Tangled Up In Blue

Feeling a little blue and under the weather today. What better way to lift your mood than some Kapital, and some Bob Dylan to wallow to...Enjoy these blue(s) babies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvBkbPEoeAI

(Fuzzy) Fiddlers Part I

I was visiting my first true love this weekend, Madison WI. It was my first time back in almost four years (when I graduated from the University). I picked up this book "Farmhouse Fiddlers:Music and Dance Traditions in the Rural Midwest" at the Historic Bookshop by the state capital. The images are amazing BUT they are small and look so fuzzy here! I wanted to cry when I saw how they translated after scanning, so I am sorry! Hope you can still get the idea....more to come as well as images of Madison and some other purchases!

Josef Koudelka Gypsies Part II

Anita + Francois = Kate + Vogue Italia + Inez + Vinoodh

I love Anita Pallenberg + Francois Hardy...so when I saw this spread of Kate in an older issue of Vogue Italia shot by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, I fell a little bit in love.

Francois

Anita

Japan 1986

images: Japan by Nebojsa Bato Tomasevic

Fall Brights

vtg Kenzo, Izhar Patkin's NYC apartment

The Americans by Robert Frank

After attending the amazing Ralph Lauren Spring 2010 fashion show, sharing these pictures seemed very appropriate.

Here's a piece of the the introduction, written by Jack Kerouac.

"That crazy feeling in America when the sun is hot on the streets and the music comes out of the jukebox or from a nearby funeral, that's what Robert Frank has captured in tremendous photographs taken as he traveled on the road around practically forty-eight states in an old used car and with the agility, mystery, genius, and sadness.

As American a a picture-the faces don't editorialize or criticize or say anything but 'This is the way we are in real life and if you don't like it I don't know anything about it 'cause I'm living my own life and my way and God bless us all.'

Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world."

"For the LOVE of OLD"

I went to the signing of this book a few years ago and it is one of my all time favorites. It is one of Mary Randolph Carter's treasures. Check out her (just as amazing) office here on the selby http://www.theselby.com/9_30_08_carter/index.html.