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{votd} Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)
I remember reading a review of Blow-Up in the very left-wing mid-Sixties magazine, Ramparts, edited by the madman Warren Hinkle, who was a good friend of my dad’s, although I didn’t know it at the time. The review was really strange, straining for meaning, overly verbose and enigmatic. I really couldn’t understand it, though I…
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{sunday} Wendell – Son of a Preacher Man
Speech on the Body by Sara Uribe translated from the Spanish by JD Pluecker Let’s say something about distances that escape through the body. About what the body needs to say as its joints go silent. Let’s say the body needs to remain quiet to say something about distances. Something left undone, you clarify. Something…
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{votd} The Unknown Life of Julie Newmar Catwoman My Living Doll
From the YouTube comments: Julie is a cherished friend. She always told me I was “a perfect expression of God”. That’s how she sees everyone. That’s how she sees everything in nature and each bloom in her garden. I cherish her garden tours when she examines a leaf or a petal and describes it with…
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{sunday} Sean Hayes—Cezanne N. 4 (2010)
This is one of my favorite images ever to come in to PIXELS. I have a cheap laser print of it on card stock standing up on my bookshelf. One of these days, I should ask Sean how much he would want for a signed print. He is mostly posting AI generated work on Instagram…
