MDM Broadcast - 2019

Didn't realize until just now that "arp -a" on the command-line scans the network for all connected devices and prints their MAC and IP addresses. Nerd out with it.

The art of the thing itself, or the art of the photo of the thing itself?

This is what it looks like when a primo guitarist records Thelonius Monk's entire songbook and puts it in six volumes and one digital download. https://okazakiwork.bandcamp.com/releases

I'm definitely in need of MLK's teachings based on how hard I'm clutching my pearls over the fact that Senator Perdue (the man with Senator Perdue's voting record) is speaking at Ebenezer Baptist on MLK day.

In my own mind, it's difficult to distinguish between the facts of the Rosenberg case, and the fictionalization in E.L. Doctorow's "Book of Daniel", which I read before knowing any of the facts...

Morton Sobell obituary - NYT

While wearing headphones and watching this, try to not look over your right shoulder at 1min21sec -- start before then, to get acclimated.

Superb Owl

Good enough to have made the final cut of "The Americans", this outtake, via https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/lens/robert-frank-the-americans-danziger-gallery.html

I may never forget how, when asked by the press about whether or not he could still do the moonwalk (which he did in the 80s while wearing black-face in San Antonio - for which he won a dance contest) the Governor of Virginia nodded and took a stage-look to his right, to check out the condition of the floor, to see if it might be the kind of floor that's good enough for moonwalking, only to be brought back to reality by his wife (on his left) who said he only moonwalks "in appropriate circumstances," or she said he only moonwalks in "inappropriate circumstances," depending on who heard what.

Out of my technical depth here, but it seems there could be a market for a home-based CDN, which would cache your household's (or apartment building's, or block's) most used and streamed content.

This probably runs counter to the TOS's of streaming services, but why should anyone pay for the "bits on the wire" it takes for your family to re-watch the 3rd episode of Motown Magic for the umpteenth time?

Services want to register another "play" on their servers, of course, but consider the data-caps that could be saved, and how much current network traffic is clouded by re-streams of the same song, show, movie, or whatever else it is your household/building/block is doing repeatedly.

"The real end of history is when the choice is between counting on ethical AI to protect us from unethical capitalism and counting on ethical capitalism to protect us from unethical AI."

"Instagram's social design was almost always with the opposite intent of Flickr's social goals."

loneliest grill in ATL

aplombshell

HERO http://bit.ly/2DpBS3F

Fantastic new longread from Mother Jones is a must-read for any WhatsApp / Instagram / Facebook user: How Facebook Screwed Us All - It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere — it’s killing real news

the idea of spending money on subscriptions for tools that help you create rather than consume.

Appreciating these three experiments via Yoffy Press especially Kota Ezawa’s.

Wondering what a dinner conversation between Gordon Lish and Gordon Liddy would be like.

Extraordinary spread

Short doc about a Facebook-addicted dad.

YMMV

Was wondering if a photo artist would revisit Friedlander's monuments project, with the new spin of "removal". Matthew Shain has, more or less. http://www.mattshain.com/post-monuments

Appreciating this portrait by Mary Frey. https://www.maryfrey.com/

Was just reminded how much I (still) love this Carolyn Drake photo.

"In July 2007, Dash's then-girlfriend, photo magazine editor Jade Berreau, gave birth to their daughter, whom they named Secret Midnight Magic Nico."

Saw four Teslas in one block today.

Incredible work from Sitka, Alaskan, Nicholas Galanin, whose work was just selected for the 2019 Whitney Biennial.

SUBstantive vs. subSTANTive

I have no words for today's Mark Meadows / Lynne Patton travesty. It's just unreal, and it's where we are.

Still can't tell Mark Meadows and Kevin McCarthy apart.

"A filmmaker was in attendance – she is making a documentary about the history of slide projectors." 🔗

If you read/hear anything about August Sander, the first remark you might encounter is how his work was "unfinished." I wonder if Sander thought about his own output in those terms, or if "unfinished" is the language of the marketplace trying to contextualize Sander's life's work. Can't the work just be the work, whether it's deemed "finished" or "unfinished?"

Phenomenal video, here:

Great new photobook from Joshua Dudley Greer.

When your photographs of clouds are stored in the cloud.

“As much as I want to blame the sick creators for the pain I feel, I blame Google even more. By surfacing this content and profiting from the data Google collects from those who view it, Google is monetizing Alison’s death and our family’s pain.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/youtube-has-bolstered-conspiracy-theories-about-my-daughters-murder-it-must-stop/2019/03/06/01242e26-3ebc-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html

“Waters wanted the photographs to look deliberately amateur, so Shacochis printed through a piece of glass that he covered in dirt and tea-bag stains.”

Probably not the most respectful way to describe it, when she was also his mistress.

Incredible story about what happens when your business model is tuned for "engagement" a.k.a. outrage, provocation & the lowest common denominator. Great job, YouTube!

"Deploying early generation e-reader screens and digital ink, Cairns’s abstracted, ominous dystopian scenes — shot in nighttime Paris, London, Tokyo, Osaka, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas — are arrested on petrified Kindle screens. While plugged into a computer, the selected image is uploaded to a salvaged e-reader, left untouched, and then disconnected. The screen is taken apart from the device, leaving a lasting image."

I miss seeing Larry Fink's flash on analog film; the frames felt alive, born of intuition and accident. Another excellent photographer whose new(er), digital work is (perfectly fine and acceptable) a shadow of the unpredictability once committed to emulsions.

When your three-year old and his stuffed-animal giraffe is "crying" because you put Keith Jarrett on the stereo for him to listen to, as requested, but it's playing via spotify on some algorithmic shuffle, not the preferred "Keith Jarrett at the Blue Note" 6-CD live box set he's become so familiar with, so he moans along with Keith's groans. (sigh)

One of the most crushing photo titles/captions ever, from Chris Killip, "Simon being taken to sea for the first time since his father drowned 1983, printed 2012–13"

Love Gus Powell's video trailer for his new photobook "Family Car Trouble".

https://vimeo.com/327628670

A fair-use supercut of every stroke from Tiger Woods at the 2019 Masters, in order:

Upper left - Thursday
Upper right - Friday
Lower left - Saturday
Lower right - Saturday

Gotta wonder how many businesses use "New York" in the suffix of their business name, but aren't in New York.

Growing-up in Amherst, everyone took the police reports in both the Amherst Bulletin and Daily Hampshire Gazette for what they were - concise hillarity that highlighted how much of a bubble we all lived in. Glad to see Aaron Schuman figured out a way to turn them into a project in his new book "SLANT" https://www.photomonitor.co.uk/slant-an-interview-with-aaron-schuman/

If you're gonna make a photobook based on Fukase's photobook about crows called "Ravens," the best title to pick would be "Murder," so good job on that score, Guillaume Simoneau.

Incredible overlap between this scene in the middle of the documentary about metal band Anvil and the insanity of the telemarketing farm in Sorry to Bother You.

Learned a new word in an Adam
Gopnik interview: emiserate

Outside of browsing locations and clicking hashtags, you still can't search for text in a caption of a photo that's been posted to Instagram. Yay, 2019!

I've heard about steganography before, but I've never seen a real-world example as inspiring and relevant as this, from Zachary Norman.

Waiting for a journalist to draw a direct line between the trampling of poppy blooms by Instagrammers in California, and the overcrowding + deaths + general inexperience of climbers choking the summit of Everest.

Saw two anecdotes yesterday that point to Everest's popularity being (in part) an Instagram problem; the first was a climber analyzing a photograph of climbers on the summit ridge, pointing out that the climbers closest to the summit could be seen preparing their selfie sticks.

Also watched a video where a seasoned group leader remarked about unsafe conditions at the actual summit (in the last few years) because of overcrowding, rowdiness, and generally hammyness -- all for the camera.

Eerie to watch Instagram videos from climbers who died this year, and watch as they climb the Lhotse Face, narrating the whole adventure like a walk in the park, and know the file was uploaded to Facebook's servers from Camp 3, just below the death zone, because the climber didn't return alive to base camp.

Feels like it's only a matter of time before the stories about teens falling over cliffs while Instagramming merges with the Everest-is-too-crowded narrative.

Ben Denzer - https://catalogpress.org/

Amanda Hess, again on the leading edge:

"The wife guy is a mutation of the “Instagram husband,” the man who exists to take flattering photos of his wife, except that the wife guy is no longer content behind the scenes. He is crafting a whole persona around being that guy. He married a woman, and now that is his personality."

your new band’s name

"...we have completed a total clubhouse renovation and in the final stages of installing of our $30,000 custom built Southern Pride smoker."

never eaten watermelon while driving before

"Voiced by Iggy Pop, scored by The Tiger Lillies and Pascal Comelade, and subtitled in 35 languages including Esperanto and Latin."

great image from George Etheredge https://bittersoutherner.com/hillbillies-need-no-elegy-appalachian-reckoning

"Founders Series Roadster reservations require an initial $5,000 credit card payment, plus a $245,000 wire transfer payment due in 10 days."

The crossed arms of religous fundamentalism when confronted by the fact they willingly sold their faux-vangelical humanity for the promise of federal judges and a Roe-repealing Supreme Court. WWJD? Better go cry to mother.

heather christle

because of course there’s a genre of true crime podcasts that are also about drinking

"He then used the same knife to cut his shirt sleeve and tie it around his leg wound to cycle 7km to a logging camp."

Five years ago, I made this: 2014 PGA Championship - Quad Supercut

Had no idea about the origin of this photo - that it was in an archive purchased by Michael Stipe.

"It made me think that 10 years from now, rich people are going to have other people deal with their social media feeds, and everybody in the middle tier is going to have to be out there experiencing the psychological damage. And maybe that's exactly what's happening right now, we just haven't totally realized it."

11 yrs ago today

9 years ago today, an exhibition of my photos, videos, and Unphotographable(s) at Spruill Gallery

wonder how she’s doing these days

Nothing comes between me and my cream cheese mushroom bites.

The “Always Be Optimizing” chapter in Jia Tolentino’s “Trick Mirror” is sensational.

So many easy puns in the jazz album title realm.

There should be a word for when you resign because your gerrymandered district was reset and u know u can’t win against a fair map. Gerryslandered?

The before/after of the new Kehinde Wiley sculpture in Richmond is great. https://www.richmond.com/news/local/there-s-something-changing-in-these-winds-kehinde-wiley-s/article_1e1abd39-69c4-502d-b0c6-28f3921312aa.html#26

Love this from Erin Schaff for NYT

"By unsubscribing (from targeted advertising) we will charge you $20."