Kohl's intervention and atom smashing, proper

Yesterday I went to Kohl's with Allie. She looked for business/cute cloths for a job interview and I got to play! (these are all camera phone pictures)





Also, yesterday was the first successful experiment at CERN!!! Congrats CERN! I can't wait for the black hole to open up and swallow Europe. I'll be there for it.

health care bill

democratic party - seats in senate: 57 seats in the house: 255
republican party - seats in senate: 41 seats in the house: 187
I keep hearing that we don't want this. I think, by election, the American people have spoken.

Leap

A. E. Stallings
Fear of Happiness
--
Looking back, it's something I've always had:
As a kid, it was a glass-floored elevator
I crouched at the bottom of, my eyes squinched tight,
Or staircase whose gaps I was afraid I'd slip through,
Though someone always said I'd be all right -
Just don't look down or See, it's not so bad
(The nothing rising underfoot). Then later
The high-dive at the pool, the tree-house perch,
Ferris wheels, balconies, cliffs, a penthouse view,
The merest thought of airplanes. You can call
It a fear of heights, a horror of the deep;
But it isn't the unfathomable fall
That makes me giddy, makes my stomach lurch,
It's that the ledge itself invents the leap.

Yves Klein - Leap into the Void (photograph) 1960
[I've also seen this piece titled as, Jump into the Void: The Painter of Space Launches Himself as seen in the newspaper below]

Yves Klein - Single Day Newspaper, November 27, 1960

The following three photographs were taken by Harry Shunk for the above photo-montage and newspaper insert.

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Sean Landers - Sean Leaps into the Void via Harry Shunk's Famous Photograph of Yves Klein, it is a Conceptual Art Act and Not for Sale so Please Don't Sue Me (collage) 2008

Ciprian Mureşan - Leap Into the Void, After 3 Seconds, 2004

cameraphone

In the world of cameras I own a Canon EOS T1i, a small pocket Canon, 2 Polaroid Land cameras (plus 4 frozen packs of film), and a regular Canon (film) Rebel. And I still can't deny that I like the photos from my phone the most. They seem to capture the best of what I want to say about notions of 'at hand' and economy of means. I just need to find the right subjects. Here are some that I've pulled off my phone.

Cowboy Hat (above Judy and Tony's House, Oak Park, IL)

Fermilab

Hungry Turtles

Boyfriend and Girlfriend

Cobbler Slip

Snail