fantasia’s intermission (strings) 1940

before and after science brian eno

“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.”

- Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech , Edward Sapir

fear on film (1982) interview with john landis, john carpenter and david cronenberg, with moderator mick garris

venus of lespugue 23,000 b.c.

sunday morning 35mm

the rite of spring (1971) hubert laws

Number 3 1954 myron stout

meryl streep, new york city annie liebovitz 1981

“To have a philosophy is knowing how to love. “philos” in greek means friend or love - “sophy” meaning knowledge. It is the ‘study of love’. You can’t just put it anywhere. You’d have to be a priest or a minister, saying “ Yes, my son. Yes, my daughter. Bless you” but people don’t live that way. They live with anger, hostility, lack of money…tremendous disappointments in their life. So what they need is a philosophy. What everybody needs is a way to say where and how can I love? So I can be in love. So I can live with some degree of peace. I guess every picture we’ve ever done has been in a way to find some kind of philosophy for the characters in the film. That’s why I have a need for the characters to really analyze love. Dissect it, kill it, hurt each other in that word.”

- John Cassavetes

elsa peretti perfume bottles through the eye of hiro - out of the necessity to create a unique image that would live for the rest of the perfume’s life, the photographer created what he would later call the white shadow. “One day, from nowhere, I said to myself ‘Why does a shadow have to be dark?’ How can I make a shadow lighter?”

custom robert mapplethorpe puzzle by dinah parker

white roses in the garden, polaroid sonar one step (scanned image)

child with puffer fish in mexico 1960s

chris & jen’s estate in aptos, california

poster design by philip gips for rosemary’s baby 1968