PLAYLIST_MARCH 26

Listening to "Face to Face on High Places" by School of the Seven Bells. Because they've made an album, Alpinisms, of "mountain climbing songs".

"There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know..." - Rene Daumal

MORNING SUNSHINE...

via Pia Jane Bijkerk.

CHRISTIAN CHAIZE

"'The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.' - Marcel Proust

Five years ago, Portugal did present itself as a new landscape in my life - both literally and metaphorically. Since then, I have photographed exclusively along a very small stretch of its southern coastline. Returning to this specific place, I've sought out its nuances. In doing so, I have peeled back layers of how I see, and how I experience this magical environment.

The results of my slight obsession have evolved into two distinct series. Here are two images from Praia Piquinia, a body of work focusing on a singular, secluded beach front in which all of the pictures are taken from essentially the same elevated angle. What the still life was for Morandi, this beach is for me. From a distance, I observe the variables: light, weather, time of day, the ebb and flow of the ocean, and the sunbathers, unaware, below my large format camera. The images are shot vertically, a departure from the traditional, horizontal format in landscape photography. It puts my subject matter in the form of a portrait - an ongoing record of this ethereal yet playful nook in nature over the minutes, the days, the years. Ultimately, I try to instill an element of time within these captured moments... visceral time, elastic from one image to another. And always, I seek to have new eyes." -Christian Chaize

Discovered Christian Chaize's Praia Piquina series today - please take a look as the photographs are gorgeous! I'm putting the 30x40" version on my half-birthday list...(July 10, for all those keeping track).

Buy his work at 20x200

HAPPY SPRING!

image © Tim Walker.

PLAYLIST_MARCH 18

feeling francophone...listening to "Ce jeu" by Yelle and "La belle et le bad boy" by MC Solaar.

CARINE REVEALED

Just finished watching the documentary on Carine Roitfeld on CNN.com. Oh to have that French accent...

Watch it online here: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

"She is like nobody else, and that is already the most important thing, non?" -Karl Lagerfeld

THE LAST EMPEROR

Valentino: The Last Emperor opens today at Film Forum.

SAFARI

three rhinos


girl with chains / basketwood diptych


elephants in the aberdares

I'm going on virtual safari today...all works © Peter Beard.

GORGE

how amazing is this ring...from Conroy + Wilcox at Erie Basin.

STATUS REPORT_3:02 pm

what I'm drinking: green tea
what I'm listening to: "The Pirate's Gospel" by Alela Diane
what I'm doing: brightening up the day with color via Matthew Williamson F2009

PLAYLIST_MARCH 10

a comforting standby for today: "Fake Empire" by The National.

KAHN + SELESNICK

Nick Kahn and Richard Selesnick do amazing work; some below. Click for larger images (all ©Kahn/Selesnick).

from City of Salt












from Apollo Prophecies






from Scotlandfuturebog

DARK AFTERNOON

image: grandylion via Flickr

It's so many miles and so long since I've met you
Don't even know what I'll say when I get to you
But suddenly now, I know where I belong
It's many hundred miles and it won't be long

- "Train Song" by Feist + Ben Gibbard

GI-LOT, PI-CA-SSO

Françoise Gilot and Pablo Picasso in Villauris, France
photographed by Gjon Mili for LIFE Magazine, 1949

"As we turned to go, Picasso said, 'If you want to come back again, by all means come. But if you do come, don't come like pilgrims to Mecca. Come because you like me, because you find my company interesting, and because you want to have a simple, direct relationship with me. If you only want to see my paintings, you'd better go to a museum.'" - Life With Picasso, by Françoise Gilot

SNOW

image: Justin Lane/European Pressphoto Agency, via The New York Times, March 2