William Eggleston

The details are a bit sketchy now, but everyone agrees the picture was taken in Memphis, Tennessee, on a late summer night in 1973. Karen Chatham, the young woman in blue, recalls that she had been out drinking when she met up with Lesa Aldridge, the woman in red. Lesa didn’t drink at the time, but both were 18, the legal age then. As the bars closed at 3 a.m., the two followed some other revelers to a friend’s house nearby. In the mix was a 30-something man who had been taking pictures all night. “I always thought of Bill as just like us,” Karen says today, “until years later, when I realized that he was famous.”

William Eggleston’s Untitled (Biloxi, Mississippi) 1974

this one you probably recognize!!

the exhibit at the whitney museum in NY was amazing, especially the films. he was never known for his ‘pretty pictures’ but there were many, here are a few of my favorite ‘pretty’ ones by bill (as you may know we were really really close!!). by dd

CATEGORIES: art

spring is in the air

finally new york is in a spring feeling! we get to enjoy the sun and the earth and walking hand in hand through the eden fields of central park. ps. beware the hand of global warming overhead. by kl

CATEGORIES: lovely, musings

How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare

had rabbit for dinner last night. it made me feel uneasy. i would have preferred to explain art to it through the evening…. joseph beuys, “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” (26 november 1965), performance documentation at galerie alfred schmela, düsseldorf. by kl

CATEGORIES: art, musings

ok they ruined it!

they’d be better-off selling it for what it is… it’s not an action-film for gods sake, it’s a drawn-out drama. the packaging is aaaalllllll wrong!!! by dd

CATEGORIES: perfect gift

talking about vintage toys

1/32 scale slot car

a comparison of the available tracks, as you see the carrera allows ample room for turns!


ok while on this subject I may add that I just recently purchased the german built carrera slot car kit with 2 additional cars. now the one I need to get is this BMW 2002. by dd

CATEGORIES: cars, musings, perfect gift

WHAt the hell is SUBBUTEO?

recently issued commemorate sterling silver figures.

 

original team in box… note: goalie in green and blk. this box is even more vintage than i remember!!

the subutteo beatnicks on any given london corner back in the days.
o.k., I was sure nobody would know about this, but I was amazed to find it had such a following in the US! theres even an american subutteo asociation? they even have a listing of their 2008 national champions!! I must admit I grew up on this vintage game, and I loved it’s simple genius approach. as a 4th grader I had every team imaginable, from arsenal to brazil. I would beg my sisters to bring me new stuff every summer when they returned from boarding school in britain. I got the stadium and the crowds one summer, the stadium lights, various teams and the referees on another, the kicker and eventually the whole thing. while my friends played video game pong I chose to flick to kick! o.k… getting all teary eyed here… now in case you are laughing by now, hear this: “after 60 years since first release subbuteo is the probably world’s biggest selling football game. yes that’s right, not Fifa or Pro Evo nor the classic Sensible Soccer; it’s subbuteo that blows them all away. now fair enough up until now subbuteo has always been a board game of sort’s but it was only a matter of time it made its way onto our screens… read more.” by dd

CATEGORIES: musings

Malcolm Sayer: the designer of C and D type Jaguar cars

the XJ13 with a V12 engine. this is an exceptionally lovely view of the car. now that is an amazing piece of aerodynamic art designed by malcolm sayer (1916-1970). the original 1960’s prototype of the XJ13 is worth an estimated £14 million (about $27 million or €18 million)

sayer was the designer of jaguar cars and one of the first engineers to apply principles of aerodynamics to car design. his designs included the now famous jaguar C-type (also called XK120-C, due to its being based on the jaguar XK120) Jaguar D-type jaguar e-type jaguar XJS (although the car launched several years after sayer’s death). by dd

CATEGORIES: cars, design, eye candy