5-28-12
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5-27-12
Time to at least chuckle.
5-27-12
Note to a FlickrContact in Moscow:
I have signed up for your next adventure "_ _".
For 150 years there is no big blood on our USA soil.
You can say, "What do you know Bill".
We kill people in other countries.
We are killed slowly with cars & chemicals & racism & no-healthcare/jobs & Etc.
We 99% are slowly killed by top 1% Goverment/Capitalist Criminals.
It is now International/Global neo-conservative/liberal capitalism ... the 1% rules us all.
Most of us more than some of us !.
I am a very lucky self-defining communist.
Best for you "_ _" and your people.
Love.
Bill.
5-19-12
From my "Flickr Profile":
Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area +.
Still-straight-street picture hunter-gatherer.
Self-defining communist.
Stop neo-conservative/liberal capitalism.
With a Nikon D80 w/28-105 macro ?!
Do what you do.
I don't use photoshop.
With iPhoto I can fiddle like in old-darkroom-days.
Love.
Bill.

My pictures are for sale for 99$ + costs.
No more edition prints.
Any size you choose to 42" by X". Ink-jet.
5-9-12
Introduction to

Slavoj Žižek.

Bill.
4-17-12
The Padded-One in Space.
Marc James Leger Les Avenues Cosmiques:
unholy-fun.
4-3-12
Coming soon:
The Nick Powers Internet Company.
3-11-12
Sweet-song
Bo Carter
He may have written this when he was 99:
3-9-12
"a small evolutionary-devolutionary tale continues:"
3-8-12
Have not felt this since 1947*
My homie flew back-in
My message on her leg
Ate and flew out-there
Free as a bird
Love
Comrade Bill
http://billdane.com/sales.html
*I have already been reminded
that I've had this feeling since
many times in many contexts.
3-7-12
For-myself:
Wondered over the years
Who would I 'be'
If I were a !picture! $star$
Nothing but denims ?
99$ unlimited-editions ?
99% ?
Evolved into what ?
3-1-12
Thank you Doctor:
"whenever I hear the word entitled
I reach for my manifesto"
He also sent me this direct-hit:
2-23-12
Flickr for us-all:
Until Nick (lofisymphony.com/) and I started building
The Website together in 2007 (and on it goes)
I rarely looked at other's art & pictures.
'69-'71 Atget-Evans-Frank-Diane-Gary-Lee
+ were 'digested' ?
I set up low-budget homing
(ignore my bio-facade) underground.
The goal has always been to have my pictures well-seen.
Mailing picture-cards from day-one = pleasure-filled
But to a way too limited audience.
The amazing internet led to "Bill Dane on the internet."
And then this "Flickr-Photostreaming".
Hot f---in' what I didn't know I was waiting for.
Hello, pleasure-connectors = receptors-reciprocators-comrades.
So! I was lucky to have you pass thru my Flickr & to find yours.
2-21-12
MP&TLFS:
Unholy.
I genuflect.
My pleasure.
1-17-12
"Appropriation Art":
I.E., pictures of faces-trees-sunsets-+whatever
Just behind TheGoldenRule-Cleanliness-+
This "Bill Dane on the internet." is full of it !
My Flickr "Photostream" is piled high !
Yakety yak .. don't talk back.
1-15-12
All that matters is size and control
Huge large medium small tiny
The rest is commentary
Hillel 10AD ? 45k years-earlier ? 2012 AD+.
1-13-12
We must know this:
"Capitalism Hits The Fan"
Richard D. Wolff
(U. Mass, Amherst)
Thank You
12-12-11
Norman Lam .welcomes me into his gallery +
This is an amazing adventure pleasure
I loved doing the postcards .bbut now
I can connect pictures with so many people
This feels as egalitarian as possible
Thank You Norman
Good luck to all of us .Bill
12-10-11
Seeing Is Amazing
James Danziger's school:
12-3-11
Miles Davis
American
Where you can find your-own:
Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet ... Davis was the son of a dental surgeon, Dr. Miles Dewey Davis, Jr., and a music teacher, Cleota Mae (Henry) Davis, and thus grew up in the black middle class of east St. Louis ... (He went to) the Institute of Musical Art in New York City (renamed Juilliard) in September 1944. Shortly after his arrival in Manhattan, he was playing in clubs with Parker, and by 1945 he had abandoned his academic studies for a full-time career as a jazz musician ...
In 1955 cousin Surry drives us to San Francisco
Miles Davis is at The Blackhawk (Turk n Hide)
We are 16 ..ffake ID's ..imagine
BreakTime .. Miles comes to beside me at the bar
We drink whiskey and smoke Luckies
"How do you know jazz" (Lil-baby-face-white-boy)
Chance Magic StringTheory Whatever ?
12-03-11
Volume 13 is finished.
My 'extra' pictures are at Flickr.
12-1-11
I say things:
Facebook
11-12-11
I say things:
We can hope that The 2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11%ers
Figure out how high-up the 100% pyramid We actually are
And how close to homes this is coming
10-31-11
How can we have a real democracy
When we have to pay to be educated
10-25-11
John Lennon
"Time wounds all heals."
10-17-11
The children of every elected official
In the U.S. = city state federal
Must be the first to enlist in our armed-forces
When any new military 'adventure' is begun.
&!
Must attend their local public schools
&!
Higher education must be free for all
&!
Elected officials and their families medical needs
Must be provided by the local hospital where
Citizens without insurance are treated.
&!
Elected officials and their families
Must find housing in their most depressed local neighborhood.
&!
Campaigns for all U.S. elections must be funded by tax-created funds.
Candidates will receive equal amounts from the fund.
No outside/inside money allowed.
&!
Every person living in the U.S.
Must be immediately granted unconditional citizenship.
New immigration policy to be developed.
&!
There must be a national dialogue to create a humane economic system.
&!
A fair tax system.

This is not too much
10-15-11
We have tiny experience
With how most people on our planet survive
We take so much for granted ..
...As our god-given-right
.....Here in our by-chance & by-luck tiny piece of the world
This is what we call the feelings & actions of 'Entitlement'
If there is Sin .. This kind of "Entitlement" is a major qualifier
We are all gonna be guilty often
Carry-on Mose .et al.. Dad
10-11-11
OurOligarchs/OurPlutocrats
Will apparently murder & maim us
Without traceable blood-splatters
9-23-11
Thanks to those who pointed to:
Milan Kundera "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" Etc
Amos Oz "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Etc
Breece DJ Pancake "The Stories of Breece DJ Pancake"
Russell Banks "Continental Drift" Etc
Leonard Michaels "To Feel These Things" Etc
Heinrich Boll "The Collected Stories" Etc
W.G. Sebald "On The Natural History Of Destruction" Etc
9-22-11
In '07 Monet and Nick suggested-opened-made possible
A huge and inspiring new universe
He created "Bill Dane on the internet."
Side-by-side/lightbulb-by-lightbulb with me
"Bill Dane on the internet." is Nick
Tech-by-tech/code-by-code on his own
Forever Thank You Two So Much
Love BillDad
Major Powers
:
9-11
Remedy:
Communities
Local to global
Democratic
Socialist.
9-10-11
Gravity:
One of the essentials
One of my favorites

The Arts
Listening to men singing 100s of arias
My experience. they are way too grounded
Pavarotti can float and fly and land
Experience any art work with gravity 'in-mind'

Human Nature
Grave .
Tomorrow is 9-11 ..G
Still no real Why-news
In our U.S. mainstream media
9-5-11
So much that. goes-without-saying
Must be repeated relentlessly:
I am lucky and entitled.l.like it or not
Those who are not..always know
Themselves and me .
Like it or not
8-26-11
So much good stuff out there:
Thank you both
Wish we all had more time
8-17-11
Very fine human beings +
Mahoney-Suter..Ellen & Lizanne
8-15-11
STOP THE MADNESS:
www.rebuildthedream.com
The American Dream is under siege
But a new movement is rising to fight back
Stand up to say “No” to right-wing attacks
On the middle class
And every class
Even on themselves ...
As they will find
Hopefully asap
8-13-11
Most of we U.S.A.ers are busy cutting off our own body-parts
Real-News ignored mOur media controlled
Corporate congressional-buy-offs
Brainwashed & rinsed we are .BB
By the tippy-toppers & their dupesters
I grew up with 'Villainous Russian & Chinese Press !'
Ohh..to wake up soul-less.in our own land
8-11-11
The Arts:
Find 'em as fast as you can
8-7-11
Acronym for world-sanity:
SHHJED..
Socialism
HealthCare
Housing
Jobs
Education
Democracy
For every person on our small planet
Or bust
8-6-11
TheFan:

You hear it now & since the 1800's

Not just from Taibbi Wolff Krugman Riech et al

Wages & jobs have been in decline since '72

Our money has gone to the tip-top

ThisPlutocraticCapitalistEconShitGottaHitTheFan!

I am sorry ..mostly for those w/o the world over

8-5-11
The Fan:
8-1-11
Pleasure:
Major Powers and the Symphony
First Show
Thirteen Songs
Eleven feet from them
I was struck
7-31-11
Found:
The last of my vintage prints
&
7-29-11
Harvard's Fogg Museum Collection:
My pictures
7-23-11
This Website:
2007:
"lilbilly" .& ."the cobra"
We continually evolved it
2011:
"Bill Dane on the internet.". & ."Major Powers"
4+ years....visions-out ..
Thanks for being here
Our pleasure ..Nick & Bill ..
&
Coming: .
I hope we can publish all Nick's 'construction-code'
It's there behind everything we see on the Website
It'll be fun to hear, "OhMyGod, Nick did that ?!"
Yes! .And we decided form & content ingredients together since day one
You are astounding Nick.LLove Bill
I do take full responsibility for the pictures

7-21-11

Nick Powers, Dylan Gautschi and Kevin Gautschi have played music all of their lives and have been in various sort-of-popular bands all over the Bay Area. After some time passed and some things happened, they formed Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony.

Nick plays piano and writes all of the songs. Dylan plays drums, Kevin plays guitar and they throw gas onto the fire. Nick, Dylan and Kevin all sing. Nick likes to describe their sound as a "cartoon odyssey." They think the music is passionate and interesting and hope other people do, too.

9-5-11
He created "Bill Dane on the internet."
Side-by-side + lightbulb-by-lightbulb with me.
Then tech-by-tech = code-by-code on his own !:
Hello. I'm Nick Powers. I taught myself how to play piano when I was 8 and have been writing songs ever since. I cannot read music, but I figured out the complete instrumentation to theDuckTales theme song when I was 13 and tracked it on my Yamaha PSS-790 (BEST. KEYBOARD. EVER.)
I grew up listening to Ray Charles, Beethoven, and Jimmy Cliff. I also absolutely loved the music in West Side Story and Mary Poppins. I never really listened to that much music in my teens, but, through friends, there were a handful of acts who blew my mind: Jets To Brazil, E-40, Superdrag and The Get Up Kids, in particular. I suppose if you crushed all of the above in a trash compactor you'd hear my band. Or maybe I can't tell what my own band sounds like.

I grew up a Dungeons & Dragons nerd on welfare with a single mom in Crockett, CA. My dad was in prison when I was young. My mom was a cleaning lady and worked at one family's house for a whole summer to buy me a real piano. I live in Richmond, CA with my wife and almost-three-year-old daughter.

All I think I'm trying to do with my music is tell a story. I grew up in an out-of-the-way, dying factory town. More people than you realize did the same thing. We all do shitty drugs. We all wear the wrong clothes. We all listen to the wrong music. We all feel a little funny at fancy restaurants. And then, in a fucked up twist, we all feel like we have to act disinterested to protect ourselves from ridicule. In my mind, this is the soundtrack to that shit.

Please visit: MP&TL-FS

7-20-11
See:
Ride!
7-19-11
It's Here !
My pleasure . Bill
7-13-11
Just found:
Edith ''Edie'' Thacher Dane

Edith "Edie" Thacher Dane, 89, died Sunday, June 23, 2002 at the home of her daughter in San Jose, Calif. She was born May 4, 1913 in Ojai on the campus of The Thacher Preparatory Boys School, where her father, William Larned Thacher, was associate head master and her uncle, Sherman Day Thacher, was head master.
She attended Vassar College in New York, and married and settled in Sierra Madre, Calif., where her mother, Hilda Blumer Thacher, was born. Her maturnal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John George Blumer, were of the original group of residents of Sierra Madre when they arrived in 1886.
Ms. Dane lived in Sierra Madre for more than 60 years and was an active and dedicated volunteer in her community throughout her adult life. She received numerous honors and awards for her service in the areas of early childhood developpment, the "War on Poverty," and a variety of human rights and social justice initiatives. She was active in the Democratic Party and, in her later years, was active in efforts to preserve the hillside of her hometown. As a social activist, she was committed to the health and well-being of all members of society and to her local communities of Sierra Madre, and surrounding Pasadena-area cities.
She is survived by her children, Bill Dane of Albany, Calif., Frank Dane of Forestville, Calif., and Nancy Dane Peña of San Jose, Calif.; Bill's wife, daughter-in-law Nancy Dulberg; seven grandchildren; two great-granddaughters; and several cousins and in-laws.
Memorial services will be held Aug. 16, 2002 in Sierra Madre.

© 2002 The Ojai Valley News

7-11-11
Profile pictures
7-9-11
U.S.A.! ..U.S.A.!:
No mention of socialism:
The political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, exchange, and profit-use be democratically owned, controlled, regulated, and 'board-of-directored' by the workers and the entire community.
In our gross capitalist-plutocracy.. our 'so-called' democracy
We do have people working with intelligence and energy for us all:

Network of Spiritual Progressives

"Don't Fall for the GOP (and Obama) Lie"

by Robert Reich with an introductory reflection by Rabbi Lerner