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  1. Route 66: Cruising the American Dream, A selection of Frank's "On the Road" photographs is presented here, each with an audio commentary suggesting how the piece fits into Frank's larger philosophy. http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/r66/fr1.html IMDB: Pull My Daisy, Complete records for Robert Frank's 1958 film, "Pull My Daisy," with cast credits, user comments, and related filmographies. http://us.imdb.com/M/title-substring?title...e=pull+my+daisy The Americans, Photos from Frank's famous book, with Jack Kerouac's introduction. http://www.williams.edu/WCMA/exhibitions/f...rank/frank.html
  2. Just learned about his guy during mondays nights lecture. Dude is amazing. really inspiring stuff. for those who dont know: Robert Frank 1924 - present Born: Zurich, Switzerland Worked: New York, NY, United States Mabou, NS, Canada Robert Frank is among the most important living photographers, but to say this is to understate the self-evident. At the same time, it seems ironic to articulate the importance of an artist who is so indifferent to success and so suspicious of whatever is well regarded. Frank's work chronicles the marginal and the unofficial wherever it is found, from the nondescript corner of some ratty diner in South Carolina, to the smudged window that opens onto the dreariest rooftops in Butte, Montana, to the vacant stare of an elevator operator in Miami Beach. Frank's seminal photo-book "The Americans" (1958), containing 83 black-and-white pictures, was one of the pivotal events of post-war photography. Its skepticism toward what was then the secular religion of wholesomeness and cheer, its resistance to charm, its out-of-focus foregrounds, its deranged angles and, above all, its strange new mood of cool melancholy, were met with shock at the time. But by the 1960s, "The Americans" made the transition from infamy to reverence. Suddenly, Frank's gloom and doom seemed prophetic. His belief that the best pictures were tentative, imperfect, and free of rhetoric became the basis of a new artistic stance. In the late 1950s, Frank gave up photography to concentrate on underground films and videos like "Pull My Daisy" (1959), a loopy encounter between a bishop and a group of Beat poets (Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso play at playing themselves, while Jack Kerouac narrates). His film and video adventure actually became a kind of disappearance -- a plunge into more obscure undertakings just as his work became more preoccupied with his personal life. In the 1970s, Frank resumed making still photography, partly to come to terms with the grief brought on by the mental illness of his son Pablo, and the death of his daughter, Andrea, in a plane crash at the age of 21. But his pictures during this period were different. Typically, several prints were grouped roughly together with despairing messages inked across them. The romantic self-absorption that lent power to his work in the 1950s began to obscure every other concern. If, previously, Frank's mood shaped his pictures of the larger world, now his audience was expected simply to make what it could of his private sorrows. Frank tended to settle so deeply into the rubble of his own life that few can hope to follow his trajectory. In the self-reflecting video, "Home Improvements," he explains: "I am always looking outside, trying to look inside."
  3. being without judgement is impossible, being without totally stupid preconceived notions is not. Most 'indie' people I see/meet are retarded. The rest ( all two of them), who are in denial, im freinds with, so me not meeting them isnt a problem. thanks stereotypes, for all the saved time...
  4. also, while everything seeking said i completely agree with, i still dont like being judgemental and try to avoid it within myslef as much as possible. and this wasnt originally about race or age, I started this thread because im just strait sick of people judging the music i listen to before they have heard it through headphones, the only true way to hear it. nothing all that deep and meaningful , i was just a little pissed off.
  5. Re: Re: Re: stereotypes are for stupid people good job kids! ;)
  6. i dont know if you guys ever noticed, but anybody who judges other people, and stamps them with a stereotype is retarded.
  7. http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/543002_378509401980068966_vl.jpg'> http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/543003_3921180453302163008_vl.jpg'>
  8. i was at the merch table all night, so your gonna have to talk to all the losers up front of you want miscolored flicks of rappers on stage. my shits way cooler than any of that. besides, you get to see a blurred flick of aesop during sound check, whats cooler than that?
  9. no, this is michigan, detroit in specific.
  10. 6 part photo essay from tuesday night soundcheck... http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/539729_7205965176685449669_vl.jpg'> aesop likes it, so it must be cool, right? http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/539730_1622345644166812499_vl.jpg'> the opening group always sucks, right? http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/539731_8336528145786499967_vl.jpg'> those kids at the merch table are so lame....right? http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/539732_4653753629741102783_vl.jpg'> MURS doesnt head butt people....right? http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/539733_5597602895950139685_vl.jpg'> " lets go folks were closin up, lets go lets go"....right? http://www.digitalpose.com/mbr/1/24432/p/539743_1208390739558999454_vl.jpg'>
  11. damn i forgot how beautiful she is, thanks for bumping this
  12. aa is not dead, they just wont listen to me. I still get down though. your shit still survives out here too...
  13. haha, man its been forever since i bought a record. the last thing i picke dup was NWAs greatest hits from hot topic...dont sleep on mall vinyl selection f'real doh
  14. im not putting ten down, i would have been adding on ten extra, but i dont think it will work anyways. and yes i know paying it is unavoidable i was just hoping the points fluke might work. in reality i knew it wouldnt i was kidding myslef thinking such foolishness.
  15. ok im also instituting that each participator of the thread lis their monthly income too me: 280 (yes i live with the old folks and go to school )
  16. whats supporting deposition? i know my ass is guilty im just gonna ask for them to be a little less harsh
  17. per month unless otherwise noted car- $100-250 insurance (about to go way the fuck up)- 189 per 6 months haircuts- 0$ food- 140$ im sure there is somethig else im forgetting but it doesnt really matter as i am stupid
  18. 40 on haircuts? haha, i cut my own hair as of late, ive just been running the clippers over the noggin and lookin like a stunna
  19. I have acourt date coming up, and while im going to try and get out of this speeding ticket, I heard this modus operondi from a freind of a freind to avoid points on your record and am considering giving it a go: When giving the payment, write a check for five, or ten dollars more than what is being asked. Now, this dude told me they will return the rest of your money in the mail with another check and supposedly if you dont cash the check they returned to you, then all the transactions of the court arent complete. And the only way points can be added to your record are after all transactions are complete. can i verify this transactions thing? no, certainly not. but im hoping somebody here will be able to hook up the knowledge. -slightly broke and thinking about bombing the insurance company
  20. just interested in what yall are paying for your crib, ride, insurance, school, food etc. gimme the run down, I have to think a bit about mines, ill be back in a minute... -slightly
  21. Im back, if only for a little while, life is turning on its ear, and things are all mixed up. here is the result of some boredness on digital class.... and here is the result of angels on earth.. (same girl)
  22. holler, good job buddy, keep it up. -slightly
  23. I also think that the fact that they had to put the word ROOT above the beer on the bottles pictures is complete;y lame considering they wrapped the outside with different artwork anyways....
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