flaherty Seminar</a>, appropriately titled "Sonic Truth."<br />
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<span id="goog_1983918049"></span><span id="goog_1983918050"></span>Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-29607062894330853662011-06-02T19:39:00.000-07:002011-06-02T20:34:44.061-07:00N is for Newstands: Young Women Going Places & Keeping up with the Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ghlR2_B-hxACqDuYNYGU7BKRcE854YSUATy4d8ZiEojtt006mNs7deSa8wXt7NHJg4r4ytTU4xLEqWf9Uyi6nxg8KVO-PrqqCwDx4ym5MJiJcVXK_ACO2ZDdG3wWF5BUZFgnt5JIAcYN/s1600/NEWSTAND++ad+1954+mayhew+%2526+ries+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ghlR2_B-hxACqDuYNYGU7BKRcE854YSUATy4d8ZiEojtt006mNs7deSa8wXt7NHJg4r4ytTU4xLEqWf9Uyi6nxg8KVO-PrqqCwDx4ym5MJiJcVXK_ACO2ZDdG3wWF5BUZFgnt5JIAcYN/s400/NEWSTAND++ad+1954+mayhew+%2526+ries+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>I've begun looking for images in the letter N, and the first folder I looked at was Newsstands. This young woman was really going places in the 1950s... of course. Nearly twenty years later, the New Yorker ran a cartoon that implied she might have added <i>Ms. Magazine</i> to her newsstand wish list.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Somehow the idea of newsstands takes me back to Alexander Mackendrick's brilliant New York newsworld noir, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjM01pxQi0&feature=related">The Sweet Smell of Success</a>. The film stars Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster (as J.J. Hunsecker, a gossip columnist cookie full of arsenic)."The cat's in the bag," Curtis' character says, "and the bag's in the river." It's all shot in the most beautiful black and white, as if it had been drenched in the newspaper ink that fills J.J. Hunsecker's veins.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Naturally, I found a few older images that evoked that newsprint world, though neither was from New York.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paris, 1951</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And then were a few that surprised me. A beautiful pink newsstand from Ireland, a color newsstand from Fortune Magazine 1948 that looks shockingly contemporary, a San Francisco Chinatown stand, and Mike's of Harlem - a piece of folk art where you can buy candy or news.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qqAT6D1Nid2I2_fUBz4BhO56C-OtGXSBrHx4HBEaknv2Q9fvLOkd9NV5LYcB7XPba7XSQ0OJIXQJAXsbTDFsK6G4YjY1YIbksjEGKADePdHO3AwnjfcnciaUB70H7H2OA_hm1ccrpBse/s1600/NEWSTANDS+-irelan+26%252C820+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qqAT6D1Nid2I2_fUBz4BhO56C-OtGXSBrHx4HBEaknv2Q9fvLOkd9NV5LYcB7XPba7XSQ0OJIXQJAXsbTDFsK6G4YjY1YIbksjEGKADePdHO3AwnjfcnciaUB70H7H2OA_hm1ccrpBse/s400/NEWSTANDS+-irelan+26%252C820+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBchQlpQuQ8vP3TZh-3flscuy7Rq8a1bCD3l0X_G9GRwjo7KzEJ_E35AWQbkWLUSUk7wJPvjMeY8ZvSw84sdqDEOWkArSrFGxVIGOIXIWnCzPWgCTIFfyXrCDhpeHW4KvHsvJC_I6BF6A/s1600/newstands+-+1948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBchQlpQuQ8vP3TZh-3flscuy7Rq8a1bCD3l0X_G9GRwjo7KzEJ_E35AWQbkWLUSUk7wJPvjMeY8ZvSw84sdqDEOWkArSrFGxVIGOIXIWnCzPWgCTIFfyXrCDhpeHW4KvHsvJC_I6BF6A/s640/newstands+-+1948.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhifiBe_cSEeNyEeaZvQm5UnAKxmUmfTvvQfVPmTrwEZ5Wqt7IrSoxtswJH1hcVzL_spUC7RtxSUmVUVv9rcBS2NuWo-eeS63OomL4K5gy6ypWa_eCXPmRh5w_Hr1v4dO_k2g7BJHR8Y4NS/s1600/newstands+-+chinatown+26%252C201+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhifiBe_cSEeNyEeaZvQm5UnAKxmUmfTvvQfVPmTrwEZ5Wqt7IrSoxtswJH1hcVzL_spUC7RtxSUmVUVv9rcBS2NuWo-eeS63OomL4K5gy6ypWa_eCXPmRh5w_Hr1v4dO_k2g7BJHR8Y4NS/s400/newstands+-+chinatown+26%252C201+copy.jpg" width="340" /></a></div><br />
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But the image that surprised me the most was another woman at a newsstand, a woman minding her own stall on the street.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>...the mystery was,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>not that she walked there, ten</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>years after her death,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>but that she vanished,and let </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>twilight take her place </i>--</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">I love to see these women emerge "walking" or sitting - in some cases centuries after their deaths - from folders in the Picture Collection. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Warren wrote the poem for her mother, and one image of an ancient mother has been haunting me. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhib3JZ3e9urrq7AOWNHYzmriOhi5WrMxz0IrbpiJcRUXZK2bUK2zFDmHEzkNwtezUdL5NzsI8bFrH_K05ifBv5Jy4J4ysqngWKBAmxnxpsAxhS3lOp6621tZgt9fPE4SZGNZR4-C4jcv0y/s1600/music-+ancient+egyptian+columbia+records+detail+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhib3JZ3e9urrq7AOWNHYzmriOhi5WrMxz0IrbpiJcRUXZK2bUK2zFDmHEzkNwtezUdL5NzsI8bFrH_K05ifBv5Jy4J4ysqngWKBAmxnxpsAxhS3lOp6621tZgt9fPE4SZGNZR4-C4jcv0y/s640/music-+ancient+egyptian+columbia+records+detail+copy.jpg" width="360" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">She's not as old as the goddess from Chauvet Cave that Werner Herzog captures in <i>The Cave of Forgotten Dreams</i>, but she is described as 5,000 year old tomb statue in the 1960 Columbia Record Distributors booklet her image comes from, which somehow found its way to the MUSIC - ANCIENT EGYPTIAN folder, part of the amazing archive of the letter M....</div>Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-8859175009841232772011-05-26T09:34:00.000-07:002011-05-26T09:34:12.476-07:00The Zodiac in the Night Sky and Diogenes' Lantern<i>These Lights </i><br />
Inside water, a waterwheel turns,<br />
A star circulates with the moon.<br />
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We live in the night ocean wondering,<br />
<i>what are these lights?</i><br />
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Reading Rumi's poem above made me want to revisit the images I'd culled from the letter Z, because I'd wanted to combine images of ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS with a turning ferris wheel in the night sky created from ZODIACs. <br />
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I started with the zoo from Barrackpore and a renaissance Zodiac:<br />
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But then remembered that I'd wanted a night sky and planned to include the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, so I revised it a bit:<br />
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(You can see more of the source material for the letter Z in this <a href="http://aisforayeaye.blogspot.com/2011/04/romance-of-roentgen-x-rays-zinc-zoos.html">earlier post.)</a> <br />
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Thinking about images of light, I was reminded of Diogenes, the Cynic philosopher who was famous for going around with a lantern in his hand in broad daylight, looking for an honest man.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An engraving of Diogenes included in a book on the history of hairstyles. (source code 15,218)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Undated image</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1946 William Gropper image.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1907 Harper's Magazine Illustration</td></tr>
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My friend Sohrab Sadaat Ladjevardi, a great sax player who has a band called the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/sohrabsaadat">Tehran Dakar Brothers</a>, mentioned Diogenes to me recently, and that's why I went looking for his image. I found it in a folder marked PERSONALITIES: DIO. The PERSONALITIES folders are one of the largest categories in the Picture Collection and line most of one wall. Arranged alphabetically, like most everything else in the collection, the famous people in PERSONALITIES: DIO ran the gamut of trades and historical eras. A few of the folks sharing that folder with Diogenes include:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christian Dior NYT, 1953</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Ronny James Dio was inexplicably absent. Diogenes, however, took up the lion's share of the folder. His insistence on living in a tub (essentially a trash bin), his rigorous rejection of material possessions, and his playful cynicism have inspired artists for thousand of years. There are myriad representations of him from varied sources and eras. A few of my favorites include:<br />
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</tbody></table>I love the shifting historical representations of Alexander, Diogenes, and the tub, and the way their characteristics change, especially Diogenes, who sometimes appears as an irascible crank and other times as appears as a respected sage. <br />
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I'm not sure how or whether I will use these images in the film. Perhaps, it occurred to me, I could place a series of "PERSONALITIES" in a playground?<br />
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I went to look at the PLAYGROUNDS folders, and the first thing I found was a strangely misfiled image from PUNISHMENTS. I decided it was time to call it a day, but I leave you with that image, which depicts a very adult playground...<br />
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(Thanks to Chris Arnold for German translation help.)Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-70281365932042609892011-05-19T11:40:00.000-07:002011-05-19T11:40:55.895-07:00Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, with a side trip to MadagascarI collected more images for M than for any other letter so far. Some of them, like the beautiful images of Music: Ancient Egyptian, will be filed away for later. For a bit of a change, I thought I'd put in my working sketch first, then break down what went into it.<br />
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The bear on a magic carpet and the large May Day engraving, some readers will recognize from last week's entry.<br />
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The Mermaids near the center come from a small selection I made, which also includes "the chicken of the sea":<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Early American folk art from New York state (C. 1810)</td></tr>
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There are two images from the folder MAYAS:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1930s National Geographic illustration</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>The second image is a figure who looks regal but benign, yet the handwritten caption indicates that this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chac_Mool">Chac Mool</a> has a receptacle on its stomach "for offerings, usually fresh blood or pulsating hearts." He seems pretty blase about the whole thing, looking away as if he's not even interested in whether he's got a pulsating heart for breakfast or not. One wonders about the source of this material, but I'm giving it to you uncited, as it came across my table in the Picture Collection.<br />
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Before MAYAs, I looked through many images in MADAGASCAR: LIFE. It looks like one of the most beautiful places on earth, but somehow the composition of the landscapes I found didn't grab me as much as the raucous May Day image I chose as a base for the sketch above. I really wish I'd found a place for the gentleman below, however.<br />
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He is a musician who plays while dancers perform in the Malagasy ritual of <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/madagascar/travel-tips-and-articles/16951">Famadihana</a>, or turning the dead, when ancestral bones are exhumed, feted, and wrapped in new shrouds during the Malagasy winter.<br />
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I claimed earlier not to be obsessed with death, but my forays in the archive prove otherwise...<br />
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In the sky with the Chac Mool are a few of the beautiful images I found in MASKS - AFRICAN. I've chosen a few more that didn't make it in to show you here.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buale funerary mask, Ivory coast</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Unlabeled mask found on the reverse of the image above</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kwele face mask, Gabon or Congo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ivory, Benin</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Left is Lega, Zaire, Right is a Pende mask also from Zaire (Now Democratic Republic of Congo)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Punu, Gabon, wood</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Congo</td></tr>
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And there are three masks included in the mock-up for the letter M that it's nice to get a fuller look at.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dan-Ngere mask, 1974 (Dan or Gio people are Mande speakers from Liberia and Cote D'Ivoire)</td></tr>
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These masks are unbelievably beautiful, and their totemic quality made me want to place a few of them in the sky alongside the Chac Mool. I love that each photograph has what I would call its own aura, derived from the photographic techniques used (especially the lighting) and the time and setting in which its image was captured. Somehow vestiges of these auras remain even when the masks are extracted from the photograph. When I make more formal versions of these sketches, I hope to preserve those auras, the shadows and outlines that are remnants of lost times and ancestors.<br />
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Stay tuned next week for a tangent into PERSONALITIES: DIO, or maybe it will be NEWSTANDS and NIGERIA.... who knows.Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-28455397850240114502011-05-12T07:29:00.000-07:002011-05-13T13:39:57.734-07:00May Day, Mayday! Pick UpYour Moving Picture Cameras, Ladies!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>The Letter "M" will get two entries rather than one, simply because it's chock full of beautiful stuff:<br />
Music, Madonnas, Mythology, Masks (of all kinds and provenance), Mayas, Madagascar, and much more. Only a few categories provided less than I expected. Magic Carpets seemed pretty thin, though I love this bear from a car ad:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Perhaps someone else had taken all the other magic carpets home with them.... </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My other life as a film scholar drew me to the many folders for Moving Picture Cameras and the Moving Picture Industry. I just picked through them, randomly pulling out images that grabbed me, like this one:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3iR_GmT-3P5sFi5KVZVWLML32OJ711ClNbH-_701N4nZXVASwEhLlxANJETPw5BYOnfMs8q0DJrZE2NFHaSOGay2JTEhCR8FjfQtyQ7ziJSO169XHyu2Lp4SQnGfNUoCNRcfBPJRYRn2/s1600/Moving+Picture+Industry+-+1914+150+of+HIM+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3iR_GmT-3P5sFi5KVZVWLML32OJ711ClNbH-_701N4nZXVASwEhLlxANJETPw5BYOnfMs8q0DJrZE2NFHaSOGay2JTEhCR8FjfQtyQ7ziJSO169XHyu2Lp4SQnGfNUoCNRcfBPJRYRn2/s400/Moving+Picture+Industry+-+1914+150+of+HIM+copy.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I can certainly imagine "150 OF HIM" staring me in the face, and he seems a nice enough guy, but the rest of the images I chose could fit into a (fictional) folder labeled Woman With a Movie Camera. Imagine 150 OF HER:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAUM7AyS-Ot93BAc0tZLMLjyA0Ns730bS9JDmVEQ8tZdCqsLr0mYRpe6DzxHYkqWdVHm5rAjMQawwuuLqCFpEXGiRibrPGC7vINNoZ0s3FVZ8mmg2rM8bWhqc1r8Ca4bp37no34RJjhe3/s1600/Moving+picture+Industry+-++25%252C637pickford+with+Mitchell+cameras+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAUM7AyS-Ot93BAc0tZLMLjyA0Ns730bS9JDmVEQ8tZdCqsLr0mYRpe6DzxHYkqWdVHm5rAjMQawwuuLqCFpEXGiRibrPGC7vINNoZ0s3FVZ8mmg2rM8bWhqc1r8Ca4bp37no34RJjhe3/s400/Moving+picture+Industry+-++25%252C637pickford+with+Mitchell+cameras+copy.jpg" width="396" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>Mary Pickford looks swell with several Mitchell movie cameras & one Bell & Howell.<br />
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And I loved this image of a seemingly intrepid CBS employee behind the (video) camera in 1978:<br />
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The caption notes that "she wants to makes films but faces obstacles - having less to do with male domination than 'insecurities I have about risks.'"<br />
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I also picked up a couple of ads for home movie cameras marketed to women.<br />
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The Filmo25 came in three colors and the lady on the left of the image looks great using hers. I'm not really sure "the most exciting camera ever designed" (the second image) would have really lasted a lifetime, but I do appreciate the lovely hands holding it "with pride."<br />
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When I realized I'd been unconsciously looking for images of women and tracing a historical arc through representations of women with cameras, I went to a folder where I knew I'd find a lot more women: the Madonnas folder. There were many sumptuous images, but two Italian paintings stuck with me:<br />
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This Da Messina painting depicts something both my kids continued to do long after they had stopped <br />
breast-feeding; just checking to see if there was anything still down there, I guess. But I've never seen this represented in a painting, so it makes this madonna seem more intimate, more like a casual snapshot of family life than a painting-as-devotional-object.<br />
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I gravitated to this Fra Filippo Lippi for other reasons:<br />
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This madonna looks so sad, she could be titled "The Madonna of Post-Partum Depression." And her son looks smug, somehow, rather than god-like or even cherubic.<br />
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Though May day is long over now, I found myself looking at a range of May day images:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPa8b4SSDJV53NKJAwnfw9OwnBzSS09T7HoqLJ7RGMNqc1A42p-zK95Zqm4-Uf9NioeHEgmNNBCte0R4cBcWJ4xK8T53IIR3U2HqVcCfvPMw31GoSp0jAwExopDXCHx9VHl8mdaefr_xZ3/s1600/may+day+workers+maypole16%252C+828+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPa8b4SSDJV53NKJAwnfw9OwnBzSS09T7HoqLJ7RGMNqc1A42p-zK95Zqm4-Uf9NioeHEgmNNBCte0R4cBcWJ4xK8T53IIR3U2HqVcCfvPMw31GoSp0jAwExopDXCHx9VHl8mdaefr_xZ3/s320/may+day+workers+maypole16%252C+828+copy.jpg" width="186" /></a></div>My brother Peter, a source of nearly unending historical fact and arcana, told me last year that May Day had a special significance in New York during the 19th century. It was a kind of universal moving day, when everyone who could moved to a new house. I believe the tradition sprung up because a city ordinance declared that all moves had to take place by May 1st in order for residents to be listed in the new city directory. So I was delighted to find a funny, ribald image of that particular May Day tradition:<br />
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And I was interested to see that it wasn't always just fun and games putting up the maypole. In fact, it could make raising the flag at Iwo Jima look easy, as in this detail from a steel engraving made in the 1850s.<br />
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But my favorite May Day image is from an unknown source, a May Day song signed by early 20th Century illustrator Edna Potter.<br />
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As I was finishing up the scanning of thees images, I was no closer to a unified world for the letter M, but I was hearted to read another Rumi poem -<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Whatever You Really See</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">A human being is essentially</div><div style="text-align: center;">a spirit-eye.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Whatever you really see,</div><div style="text-align: center;">you <i>are</i> that.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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So I guess I'll keep looking...Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-83530936176223410132011-05-05T07:22:00.000-07:002011-05-05T07:22:46.382-07:00A Looming Laplander Guards a Lighthouse Labyrinth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Walking down the aisles of L, I pulled out the files for Labyrinth and found these:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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I looked in vain for a picture of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Huanghuazhen.jpg">my favorite labyrinth</a>, constructed at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Summer_Palace">Yuan Ming Yuan</a>, or old summer palace outside Beijing. The place is a ruin of the palace and gardens designed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Castiglione_%28Jesuit%29">Guiseppe Castiglione</a> and other Jesuits to please the Qianlong emperor. But the images above are evocative and mysterious enough. It's just a little tricky to figure out how to use a labyrinth without it taking over the frame.<br />
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I also knew I wanted to look for images of Lapps. I was struck by the grittiness of some of the images I found, as well as by the confrontational, proud stares with which these Lapps greeted the camera.<br />
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I was amazed (as usual) at the breadth of the collection of images, including this SAS airline menu image from the early 1970s:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I also loved the thousands of images of lunch boxes, of which I've selected just a handful here.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSowz3ArupaaUTqqUc9Vpp7kyYbk7sEwEbs2ZvcTgbWdNH1GxBXVcI05NOed7SGohIuSnleYvuyddhMWdhdo-rxWe9EiP8vnvLt7Av0Hq40wEc1fpwPzAM0NQdiBdLhwvNhCSIwWMPpCTd/s1600/lunch+containers+21538+%25281988%2529+train+reverse+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSowz3ArupaaUTqqUc9Vpp7kyYbk7sEwEbs2ZvcTgbWdNH1GxBXVcI05NOed7SGohIuSnleYvuyddhMWdhdo-rxWe9EiP8vnvLt7Av0Hq40wEc1fpwPzAM0NQdiBdLhwvNhCSIwWMPpCTd/s320/lunch+containers+21538+%25281988%2529+train+reverse+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>And, of course, there are beautiful images of libraries, both the fixed and the traveling variety:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LQrvZDX-qFHH2JCtNrZPauA5FColzh-AWKsAy74T22fY2czZKBCRqCtGCQbPL2losx5nSjyu4owgIaV6EzIMzgDwJpfu3eP9JPj4jFEIrVA6DhsNsH5_KBl0Ezr0OB41InmWv6h1V-Kr/s1600/libraries+-+czechloslovakia+20%252C+085+%2528c.1980%2529+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9LQrvZDX-qFHH2JCtNrZPauA5FColzh-AWKsAy74T22fY2czZKBCRqCtGCQbPL2losx5nSjyu4owgIaV6EzIMzgDwJpfu3eP9JPj4jFEIrVA6DhsNsH5_KBl0Ezr0OB41InmWv6h1V-Kr/s400/libraries+-+czechloslovakia+20%252C+085+%2528c.1980%2529+copy.jpg" width="280" /></a></div>This beautiful Prague library has reappeared in my dreams ever since I saw its image, but the traveling library images brought back to me the smell of the bookmobiles I visited a few times as a child in Little Rock, Arkansas. I was drawn to later images, but was impressed at the variety of mobile libraries, some drawn by horses like the ice trucks in a previous entry.<br />
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After looking through stacks of lighthouses, I suddenly saw how to combine some of these L images when I pulled out this lighthouse image from Nantucket:<br />
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The blue sky and the quality of windy isolation inspired me to pair it with one Lapp, one lunchbox, and a labyrinth:<br />
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I wonder if the aye-aye will get lost in the labyrinth, frighten the dog, or knock the pipe out of the giant Lapp's mouth?Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-2249864528270754952011-04-28T11:09:00.000-07:002011-04-28T13:30:34.548-07:00The Romance of Roentgen: X-rays, Zinc, Zoos and Zodiacs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<i>We seem to be sitting still, </i><br />
<i>but we are actually moving,</i><br />
<i>and the fantasies of phenomena </i><br />
<i>are sliding through us, like ideas through curtains.</i><br />
(First stanza of <i>The Well</i>, <u>A Year with Rumi</u>, 138)<br />
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In my case, it's been images as well as ideas moving through me.<br />
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But I did feel I was sitting a little too still, or plodding along in too regular a path, so I jumped ahead to look at images from X and Z. I will need to find more images from X later, or to use a little license (perhaps a foray into images of Xylophones from the immense music section, who knows). Yet, I was struck by the ephemeral romance and sensuality of what I usually think of as the hard fact of medical imaging. First there's a romance with technique, the gloss of the machinery next to soft flesh as seen in images like this one:<br />
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But there's also a surprising delicacy and sweetness in images like this:<br />
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It's an 1896 copy of one the earliest x-rays, which portrayed the left hand of X-Ray inventor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen">Wilhelm Roentgen</a>'s wife, with her wedding ring clearly visible in the image. Given this iconography, it's not surprising to see the delicate romanticism in this x-ray of a rose:<br />
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And it's a logical jump to this illustrated "x-ray" of a Gibson girl, which reveals her beating valentine of a heart as well as a sturdy (and more anatomically correct rib cage, arms, and pelvis.<br />
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Still marooned in Victoriana, I looked at images in the folders labeled "Zoological Parks and Gardens":<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Something sad about these Copenhagen elephants...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A tremendous amount was going on in the Central Park Zoo nearly a century earlier...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>These two images span a almost a century (the photo is from 1905, while the illustration is from the "early 1800s"), yet I see much similarity in depictions of this relatively new leisure activity, even in this zoological garden even farther afield, the menagerie at Barrackpore:<br />
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Finely clad strollers, children observing animals in ornate cages. It reminds me a bit of "<a href="http://aisforayeaye.blogspot.com/2011/04/sketch-of-letter-h-for-hypnotism.html">Hypnotism in a Wild Beast's Cage</a>" from an earlier post. I hope to return to this category for some more recent zoo images later.<br />
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More "fantasies of phenomena moving through my hands" were these two images from the folder "Zinc":<br />
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I never knew zippers were made of zinc... and I wonder what other places were represented on the Zinc map where I found an image tied to Oklahoma, a place which seems to be located, curiously, in a wide blue sea...<br />
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I've had a fascination with the ruins of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Zimbabwe">Great Zimbabwe</a> since I saw a play that featured <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Caton-Thompson">Getrude Caton-Thompson </a>, an archaeologist who excavated there in the late 1920s and put to rest a lot of idiotic and racist theories about the place and its former inhabitants. It has mysterious hive-shaped buildings, which you can see in the following images:<br />
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I was particularly struck by the two images below, paired by a 1989 editor at <i>Archaeology</i>.<br />
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As the caption indicates, the travel poster on the "Mystery of Rhodesia" insists that these finely wrought buildings must have been wrought by a surprisingly pale Queen of Sheba rather by local Bantu people. Other theories included Greeks, Egyptians, and Phoenicians making their way down south, but Gertrude Caton-Thompson laid this racist malarkey to rest, writing that the buildings <i>were</i> Bantu in origin and date from between 1100 and 1400 CE. It's believed this city was the site of the palaces of The Kingdom of Zimbabwe, and the stonework is so fine that their high walls contain no mortar to hold them together. Glass beads, coins from Arabia, and shards of pottery from China indicate that Great Zimbabwe must have been a trading hub.<br />
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I love the shape of these bee-hive buildings as well as their story, so I'll have to find a place for them in a landscape inspired by the letter Z.<br />
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Another feature in this landscape will be a kind of rotating Ferris wheel structure made from fragments of various zodiacs. The treasure trove of images depicting the zodiac is incredible. I was expecting to find things like this:<br />
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Using one of these wheels, I'd like to replace some of their "contents" with images of individual zodiac signs like these:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I love these Persian Gemini, who remind me of my dad, Robert Palmer. He was a Gemini who loved the Persian poet Rumi and gave me my first book of Rumi's poetry in the</span> late 1980s. He also loved another Persian poet, Farid al-din Attar, who wrote:<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #333333;">Strive to discover the mystery before life is taken from you.<br />
If while living you fail to find yourself, to know yourself,<br />
how will you be able to understand<br />
the secret of your existence when you die?</span></i></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit;"> I hope my dad remembers those secrets now, sitting up in the sky somewhere with his Persian poet friends.</span><i><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span></i></span></div>Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-18284099870776807112011-04-20T13:59:00.000-07:002011-04-20T13:59:36.326-07:00Tending to My Knitting in Krygyzstan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">K is one of those letters I had few preconceptions about. As I dug through folders, I was hoping to find more images of Kyrgyzstan, but I liked this yurt, and could see using some of this as a backdrop for K.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcgH_g85BvU-jPveDBedeQfbGtMBQHdk5uw7pNZIS6T0W4krf_ohDw4sbVRjD6VaWTpaFN9UVY8rC3_v7iNLa8xxFVF82lYbttsxC61FV8IrECE4VOOPOLgjdmvJhTCYtjlz1tikO6t3n/s1600/kyrgyzstan+10%252C891+yurt+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcgH_g85BvU-jPveDBedeQfbGtMBQHdk5uw7pNZIS6T0W4krf_ohDw4sbVRjD6VaWTpaFN9UVY8rC3_v7iNLa8xxFVF82lYbttsxC61FV8IrECE4VOOPOLgjdmvJhTCYtjlz1tikO6t3n/s640/kyrgyzstan+10%252C891+yurt+copy.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was also partial to a few images of keys:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Inspired by the pirate told to tend to his knitting in Donald Barthelme's <i>Slightly Irregular Fire Engine</i>, I went to look at the Knitting folders. They are filled with beautiful sweaters and swatches of knitted patterns, but I was drawn most to the instructional images of knitting needles and balls of yarn:<br />
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But the folders for K that surprised me the most were the images of knights. There were, of course, the romantic and medieval images:<br />
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I loved some of the oldest and simplest images, like this drawing of an 8th century sculpture from a Merovingian church:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As well as later engravings:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwudvzzlPBIWzT2flC0oKBFHJto_RsRKVU62UylGmmKXLP30Tmikv1r_ftoD9nnW35aDLcFCJyEKrjAlcuUI91BGZca7y2ixIGONQFBV24CZK2J-zzQca-RNBxnpHIVbMHrk4Szz1ab6Zg/s1600/knights+%252816%252C213+%25291851A+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwudvzzlPBIWzT2flC0oKBFHJto_RsRKVU62UylGmmKXLP30Tmikv1r_ftoD9nnW35aDLcFCJyEKrjAlcuUI91BGZca7y2ixIGONQFBV24CZK2J-zzQca-RNBxnpHIVbMHrk4Szz1ab6Zg/s400/knights+%252816%252C213+%25291851A+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the same day that I looked at these images, I read a scrap of a Rumi poem called "The One Thing You Must Do."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>There is one thing in this world which you must never forget to do.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>If you forget everything else and not this, there is nothing to worry</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>will have done nothing in your life</i>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As a mom of two young kids, I feel I'm constantly forgetting EVERYTHING I should remember to do.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Some days I feel like the heroine in Allison Pearson's hysterical novel <i>I Don't Know How She Does It</i>, who's always juggling work and home responsibilities with tragicomic results. But I'm very lucky to be able to create my own imaginary world of knitting knights in the Picture Collection and then come home to meet the princesses and fairies having tea with my kids.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-59780698133922839402011-04-07T09:18:00.000-07:002011-04-07T09:18:12.307-07:00The Letter J: Juvenile Delinquents, Jewelry and Junks, February journal entryI had a slow start today and got led down the primrose path by "Juvenile Delinquents." Maybe many images had been checked out by others, but I just didn't find much that appealed, except for one image of a 16 year-old "baby-faced" armed robber. So, moved on to Jugglers:<br />
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I loved the image below, take a look at his feet, especially! And that levitating lotus position is hard to imitate.<br />
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But perhaps the strangest image of "Jugglers is this 17th Century engraving of Chinese street performers:<br />
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"Jewelry" is an immense category. The Picture Collection is a huge resource for designers of all types (clothing, costumes, jewelry, textiles). Just skimming the surface, I found this handful of beautiful images.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Russian broach representing Athena</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Colombian piece from the Museo Del Oro in Bogota</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A collection of 17th Century Jewish Marriage rings.</td></tr>
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I loved "Justice - Allegorical" and thought it would be fun to make a little chorus line of justices. If only I could find an image of Justice doing the can-can.<br />
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But when I found the folder for "Junks," I was very excited. I love the textural range of these images as well as their subject matter.<br />
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And, of course, there was a fantastic pulp image. Does this remind you of the Nympho Gaucho of the Matto Grosso? (Look back at the entry for G to see her, if you missed it.)<br />
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If atomic testing <b>hasn't </b>already killed you, you may be able to enjoy the work of "A Foundation that left A Harem for Poor Men Only. <i>Man's Life</i> really seems chock full of helpful info and important stories. The image on the cover depicts a "Captive of the All-Girl Ching Dao Jewel Ring," which is a bit hard to read in the scan. I hope that guy made it to safety...<br />
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The images from "Junks" seemed to make things coalesce for me, and I've made a sketch for the letter J that integrates Hong Kong Harbor, juggling, Justice(s), and junks from various eras...<br />
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And I like the labeled edge on this image, which makes me wonder if I can use some kind of "frame" like this to show the hand-written folder names for each image.Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-70159446955814714172011-04-04T09:34:00.000-07:002011-04-04T09:34:42.236-07:00A sketch of the letter H (for hypnotism, hairstyles and Hawaii) + Incense, Ice, and IvoryMy favorite image from Hypnotism, as I wrote in the last entry, is an engraving of a sleepwalking woman in a cage with big cats:<br />
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And then this one, where the mesmerizing pair in the lower left have been flipped:<br />
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Somehow, I'm disappointed I have less of a history of hairstyling than I thought, but I can always add that in later. It's a lot of fun to stretch, tweak and layer these images in Photoshop, which I'm slowly learning to use after stubbornly insisting on sticking to paper, scissors, and glue for a long time. But I'm still a little creaky when it comes to cutting out details like the "rays" extending from hands of the 18th Century hypnotist, which I want to invisibly separate from the figures in order to make them a little more transparent...<br />
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Looking at the letter "I" in early February, I was drawn to a series of images of incense:<br />
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It's amazing that politics, history, and religion can be so intimately woven into these images - from "The Altar of Incense as God probably wanted Moses to construct it" in the first image, to the second image's French incense burners "a la moderne" (from 1775), the intricate organic imagery of the Moroccan censer, and the American incense meant to replace Japanese imports during World War II. Though none of the images that told me so grabbed me as much as these did, I was amazed to learn that there are very ancient traditions for making incense used in religious rituals in every corner of the world. I'd always associated incense with Asia and the Middle East, but it's been made from resins, roots, berries, and fragrant wood from all over the world, and seems to have been a feature of many pre-Columbian religious rituals in Latin America as well as nearly everywhere else.<br />
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I love finding visual recordings of practices just on the edges of my personal and familial memory. My great grandparents remembered these ice wagons (from the folders labeled "Ice") and the process of harvesting ice very well.<br />
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These "Summer Luxuries" are now a so-called necessity that many of us find already made in the trays in our freezer. I wish I'd scanned some photos of the metal tongs and other tools of the icemen's trade. Perhaps I'll dive back in later to find them. <br />
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It was getting close to lunch time when I encountered the files on ice cream, from which I selected a couple of vintage advertisements:<br />
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I'd like to somehow make them into an ice cream sundae mountain,or a forest of soft serve ice cream cones, shrouded in incense, where an ivory elephant roams in search of a frosty cocktail...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><i>Do you think I know what I'm doing?</i><br />
<i>That for one breath or half a breath I belong to myself?</i><br />
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<i>As much as a pen knows what it's writing,</i><br />
<i>or the ball can guess where it's going next.</i><br />
(Rumi, arranged by Coleman Barks)<br />
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This is the kind of arranging I feel like I'm doing myself at the Picture Collection.<br />
I'm not always sure what drives me to look at individual images, but I love that I<br />
found a history of hairstyling today, from ancient times to the present:<br />
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Even more compelling is the concise visual history of hypnosis I find:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This last is a truly alarming image I can't shake out of my mind....</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>My favorite hypnotic image is one of a somnambulant lady surrounded by dazed tigers.<br />
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I'll have to upload that one in the next post, however, because for some reason the uploader doesn't like it as much as I do. For now I'll try to avoid smoking under hypnosis...Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-830918112028382949.post-61197683139586884322011-03-30T10:43:00.000-07:002011-03-30T15:57:15.141-07:00F is for Forest and G is for Gaucho, January 31stCertain files and images I've run across in the picture collection may or may not make it into the film, but they will stick in my mind. I went back today to look at a folder I'd noticed before, labeled "Dead, The." I won't reproduce any of the images here, but I suggest you look at them if you get a chance. Most of us (me included) avoid thinking of death. But it <i>is</i> the only thing we are guaranteed to experience one day.<br />
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The folder is, as you'd expect, a catalogue of corpses: people laid out in their funereal best. There are echoes of the Victorian funeral photos I first saw as a child in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Washington_Historic_State_Park">Washington, Arkansas</a> and that are so creepily referenced in the brilliant ghost story <i>The Others</i>. But it's also, of course, an outline of some of our culture's modes of thinking about death and the dead (as well as their legacies.)<br />
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Other images that stick in my mind are of things I've never imagined, like this uncanny armor made from raffia and shells on the Gilbert Islands, which reminds me of images of Cuban Abakua ceremonies or photographs of Yoruba ritual. But this armor comes from tiny atolls in the Pacific...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And then there are things I just never think about much, like fog horns:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhwrjeObHTtypNabA7-OCCphAxBcXtSMaARFX7Rm-zgMA-ICKce3h2WXSrr0Hb6QtPvj4-rbeYsE9I8JuswS8Pb96NKuvk6llp6pu1rLFRyUxD1YJRJ3EgJKfruTaLlkvrjilCmv0KkIv/s1600/fog+-+foghorns+ng+1952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMhwrjeObHTtypNabA7-OCCphAxBcXtSMaARFX7Rm-zgMA-ICKce3h2WXSrr0Hb6QtPvj4-rbeYsE9I8JuswS8Pb96NKuvk6llp6pu1rLFRyUxD1YJRJ3EgJKfruTaLlkvrjilCmv0KkIv/s320/fog+-+foghorns+ng+1952.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And every time I visit, I fall in love with a category I had no preconceptions about. Today it's the folders for Gauchos, where I find the following range of images:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Plus another favorite that I can't resist scanning, a 1967 image of the "Nympho Gaucho of the Matto Grosso," handily labeled at the lower right of the image below. Try saying that five times fast...<br />
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And I have to admit it should be interesting to have the aye-aye meet some Giants:<br />
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I imagine Goya's giant may be looking toward Gibraltar, hoping the queen will come for a visit.<br />
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But then I turn back to F, where the folder for "Fortune Telling" beckoned. I was hoping for images of craggy gypsies, but found I was more attracted to guides for palm reading:<br />
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The second one is actually Napoleon's hand, so you can evaluate the accuracy of palmistry using a reliable case history. Is that the hand he always kept inside his vest?<br />
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I love very general categories, like "Forests," more than I thought I might. A very brief cross section might include:<br />
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If the tools of palmistry become totems of the forest, this could provide another interesting place for the aye-aye to travel. One of the palms could close around him, and a giant or a gaucho could set him free and drag him off to "G".<br />
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I'm always drawn to the files on places I've never been, especially the ones that trace our ever-shifting Euro-American ideas of the other (and their art). The noble savage, the intrepid (pith-helmeted) explorers, the magnificent monument, and the scattered skeletons. Take Easter Island, for example:<br />
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There's also a strange (if inadvertent) humor to the collection just because odd things are juxtaposed simply by virtue of their alphabetical proximity. Right after Easter Island, I looked at Easter Eggs: <br />
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And then there's always Extinct Fauna...<br />
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THese should make for an interesting E-world, but now I'm wondering whether and how I can integrate the labeling for these images into the film:<br />
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I love all these slightly different pencil marks, as well as the category names...<br />
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But mostly, today, I'm thinking about my brother-in-law, Craig Arnold, whose <a href="http://volcanopilgrim.wordpress.com/about/">blog is still out</a> there in cyber space, though he himself <a href="http://booksandauthorsblog.com/archives/261"> disappeared</a> in Japan in 2009. The story is far more mysterious than any of the news accounts, but I'm not sure it's mine to tell. I miss him still, though, and when I found a translation of a Basho poem on the same day as one particular Easter Island image above, I decided to color in the engraving and put them together here...<br />
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When I begin to explore the files in the letter D, I'm reminded that what I truly love is the breadth and depth of the collection.(Bear in mind that I'm looking through hundreds of images each day that I work on this, and only selecting a few I like for the blog.) You can really sense the range of images and the nature of this free-floating visual history by looking at a few examples from any one category. In Dirigibles, for example, (the kind of label I can hardly resist) you get everything from 19th century engravings of the cockpit of a balloon, an atmospheric photo of a zepppelin in a hangar, to a 1980s National Geographic-style photo or a great Japanese textile design of a German blimp:<br />
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In the category of Deserts, you can see a similar spread from recent photos of the Sahara to a 1937 watercolor illustration of the American Southwest (an advertisement for life insurance):<br />
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I want to start creating two-dimensional collage worlds for my characters to travel through using elements/images from files associated with each letter.<br />
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The way to create worlds for the film is beginning to coalesce in my head. How about this rough digital sketch for a world created from files in the letter "D"? (You can see all of the component parts of this above.)<br />
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Perhaps I should add images from "Dance", "Dragons," or even "Death - Allegorical."<br />
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</a></div>The Picture Collection's one million images seem a bit daunting today. I'm looking at "Bathing Beaches - 1899 & Earlier":<br />
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But I'm also tempted by Burglary:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Or the images in the Picture Collection's digital gallery, found <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?trg=1&parent_id=719798&word=&s=&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&sScope=&sLevel=&sLabel=&lword=&lfield=&num=0&imgs=20&snum=&pNum=">here.</a> I especially love this one:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And then there are "Book Illustrations - Fairy Tales" is another amazing category:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFDHUkNahkqM3uwwD-_wLYo5kBA8Avo1UlXieqxdfUR8sxAeDjs476TFwzJSeTAggTwJw6gNHAp16wzin5k6v9m2xkBpZ4_eIW44p1N03YOhfJbm-JVYfUjFR02dWIWyBzydlc0kV0OOR/s1600/book+illustr-+fairy+tales+babes+in+the+wood.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtFDHUkNahkqM3uwwD-_wLYo5kBA8Avo1UlXieqxdfUR8sxAeDjs476TFwzJSeTAggTwJw6gNHAp16wzin5k6v9m2xkBpZ4_eIW44p1N03YOhfJbm-JVYfUjFR02dWIWyBzydlc0kV0OOR/s640/book+illustr-+fairy+tales+babes+in+the+wood.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I'm also looking toward the letter "C," and enjoying a few images of castles:<br />
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But how to make a world from these disparate parts?Abecedarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02812281981870342104noreply@blogger.com0