敦煌

I'm spending the summer in China. I hope it's all like this.

A lot of blonde babies, 1987

Alice Clement, et aliae

Mike Apichella begins to archive five years of his / your youth!

I'm real excited to see how this develops. I met Mike A. in 1997, I think. He gave me a hastily recorded copy of his band's tape and the B side was an oral love letter presumably from Mike to a girlfriend living in Argentina. I assume that giving me this tape was an accident but, as a zitty fifteen year-old without a boyfriend (but with sincere romantic longings for all punk dudes!) I listened to it about 500 times. He spends the entire side of the tape talking about his struggles with jealousy as he simultaneously tries to call a radio station to dedicate a love song to the girl. My favorite line was, and is, "When I look up at the moon and the stars, and all that other dumb shit, one thing that makes me feel better is knowing that it's the same moon and stars that you see - in Argentina." Then he chokes up, tells her he loves her, and turns the tape off. Anyway, I'm excited to think more about the relationship between the archive and personal histories and digitization.

Facebook Albums as Digital Collections & Museums: here are some things from my friends.

Ole Worm's Musei Wormiani Historia, 1655

Rosamond Wolff Purcell, Two Rooms, 2003

The New Yorker, 12.22.08

The New Yorker, 03.28.11

A Trip Down Market Street (1906)

"The artist Song Dong, one of the most inventive figures in contemporary Chinese art, has turned the contents of his mother's former home in Beijing, which was also his childhood home, into the installation titled "Waste Not." It is at once a record of a life, a history of a half-century of Chinese vernacular culture and a symbolic archive of impermanence."

- The Collected Ingredients of a Beijing Life & Slideshow

Still on sale at Atomic Books!

"Lest We Forget," New York Times, January 4, 1948

"I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him. That, for me, is the easiest thing about my game and football -- they have to beat me as a man, and I just don't think anybody's working that hard."

- Ray Lewis

Richard Prince, Untitled (Living Rooms), 1977

(Also: Richard Prince breaks the law.)

Semester of Ramen, Spring 2012

Chumbawamba, 1987

:)

"Christmas time, trees for sale on street
Eutaw Street, north from Marion, Baltimore, Maryland
1921
Hughes Company
8 x 10 inch glass negative
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
MC6906-1"

via Maryland Historical Society Photographs

A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)