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About Me





photographic artist. auteur of my own daily manic matinee. finally putting that art history degree to good use. compulsive carny voyeur. bought an accordion and set it on fire. somnambulist. unhealthy obsessions with machine age furniture & design. modernism. paper ephemera. surrealism. gravure. typography. white noise. negatives in distress. rope. wunderkammern, cabinets of curiosity. squeezeboxed circus music.

Circus, Rhine Wheel, 1940
Aleksandr Rodchenko

Zirkus und Varieté, 2006
Lawrence Gipe

Untitled, 2004
dZa Vid K.

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My Interests



Aside from low-level blood alcohol poisoning, interests include modernist photography & typography, history of early twentieth-century photographic and printed matter. the phenomenon of the circus and its sideshow peripheries. a proclivity for aerialism, humano-pyrotechnic arts, physiological anomalies, coulrophobia and pachydermal coreography. dwarf tossing.

Those whose work has influenced my art & photography: Rodchenko, Man Ray, Frantisek Drtikol. Karel Teige, Moholy Nagy, Rudolf Koppitz, Edward Steichen, El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, Antonin Artaud, Ernst Kirchner, Erick Heckel, George Grosz, The Bauhaus, Surrealism, Italian Futurism, and dAda. Francis Bacon, Otto Dix, and John Hertzfeld are among those that turn mimicry into idiocy.

Meha, 2004
Bill Kane.

Anatomy I, 1997
Sarah Moon.

I'd like to meet:

friendspace is oriented toward artists, performers, musicians, photographers, eclectic exhibitionists, and carny folk looking for collaborative networking and odd adventures.

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” - NiKola Tesla

Music:

deVotchKa. Edward KaSpel. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Einsturzende Neubauten. Tom Waits. Murder by Death. Apoptygma Berserk. the Dresden Dolls. Piazzola. Okkervil River. Dead Voices on Air. Laibach. Circus Contraption. Gogol Bordello. Bauhaus. Arcade Fire. Icon of Coil. The Decemberists. Ministry. Dropkick Murphys. Arab Strap. Skinny Puppy. Tigerlillies. Band of Horses. Beruit.

Movies:

Films by the Brothers Quay. Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari. Junet & Caro, especially Delicatessen. Lynch, Burton, Gilliam, Jonze, and Aronofsky. Dziga Vertov. Barton Fink. Piano Tuner of Earthquakes. The Man Who Cried. Huckabees. Brotherhood of the Wolf. The Night Porter. Everything is Illuminated.

Books:

Kafka. Mayakovsky. Nabokov. Sartre. Camus. Wilde. Genet. Cocteau. Palahniuk. Need more hours in the day to devote to bibliorasty.

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Previously posted photographs are now at:...
Posted by d}a vVíd on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:05:00 PST

Zeitgenossen

Knowing that I'm fascinated with 19th Century Spiritualist [Zeitgenossen] photography, my mother graciously procured this gorgeous stereo card for the collection:       Thanks...
Posted by d}a vVíd on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:56:00 PST