Wackydoodlin'

Hello. My view from here looks like this. All the photos are taken by yours truly, unless indicated otherwise.

[wackydoodler]

Superhero Dinos!

[wackydoodler]

Moments in love

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[thl11-deactivated20181119]

Awesome GIF! lol~

[photojojo]

Surreal.

By Zhang Xiao, via triangletriangle.

[cmonstah]

[wackydoodler]

Fascinating!!!

cmonstah:

Have been busting my butt working on this two-part audio download about New York City during the time of the Abstract Expressionists. Naturally, I’ve learned all kinds of rad stuff: beer used to be 15 cents, apartments used to go for $17 a month, and when artists said they were starving, they weren’t kidding.

Also, we found all-kinds-of-awesome vintage audio of Peggy Guggenheim (describing herself at the “enfant terrible of the Guggenheim family”) and Robert Motherwell telling a particularly poignant story about Mark Rothko in the early ’50s.

Please check it out!!!

[wackydoodler]

Outside of Room 202B, Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

[ahorsemanontheroof]

Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.

Maurice Sendak (via bobulate)

... And I'm sure it tasted SO good!

[wackydoodler]

This past weekend was The Queen West Art Crawl at Trinity Bellwoods Park - plenty of great stuff by local artisans, from sculptures to photography to crafts to jewelery. What really impressed me (and caught me by surprise) was the calligraphy demonstration in the front window of The Paper Place. Rajiv Surendra's pen glided across the paper like magic, his beautiful penmanship reminiscent of 18th and 19th century styles. Who said calligraphy was a dead art?

[nevver]

[wackydoodler]

Rock it in my ghettoblaster.

nevver:

C​a​s​s​e​t​t​e​ ​C​o​m​i​c, ​P​e​t​e​r​ ​C​o​n​r​a​d

[teenytinytown-blog-blog]

Term o'the Day

Baristas & Solicitors

[bradelterman]

[wackydoodler]

bradelterman:

ALWAYS SAVE YOUR POLAROIDS!!

Matt Dillon in My Living Room ( this photo will be in my new upcoming book, “Like It Was Yesterday”)

1980: I received a phone call from the editor of Superteen magazine to do a photo shoot with this unknown sixteen-year old actor, Matt Dillon. She asked me to call Vic Ramos, his manager, at some hotel and set it up. I called and the next day Vic and Matt showed up at my home. Vic read a magazine and I took some photos. No hair, makeup, or stylist. No over-produced sets or publicists getting in the way. I shot this with just one strobe head. That was the way film stars were shot back then.  I ran into Matt at Barfly about fifteen years later. He did not have a clue who I was, nor did he care. He also walked off with the girl whom I had just met in the parking lot that evening.

Note: Talk about a RAW photo! This is what it is all about. Doesn’t matter what kind of camera you are using. The goal is to get a RAW photo that captures a special moment! 

Your thoughts please…

Photo by Brad Elterman

[wackydoodler]

The wheels are turning in New York.

[wackydoodler]

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

[wackydoodler]

Albert Einstein (via) (via vasta, flickflickflicker)

[vasta]

[wackydoodler]

love this, muchly.

vasta:

Found on Devour:

Words: A stunning film from Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante to accompany Radiolab’s Words episode. With an original score by Keith Kenniff.

I can watch this over, and over, and over again.

[wackydoodler]

Oh. Wow. This collection of 34 colour photographs taken a century ago in Russia is unbelievable. This photo is particularly haunting... her gaze, her skin, her velvet dress. Circa 1910.

[wackydoodler]

Data visualization is awesome, and what a gorgeous mapping this is of "Left vs Right". Check out David McCandless's site for more fresh graphics revealing some pretty fascinating stuff. This talk too.