UPSO

Dustin Amery Hostetler = UPSO.




p.s. - notice the similarities between the diamonds in the hand and the grass in the planters...

Rock Garden

I'm in the process of landscaping my backyard and just came across these cool planters in I.D. Magazine. Something different:

Ace Hotel

Since I mentioned it, I had to find some pics. Also, here's a good article in the New York Times about the Ace.

Roman and Williams

Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch are the designers behind Roman and Williams - the New York architecture and interior design firm responsible for NYC's Standard Hotel, Ace Hotel, and possibly the best looking loft and office in New York. Check it out here:

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by Dan Tobin Smith

Medium Format

A friend scouting movie locations in Uruguay just picked up a medium format camera and Darby Hillman shot her Marfa pics with a Yashica, so I figured I'd track down some medium format stunners on Flickr for you:







photos from Mechakucha, Electric Candyland, T Dornbusch, Benjamin Goss, and dcassaa

Austin Neon

Between my buddies Bruce Webb (neon collector and antique dealer) and Evan Voyles (neon creator / mixed media artist), I've gotten a decent education on neon since moving to Austin almost four years ago. We may have the best collection of vintage and vintage-inspired neon in the country. A dying art:

Time Pieces

My dad is addicted to watches, glasses, baseball caps, t-shirts, ties, motorcycles, and work. I wear a tie two or three times a year, don't wear glasses, have two favorite baseball caps, own a motorcycle that doesn't run and as for work, well, I've done my best to turn the things I enjoy most into work and try not to consider them work. I'll never be a lawyer like my pops. But long story short, I do like watches. I don't buy them though because my dad funnels a constant stream of his past pieces to me. I owe him big time. They're works of art. Some of these I've owned, some of these I'd like to:

Random Photo for Your Friday

Darby Rose Hillman Does Speed

Not really, but sort of. Darby Rose, yet another good friend and co-worker at Uncommon Objects, recently took her first cross-state jaunt to Marfa, TX and came away with much more than she had anticipated. While seeing the sites in the West Texas mecca, Darby stumbled upon the studio of Julie Speed - one of Austin's most accomplished contemporary artists and one of my favorite artists working today. But Darby didn't just get to look around at a gallery of finished works. Ms. Speed was so kind as to let Darby photograph her working studio and her in-progress, unfinished works - warts and all. Quite the honor. So, below you will not see the pics Darby took, but instead a photo of the rolls she shot. 8 of them - to be developed and fawned over at the shop by all of us photography freaks and hopefully posted on Detour at a later date. I can't wait to see them.



And a little bit on Julie Speed (from Elizabeth Ferrer) if you don't know her work. It's crazy good.

"A fundamental aspect of Julie Speed's art is that each work gives rise to a multitude of questions. While gazing upon her exquisitely crafted pictures, we can only ponder the meanings behind Speed's inscrutable subjects and curious settings; she certainly won't tell us what they are. The artist has become accustomed to repeated questions about such things as her frequent depiction of "the third eye," the numerous clerics who take center stage in her compositions, and the vivid if idiosyncratic allusions to sex, violence, and psychic drama in her paintings. Speed conjures such strange settings and eccentric characters that it is impossible not to wonder where it all comes from. Are autobiographical elements at play? And, if so, has Speed's own life been so calamitous? Are the paintings based on dreams? Perhaps she makes them as a way of exorcising some especially surly demons..."

Perhaps...

Early Album of the Year Favorites

Quick Random Photo #1

Sometimes it's too much trouble to figure out or track down or explain or create the context for a photo, so I'm gonna start posting random pics from random photographers here and there I think. Here's numero uno. I'll call it Riding the Rails.

Another Floater

Probably a bit more affordable than the Worple residence:






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