85 and Sunny

NASA Photo ID: S66-51581            File Name: 10074781.jpg            
Film Type: 4x5            Date Taken: 06/01/66
Title: Crew of the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress procedures
Description:
Prime crew for the first manned Apollo mission practice water egress 
procedures with full scale boilerplate model of their spacecraft. In the 
water at right is Astronaut Edward H. White (foreground) and Astronaut
Roger  B. Chaffee. In raft near the spacecraft is Astronaut Virgil I.
Grissom. NASA  swimmers are in the water to assist in the practice session
that took place  at Ellington AFB, near the Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston.                
Subject terms:
APOLLO 1 FLIGHT                         
APOLLO PROJECT                          
APOLLO SPACECRAFT                       
ASTRONAUT TRAINING                      
ASTRONAUTS                              
EGRESS                                  
FACILITIES                              
LIFE RAFTS                              
MODELS                                  
SIMULATION                              
SURVIVAL                                
TEXAS                                   
WATER LANDING                           

Surrealist Scrapbooking

counting down the days IV

The last days of summer.
Found these in the LIFE archive.
The Kansas City All Girl Hotrod Club--Francis Miller

 

 

setting sail

A summertime muse.

ike

This is the most powerful image in my thrift shop collection of abandoned images. I remember snatching it so fast from a stack of images in a Kansas City flea market booth that I nearly ripped it. Sometimes I like to convince myself the hunchy man on the left with the camera or binoculars on his arm is Dwight Eisenhower or Bob Hope. 

the truth is, i still feel young

everybody collects. bees and squirrels collect.

"Curiously, though artists may start out collecting like everybody else, they tend to pay attention to the back pages and margins, to what is absurd and neglected in collecting, saving and archiving."

-Matthias Winzen "Collecting-so normal, so paradoxical" Deep Storage.

 

my apologies for the long pause..

Another from this series of explorations I started to share HERE.

i hope i can keep working like this+i found andy griffith's wallet.

I found this little wallet at the flea market this weekend. 

Clearly, now that I've moved I really need access to a better scanner. 

gems in my collection.

That past 2 days have been my first few official days of grad. school. 

The whole experience is surreal. 

home on the range

playing grown up.

and so. we graduated.

i think it says something..

I bought this image last fall....as in Fall 2008. I thought it would be an interesting candidate for some of the cut out images I had been working on. However, I hadn't gotten the image back out since I bought it. That is until today.
This spring, I was accepted into a graduate program in San Francisco. On our hunt for a new home, we have been considering across the bay from San Francisco in an area called Alameda for the cheaper rent and small town feel. If I were to live there, I had thought ideally, I could ride a ferry from there to SF for school everyday. This ferry is the same exact ferry line as the one in the image.

Always look closely.

there is a woodpecker on the roof of my apartment every morning..

Here's to goats on your roof...

one. two. two little indians.

Just some cyanotype rif-raf from 2009 that I would love to return to if I could just find the time!

This was a test I did for a quilt. The goal was to print this image of my grandmother and her brother on an old quilt. I got as far as the final print and then found it ruined by a bad batch of chemicals. Rats.

my collection of characters

So, I buy a lot of stuff at thrift stores....Some might consider it a problem...

Over the past year, I've purchased a lot of stuff, including a lot of photographs. Many of which, I don't necessarily plan to include in my artwork but instead hang on my walls, store away for later, or use for inspiration. Anyway, while doing some organizing today, I realized they were worth posting.
They are indeed a quite nice little collection of characters....

the adventures of gordon betty

I purchased a packet of negatives and slides in my favorite little booth at the River Market Flea. The packet is labeled Gordon Betty (insert an island name I can't recall at the moment) Greenland. Inside is a very strange assortment of images depicting who I assume is Mr. Betty, a few of his friends, and his travels. I'd like to make various sized prints and make an installation out of them. That is, if I can ever find the time in between thesis and have the money after printing my senior show. 

At what point does someone die and while sifting through their belongings someone says...'Let's sell Uncle Gordon's photo albums instead of keeping them'....

Anyway....Gordon and I are getting to know each other, and he's a pretty interesting guy...