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Tapedeck.org

I loved tapes… you could tell a quality tape from a crap tape pretty quickly too. Not gonna say alot about this link except, you’re welcome. Tapedeck.org and check out the writeup that Colossal did as well...

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Outliers

Yeah, I know, it’s been out forever. But it’s so good! From the soundtrack to the visuals to the camaraderie of the artists that gets captured so palpably, it’s worth a watch (or a re-watch) on the best screen you can find.

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Another in my open tabs (or deeply buried bookmarks that were recently purged) that I couldn’t “just” close. The photographic style of Tim Navis (who I discovered a while back after watching the film “Outliers” that he contributed to) has always entranced me. His landscape work especially is majestic. Well worth a visit!

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Another tab that I’ve had open forever. I can’t weight heavily enough how much Scott Hansen’s work has influenced my own view of both music and visual art. But considering how much he was influenced by Boards of Canada’s music and aesthetic, it would be impossible to be surprised. His artwork on this site based which is organized by his album-movement eras is a worthwhile deep dive.

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Having a hard time not “gushing” about the new identity system developed for Aero and using way too much flourishing language about it. Just love it. Also, Brand New’s Under Consideration blog is a treasure trove of this kind of genius.

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The colors alone...

CBR Building

Brussels, Belgium (1970)

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Long Live Film - the documentary (2013)

Finally got around to watching this (after having it in my "watch later" list) and really enjoyed it. I've been a film camera enthusiast since my introduction to photography in the actual era of film but was convinced of the merits of digital in the interim. But film... Nostalgia aside, the physicality of the act and presence of mind in the scene that shooting film requires, I believe, is a major benefit for creative practice. And that look...

It's just so expensive to buy and process.

Give this doc a watch if you haven't already.

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That Sox Hat in the 90’s

I was anything but cool or “gangster” in the 90’s as I was just trying to catch Kriss Kross on the radio in order to record it to some worn down cassette tape that had been recorded over itself a bunch of times, but I knew what the White Sox hat was and for sure wanted one… never got one either. But I appreciated this documentary that the Sox just put out:

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I've been wanting to create a few playlists for creative sessions and finally made some time to start. Here's the first one, a collection point of electronica, EDM, glitch hop, trip hop, and eventually more straight ambient.

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I remember reading this for the first time back in 2014. Right around my first SXSW. That was a fun period of life. The kinds of things that you would dream up after reading an essay like this or listening to talks at an event like that made you really believe that "must" was possible. Maybe it is. Growing up, holding more "life" in your hands and in your backpack make it "feel" less possible, but that doesn't mean it's not.

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"Sea Pools" - A monograph from Chris Romer-Lee (Batsford Books, 2023) I've seen these kinds of places captured on IG over the years and, like Romeo-Lee was fascinated by the co-existance of the massive and miniscule. The pre-release article from CNN Style is an inviting synopsis of what will surely be a gorgeous book.

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Of course, Phaidon would publish a monograph about Braun.

They're basically the Criterion Collection of photo books. Braun's design aesthetic intrigued me before I knew it to be designed. And while I don't have much, I have a simple wristwatch and that watch bears just about the same clock face as graces the cover of the soon to be released book.

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Donald Weber's "Chernobyl Stalker"

Back in 2015 I discovered a now no longer used blog by a journalist with an interest in Eastern Europe and photography and she posted about the video I'm linking to. As a longtime Tarkovsky fan, and one of the "stalker" like people who are drawn, compelled by internal magnetism to the forgotten and neglected places of the world, the post about the video that photojournalist Donald Weber made, drew me in, but remained backlogged for 8 years! Both the blog I found it at and Donald Weber's website have seemingly aged out and either inactive or expired, but the art lives on in the video posted to Weber's Vimeo account.

-- a #timemachinepost [from the deep reading list archives of my curious conscious, a series of posts about things that I can't bring myself to leave without sharing]

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You can't just go shoot this stuff... (BTS with Gregory Crewdson)

I've loved Gregory Crewdson's cinematic photographs for ever so long (since the one that appears on the cover of Yo La Tango's "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out" first passed my eyes) and have had the chance to see a few of them when a small collection of them was shown at the Orlando Museum of Art a few years back. Seeing the BTS workflow in a recent post on his studio and practice blog "Crewdson Trail Log" was SO fascinating. It's truly cinema frozen in time and it takes a significant amount of planning to execute the vision of the artist.

All of this, for one still image!

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David Wallace Haskins is a genius. I have a thing for bold installation art in an outdoor setting (like Judd’s work out in Maria, TX.) and Haskins manages to both be bold and invisible at the same time. This work at the historic Edith Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe, 1951) proves the ability to achieve the two traits simultaneously. Get lost in this particular piece and then explore all of the “Sky Cube” series. https://davidwallacehaskins.com/work/stone-landing

Another few examples from the series

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An abandoned mud drag strip in central Florida.

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This. This is why I LOVE Atlas Obscura so much!