BEATNIK INDUSTRIES, a BREAD
BOWL of IMAGES and GENERIC ASPIRIN
June 8th, 2010 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed in Brattleboro, Vermont on May 31, 2010
This has been the case, and where a few years ago the Box elder Bug was an unknown insect it is now found in large and increasing numbers. Still this great increase would not be noticed, or only be a few more observing persons, if this insect did [...]
May 5th, 2010 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed in Yankee Stadium, the Bronx, New York on May 4, 2010
Baseball remains in trouble with the general public, though, despite the ticket prices people pay and the flocks who keep showing up to pay them. An ESPN poll revealed that among kids, the next generation of fans, football is number one, basketball is number [...]
April 16th, 2010 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed at the Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan on September 4, 2007
Out to the freezing banks of the Sumida River he led us, to see the rows of tuna laid out for the morning auctions. Blanketing in the thick cocoons of frost, solidly frozen tuna the size of tree trunks clinked like brittle chimes as [...]
March 30th, 2010 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed in Hillsboro, Ohio on March 20, 2008
Location of the Hillsboro Cemetery is in Highland County, State Rt 138 South West, Hillsboro, Ohio 45133. Hillsboro Cemetery was created on May 30, 1862 as recorded in Original Book 30, page 349, Highland County Deed Records, the Hillsboro Cemetery Association of the Town Hillsborough purchased from Allen [...]
March 2nd, 2010 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed in Providence, Rhode Island on February 20, 2010
We have never said—until the skyscraper—“We want such and such a building because it is suited to our lives , the way we work, the way we play, the way we live—simple, strong, and fairly intelligent lives.” At least, if it has been said before the last [...]
February 10th, 2010 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed in Tokyo, Japan on September 4, 2007
If you don’t like “street photographer,” how do you respond to that other tiresome phrase, “snapshot aesthetic”?
I knew that was coming. That’s another stupidity. The people who use the term don’t even know the meaning. They use it to refer to photographs they believe are loosely organized, or [...]
December 14th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
photographed in Decatur, Illinois on October 7, 2009
What to do
1. Choose a magazine picture.
2. Cut an important part of the picture such as the head of a dog, a baby’s foot, or a glass of milk. Glue it to the base of the paper or cardboard.
3. Choose another unrelated magazine picture and add a [...]
November 16th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Santa Catalina Island, California. June 13, 2009.
The physical domain contains a wide range of limitations, but generally relates to respiratory, metabolic, and musculoskeletal body functions associated with movement. The [2008 American Community Survey] focuses on ambulatory difficulties in question 17b of the 2008 questionnaire, which asked respondents aged 5 years and older, “Does this person [...]
October 19th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Stillwater, Oklahoma. October 12, 2009.
Where the grass is yellow-tangled / O’er a long-forgotten mound / Still a gray stone, lichen-hoary, / Lifts its record from the ground.
Now have passed three generations / Since the river quenched the life / Of the two, whose friends so crudely / Carved the stone with rustic knife.
Druid trees with [...]
October 17th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Martin, Tennessee. October 13, 2009.
Section II: The Interview. 3. Definition: a. The Army interview is a specialized pattern of verbal communication initiated for a specific purpose. This takes the interview out of the category of casual conversation or discussion for its own sake. Interviews normally are scheduled at an appropriate time and place to be [...]
October 13th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Near New Richland, Minnesota. February 23, 2009.
In the fall when the days became crisp and gray, and the long Minnesota winter shut down like the white lid of a box, Dexter’s skis moved over the snow that hid the fairways of the golf course. At these times the country gave him a feeling of profound [...]
September 14th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Cincinnati, Ohio. September 11, 2009.
The admiration of these ladies for strangers naturally provokes the disgust and jealousy of the Peruvian gentlemen; while, strange to say, it doest not excite them to emulation of their attractions and virtues. So long as they can lounge in idleness and smoke their cigars, there seems to them nothing in [...]
September 10th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Quincy, Illinois. September 5, 2009.
A German writer has well said, “There are eyes which only need to look up, to touch every chord of a breast choked by the stiff atmosphere of stiff and stagnant society, and to call for tones which might become the accompanying music of a life.” “This gentle transfusion of mind [...]
September 9th, 2009 | by nick | published in Photographed.
Quincy, Illinois. September 6, 2009.
Hamilton Burton had always denied with scorn the existence of blind luck as an element in human greatness or failure. Now if he had leaped head-foremost into an empty swimming pool, at the exact moment when he stood midway of an enterprise which should crown him as omnipotent—or ruin him, perhaps [...]