technicolour  conversation...

saturday:

"the waves are small"


" Isn't the garden beautiful right now?"

"have you seen the hummingbirds on the orange cactus?"


"the bees are so loud."


" i think the waves will be bigger, later."

from the kitchen window i watch him learning

whilst i bake.

this is how they manage to finance their trip to oregon

for the shakespeare festival

hmmm ...

"what do we charge for a muffin like this?

and have your practiced your viola?"


"if owen is home i want to surf."

"the clothes will only be as nicely turned out

as you hang them"

"what time do we need to be there?"

"is there time for surfing?"

this is the pleasure 


of a technicolour conversation


with a son


on saturday.

friday lunch

joe's tacos

where the sacred and the profane meet

over some red hot sauce

the catalan wine label

made me happy

the days 

they seem to go on endlessly

and boys do not want to come inside

when the shadows are still long against the wall

and one can almost walk on water

( stinson beach, in front of owens house, go pro camera, leonardo in the tube )

if you happen to be travelling to  cannes...

The Studio Traverso was founded in Cannes in 1919, and now boasts an archive of 100,000 images.

Clic Gallery
17 rue des Etats Unis
Cannes France
cannes@clicgallery.com
t. 04 93 38 29 50

( image bridget bardot )

my new favourite website 

the last expo...

Last Expo is a collection of photographs taken of orphaned art in its final resting place. It’s a commemorative album of forgotten human imagination.

it is with happiness

that i invite you to my son

tennessee's

coming of age ceremony

green gulch farm 

zen center

13 May 2012


The Zendo

it is mother's day in america

and i have had a beautiful one

here at green gulch farm

with my beloved...

happiness

is being able to walk to the sea again

without a cast 

after 10 long weeks

and to wash the salt water off

and have sand in the bed

and feel alive again. 

( woman swimming, photographer unknown )

do you like to go

out deep?

the sun is high in the sky

7:30 p.m. pacific standard time

and i remember these are the longest days, 

right now.

los angeles

behind walt's studio

and i remember this same sun

on you.

vidal sassoon

28 january 1928 - 8 may 2012

 a cockney boy from whitechapel

 who took elocution lessons

based haircuts on bauhaus ideas

cut "the shrimp", twiggy, and most of swinging sixties london

i lived above his shop 

in london

and loved to watch the models

come and go

goodbye vidal 

you were the chanel of haircutting

( photo - mary quant and vidal sassoon, london )

santa barbara

you remember this day

we went there on the motorbike

and after, developed the photos in 

our make-shift darkroom

with the magic red light

i still miss you...

( photo - patxo icaza ) 

maurice sendak

1929 - 2012

“Dear Mr. Sendak,” (read  a letter  from an 8-year-old boy). “How much does it cost to get to where the wild things are? If it is not expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there.”

goodbye mr sendak,

you knew where the wild things were

and we read you over and over and over to our children

( photo annie leibovitz )

a great loss today

and the end of a link...

Angelica Vanessa Garnett, 

artist and writer, 

born 25 December 1918; died 4 May 2012




in 1987 i based my whole life around your myth


and the omega workshop was what i wanted


from art and life. 

today i've gone and found the book i bought

in 1989, at Charleston House.

I was on a pilgrimage 

and stopped and picked these wild flowers from 

your garden there.

angelica vanessa garnett

she once said of the Bloomsbury Group

"it was like a hydra,

cut off it's head and another appeared."

out here at the edge of the world

in the enormity of the pacific

 boys grow strong

under the force of nature.

at times

you cannot separate the boy from the elements

and this is the moment 

you begin 

to understand them.

photos by taylor schank

age 13

surfer - leonardo, age 14

write

a letter

and make someone happy

for those of you who are john peel fans, 

7 years after his death 

and beginning this month

an incredibly cool project from the british arts council:

These filing cards have now formed the basis of The John Peel Projecton The Space, an Arts Council-funded pop-up website, which launches this month and runs until the end of October. Every week, for the next 26 weeks, users will be able to browse the first 100 cards from each letter of the alphabet, with one album pulled out for special attention. "We will try to get a film of the artist, show old clips of them, look into what they are doing now," says Ravenscroft.