Wayne
@wayneb.bsky.social
usually in California - currently SF. topics include: jazz, art, photographers. the annoying friend who brings his cocker spaniel everywhere
blogging about photography at
https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes
blogging about photography at
https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes
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@wayneb.bsky.social
· Dec 13
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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I spent some time looking at Robert Frank’s contact sheets to determine the exact location of his 1956 “Covered Car — Long Beach”
amazing work RIP! (“Ed Ruscha with Books” (1970))
February 11, 2026 at 10:30 PM
amazing work RIP! (“Ed Ruscha with Books” (1970))
Baltz's key work is out of print (love Steidl, but important books should not be 'collectors only') - full version is on archive dot org if you sign in and check it out
archive.org/details/newi...
archive.org/details/newi...
February 11, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Baltz's key work is out of print (love Steidl, but important books should not be 'collectors only') - full version is on archive dot org if you sign in and check it out
archive.org/details/newi...
archive.org/details/newi...
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Influential Ghanaian highlife musician Ebo Taylor dies at 90
Ebo Taylor: Influential highlife and afrobeat musician dies at 90
The guitarist, composer and band leader fused Ghanaian music and funk to create tracks sampled around the world.
www.bbc.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Influential Ghanaian highlife musician Ebo Taylor dies at 90
strong recommendation on this and also their 2022 album “activities”
February 6, 2026 at 7:42 PM
strong recommendation on this and also their 2022 album “activities”
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Dig the music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFQ...
February 4, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Dig the music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffFQ...
wonderful SF arts news - local treasure Randall Kline of SFJAZZ has managed to secure funding for 100 units of subsidized housing for artists and their families. Good Dexter Gordon anecdote behind the project.
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Great @jkdineen.bsky.social piece detailing #SanFrancisco ’s first ever apartment complex dedicated to low-income artists. No City funds in play, #SFJazz founder Randall Kline's vision instead funded by a $100m donation from an anonymous donor. #JazzSky
Great @jkdineen.bsky.social piece detailing #SanFrancisco ’s first ever apartment complex dedicated to low-income artists. No City funds in play, #SFJazz founder Randall Kline's vision instead funded by a $100m donation from an anonymous donor. #JazzSky
SFJazz founder is building city’s first affordable housing for artists at historic site
The 94 homes for artists will be built at the site of San Francisco’s historic McRoskey Mattress building, and will include a black box theater and rehearsal spaces.
www.sfchronicle.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 AM
wonderful SF arts news - local treasure Randall Kline of SFJAZZ has managed to secure funding for 100 units of subsidized housing for artists and their families. Good Dexter Gordon anecdote behind the project.
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Maiko Momotaro, Japanese Postcard, ca. 1910
January 29, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Maiko Momotaro, Japanese Postcard, ca. 1910
my algorithm wants me to become an art restorer, but I like art so…
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM
my algorithm wants me to become an art restorer, but I like art so…
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Kind of amazing this online interactive version of Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, first posted in 2008, is still usable. Go to the link & use your cursor to spin the wheel; Duchamp said that "To see that wheel turning was very soothing...I enjoyed looking at it [like] flames dancing in a fireplace"
collection of jan aman, le duchamp .com by rafaël rozendaal, 2008
LE DUCHAMP .COM BY RAFAEL ROZENDAAL - 2008 - WWW.NEWRAFAEL.COM, COLLECTION OF JAN AMAN - WWW.JANAMAN.COM, CODE BY REINIER FEIJEN - WWW.BOXOFCHOCOLATES.NL
www.leduchamp.com
January 18, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Kind of amazing this online interactive version of Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel, first posted in 2008, is still usable. Go to the link & use your cursor to spin the wheel; Duchamp said that "To see that wheel turning was very soothing...I enjoyed looking at it [like] flames dancing in a fireplace"
stunned on a daily basis by how prescient “Sinners” was with the vampires at the door
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
stunned on a daily basis by how prescient “Sinners” was with the vampires at the door
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MONDAY January 12 in SAN FRANCISCO. The classic noir ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (with an epic Miles Davis score) is playing at CinemaSF. Robert Mailer Anderson and I will be on hand to chat and introduce at 7 PM
January 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
MONDAY January 12 in SAN FRANCISCO. The classic noir ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (with an epic Miles Davis score) is playing at CinemaSF. Robert Mailer Anderson and I will be on hand to chat and introduce at 7 PM
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Paper Tiger
YouTube video by Lonnie Smith - Topic
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January 8, 2026 at 6:26 PM
got that Shostakovich stuck in my head from reading all these “Eyes Wide Shut” it’s an xmas movie now / “so prescient” / which camera lens takes
December 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
got that Shostakovich stuck in my head from reading all these “Eyes Wide Shut” it’s an xmas movie now / “so prescient” / which camera lens takes
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a happy lil saturday ☀️ youtu.be/E1tOV7y94DY?...
Elis Regina & Tom Jobim - "Aguas de Março" - 1974
YouTube video by Federico Mocciaro
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
a happy lil saturday ☀️ youtu.be/E1tOV7y94DY?...
what an amazing life 🙌
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
what an amazing life 🙌
Sō Percussion!
December 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Sō Percussion!
San Francisco banned smoking in bars in 1998 - there was a panic that bars would go out of business, people on the east coast said it was crunchy west coast move … and after a month it was clear most people liked it better and bars did fine
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
San Francisco banned smoking in bars in 1998 - there was a panic that bars would go out of business, people on the east coast said it was crunchy west coast move … and after a month it was clear most people liked it better and bars did fine
Just finished “Madame Bovary” - every beat lands 170 years later, like a time machine. Social media feels like a cage of the now in comparison. (the 2010 Lydia Davis translation is so great)
I love social media and I use it every day. To be honest, I am probably addicted to it. But once you start reading a novel, you realize how detrimental social media is to your mindset. Attention is hard to hold and deep reading isn't easy. That didn't used to be a problem for me. Can you relate?
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Just finished “Madame Bovary” - every beat lands 170 years later, like a time machine. Social media feels like a cage of the now in comparison. (the 2010 Lydia Davis translation is so great)
during the last 20 years if you were on a busy street with a vintage camera (in my case a rolleiflex) and a stranger approached to talk photography, the most common fav / inspiration mentioned was always Martin Parr
Photographer Martin Parr just passed. If you don't know his work, the Guardian has a really nice introduction here.
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
h/t @wvschaik.bsky.social
Martin Parr: the photographer’s career in pictures
A look back at the career of Martin Parr who has died at the age of 73
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
during the last 20 years if you were on a busy street with a vintage camera (in my case a rolleiflex) and a stranger approached to talk photography, the most common fav / inspiration mentioned was always Martin Parr
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Sad to see Martin Parr has died. The documentary photographer rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, with The Last Resort: his study of working class people on holiday in New Brighton in Merseyside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sad to see Martin Parr has died. The documentary photographer rose to prominence in the mid 1980s, with The Last Resort: his study of working class people on holiday in New Brighton in Merseyside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I wrote about Ken Ohara's photography exhibition "Contacts," a prescient, humane, extremely fun collection of photos people took of their lives during a bleak national moment. I haven't really been able to stop thinking about it for weeks, now. It rocks. defector.com/make-yoursel...
Make Yourself At Home | Defector
I started going back to the 1970s last winter because I was convinced everything and everyone else was, too. This was not a good time, and I was very much Not Having A Good Time in it; in retrospect, ...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I wrote about Ken Ohara's photography exhibition "Contacts," a prescient, humane, extremely fun collection of photos people took of their lives during a bleak national moment. I haven't really been able to stop thinking about it for weeks, now. It rocks. defector.com/make-yoursel...
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Do me a favor, in memory of the great Jimmy Cliff (RIP). Next time you need your mood lifted—and who doesn't these days? —just listen to this song. Pure, unadulterated joy
November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Do me a favor, in memory of the great Jimmy Cliff (RIP). Next time you need your mood lifted—and who doesn't these days? —just listen to this song. Pure, unadulterated joy
LA palette cleanse: really great graphic design deep dive into the Ruscha Sunset archive by @goodspeed.bsky.social focusing on the evolution of the signage
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs
Sunset Over Sunset
Explore the histories of Los Angeles's iconic Sunset Boulevard through the photographs of artist Ed Ruscha.
www.sunsetoversunset.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 AM
LA palette cleanse: really great graphic design deep dive into the Ruscha Sunset archive by @goodspeed.bsky.social focusing on the evolution of the signage
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs
www.sunsetoversunset.org/stories/signs
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Carrie Mae Weems, From the 'Roaming' series, 2006
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November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Carrie Mae Weems, From the 'Roaming' series, 2006
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just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!