Joe Reifer

Downtown SF (pinhole) — by Richard Sintchak

• Tim Connor’s article on Flickr & Style (via Musings) is more interesting and on point than the New York Times Magazine article it responds to.
• Heather Morton, Ask an Art Buyer, on self promotion (via The Business of Photography)
• 50 ways to use bacon (including the stunning new condiment, Bacon Salt)
  
• 16 abandoned and decaying hotels (via Andy Frazer)
• Tony Fouhse on the barriers of shooting 4×5. I happened to read Tony’s post after watching a documentary film about Matthew Barney called No Restraint. Barney’s drawing restraint work is about creating art within the context of self-imposed conditions. An interesting parallel to shooting large format. Regarding Mr. Barney, I’ve never seen an artist push any medium into a realm with such a singular, abstract language that’s beyond definition, influence and perhaps comprehension. An excerpt from the Cremaster Cycle called The Order is available on DVD.
• Speaking of modern geniuses, here’s a short interview with author Steve Erickson, one of the most important, underrated fiction writers of our age.
• Pinball rules! (via painter Dan Fontes)
• Rant of the week goes to Nicolai at Photon Detector for Lomographic Society continues to suck
• Krautrock meets free jazz/improv/skronk in the music of Oakland’s Oaxacan