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Wayne

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usually in California - currently LBC. topics include: jazz, art, photographers. the annoying friend who brings his cocker spaniel everywhere blogging about photography at https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · Dec 13

I spent some time looking at Robert Frank’s contact sheets to determine the exact location of his 1956 “Covered Car — Long Beach”

Robert Frank on Ocean Boulevard

The late afternoon light, palm trees, their shadows and a covered car are elements so classic to LA and Southern California that Robert Frank's "Covered car -- Long Beach, California" could have been…

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angela hudson jones @angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 20h

Pharoah Sanders - "Kazuko" - Live
In an Abandoned Tunnel in San Francisco (Marin Headlands - close to the Golden Gate Bridge) 1982

Pharoah Sanders - "Kazuko" - An Abandoned Tunnel

YouTube video by sun01disz

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 1d

have a memory from the 80s of seeing a bumper sticker: “remember Pearl Harbor, don’t buy Japanese” … on a VW

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Mark Stryker @markstryker.bsky.social · 3d

Take 2

Define jazz?

Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...

Blakey was born 10/11/19

Tell It Like It Is

YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 3d

in a sea of toxic charlatans, he’s the real deal

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Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 4d

Happy Birthday to Sphere. All the jazz greats knew what they were doing, but Thelonious Monk REALLY knew what he was doing. It was Precise. iverson.substack.com/p/tt-442-bri...

TT 442: Brief Overview: Thelonious Monk on Record

October 10 is Sphere's Birthday

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 5d

Slightly Damaged Chair, Malibu, 1973 by David Hockney

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 5d

and for writing the backstory on "Dragon Relief"!

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 5d

people in Philly can smell a NYC design firm

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 6d

the new brand ambassador

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 6d

great line: What is anti-authoritarian and sexy in Ornette becomes over-explained and self-satisfied in the hands of the uninitiated.

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 6d

this photo is making me regret getting the ebook !

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 6d

review captures the inexplicable LA vibe of this exhibit: photos by the radical nun with a Leica at the sprawling Masonic Temple on Wilshire, converted into an art foundation by the Guess jeans founders (who closed it for a time to avoid unionizing)

angela hudson jones @angelahudsonjones.bsky.social · 6d

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Sister Corita Kent Found the Sacred in the Profane

An installation of the artist’s never-before-seen photographs accumulates meaning through association rather than argument.

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 7d

one of the best city nerd eps, “self identified rurality”
youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18?...

Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing

YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 7d

best alt text of the day

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 9d

Eugéne Atget, Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée Paris, France c. 1924/25

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gregorg @greg.org · 9d

national gallery of art is closed as of tomorrow (10/5), which is too bad because the photography and the black arts movement show is incredible www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 | National Gallery of Art

The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 13d

Ansel Adams, Basketball game at an Internment Camp for Japanese American citizens during World War II

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 12d

made a Marcel Duchamp fan fic video. Sora’s default tone is so upbeat and schmaltzy.

sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dd9d49...

bremser on Sora

a young Marcel Duchamp he is riding a bike down a paris street in 1913, wearing a white shirt and bow tie. Image is shot in black and white, high contrast. He takes a minor fall on the bike and as he ...

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 13d

not a single warrior brave enough to stand up and say “sir, this is a Wendy’s”

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14d

a man in a suit and tie is holding a piece of paper that says ' a ' on it

Alt: Patrick Bateman admiring card stock

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Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14d

impressive work from the PR team

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 14d

man with popped collar over a round neck collar tshirt: I have ideas about why people are lonely

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 17d

driving to rikers, listening to NPR, bitching about Reagan

Wayne @wayneb.bsky.social · 17d

based on the podcast, they should throw a Frank Stella in there as well

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gregorg @greg.org · 18d

in the Smithsonian archives yesterday, I learned when the Hirshhorn bought Wolfgang Tillmans' Concorde Grid in 2006, they also got an exhibition copy, so they could show it with the lights turned up, like the artist likes it, without frying their 56 fragile C-prints greg.org/archive/2025...

wolfgang tillmans' grid of 56 photos of the concorde landing or taking off at heathrow airport are all in different formats and vantage points, wherever he was able to capture the image, but all printed at the same size that, to 21st century audience, now echoes a cellphone screen, but in 1997, did not. this edition was acquired by the hirshhorn museum in 2006

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