Wayne
@wayneb
usually in California - currently SF. topics include: jazz, art, photographers. the annoying friend who brings his cocker spaniel everywhere blogging about photography at
thanks for the "120 Minutes" flashbacks. perhaps time to start a Spotify playlist of music with album covers inspired by "The Lightning Field"
add to this they had a tasteful grille and now it’s this weird oversized plastic mess that I guess appeals to tech bros
looking for before and after on street view, seems it took nearly a year from 2013-4
“The Insider” (1999) holds up as both as surveillance drama and scathing critique of corporate journalism. Hopefully Wired doesn’t fold like Wallace and Hewitt. (better Michael Mann film than “Heat” imo)
Vaillancourt Fountain this morning - all that is left is the pool and presumably some of the plumbing. According to the renderings, this will someday be a mound of grass
did they upholster the sectional based on the warhol or pick the warhol based on the sectional
thank you maestro! 🙏 Saw some of MTTs best, but no matter where you live, whether you love classical or not, make the effort go see a symphony performed live! 📷 Jack Robinson 1969
unwisely searched eBay for "reel to reel jazz" after seeing this and the first return is Miles Bitches Brew for $178 with all the original packaging
reading the coverage, Oliver Wainwright asked Govan about the carbon footprint of so much concrete and Govan said it could last … 500 years?! Also this little detail about the debt, guess it’s never going to free admission
the next generation will come across photos of the idiosyncratic, inconvenient, not-beautiful sculpture and wonder why we replaced it with a rendering, slouching towards Blandistan
San Francisco angle in Bouie's story: Wong Kim Ark was returning to SF in 1895 aboard SS Coptic, denied entry and kept for 5 months off the coast of SF, was freed on bail while the case progressed to scotus. Edison made a short film of the ship in SF bay: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih6y...
along with relying on undocumented labor, useful context is this farmer and most of his neighbors get government subsides
interesting piece of bay area art on FB marketplace - artist is Agnès Varda's uncle Yanco, who was a fixture in Sausalito mubi.com/en/films/unc...
took this photo (in the style of @christopherlhall.bsky.social) and realized its the spot where someone decided to reverse down hill, ended up on the stairs and killed a man. sf.streetsblog.org/2026/03/06/m...
current AI slop era began with colorized photos (using photoshop, by hand). the public was too lazy to look at b/w and use one second of imagination. now AI provides all the imagination.
went to the Philadelphia museum of art web store to buy a Duchamp book and was instantly charmed by this Gee’s Bend loveseat, whole collection is excellent store.philamuseum.org/home-office/...
essential documents of American life - Kanopy (in this case LA Public) has an excellent selection. "Aspen" (1991!) is really accessible place to start watching
