Mike Nichols & Suzy Parker in Richard Avedon photo

This is one of my favorite photos of all time.

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

Gorgeous.

Wee little Comic-con heroine

Photo by Sandy Huffaker, Getty Images
A young comic fan poses during Comic-Con International: San Diego 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center on July 22, 2010 in San Diego, California.

courtesy of: http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collections/gallery/2766/2010-comiccon--costumes#photo24

ATX backyard view

How's this for a backyard? And who would have guessed in ATX, TX?

Me and Wendell

I don't know many actors, nor do I usually ask to have my photo taken with the famous - friends, associates or otherwise. But I couldn't resist when I ran into Wendell Pierce at the MD Film Festival. What a great actor. What a gorgeous voice! Just loved getting to meet him for a minute and talk in person. He took the photo :)

Barbie parts jewelry

Found this via a tweet from Roger Ebert @ebertchicago strangely enough. Fantastic! Really illustrates how so much of art is just a different way of organizing in the world. Talk about seeing with fresh eyes! Love these images.

From kottke.org on How Genetics Works

Me in Bob's glasses

I don't know why but I just really love this picture. Taken at Andrew Bujalski's & Karen Olsson's wedding - it started as a joke with Bob Byington. They're his glasses. But now it's become one of my favorite pictures ever. There's something about it that's intensely familiar...and I don't know why. Anyway, saving here for fun.


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amongst friends TFHOF pre-party pic

Funny, until this year, there are about 20 pics of me in existence. No joke - there just are almost none. Partly I grew up before everyone had cameras for everything, but partly I was the one shooting or just maybe camera shy or maybe ... I don't know....

There was a small flurry in 2005 with the doc, but this new job begat an avalanche. I was expecting a cringefest but actually, with the glasses upgrade voted on by the gals in my office...it's been pretty ok. And I love this one with good friends Sarah Green and Rick (and John) at the AFS Texas Film Hall of Fame sponsor pre-party.

1987 Janet & John in Telluride old photo

Mark Lipsky posted this on Facebook. What a treat. 1987. 6 week old baby Georgia in my arms. Telluride. I remember posing with Patricia Rozema and Sheila McCarthy. I don't remember ever looking that young.

wyatt's suggestion for super bowl sunday

I know this blog is crazy dormant. I just work all the time now, and haven't figured out how this blog fits in with that. But my son just sent me a hilarious email and this seemed the best place to mark it. He's funny in person, but he's really funny in email. A relevant fragment:

.... Superbowl is tomorrow though which is exciting. If you happened to be going to a superbowl party and wanted to get SXSW out of your mind, I suggest spending your time making this http://www.holytaco.com/ultimate-super-bowl-snack-stadium.

Young Rob in 1978

I just need to copy this photo here (snagged from Indiewire...no pun intended :)) because I love it so much. Young Rob Epstein!!! This is 1978. We met in 1973, our very first day of college. We were inseparable for months, then life shifted. But our paths kept crossing, and have still been crossing all these years later. I couldn't be more proud of Rob's career - he's made some incredible, deeply affecting films.

How I wish I had at least one picture of us young together!!

Thrilled to see the renewed attention Rob is getting for his superb The Times of Harvey Milk. And chomping at the bit to immerse in Gus Van Sant's Milk. I've missed several advanced screenings. A great subject, a great director. And I lived in SF 1975-1980. I remember that moment very well. I was spending all my time outside of my day job (distributing experimental films) up off Castro at a small lesbian run theatre company. I'm pre-disposed to go crazy for this film on so many, many levels. Really looking forward to it.

awwww

my work associate jarod's kid is just too cute!!!!

As we say goodbye...for now

Proud Mom and Son

NYT article on Burning Man prep

Here I am again - always interested in Burning Man though I've never been. I mean, gosh, just look at the beauty of these flames....

From the NYT today:

Priming for Burning Man, Flames in Hand

Michael Nagle for The New York Times

Fire dancers rehearse for the Burning Man festival. More Photos >

By APRIL DEMBOSKY

Published: August 13, 2008

On the back patio of an East Village apartment, Natasha Kouri sat on a bench surrounded by plastic bottles and bags. She picked up a bottle from the woman on her left, who chopped its bottom off at the Poland Spring label. Ms. Kouri wove a handful of bags through the opening and handed the work in progress to her right. A bearded man taped the bags to the bottle, fluffed the bags into petals and tossed the results into the growing pile of plastic petunias: 775 down, only 1,225 to go.

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“We’re the art minions,” Ms. Kouri, 21, said with a smile last week. “What the directors tell us to do, we do.”

With reggae-trance music as a soundtrack, this six-person assembly line cut, stuffed, fluffed. In the building’s central courtyard another team built funhouse mirrors out of mylar, and Max Darby, a product designer and one of the masterminds behind this group artwork, put together vinyl street signs to be attached to an 18-foot-high, 60-foot-long mural that was still in pieces in the courtyard’s nooks.

“We had no money,” Ms. Darby, 41, explained, “so we’re basically making art from garbage.”

Four hours a night, three nights a week, for the last three months, about 80 people have rotated through this basement apartment for craft sessions. None will see the final presentation of their work until it is assembled in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, where the annual Burning Man art festival-rave-love-in takes place the week before Labor Day. About 48,000 people are expected to haul everything they need to survive — tents, water, fake-fur costumes — for this experiment in commerce-free, creatively wild community. Thousands of them will come from New York and set up camps with names like Smoochdome, Disorient and Rubber Chicken.

Ms. Darby and her craft workers are part of Kostume Kult, a camp known for giving away 2,000 pounds of sparkling, sequined, saucy costumes to attendees. This year the camp wanted to make a more artistic contribution as well, so members —friends, friends of friends, and others who found the group through its Web site, kostumekult.com, or through the event itself — came up with a New York interpretation of the festival’s 2008 American Dream theme.

“It’s a Coney Island theme,” Ms. Darby said, pointing to a sketch of the mural with roller coasters, balloons and skyscrapers. “The left is all candy floss, childlike colors. Then it turns into grimy Gotham City, all gray and dark.”

The mural will serve as a giant doorway to the camp, which they’ve dubbed KKoney Island. Visitors who wander through the middle of the boardwalk-downtown split will arrive in Central Park, a chill space with carpets, cushions and a canopy of plastic flowers. A critical element of the project, Ms. Darby said, was having everyone contribute to its creation.

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Countdown to Empty Nest

Yes, it's all been amazing. And yes, hard to believe how it evolves. From here (@1991) you just can't imagine the march forward. Everyday precious. Feeling the clock ticking... Exciting. Achingly sad. The definition (again) of bittersweet.

driving in wyatt's car...texas

Ah, genetics...

Love this!  Particularly since I'm the mother of an 18 and almost 21 year old.  Love these ages.

Thanks to Thompson on Hollywood

Wyatt's fish

Hey, that's Wyatt with that big fish down in Port Aransas. He mentioned something about going fishing! If you go to Capt. Jon's website - you can see the little animated fishes move too.

Jette's wonderful picture of John and Matt Stone

From Jette Kernion's Slackerwood blog