This person’s aesthetic sense is the opposite of mine. I like minimal and tidy with good things but few of them, each easy to locate. But here is this room, so inviting and cluttered and messy and lived in. I would not know how to have my room look like this but I like this person’s mind. This is a room belonging to the type of chill, smart person that I could be friends with. Hope they didn’t tidy up too much. Maybe they just kicked all the trip you up cords to one side as you came in, muttering something about making a space for you to sit down.

This person’s aesthetic sense is the opposite of mine. I like minimal and tidy with good things but few of them, each easy to locate. But here is this room, so inviting and cluttered and messy and lived in. I would not know how to have my room look like this but I like this person’s mind. This is a room belonging to the type of chill, smart person that I could be friends with. Hope they didn’t tidy up too much. Maybe they just kicked all the trip you up cords to one side as you came in, muttering something about making a space for you to sit down.

Zach McCaffree - Related, trees
Zach McCaffree

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Related, trees
Skylar Blum

Skylar Blum

Letter written by Emma Hauck to her husband while in a psychiatric hospital. The words sweetheart come (‘Herzensschatzi komm’), are written over and over filling the surface of the paper (c. 1909) More: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/08/sweetheart-come.html
Letter written by Emma Hauck to her husband while in a psychiatric hospital. The words sweetheart come (‘Herzensschatzi komm’), are written over and over filling the surface of the paper (c. 1909)

More: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/08/sweetheart-come.html

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White Carver A nice little comment on racist natural history museum displays by Nicholas Galanin. www.galan.in

White Carver

A nice little comment on racist natural history museum displays by Nicholas Galanin.

www.galan.in

Pretty Puke a.k.a. Miller Rodriguez is a guy whose photos I really like - super low brow and super great (How does he know so many superfreaks? How can I attend one of the man’s parties?). I’ve been wondering for some time who he is and this week, VICE has featured his photos as something distinctive - which they are.  He has a lot of photos that I look at and think “What the hell is going on here?” Not all of them looked staged. He used to take a picture of a person, often a stranger to him, then post a number of facts about the person, showing that he had been really listening to whatever their story was. www.prettypuke.com

Pretty Puke a.k.a. Miller Rodriguez is a guy whose photos I really like - super low brow and super great (How does he know so many superfreaks? How can I attend one of the man’s parties?). I’ve been wondering for some time who he is and this week, VICE has featured his photos as something distinctive - which they are. 

He has a lot of photos that I look at and think “What the hell is going on here?” Not all of them looked staged.

He used to take a picture of a person, often a stranger to him, then post a number of facts about the person, showing that he had been really listening to whatever their story was.

www.prettypuke.com

Mike Brodie first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. He spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S.. In 2008 he dropped photography to become a diesel mechanic. These kids are riding the rails and sleeping in a coal car. http://mikebrodie.net/projects/gallery/ - Related David Choe hitchhiking and riding the rails across the USA with his nephew in Thumbs Up!

Mike Brodie first began photographing in 2004 when he was given a Polaroid camera. He spent the next four years circumambulating the U.S.. In 2008 he dropped photography to become a diesel mechanic.

These kids are riding the rails and sleeping in a coal car.

http://mikebrodie.net/projects/gallery/

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David Choe hitchhiking and riding the rails across the USA with his nephew in Thumbs Up!

Alec Soth from the Niagara photoset Alec Soth has taken a group of photos of Niagara Falls that tells a somewhat tacky, run down story of love lost and love found through found letters, pictures of couples, motel exteriors and the odd shot of the falls. The combined effect is compelling. - Alec Soth also runs this blog, which has some black and whites you might like. - More found letters and the like at www.foundhandwriting.com

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Alec Soth from the Niagara photoset

Alec Soth has taken a group of photos of Niagara Falls that tells a somewhat tacky, run down story of love lost and love found through found letters, pictures of couples, motel exteriors and the odd shot of the falls. The combined effect is compelling.

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Alec Soth also runs this blog, which has some black and whites you might like.

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More found letters and the like at www.foundhandwriting.com

Brad McMurray’s pictures of the everyday - Related: cars, trees

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Brad McMurray’s pictures of the everyday

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Related: cars, trees

Stéphane Goin, photos from Made in USA and 15000 Miles. Stéphane is from France and is into oldtimers, signs, cars, diner cars, old gas stations and everything that represents the spirit of Americana. He usually visits five or six states over the course of his summer vacation, switches off his cell phone during his stay to just to feel the land and not be disturbed. He rents a car then drives, drives, drives. - Many of his pictures contain themes I am interested in.  Related: Night Cars Gas stations - Other roadtrippers: Joel Meyerowitz Steve Fitch Jeff Brouws Keith Davis Young Jason Koxvold Steven Shore William Eggleston Ali Bosworth Frank Breuer Frank Gohlke Rob Kalmbach Melodie McDaniel Joe Sternfeld Drew Kelly’s Explorations Werner Amann’s Surf Fiction Tons of Land no travels but Americana in the South.

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Stéphane Goin, photos from Made in USA and 15000 Miles.

Stéphane is from France and is into oldtimers, signs, cars, diner cars, old gas stations and everything that represents the spirit of Americana. He usually visits five or six states over the course of his summer vacation, switches off his cell phone during his stay to just to feel the land and not be disturbed. He rents a car then drives, drives, drives.

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Many of his pictures contain themes I am interested in. 

Related:

Night

Cars

Gas stations

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Other roadtrippers:

Joel Meyerowitz

Steve Fitch

Jeff Brouws

Keith Davis Young

Jason Koxvold

Steven Shore

William Eggleston

Ali Bosworth

Frank Breuer

Frank Gohlke

Rob Kalmbach

Melodie McDaniel

Joe Sternfeld

Drew Kelly’s Explorations

Werner Amann’s Surf Fiction

Tons of Land no travels but Americana in the South.

MOMO and Eltono

Improbables, 2012

Two artists install bits of found wood with a hand saw and rubber mallet, into 52 cellar door and window spaces particular to Besançon, France. Using only tension to hold these in place, they demonstrate a variety of arrangement possibilities across a range of spaces in the city. The results may go unnoticed (as artwork) until enough are recognized and associated as such.

We were inspired largely by the types of urban modifications, barriers, and repairs on buildings that demonstrate odd solutions, curious physics, or appear to be total mysteries. So we titled this “Improbables.”

Here is a video about a residency he did in Monterrey at El Narval.

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Related, other public space artists:

Bankview art installation

SpY

Brooms

“The Gates of Harmonious Interest welcomes you to Canada’s oldest Chinatown.”

It is possible that this is not just an old photograph but an old postcard. My favourite part of it is the slice of car top in the bottom, centre of the frame. It provides harmonious interest between the gates welcoming you to Canada’s oldest Chinatown. You have to wonder if the passing car top is meant to provide urban diversion - a sense of active commerce and amusement. Or did the photographer just not give a shit. Take the damn picture. We’re going to print 80,000 postcards to last well into the next millennium.

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My friend Mandy sends me a postcard a week for no reason, just to say “thinking of you.” Either they contain a philosophical reflection on something routine, a piece of trivia that few know or they are something like this. Mandinska, I love your subtle sense of humour.

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She just sent me this: 

  • … YOU’RE LIKE A MACHINE GUN OF ZEN BLASTING EVERYONE WITH PEACEFUL FUCKING ENERGY. 

Ice Cube, It Was a Good Day

Kaz Strankowski, On The Wall

Kaz Strankowski, On The Wall