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daniel

idiote savante

About Me


My Interests



    Complexity & Contradiction The Aesthetics of Absence Philosophy and Art B&W Photography Art Smoke Photography Infrared Photography Plastic Cameras Nouvelle Vague Cinema Film Noir Existentialist Fiction Ukiyo-e De Stijl Trompe L'Oeil Silent Era Films Imperfection High Contrast Culinary Art Rain Reading ALL day Wandering


Architektur

    Rem Koolhaas Zaha Hadid Peter Zumthor Diller + Scofidio Nox Mies Van der Rohe Walter Gropius Eero Saarinen Charles Eames John Lautner Otto Wagner Jean Nouvel Renzo Piano Eric Owen Moss Tadao Ando Louis Kahn


I'd like to meet:



AIM ByronicBlueZzz

I AM my own best friend

Music:



    Neu!
    A Certain Ratio The Action Asylum Party The Comsat Angels
    Cabaret Voltaire
    Camera Obscura
    The Chameleons
    Charlie Parker
    Crime & the City Solution Clan of Xymox
    Dead Can Dance
    Devo
    Elliot Smith
    For Against
    Francoise Hardy
    Gang of Four The Jam
    Joy Division JMC
    Killing Joke The Kinks
    The Knife
    Kraftwerk Leonard Cohen
    Lush
    Miles, Monk, Mingus
    Midnight Movies Moldig Mogwai Modern English Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
    Nouvelle Vague
    OMD
    The Small Faces
    The Teardrop Explodes
    Orange Juice
    Pulp
    Portishead
    Ride
    Sad Lovers and Giants
    Sigur Ros Siouxsie
    Slowdive
    The Sound Suede
    Swans
    Throbbing Gristle
    Trisome 21 The Velvet Underground
    The Verve
    Zombies


Movies:



Antonioni
Truffaut
Goddard

.......
Just the most recent:
The Dreamers
Sex and Lucia
Paris, Texas
Les 400 Coups
Quadrophenia
Trainspotting
Der Himmel Uber Berlin
Ed Wood
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
What's Happening!
Ghost World
Bedazzled
Following
The Cat and the Canary
American Splendor
The Five Obstructions
'65 Revisited
The Element of Crime

Books:



Schopenhauer
Bertrand Russell
Spinoza
Stendhal
Italo Calvino
Dostoevsky
Albert Camus
Milan Kundera
Jack Kerouac
Kafka
Rainer Maria Rilke
Raymond Chandler
Hemingway
Alain de Botton

Heroes:


details...

Status: Brooding Loner
Orientation: Straight
Origin: Edmonton
Body type: Very Slender
Zodiac: Leo
Fear: Heights
Infatuation: Monica Vitti
Education: Perpetual
Occupation: Architect (Someday?)

My Blog

LensWork

L.A. Times Headquarters - 1st and Spring Street   Bradbury Building - 3rd and Broadway Abandoned in the Seventies, featured in BladeRunner, M and D.O.A. and birthed from the imagination of a you...
Posted by daniel on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:55:00 PST

Infrared

My latest photographic experiment.  Kodak HIE infrared film.  Originally designed for military use, it extends film sensitivity to the infrared portion of the spectrum thus making it possibl...
Posted by daniel on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:08:00 PST

Sometimes...

... you can feel the weight of the world placed squarely on your chest.
Posted by daniel on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 12:04:00 PST

LA Noir

unfortunatley, the scans don't do justice to the original silver gelatins but nevertheless there they are! Click thumbnails to enlarge. ...
Posted by daniel on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:37:00 PST