The Bullet List

More San Francisco Goodness: The Sutro Baths in The Lineup

via spotsunknown.com

As a non-native, the Sutro Baths, and the entire history of Ocean Beach is completely fascinating.

Great quote from Spots Unknown, that makes a lot more sense after watching the video:

"Part of me now wants to see the whole movie, but part of me just wants to hold in my memory the jarring assembly of clips below as a unified and complete work in itself."

Via BritneyG.

Monster Talent

An MFA Favorite: "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit"

 

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"The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit," by John Singer Sargent}

There has always been something mysterious and disturbing about these four girls, conventionally dressed and well-mannered though they seem: the antithesis of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, who entered the public consciousness so boisterously in the late 1860s, just over a decade before Sargent painted the enigmatic Boit sisters.

via www.nytimes.com

Definitely my favorite painting at one of my favorite museums, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Looking for forward to reading Sargent's Daughters.

Checking out camera and photography blogs at 1001 Noisy Cameras

+ Zoriah - critically-acclaimed photojournalist
+ Cliff Mautner - award winning wedding photographer
+ Tara Whitney - photographer in the OC
+ Sad and Beautiful - portrait photography
+ Curiously Incogruous - London street photography

via www.1001noisycameras.com

I've gone from not taking photos to be annoyingly "with camera." I guess it's time to learn how to take better photos.

Scintillation, by Xavier Chassaing, a slow motion video

12. Scintillation

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Xavier Chassaing creates a magical film from 35,000 photographs and a combination of live projection mapping techniques. This is by far my favorite video. It’s absolutely amazing.

via mashable.com via ginkgo blog

Design inspiration for the day.

Art-ful Sentences: Roberta Smith on the Modern Wing at Art Institute

I love reading art and architecture reviews for paragraphs like this:

Its neighbor is in some ways even better because it is rarer: a truly great painting by Robert Motherwell, acquired only in 1997. “Wall Painting With Stripes,” from 1944, is a field of broad verticals of cream and yellowish brown interrupted by black and gray intimations of a tree, and ovals suggesting suns and moons. It is a glowering, unstoppable canvas, something left behind by Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, taking cues from Miró, on a broad, back-alley fence from a Walker Evans photograph.

(Via Roberta Smith in the NY Times.)