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annabelle s aspirin annabelle s aspirin sunday july 01 2012 felix big things are afoot these past eight weeks welcome felix wolfe born may 1 2012 weighing 5lbs 14oz posted by michael at 6 41 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday march 08 2012 reading blues an excerpt i read the newspaper i currently subscribe to two newspapers one s a local rag that s my mainline to nearby politics and happenings in the community that don t center around the art world the other is a paper of repute that makes me feel a little shameful because the news is so far afield and the advertisements are aimed at people who make as much in 3 days as i make in a year as everyone knows there aren t many newspaper readers left i have a few friends who read the paper but my major newspaper influence is my father every morning that i lived at home i d walk into to the kitchen and see him sitting quietly at the table reading sundays are forever linked to the completion of crosswords because that s what he did and still does i used to wonder why it was that he read the paper so religiously no doubt the paper helped him be up on current events but so did the news he watched each night and he s far from being an overtly political person i ve read the paper fairly consistently for only decade maybe a little more at first i bought it because i thought reading a paper was what a man did while he ate his breakfast i thought it might ready myself for the day of interactions ahead when i travel i always get up early head out and grab the local paper friends often ask why i get up so early or where i m going as i hurry past them before coffee and i always respond that a man reads a newspaper i guess i do believe this i of course also believe that a woman reads a newspaper and i love that to see kim pick up the paper the only thing better is when she reads me an excerpt of an article subscribing to the paper s isn t cheap and with a baby on the way i ve been wondering if i shouldn t just settle for reading the paper on the internet after all we do have ridiculously fa t internet because i insisted dsl was killing me the problem though with digital papers is that it really isn t paper reading the paper is active all the folding and unfolding the creasing and then folding again plus i read the paper with a pair of scissors in my hand and everyday i clip out articles for kim for myself or for friends or students i have file folders and boxes full of clippings i m no nicholson baker but my collection of obituary pictures numbers in the thousands and would be greater if i had the time or didn t mind piles of papers all about the house so all of the above is just a small part of the reason why i have kept the pictures that follow the other part of the reason is maybe a bit bigger and much more idiosyncratic and maybe i ll get to it later in the meantime here are some of my favorite obituary pictures that i ve collected its being international women s day i m including just images of women posted by michael at 11 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels baby dad newspaper nicholson baker obituaries pictures vernacular photography wife thursday february 16 2012 detroit circa 1904 fountain of ice washington boulevard 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative detroit publishing company winter hasn t been anything like this this year on occasion i read shorpy historical photo archive it s always worth a perusal and there is always the option to see the images at full scale scanned size posted by michael at 12 22 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday january 31 2012 bessie jones and the georgia sea island singers the new york times ran an article yesterday about the upcoming digitization and availability of alan lomax s collection of field recordings notes films and pictures made over his long career truly global in scope his archive covers much of world folk music i just learned of bessie jones and the georgia sea island singers ms jones was an influential singer on st simons island ga where this selection was recorded on oct 12 1959 she and lomax collaborated to make her group the georgia sea island singers a national touring act that performed at the newport folk festival and president jimmy carter s inauguration from the multimedia page that accompanied the above article posted by michael at 9 28 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alan lomax bessie jones and the georgia sea island singers folk music gospel nytimes friday december 30 2011 washington dc s preeminent accordionist merv conn died on december 20 i called him more than a decade ago when i was living with my nana and pop in alexandria i was trying to figure out the best way to go about learning the instrument and would call accordionists listed in phone books in any city i visited i think we must have spoken for 15 20 minutes he gave me tips and told me about his own experiences in hopes that i might become one of his students i never did take a lesson from him but years later when i heard that jeff krulik had made a documentary about him kim and i went with todd and kristen to silver spring in the hope of seeing it alas that screening was sold out we saw merv in lobby playing to his fans but we did get to finally see it during the 2007 james river film festival it s a great portrait of a beautiful person posted by michael at 11 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels accordion alexandria jeff krulik merv conn virginia washington dc thursday december 15 2011 blind boy fuller piedmont blues guitarist and singer blind boy fuller b 1907 d 1941 his song truckin my blues away was the origin of the phrase keep on truckin i heard what s that smell like fish on edge of americana this week smokin posted by michael at 8 52 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 97 3 blind boy fuller music piedmont blues wrir thursday november 17 2011 jesse fuller jesse fuller wrote the monkey and the engineer a song covered by many musicians including the grateful dead and more recently dave rawlings he invented that contraption next to him named the fotdella from wikipedia the name fotdella was given to the instrument by fuller s wife who took to calling it a foot diller as in the then current expression killer diller meaning exceedingly good later it became shortened to just fotdella here he is shoeless playing all that stuff posted by michael at 4 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday november 16 2011 perfect posted by michael at 4 36 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday november 14 2011 yum new favorite sign i love this sign this bar is located in the dingle in cumberland maryland yes the wood chuck is a groundhog in literary parlance a dingle is a deep wooded valley or dell in contemporary cumberland it s an intersection or what i like to think of as a confluence of streets posted by michael at 4 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels bar cumberland maryland western maryland wood chux wednesday november 09 2011 i recently scanned some old negatives for a chapbook i m making and came across this image of my former neighbor naomi s window i lived at 195 e main street in frostburg md for a little over a year she was a major reason why i wanted the apartment in her mid 80 s nearly deaf and sweet as hell i would occasionally play the accordion for her she would give me jars of homemade beef stew and i photographed her on a number of occasions she died a few years ago i m glad i have these pictures posted by michael at 5 41 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels color photographs flag frostburg maryland western maryland location frostburg md 21532 usa tuesday november 08 2011 matt king mike 2006 plaster mop wood paint foil work shirts string 6 pack ring 30 x 36 x 72 matt king is a sculpture professor at vcu more of his work can be found here posted by michael at 12 22 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels matt king mike sculpture vcu monday october 31 2011 this autumn s swifts august 6 2011 7 15 pm posted by michael at 9 20 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels a slow song for swifts audubon society chaetura pelagica chimney swifts richmond virginia thursday october 27 2011 notes from a lecture posted by michael at 8 36 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels inflatable sculpture mocha dick philadelphia tristin lowe vmfa moyra davey s work is featured in moma s most recent exhibition of new photography the work is direct deep see more of her work here posted by michael at 9 02 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels color photographs moma moyra davey photography wednesday october 19 2011 laura sharp wilson has a website women s relief society 2010 acrylic and graphite on unryu paper mounted on wood panel 18 x 12 posted by michael at 3 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels laura sharp wilson painting thursday october 13 2011 the 14th annual theresa pollak prize for excellence in the arts just last night i received richmond magazine s theresa pollak prize for excellence in the arts the prize is given annually to a dozen or so visual and performing artists who live in richmond the artists are chosen by a committee made of previous award winners this year s selectors said of my work michael lease s photography addresses the familiarity and accessibility of the snapshot with an enhanced awareness of the world he is a community focused artist who brings people together in a collective experience as he did when he choreographed a performance event of onlookers gathering to admire the flight of chimney swifts he sees things others do not and captures them for us it s a real honor to be in the company of those who have won the pollak in the past as well as this year s winners tanja softic ana ines king and the latin ballet of virginia rex richardson susan iverson samson trinh the upper east side big band eric knight todd raviotta scott wichmann joshua poteat and myra daleng damn good company posted by michael at 6 50 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom followers blog archive 2012 4 july 1 felix march 1 february 1 january 1 2011 22 december 2 november 5 october 6 august 4 july 1 may 2 april 1 march 1 2010 18 december 1 november 3 october 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