Chris Marker: 29 July, 1921 - 30 July, 2012

“I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst? “
- Chris Marker

Rest In Peace.
Obituary.

Hôpital Notre-Dame, pt I

 

J. and i spent a lot of time at the hospital with M. the last 2 weeks so I did some documenting. The cafeteria there is so incredibly stocked! as if crowds could descend at any moment.

Tennessee van parked at Parc Lafontaine yesterday.

Finials made by E. LeFrançois (slater / roofer) in the traditional way in Montréal. Storefront is on Chambord, between St-Joseph and Laurier.

The ethnologist Frances Densmore spent over 50 years preserving North American First Nations' music in collaboration with the the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. She worked with the Blackfoot, Chippewa, Mandan, Hidatsa, Sioux, Arapaho, Seminole, and Kuna First Nations as well as the Northern Pawnee of Oklahoma, Papago of Arizona, and multiple FNs from Washington and British Columbia.

photos: recording Mountain Chief of the Montana Blackfoot Nation, 1916

Steric shaped assymetric linen dress from Cosmic Wonder Light Source.

Favorites: SBTRKT.
Aaron Jerome and (often) Sampha.

"I'd rather not talk about myself as a person, and let the music speak for itself. The name SBTRKT is me taking myself away from that whole process. I'm not a social person, so having to talk to DJs to make them play a record is not something I want to do. It's more about giving them a record as an anonymous person and seeing whether they like it or not. If they play it, they play it."
- Aaron Jerome

The work of Candis Sabean. These little pink flowers look like icing.

1) Sesame Place, Philadelphia PA
2) Cosmos, by Environment Design Institute

chalk

A great chapter in the history of the world is written in chalk.
- Thomas Huxley, 1868

A piece of chalk is an incredible thing. Under a microscope it's a series of small white globes that look like a snowball made of brittle trivets. The trivets are part of ancient skeletons that once belonged to tiny creatures living and floating in the sea that captured carbon and sunshine, then died and sank to the ocean floor. Over millions of years so many have died and sank and laid one on top another that, along with the weight of water above them, they've formed a white blanket of rock. Hence the White Cliffs of Dover.

John Baldessari announced Thursday July 13th, 2012 that he's leaving the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles partly as a result of the resignation of Paul Schimmel, the museum’s longtime chief curator and an architect of many of its most important shows. Paul Schimmel resigned under pressure in late June after months of increasing tension with the museum’s director, Jeffrey Deitch, a former New York gallery owner who took over in 2010 with a more pop-culture-oriented vision of the museum’s mission and a mandate to expand its audience. Read more here.

i really like these for breakfast.

The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012 at the Photographers Gallery, London.