Los Angeles Shadows

Street Surveillance
W Magazine March 2011
Photographers: Claudia Knoepfel & Stefan Indlekofer
Styling: Giovanna Battaglia
Models: Jacquelyn Jablonski and Julia Saner

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the substance to which something, as the dead human body, is ultimately reduced by disintegration or decay; earthly remains, dust

Shinmoedake (新燃岳) is a volcano in Kyūshū, Japan, and a part of the Kirishima cluster of volcanoes.

Murder in the Round, Deborah Luster

DEBORAH LUSTER
Tooth For An Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish

Jan 6 – Feb 5, 2011
JACK SHAINMAN GALLERY
513 West 20th Street, NYC

"The city of New Orleans is a topographical/ architectural/material/cultural phenomenon with a diverse population participating in raucously colorful and fascinating pursuits and rituals. Homicide is a cultural fact of the life in the city as well. In Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish (Twin Palms, 2010), Deborah Luster explores the city in a new way, creating a compelling portrait in the form of a photographic archive of contemporary and historic homicide sites. Following on from her first book, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana (Twin Palms, 2003), Tooth for an Eye explores the themes of loss and remembrance in a series of tondo photographs that offer an opportunity for the viewer to enter deeper into the idea of the city, a place where life and death coexist, neither free of the other/s influence." –Twin Palms Publishers

Also fascinating:
NPR Interview: After Deborah Luster's mother was murdered, Luster turned to photographing prisoners...read more here

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Found at Photo of the Day

In Catalan the word 'castell' means castle.

The sash (faixa) is the most important part of their outfit, since it supports the lower back and is used by other castellers in the team as a foothold or handhold when climbing up the tower. (1)

Casteller from Mike Randolph on Vimeo.

'A castell is considered a success when stages of its assembling and disassembling, can be done in complete succession. The assembly is complete once all castellers have climbed into their designated places, and the enxaneta climbs into place at the top and raises one hand with four fingers erect, in a gesture said to symbolize the stripes of the Catalan flag. The enxaneta then climbs down the other side of the castell, after which the remaining levels of castellers descend in highest-to-lowest order until all have reached safety.' (2)

White Diamond (2004) Werner Herzog

This documentary appealed to my fascinations in the way humans adapt to surviving within an ecological environment, the tools and fabric they bring in order to do so, and the fact that these habits tend to be primarily the pursuits of men.

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