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Field Trip to the Museum, Los Angeles 2014

Silo City

For a long time, Buffalo served as a major distribution hub on the Great Lakes, especially for grain brought in from the Midwest.  The waterfront was marked by numerous grain elevators, many of which fell out of use by the 1980s.  After many years of abandonment, a number of these old grain depots clustered around the Buffalo River have recently served as the setting for a variety of arts events, and the venue has become known as Silo City. These pictures were taken there in the summer of 2014 during what has become an annual "City of Night" festival.

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Shakespeare in the Park, Buffalo 2015

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Delaware Park Rose, 2015

On the Street

Last night I watched a cool documentary about street photography in New York City called Everybody Street (it's on Netflix if you want to check it out).  The filmmaker followed several current practitioners as they wandered around the city as well as providing examples of their notable predecessors.  I'm not in the league of any of those artists, but it's gratifying to know they are motivated by some of the same impulses that cause me to want to snap pictures of everyday life.  Here are some some of my recent efforts. 

A Christmas List

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree.  If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well.

 

Books:

Nick Hornby, Funny Girl (Fiction)

Greil Marcus, Real Life Rock: The Complete Top Ten Columns 1986-2014 (Music)

Brian Burrough, Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and teh Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (History)

William Wellman, Jr., Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel (Movies/Biography)

Eric Weisbard, Top Forty Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (Music)

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music)

Larry Ceplair & Christopher Trumbo, Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical (Movies/Biography)

Cari Beauchamp, My First Time in Hollywood (Movies)

Peter Guralnik, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll (Music/Biography)

John Cleese, So, Anyway… (Humor/Biography)

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Dennis McNally, On Highway 61 (Music)

Benjamin Cawthra, Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Music/Photography)

Devon Powers, Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (Music)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History) 

DVDs:

Crumb

The Americanization of Emily

In No Great Hurry- 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

The Monkees, Season 1 or 2

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Crane at Hoyt Lake, 2015

A Couple of Experiments

These two photos represent some experiments with layering images in Photoshop.  I think they turned out okay, so I'll probably have some more examples posted over the next few weeks. 

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Summer Christmas Tree, Williamstown, Mass. 2014

Toonerville Thanksgiving

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Emma, 2014

Puerta Del Sol

Today I'm sharing a bunch of photos taken in and around Puerto Del Sol in Madrid back in 2013.  I was just trying to capture something of the energy in the plaza, which was quite active that full of people that day.

 

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Chamartin Station, Madrid 2013

This Week's Playlist and Podcast

Below you can find a list of all the songs played this past Sunday on Dr. John's Record Shelf.  By clicking here you can listen to a recording of the full program.  I hope you like it. 

Turn Up the Mains, Jesse Malin

She Takes Me There, Promised Land Sound

Master Jack, Paranoid Style

Secret Agent Girl, Puppies USA

Jumpin' Jack Flash, Alex Chilton

Pale Blue Eyes, Velvet Underground

No News From Home, Houndstooth

Pickled Ginger, Wilco

Blue Moon, The Marcels

Who Do You Love? The Sapphires

Raindrops, Dee Clark

Mama Didn't Lie, Jan Bradley

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, The Shirelles

Blame It On Me, George Ezra

Stare at the Sun, Eleanor Friedberger

A New England, Billy Bragg

More Than This, Roxy Music

Complexity, The Roots

Journey in Satchidananda, Alice Coltrane

Baby, It's Cold Outside, Esther Williams & Ricardo Montalban

Cast Iron Girl, The Last Roundup

Butchie's Tune, Lovin' Spoonful

Getting' Nowhere Fast, Jason & the Scorchers

One Hundred Years From Now, The Byrds

All Day and All of the Night, Kinks

Teenage Kicks, Undertones

Baggy Trousers, Lisa Mychols

Another Girl Another Planet, The Only Ones

Jilted John, Jilted John

Just My Imagination, The Temptations

Gypsy Woman, Impressions

Fat Boy, Billy Stewart

Bye Bye My Love, The Chips

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Puget Sound (near Point Defiance), Tacoma 2015

Street Shots

Just a random assortment of photos taken in a variety of places over the past year. Shots were taken in Salt Lake City, Dillon, Chicago, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Tacoma, and Los Angeles.  Can you match the photo with its location?