9/19/14: National Bison Range (Montana)

 

 

9/11/2014: Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Buddy Movies

 

A Child’s Garden of VD Posters

Frederic Remington (1861-1909)

“Shadows of horses should be a cool carmine & Blue…” (Click for full size; the difference is radical.)

The Flight (1895)

A New Year on the Cimarron (1903)

A Fight for the Waterhole (1903)

An Argument with the Town Marshal (1904)

Coming to the Call (c. 1905)

Night Halt of the Cavalry (1908)

The Grass Fire (1908)

The Night Herder (c. 1908)

The Stampede (1908)

Indians Simulating Buffalo (1909)

Moonlight, Wolf (c. 1909)

Farm Life

I have no real point to make here except, perhaps, that it’s an abomination to bind a man—any man—to a pickaxe handle and leave him to lie in the midday sun. In any case it doesn’t hurt to remember that these men, and these places, and these situations, all came before us. (Click on the pics for full resolution.)

Georgia 1895

South Carolina 1898

1903 (juvenile convicts, location unknown)

North Carolina 1910 (wagons used to transport and house convicts during road work assignments)

Georgia 1941

Louisiana 1955

Early 1900s

Delaware 1907

Early 1930s (location unknonw)

Bartow County, Georgia

Sing Sing, NY

 

Italian Neorealism’s Most Hilarious Moments

The Alamo Does Tom Blog

March 6, 1836

1849

1868

1870s

1879

1890

1890s

1905

1910s

1920

1950s

Solemnly Swearing (or Affirming)

Talking Points Memo has a great collection of Inauguration Day photos up. Click the pix for the large version, especially “FDR 1933”.

 

Buchanan 1857

Lincoln 1865

Garfield 1881

McKinley 1897, with Grover Cleveland

Taft 1909

West Point Cadets, Wilson 1913

Suffragette Parade, Wilson 1913

FDR 1933

FDR 1937

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Does Tom Blog

May Day 1946

Vietnam War Protest 1967

Dreaming in Ozu

Clotheslines. Smokestacks. Sake bars. Alleyways. Parked bicycles. Movie posters. Embankments. Teakettles. Gas storage tanks. Coca-Cola signs. Folded legs. Farting. The color red. “Peace” cigarettes. Children marching off to school. Parents marching off to work. Clocks. Hallways. Drinking to excess. Western skirts. Bare lightbulbs.

But, most of all, trains. Lots and lots of trains.

“Underworld U.S.A.” (1961)

Director: Samuel Fuller / Director of Photography: Hal Mohr

The WPA Does Tom Blog

At one point of Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb, Crumb (the man, not the movie) riffles through a handful of Polaroids which he uses as drawing aids. The pictures show a series of street scenes, but instead of people or architecture they’re focused on utility poles, dumpsters, transformers, parking meters, newspaper racks and all the other bits of urban detritus which, as Crumb points out, we unconsciously block from our minds as we move around in the world. Simply swiveling your head from side to side while standing on any city street corner reveals just how much of this suppressed junk there is surrounding us—junk which, along with the acres of ugly advertising signage, does nothing but pollute our view of the places we live in. So it’s nice to imagine walking down the street and finding a well-funded effort to spruce the place up with a little whimsy and positive social feeling, and if it takes up space that would otherwise be filled by ads for Buick and Electrolux (or Lexapro and Apple), so much the better. And if that effort springs from a government agency whose only mission is to promote the health and happiness of its citizenry while incidentally throwing a few bucks at some talented artists on the side—why, then, yes, I can get behind that, too. Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.

Krazy in So Many Ways

Some Things That Actually Happened #2