Carve Em Up Willy

All art by Willy Veringer

A Great Old Photo

I bought this pic at Uncommon Objects a couple of years ago when starting a collection of Americana / workwear photos. Love it.

Ms. Valenti

I'm not sure of her process, but Austin's own Alexandra Valenti snaps some amazing shots that are both soaked in color and washed out all at once. They capture mood about as well as anything I've seen.

Skinny Legs Earle

Ride The Rails

The Shoals

Other People's Songs

OTHER PEOPLE'S SONGS - Volume One - Performed by Damien Jurado & Richard Swift by Richard Swift

Vegas Snaps

Gone Fishin'

Underwater, without oxygen, with a sharp object, and sometimes with a giant piece of shark bait on the end of your spear. Crazy fuckers.

Beautiful photographs by Kanoa Zimmerman.










Thx to Jay Carroll at One Trip Pass for the turn on to Zimmerman.

Monumental

If you haven't seen it, see it.



p.s. - Nearly the entire soundtrack is made up of songs from The Fruit Bats first album. A perfect companion to the documentary.

Uncle John

I just watched a great Smithsonian Channel show called "Play on John: A Life in Music" - a documentary on the life and work of John Cohen. Cohen is a filmmaker, artist, musician, and photographer who was one of the first to capture a young Bob Dylan (among other Beats) on film. And perhaps more important than his photographic work (though stunning in its beauty), his work as a musicologist helped form the Folk Music Revival of the 50s and 60s and brought such luminaries as Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Mississippi John Hurt any many more from the rural hills and farms of the South to the big stage in New York City. Quite an impressive life.

Vintage Postcards

CXXVI

These beautiful graphics are all part of a great looking new clothing line I saw in Vegas last week. We'll have their stuff at STAG next Spring.

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