Visit us at the NY Art Book Fair (Nov. 5-7) for the official release of our 2nd LBM storybook, Man With Buoy, And Other Tales by Seth Lower. Seth will be arriving at the fair on Friday to sign copies. If you aren’t able to visit us at the fair, the book will be available at our web store next week.
Visit our booth at the NY Art Book Fair (Nov. 5-7) and check out our first two LBM posters by Jason Polan & Trent Parke. If you can’t visit the fair, they’ll be available at our web store in the next couple of weeks.
For the NY Art Book Fair, we’ve commissioned Jason Polan to make a poster entitled: How To Be A Little Brown Mushroom. Be sure to also check out Jason’s booth at the fair.
For the NY Art Book Fair, we are proud to be selling the first copies of Dolorean’s fantastic new album, The Unfazed. More info here.
Writing about Manuela Costalima’s (iwhishiwereinvisible) winning project for the 2nd assignment, I asked, ‘Why are amateur photographs so damn good?’ I’d like to follow up on this question with Assignment #3:
1) Take a picture of a non-photographer
2) Have this person take a picture of you (with the same camera or another camera)
3) Put these images side by side in a single file
4) Briefly describe who this person is (friend, lover, stranger, child, etc).
5) Submit as many of these double-portraits as you wish in a set entitled ‘From Here To There: Assignment #3’ on our Flickr Contest Page.
The deadline for posting is November 26th. The winner will be announced on December 1st.
I love everything about these Flickr assignments except for one thing: having to pick a winner. How can I choose between 9Stars infectious enthusiasm (1,2,3 assingments!), Ashly Stohl’s sweet story, Jen Trail’s Facebook discovery, Worsham’s trailer park, Steven Lang’s palm sander, Meghan Rennie’s childhood neighborhood, Ramon Mas’s Jesus or Al Cafone’s wild night?
So many good stories…and good pictures too. But some of my favorite images were the ones that Ben Roberts found during his story: five slides, five great pictures.
Why are amateur photographs so damn good?
Then I saw the pictures of Manuela Costalima (iwishiwereinvisible). Maybe not ‘professional’ and maybe not perfectly edited, but there is something irresistible about these images. In many ways they reminded me of the light touch of Italian greats like Guido Guidi and Luigi Ghirri. The images have the feeling of an everyday glance. They already feel just as good as vintage amateur pictures.
Congratulations to Manuela! Along with her Flickr project, check out her website.
Hey, Les.
Picked up a rich piece of LBM fiction. Here’s a gem from it:
“Bob,” she said, “I love you so and want you with me, but you are lying to me, and you are lying to yourself. I can hear it in your voice, and if you don’t get it settled in a way that satisfies you, it will suck the pleasure out of the peace you’ve earned. I know you. You are samurai, dog soldier, marine fool, crazy bastard, marshal of Dodge, commando, the country-western Hector. You are all of those things. They are your nature. The girls and I are just where you park when you’re not warring. You love us, yes you do, but war is your life, it’s your destiny, it’s your identity. My advice, old man, is win your war. Then come home. Or maybe you’ll get killed. That would be a shame and a tragedy, and the girls and I will weep for years. But that is the way of the warrior and we have the curse upon us of loving the last of them.”
A guy could Google it. If you need to find the source of this pot-boiling he-man fantasy self-justification. Check out the author photo.
Yrs,
From a dear friend of LBM, the fabulous Jason Polan:
You’ve seen the book and the infomercial, now see Broken Manual images on Alec Soth’s new website: http://alecsoth.com/
Special thanks to Manon Michel for the website design.
