My NY Life

Yes! An empty seat next to me. Perfect. Good night!

At JFK. Headed to Austria for the first time in two years.

supernice:

Oh man so there’s a hell of a lot of catching up to do, mainly because of this double-plus-capital-M Major big project - our new apartment. Yes, oh, yes, we are officially Noo Yawkers now - 1600 sq ft of our ownsome.

I know, it’s ridiculous, and I can’t believe it either, but it’s So. Freaking. Exciting.

These are the befores. Can’t wait to share the afters.

Seeing an empty space like this has always given me a funny little feeling of pleasure in my midsection. There it is, just waiting for your hand. So excited right along with you.

supernice:

My Own Private Museum (left to right): the wind-up goldfish (broken mechanism), Sydney, 199?; the painted glass Ikea frame (glass: broken; heart: not so much), New Jersey, 2004; the orange 5 ball (stolen, Beach Road Hotel, Bondi, very late one night in oh I’d say 1996 - this pool bar has moved with me 7 times). Is it so ridiculous that these are the things I can’t live without?

Nope, not ridiculous. Lots of people don’t even know what they can’t live without.

suitep:

More than ready to go.

Yikes, he looks like he’s plotting his revenge!

He has just gotten so big. Look at those long legs.

suitep:

Not to mention the corner doors…

(via suitep)

I love how neat and orderly this place is, how carefully the trim has been painted. Fine Foods, indeed.

Now, when are you coming back here??

suitep:

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How can something so gorgeous, dark, and sultry be whimsical at the same time?? It’s the Pinkham magic.

jendunlap:

The Berlin Reunion - The Big Picture - Boston.com]

This literally made me cry. So stunning, touching, powerful. Read the whole thing.

Wow. Gorgeous and moving, and there’s video here.

I love my windows. They have real divided-light panes (super expensive if you tried to get them for new construction) and nice old-fashioned wooden screens that slide up and down. But some of the windows don’t stay up when you open them — the cord mechanism has been severed and it’s way complicated to fix. So, those have to be propped open, and I’ve found the best thing to use is a wooden cooking spoon. Looks a little funny from outside, though.

Goodbye, SF. That was a GREAT TRIP.

palonka:

minusmanhattan:

fuckyeahdogs:

benhasten:

Photo by Mikael Kennedy

AB: I’ve always though that the book is where photographs have the most impact, rather than a single image or even a show. What is it about presenting your work in a book that inspires you to make them?

MK: I never really thought of it much in terms of the power of the piece, it was more about accessibility, but I can see what you mean. I love physical objects that I can hold and carry with me and think about in different ways the more I look at it. I always want someone to be able to take something with them when they come to an art show. That’s another thing I loved about the books, that you may come to a show and like the work but not be able to spend several hundred or thousand dollars on one of the pieces, but being able to buy a book of the work that is 20 bucks is really important to me.

(…)

The Polaroid question is something that I have tried to explain many times. There are always a few points I come back to as the basics of shooting Polaroids. I started doing it cause it was just really fun and there is not much else that compares to a Polaroid in terms of quality. Not many things look like they do. Also there is the act of taking a picture and then holding that picture in your hands as it develops. There is something very scientific about Polaroids to me, sometimes it feels like I am just collecting specimens while I am out traveling and then when I get home I sort through them. Now as I have been doing this for so long my ideas about the process have grown.

I think in a world of digital photography Polaroids become so much more important and powerful. A one of a kind photograph doesn’t happen all that often, even before digital you could make as many prints off the negatives as you wanted, with a Polaroid there is just that image, it’s one of a kind. To me they are like little paintings. Also it’s interesting to think about that Police and Insurance companies used to use them for evidence because they were unmanipulatable, what you shot was considered to be a representation of the truth, which I don’t think can be said for much photography the way it is used today. We constantly question whether the images we see are real or if they have been altered somehow digitally. With a Polaroid that isn’t really a question, it just is.

Anthony Blasko interviews Mikael Kennedy

Beautiful Polaroid. Check out the interview with Mikael Kennedy.

it’s a long post, but i have to agree with everything here….

TRIFECTA

This is the thing I love about the internet. First, I see an image that catches my eye and pulls me in, before I even know what it is. A painting? A photo? Some combnation thereof? It doesn’t matter. I want to study it and know more about it (I’m always yearning for context).

Then, there is an interview, where the artist himself is explaining (elegant, articulate, passionate) why he values this thing, and what role it plays in his world, and in the world of art in general. And I feel so lucky to have learned this bit from a person I don’t know and likely wouldn’t have access to otherwise.

And then the person I’m following on tumblr says, “long, but I agree with everything,” and I exactly agree with that, too.

And I think, I will never feel alone on here.