hello vonnie
Cosmic Funnies
wallacepolsom
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Keni
noise dept.
JBB: An Artblog!
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trying on a metaphor
Kaledo Art
blake kathryn
One Nice Bug Per Day
YOU ARE THE REASON
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.
Three Goblin Art
occasionally subtle
Sade Olutola
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Andulka
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@louobedlam
As he sends troops into L.A. and prepares for war, his Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump sta
This one had me laughing out loud at my computer...before realizing, every few paragraphs, we are truly truly FUCKED with these people in charge.
I dare you, I DARE YOU, to come away from reading this article thinking anything else, irrespective of your political leanings.
THESE ARE NOT SERIOUS PEOPLE.
Went to NY for PolaCon, ended up in a Polaroid trivia deathmatch with the host of In An Instant, Ben Fraternale...who won?
YOU, BECAUSE YOU GET TO WATCH IT, WATCH IT NOW.
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Back in January, I spent a few days in NY, visited the World Trade Center, and for the rest of my trip, this is what Instagram showed me.
Got home and it was the same nonsense...but about the recent fires.
Good site, that Instagram, very helpful, filled with the stuff I like to look at, great use of my time.
1.7.25 Alex
Found a model over on instagram, set up a session, made some lovely photos while we occasionally glanced at our phones to keep up with a minor fire over by the beach that ended up, mere hours later, engulfing entire neighborhoods and fucking up the city for YEARS.
11.21.24
Jada Selexman and I, up on a parking lot rooftop, talking about car accidents and wedding plans.
11.19.24
Found this gem for the nieces & nephews at the local...Best Buy?
This one by Steve...it's a banger! If you like it, click through, show him some love!
Oh man, haven't done one of these in YEARS...feels like the old ways, they were better, right? Websites w/o ads, they didn't make money, but we all had so much fun! Websites that weren't so uptight about trying to keep you on them until your brains leaked out between your ears...what a time to be alive.
Okay, I've (mostly) recovered from the election, let's get back to posting here, for the 12 people who still follow me! I HEAR YOU, I FEEL YOUR PAIN, LET'S POST THROUGH IT.
November 17th, Bret Watkins wrangled a bunch of Polaroid freaks, got us to all meet up at the Hollyhock House. We called it BretCon 1. Good folks, good fun, felt great about photography for the first time in awhile.
Chaos reigns!!!!
Let's go back to posting all our feelings! Post while the world burns!!
I went back to Los Angeles this summer and one of the people on top of my list to see was @louobedlam. If you dont know his name then I guess you were never into polaroids. He is in my eyes one the best polaroids photographers there is. I met him the first time in LA in 2008 as I was driving through the states with my friends. We met on Flickr like all photoheads did with an internet presence in the mid 2000s. Not only did he challenge me with being in front of the camera, which he guided me well (and I learned some cool tricks) but he showed me and my friends around too. And I was forever grateful to have met this Los Angeles native (angeleno) and photo legend.
15 years later I go back, and we meet at one of his favorite mexican restaurants for lunch. It was strange to meet again after all this time, but as soon as we started talking, the conversation went to all deep things immediately. Doing photography with integrity, working with film, health, lifestyle choices and life traumas.. all the casual things.
Of course Lou brought his cameras, like he always does. And he managed to capture some photos of me right after some delicious ice cream in Larchmont. I was happy to see the results considering how rare it is for me to see proper photos of myself. It was quite moving to see myself as an older person. I love how your face kind of finds its mold better when you passed into your 30s. I feel very comfortable with it, even though Lou had to do some his tricks to ease me into the lense (that I forget how close it gets). It was inspiring and really cool to see how someones photo practice like Lou`s can be so full of curiosity and playfulness after doing this for decades. A quality person approaching photography on his own terms. Thank you for doing my portraits again Lou. I am very grateful for this!
One is from 2008 by Lou, the others are from now. The last one is a snapshot I did of Lou with my Olympus Mju ii.
See you next time! Hopefully before another 15 years!
9.2.24
Danielle Burgess
this was a comment on one of my post from a recent live event. it was photos of joyful queer buckaroos celebrating together and proving love is real through creation, community, and a trot of love. most important I AM LITERALLY IN PHOTO AS A REAL FLESH AND BLOOD HUMAN
it got me thinking about how DEEP AND VICIOUS the irony poisoning of these early internet communities goes. the way buds like this cannot fathom someone just being a sincere person unrelated to their OWN old days of cynical posting. it is fascinating, and i will admit, sad too
despite a DECADE of work, countless live events, 350 tinglers written well before large language models were a thing, there are still people who cannot imagine someone like me could exist. it is a strange place to be. not just part of me, but my entire EXISTENCE is often gatekept
it is easy to say ‘well chuck your art IS strange’ but honestly i think it is more than that. magical realism is common. there are stories about dinosaurs and bigfeet and unicorns. this scoundrel reaction is about two unspoken things: my art is neurodivergent, and my art is queer
heres the thing: I WILL BE FINE. what concerns me is not an issue of MYSELF, it is a concern for the other young outsider buckaroos who see comments like this one and think ‘is that what they will say if i express MY unique way? will i be dehumanized like this at every turn?'
i will be honest, i cannot say that WONT happen, but i CAN say this: for as deep as this irony poisoning goes, it is slowly dying. the way i was treated at the start of my career is LIGHTYEARS DIFFERENT from the way i am treated now. there is a massive shift towards sincerity
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY. to young artists trotting up, the things that i am harassed over and doubted for and made fun of for are NOT tangental to what has made me successful, THEY ARE LITERALLY THE SAME THINGS THAT HAVE MADE ME SUCCESSFUL. YES I AM STRANGE, WHAT OF IT?
the things that you tuck away for fear of a review that says ‘there is a PROBLEM with this art because it has always been done another way’ THOSE ARE YOUR SUPERPOWERS. the gatekeepers want you to tuck those parts of yourself away because THEY TUCKED AWAY THOSE PART OF THEMSELVES
never forget that your unique way is PURE UNFILTERED 100 PERCENT ROCKET FUEL. it will stick out (maybe, if you are lucky, scoundrels will even say that someone like you could never actually be real), but sticking out isnt so bad when you are waving the flag of love.
in fact, when youre waving the flag of love, sticking out is pretty dang cool. what are flags for, after all? LOVE IS REAL BUCKAROOS. thank you for reading, and if you enjoyed this long post then please consider preordering BURY YOUR GAYS.
LETS TROT
"Well I WASN'T gonna watch the show about the deeply discriminatory wizard world that thinks slavery is cool and good with writing that constantly employs racist and homophobic and bigoted metaphors and language written by a violent transphobe who pals around with nazis that has stated multiple times that she considers all engagement with her work, ESPECIALLY monetary engagement (money that she uses millions upon millions of to fund discriminatory organizations and legislation by the way), to be validation of her views but you were kinda mean about it on tumblr so you've really twisted my arm here"
My latest photo essay for The Photographic Journal is now LIVE!!!!
The Photographic Journal publishes Interviews, Articles, Features, and Photo Essays about Photography and its creative process
Had a real blast putting this one together...but now I want to Only take photos on a boat? Is that normal?
3.8.24
Imani Navarro
Met up at a beach I used to spend a lot of time at...took pictures there, took friends there, took acid there, took my first plunge with a surfboard there.
It's a horrible beach! Not nearly enough actual beach, it's rocks and a lot of wood sticking up out of the sand from what maybe used to be some kind of artificial platform...
But the light was good, the company was good, always love being right next to the ocean.
