Sunday, June 18, 2006

Rainbow Bark and Carnivals

Happy Father's Day

My father taught me all I know about photography, but I don't think you can blame him for my aesthetic sense. That's my very own....

There's a short but high-quality Carnivalesque, with several ballads, optical painter aids, the great Moses Mendelssohn and Mark Rayner's "Lost Powerpoint Slides: de Sade".

There's a NYRB roundup of critiques of the incipient monarchy, and a Common Dreams discussion of its propoganda, if you're feeling politically adrift...

Update: Via The Cunning Realist, An Iraqi Blogger goes on holiday. Nervously, but safely.

5 comments:

reader_iam said...

Is that a piece of "The Scream"?

reader_iam said...

I don't mean that flippantly; I mean, that's the instant visual reference that popped into my mind.

Ahistoricality said...

No, that's an actual tree.

But I see what you mean: it does have a sort of psychedelic impressionistic brushstroke look to it.

reader_iam said...

Wow! That makes it even more cool.

100 word minimum said...

I thought it looked like a Stanley Boxer. I went digging around online to find images of his paintings for you to compare, but I couldn't find any from the period I'm thinking of.