#Michael Bussell

[wildflowerbaltimore]

Escape Room

November 2nd, 2024

Presented by Wild Flower

Mount Vernon, Baltimore

Jane Balfus, John Bohl, Michael Bussell, Jim Spindle, Ian Swanson, Luhhfella

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I'm still intoxicated from drinking too much last night. The room I gather myself in isn't the same room I've been in, but it's the room other people have gone into before. The memories of the other people are stored externally within the room, and I have to figure out how to make sense of them even though none of them have anything directly to do with me. What is helpful is that I am interested in other people and their feelings about the world. At least one person works to make sure the externalized memories of the other people are kept in workable condition in this room, but they aren't here right now. Nobody can directly help me. The room is supposed to be neutral to allow for the externalized memories of the other people to remain the focal point, but I'm still intoxicated from drinking too much last night, so I can't really focus on them that well. Also this room has a bunch of discarded objects in it as well which can distract me or at least instill within me a particular atmosphere in and of itself. I can become skeptical about my own abilities to differentiate between externalized memories of other people and discarded objects. Even if the other people didn't directly enter the room before me to form the memories that they externalized within the room, their presence still interacted with this room before I found myself within it. Sometimes my memories of similar rooms that I've found myself within before interact with my experience of this room, which I can decide to either inform my understanding of my experience or to block its muddying influence. Either way I have to use what I know and what I can teach myself with the externalized memories of other people within this room in order to solve for my being in the room and leave it. In my leave of the room, if I can say that I ever truly leave the room, I will come to a fuller understanding of myself and of the people who entered the room either physically or otherwise before me.

text by Anastasios Karnazes

[oldcountrybear1955]

The Manual of Male Photography - Michael Busselle - Simon & Schuster 1985

[insanityclause]

Borne To Dance Gala 2023 In Aid Of Borne

LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 16: Tom Hiddleston and Zawe Ashton attend the Borne To Dance Gala 2023 hosted by Dame Darcey Bussell and Michael Nunn in aid of Borne at Banqueting House on November 16, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dave Benett/Getty Images)

[helena-christensen]

TOM HIDDLESTON and ZAWE ASHTON attend the Borne To Dance Gala 2023 hosted by Dame Darcey Bussell and Michael Nunn in aid of Borne at Banqueting House on November 16, 2023 in London, England

📸 Dave Benett

[flanneryculp]

14 + 22 for the end of the year asks?

14. favorite book you read this year?

oh man this is hard since i don't keep track of the books i've read.

if we're including nonfiction, i LOVED the complete book of photographing people by michael bussel. i got really into photography last year and this book was the best thing that could have happened to me. it's a super easy read with a lot of fascinating info. i tend to forget a lot of what i read in instructional books, but the way he wrote and explained everything just stuck in my mind.

i can't choose a favorite fiction book, but a couple i read for the first time last year and loved are: aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz, the october country by ray bradbury, the metamorphosis by franz kafka, the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde, and flowers in the attic by vc andrews (even though i haven't finished it yet).

22. favorite place you visited this year?

i used to not really go to cafes until last spring but my favorite teacher recommended this place just a fifteen minute walk from my house. it's the best place ever. they have so much variety in their menu and it's all delicious. the music is great and not too loud, the atmosphere is relaxed and lovely, the lighting is beautiful. they have an indoor and outdoor seating area, and they're open in the evening! i go there at least twice a week now, and know most of the staff and regulars. :)

end of the year asks!

[annachum]

Some figures whom I think looks kinda like how I imagine these figures to look like in their respective books/plays/legends

. Christine Daae ( POTO ) - Catherine Deneuve, Sissel Kyrkjebo, Christine Nilsson, Emmi Christensson, Ingrid Bergman

. Meg Giry ( POTO ) - Maria Khoreva, Leslie Caron

. Natasha Rostova ( War and Peace ) - Lyudmila Saveleva, Audrey Hepburn

. Cosette ( Les Mis ) - Rebecca Caine, Judy Kuhn, Isabelle Huppert, Adele Foucher

. Tatiana Larina ( Eugene Onegin ) - Liv Tyler

. Eponine ( Les Mis ) - Samantha Barks, Frances Ruffelle

. Raoul De Chagny ( POTO ) - Vincent Cassel ( especially when younger ), Steve Barton

. Marius Pontmercy - Michael Ball, Victor Hugo ( especially when younger )

. Mr Darcy - Colin Firth

. Elizabeth Bennet - Jennifer Ehle, Jane Austen

. Juliet Capulet - Olivia Hussey

. Jane Bennet - Susannah Harker, Rosamund Pike

. Daisy Fay - Buchanan - Mia Farrow, Ginerva King, Clara Bow

. Jordan Baker - Elizabeth Debicki in Great Gatsby, Gloria Swanson ( especially when younger )

. Fantine ( Les Mis ) - Patti Lupone's Fantine

. Madame Giry ( POTO ) - Maggie Smith, Sylvie Guillem

. La Sorelli ( POTO ) - Michele Mercier, Alessandra Ferri, Darcey Bussell

. Tess Durbeyfield ( Tess of the D'Ubervilles ) - Gemma Arterton

. Carmen ( Carmen Novella ) - Alba Flores, Carmen Amaya

. Scheherazade ( 1001 Nights, Islamic Legends ) - Golshifteh Farahani

. Teiniagua ( Brazilian Legends ) - Morena Baccarin

. Hua Mulan ( Chinese Legends ) - Ming Na Wen

. Katya Scherbatskya ( Anna Karenina ) - Darya Dogusheva, Sophia Behrs- Tolstoy, Evanna Lynch

. Anna Oblonskya ( Anna Karenina ) - Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Greta Garbo

. Carlotta ( POTO ) - Judy Kaye's Carlotta, Adelina and Carlotta Patti, Cecilia Bartoli, Maria Callas

. Desdemona ( Othello ) - Irene Jacob

[9classiquessouls]

[mentaltimetraveller]

Michael Bussell

At VENT Space, Baltimore

April 5th, 2020 one day only

[sinkholeproject]

Michael Bussell at Interstate Projects

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[mynewbed]

[wildflowerbaltimore]

[pankurios-templeovarts]

How Many Nipples Does a Horse Have?, installation by Christine Stiver, photos by Michael Bussell.

[a-state-of-bliss]

Vogue 1999 - Michael Clark & Darcey Bussell by Mario Testino

[mu-th-ur]

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