Things were different back then. The Twin Towers still stood tall at the tip of Manhattan. Brooklyn was more dangerous than hip. Trump and Giuliani were New York names but largely unknown to the rest […]
Category: art
A Man Ray Kind of Day
Man Ray was a Surrealist and a major contributor to the Dadaist movement. He worked in several media and actually considered himself, primarily, a painter. This is just a very small, random, collection of his […]
The Photos of Guy Bourdin
Dark. Disturbing. Violent. Women as victims. The photos of Guy Bourdin often make people uneasy. Especially, given that these were commercial, fashion, photos that appeared in the pages of Vogue or in ads for Charles […]
A Photo That Matters
This photograph isn’t fake. There’s no photoshop trickery involved. It was taken by a woman named Kristi McCluer. She captured this moment of men playing golf as the Eagle Rock, Oregon, wildfire raged behind them. […]
A Collection of Brilliant J.G. Ballard Book Covers
“Ballardian” is actually a word. According to the Collins English Dictionary it means “resembling or suggestive of the conditions described in J. G. Ballard’s novels and stories, especially dystopian modernity, bleak man-made landscapes and the […]
Cornell’s Alien Artifacts
“Somewhere in the city of New York there are four or five still-unknown objects that belong together. Once together they’ll make a work of art. That’s Cornell’s premise, his metaphysics, and his religion.” That was […]
