Aug 28, 2016

Serving our universal humanity with heart-work-thought++
Marc James Léger and David Tomas (with Emory Douglas

Aug 26, 2016

Flickr-picture-people have been appreciating my galleries
I find and present their pictures   I message them thanks
"Dear People
I will repeat this and please take it personally
It is my looking-seeing pleasure
Thanks to you all and your pictures
Os  bill"

Aug 25, 2016

+: ​
actually lovin' my new flickr share-​set-up picturesgallery  Dahn
!​&  it's easy-manage = good - since no buyers travel this route 

Aug 22, 2016

Thank you Doc Matt  (back-pats)  too sweet    but tasty 
Hope your recent publishing adventures ++ are refreshing     accoladizing   
We do get our wee blasts from the outside
I'm fucking around with my flickr-share-life-ingredients = galleries for others* 
I actually love all the seeing   & editing   organizing   tidy tidy   
in-head a tangle = tidy the outside
funny fun: I don't even know how my flickr presents to you all
here is my new Favorites page gallery:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145709687@N06/favorites
here are more galleries to expand the fun  mine at least:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_dane/galleries/
are they actually accessible across planet us 
Lucky us  you're a global mensch   Os  Bill

Aug 21, 2016

Silke from Flickr gets a response:
will there be a man in white - a white horse - a black man ... 
sadness is also what the brits & usa did to the people of Hamburg + Hiroshima-Nagasaki - usa to everyone w/complicity of europe - the israelis to the Palestinians = souls forgetting the Holocausts ... I apologize Silke - humans make messes and Pictures Too! Os Bill
= amazing nonsense

Aug 19, 2016

pictures are investigative healing

Aug 18, 2016

this has been me-me-me week ... honestly!  daily since '38
got my gallery for other people's pictures real-done

Aug 17, 2016

These planetary 'issues' + are more crucial for me than pictures:
SURJ   BLM    
​    ​
99% 
​ ​ 
 
    =       =   

Aug 16, 2016

Tracy   it's TRUCKIN'...  
Nikon D3300  w/18-200mm + iMac-Lightroom5 = me pictures
simply  Bill 

Aug 15, 2016

Believe  I'm ready to show these     again:
mē: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_dane/
+
gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bill_dane/favorites
given: i could push a funky button   again  Os Bill

Aug 14, 2016

fb exchange re Nicky's show:
me:  Vikings United! ... that's a bit silly - fuck it! Have Fun!
N:  what do you mean by that?
me:   That we're "Vikings United!" is a bit silly, and whatever, You Are To Have Fun!!!  
art-fun-PLEASURES!  why should i make sense to you or anyone?!  Os, Bill

Aug 12, 2016

Piece of a Flickr exchange:
Garry, Lee, Henry W, Todd P, John Sz, Diane A, +++ 
We've been some kind of friends over the years since 1970
Never words about our own pictures twixt any - in my presence
Also we seemed to believed the experience of a viewer should stand w/o pointers
Unless we were hired teachers 
After John's books - I've no interest in picture-reading, excepting Schjeldahl  
After the '70s, no interest in viewing
Excepting Berkeley High kids' pictures and Flicker discoveries
Of course  I luckily get to see friends' pictures in publications  
Me  head-down TRUCKIN'...  perhaps = head-in-sandin'...
My head-style is suited to outsider locales   academically-blocked 
I do read Toni Morrison +-  
Best for you,  Bill.

Aug 11, 2016

You know D  
I tried to come up with a more 'relevant' term for photographing than 'shoot'
Even looked up how 'shoot/shot' came to be - murky  
It seems the gatling gun's the culprit
Perhaps that's why I don't do people much 
Happy to be a  'hunter-gatherer-tweaker'
Os  Bill

Aug 10, 2016

Flickr exchange which included his mini-fun analytic of Winogrand:
my response:
Thanks again John.
Don't overthink what Garry thought - he didn't.
Come to think - just carry-on as The J.W. !
Os, Bill.

Aug 9, 2016

Every Second Is The Time For
SURJ  and  BLM   +++

Aug 8, 2016

Jan  Thank You!  (for helping click on me links = crawlers)
I assume it all matters (life)  but  not sure I could talk about it   
I'd love ta try a grande-sensor D-camera  with  oh  a 25-150 macro
when do the cows come home?  
Os  li'lbilly   wit low-tech-emoters

Aug 7, 2016

I just can't assume it's a bother for You
For me it's a play-work-fun connect
Thank You   Os  Bill

Aug 6, 2016

We Are At The Ceiling Tonite!!!!!
Esther Dulberg Dane &! her 2 study-Boos passed 

the National Medical Assistant Exam!!!!!!
*****
Esther finished her first & amazing Extern week in 

The Clinic at San Francisco General - on the floor: vitals, blood-draws, records, exam-assists, translating for Spanish speakers, 
making hella friends staff connects & getting PROPS  
Very Pro Environment
great stories for us 1 2 3 4 5 ad ad ad ad FUN!
OsXs Ess  Mama n Dad !

Aug 5, 2016

Thank YOU! Flickr complimentary Guy Peter
Finally figured this way to make my gallery for others' pictures 
easy to manage as my Favorites page
It's been sitting on my face for 2 years
Hope it works
I took all the pictures from my old inaccessible gallery and
could still import them 1 by 1 - fast
Stay Well  Bill

Aug 4, 2016

Dan Skjaeveland
pronounced Don
Magnetized by my pictures   and others'
May 2015  he actually shows up at our door
4 days we set up at the table  do some talk   29-39 hours
November  he's back with wonderful Valentina for days-nights
Our Pleasure!
We set up at the table   more talk
Of course  I got puky hearing me-self   never tired with Dan
Fine Fine: head  heart  soul  energy  Guy
He goes home to Norway and Paris:
Hours   Freaky   Work    Edits  . . .
His Gift: 
The Interview

OsXs  

Aug 3, 2016

A facebook post I just happened to find today:
Douglas Nickel said in an interview in PhotoWings in 2007, I believe around the time of former MoMA picture chief John Szarkowski's death, "[...] Bill Dane is not a name that a lot of people will pull out of their hat when describing the most important photographers working today - for reasons that can never be fully explained. He was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art. This mechanism was thrown behind him, but John [Szarkowski] is probably right in this regard, the world was not ready for Bill Dane, so it didn't happen."
I think it remains true that the world isn't ready. Biased as I am, when I look at his work I see the most interesting photography I've ever seen, taken as an entire body of work. I've always been a fan of Arbus and the whole hipster cohort of borderline personality photographers from the renaissance (that I assume it was) of camera-ing during mid+ last century. But I get bored really fast. Pictures usually look like trash to me, literally, something that belongs on the sidewalk, melting into the concrete, blowing around in the shitty city breeze. Bill Dane somehow found a fucking way to make the trash beautiful (in my mind).
Look him up. In particular read what John FitzGibbon wrote about him if you happen upon Bill's critics page on his website. Or hell, read what almost anyone wrote.
"If, as I am comfortable in prognosticating, historians look back on the last 35 years of our millennium as an unparalleled time of gross self-congratulatory corniness of taste, national bombast, and hapless credulity, Bill Dane will be singled out as a chief recorder. Not the least charm of his procedure is that Bill does it all with a completely straight face."
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What?! I should self-diss? Here? In public? Oh dears, no.
Nick, you have always been One Top Perceiver-Digester.
Why would you stumble today!?
Sun OsXs Bill your devoted dad-in-law & love
+:
Thank YOU Monet Os Dad

Aug 2, 2016

You read it here  Folks
If you find our evolved treasures
You've already won an extended trip
Os  Bill and Nick

Aug 1, 2016

Esther Dulberg Dane. The Esther!
A partir de una familia que empatiza - su química personal maravilloso - clases en U. Mass y Hampshire - las maravillas de Matigalpa - ¡¡¡Amigos & Pros - mucho mucho mucho estudio y moler moler moler y loving ...
Y ahora a S.F. General Hospital - Externship.
¡Va a ser una Enfermera Especial!
¡Oh Esther ... GUARDAR EN CAMIONAJE_N'...
Xs Os mama papa +++++++++++