Apr 5, 2014

Seeking clarity in our Flickr+ detritus:
me:
You are having more fun (your pictures tell me).
him:
More like the usual level. How about yourself?
me:
Probably I just want your picture-poetry more at my usual level - things are often just too mysterious.
Best to ignore lil'billy!  Tend your own very productive garden.
Will be floatin' til we all re-realize that folks don't much visit the Website.
And the pictures that we love here in the family circle.
In for the long hell and high water,  Bill.
him:
Hi. I have no idea what your email meant. Have a nice day.
me:
My day is at the usual level.
Os William (lil'billy).
bs: Why I don't sell pictures fer 45 yrs? - gallery folks and  visitors,  "I have no idea what they mean."
Go Buddha!
bss: They could just be middling gatherings . . .
him:
Heh. Thanks for the explanation. This email is priceless, a lovely dialogue poem. I figured your email was good-intentioned but after getting (random, undeserved) attacks on here lately, I sometimes look askance at things and think they're attacks when they'r not. I had no idea who "lil billy" was. Two Bills confuse a brew or stew?
It's strange. When I used to "live wrong" (or wronger, who knows what is "right," really) I would get upset if I thought someone was "badgering" me. But now it's more a blip in my day and I float on.
Your work is challenging to people, Bill, and that's the great thing. I can honestly say you to I think your stuff is truly great and you didn't fall into any of the "time traps" that so many of the people who came up alongside you seemed to have done with various genres and such.
Your work is all-out deliciously weird and divinely inspired and you crash through all that genre nonsense to get at the essential poetry and talkativeness of the image (which is, of course, a plurality of images that never stop).
I don't know about website traffic and all that but the longer you keep at it (your website is relatively new) the more you will attract people. Probably if you bragged more, you'd go up even quicker, but somehow it doesn't seem to be your personality. Tant pis. ;p
I saw you posted some good-hearted politically motivated stuff on there but it seems like we're in this post-dialogue state in America. Probably the haves love apathy on the part of the have nots.
I'm at the age where I'm realizing that not just the social world but existence itself is fundamentally insane, so I try to worry less. I don't know if that's apathy. I don't try to feel less but I do try to worry less. Maybe that's a contradiction in terms and I'm doomed for that strategy.
I dunno.
We just found out our water was disgusting through much of 2013 and our township never told us. Who knows how many people died of giardiasis in that period because they chose not to tell us. I just got a brochure for a town meeting about it. I hope someone passed it on to the ambulance chasers. One good way for the poor to get rich around here is for some entity with money to poison one of their own. The Mill did it for about a century. Now apparently it's the water company. I'd just like to get a reduced rate. I mean for the poisoning.
me:
More 'priceless'  William!  Thank you.
(What do folks call out? William?)
Your turn, what's this, 'Tant pis. ;p' ...
Oh .... ;p is one of those cons!
That leaves me wit  'Tant pis.' .
Tequila, then gin n vodka are clean - sips help me.
Wish they had no ethanol = nectar or noose.
'politics', I've been 'in-the-street' since '38.
What?  Of a sudden I should go shut-in?!
I do take your meaning - enough sanity to move is required.
I've been lessoned that me consciousness grows on.
I wanna get-it at my level.  I street-walk and hunt with it.
Not to mention the absurdity of living chipless.
Drink carefully.   Os Bill.

Apr 4, 2014

Every time we evolve this Website we're self-highed for days.
Comes time to re-realize - who cares but the family circle.
Then - so what!
Ready to re-evolve!?  Oh yeah.

Apr 3, 2014

Dear People.

We are so grateful to Nancy Dulberg and Monet Zulpo-Dane for making us possible.
Seven years we sit side by side at Nick's computer evolving our website (we take breaks).
We love it now - we always do.
We hope you find poignant pieces of our adventure to make your own.
Please take this web-blast personally.
Love, Bill n Nick   billdane.com

Apr 2, 2014

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
John Steinbeck

Mar 30, 2014

Invented my latest lil'billy health and diet thing today when I hit 225#s and BP=144/80.
Maximum Vibrance - serving twice a day = food  +  cocktails for calories.

Mar 19, 2014

Adolescence lasted years.
Then I had two male trust friends.
One just died.
Everywhere every split second for all of us.

Mar 17, 2014

Hotty standardized test takers have had their anti-democratic, entitled 'Affirmative Action' programs for ages.
¡Give them a chance at Community College!
Mine was actually 'better' than Cal.
It's Our Public School System.
Let the Real Public in.
Use census data - give us all places in public 4 year colleges and universities if we want to go. 
Limited space?   !Oh dear. 
We created this mess - we can figure it out.
We have lots of schools.
&!  Want a democracy?  Make Education Free!

Mar 5, 2014

Feb 27, 2014

Nick sat down with Ethan Varian at SF Deli Mag after you helped Major Powers win the Reader's Poll for Best Emerging Artist 2013: check it out.


Major Powers is also Monet's husband and the mind behind our billdane.com

Feb 9, 2014

Russell Brand:
On revolution.

Feb 3, 2014

I spent the last 4 weeks editing-pruning-naming-dating-sequencing 
All my stuff-files since '71
For sanity and quality-dignity and a major website makeover 
Got to the end and whammo  thought I'd lost my whole life's doo-doo 
With the funky clicks of naughty buttons  
Unholy shit days    my computer is now in the hospital for surgery   
I was planning a whole new picture-life using thumbnails
Tiny costco prints and the postal service  again
I'm not suicidal
But  2 hours in the emergency room = found all the files - then off to the operating table  
Lucky billy escapes the clutches    I'm going vegan    started today   stopping soon

Jan 26, 2014

Blake Andrews'
Q & A With Bill Dane


Jan 23, 2014

It is really difficult for me to place me.
I spend no voluntary moments thinking about it.
Under the press of editing, "How could I have put these pictures into public places?!".
We'll redo the website with pictures gut-pruned to 1/4 the number.   
I 'know' Atget pictures. Walker Evans. Et Al.
I 'know' Mozart. Pavarotti. Pollock. Morrison. Miles. Marx. MajorPowers.
I have chosen to let them be and keep on TRUCKIN'...  no matter.

Jan 21, 2014

Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited
Galerie Rudolfinum  Prague  Czech Republic
Michal Nanoru
1/24/14 to 4/6/14

San Diego 1972

Dec 21, 2013

One of the high 99% things to think about, at least annually:
What would we do, think, feel, say if we 'wound-up' inside with the 1-10%ers?
I try to.
Signed,  Bill

Dec 19, 2013

Respectfully to some friends:
No Hillary Clinton - unless you can tolerate stuff like NAFTA - global neoliberal capitalism - big$$$elections - No universal healthcare and education - Banking system 'right' back on top - capitalism - human nature doin' us all.  
Even the Pope is down - appearing.  
For salvage folks - Elizabeth Warren speaks some truths.
Love Bill.


Dec 17, 2013

Think for our very own selves - look around our very own spaces. 
We are the 99.99%.
What can we actually do = (at least) know what they & their flunkies are doing

Dec 16, 2013

¡ Use Our Internet !

Dec 7, 2013

Bill Dane
Actions report - Google Analytics:
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Dec 6, 2013

Oct 22, 2013

BART Workers Strike.
Oh dear. We now have 7% of USA workers unionized & can't even get a 15$ minimum wage. Spoiled/Entitled brats w/o history/head cred wanna bitch at Workers who actually have the leverage to lead for us all - 99%ers. Oh dears. Sad again n again ...

Aug 12, 2013

White BoyTarantino.
And his Beautiful Black Nigga Knowin' Co-Workers.
Masterpiece: "Django Unchained". 
Should Be One Of Our American Myths.
And for JFox-SLJackson-KWashington-LDiCaprio-WeinsteinBros and all all all the others,
To invest in the experience. 
To accept and co-build this vision.
Thank You All. 
PeaceOut.
Love. 
OffWhiteBill.
= = =
I smell this/our U.S.A.
All the way - BART to S.F.
Get on a packed am train.
Go car to car.
Here are empty seats - lots - why?
She is piled in blankets.
Black.  Wrapped-up.
Blank - resigned - sad - staring into other places.
Soon I breath thru my mouth.
Rapid transit is designed to get fast-past America-Stink.
I smell it everywhere now and stare into other places.
We have tiny experience with how most people on our planet survive.   
We take so much for granted. 
As if it's some god-given-right.  
Here in our by-chance and by-luck tiny piece of the planet.  
These are the feelings and actions of 'Entitlement'.  
If there is sin - this kind of 'Entitlement' is major.   
We are going to be guilty often.

Aug 8, 2013

Our Myth Maker 
Toni Morrison.

Aug 7, 2013




 Esther Dulberg Dane 2013
Final Project at Hampshire College  Flickr

Aug 1, 2013

Nuremberg Trials
Some of our Heros:
Ellsberg.
Assange.  
Manning.  
Snowden.

Jul 8, 2013

"The Pirate Bay" folks listened & did their thing.
106,748+ views in 3 days. 
Major Powers & The Lo-Fi Symphony does theirs.
Nick Powers
Kevin Gautschi
Dylan Gautschi
Now at:  YouTube 
SLIM'S:

May 28, 2013

How do I decide to Brechtly-communalize.
I do public strolling for striking telling trinkets. 
(Might even be incompletely-literal  oh dear   like you   experience.)
Erect   bending   crouching   kneeling    won't recall prostrations.
Simply always loved hands-on hunting for lost and unknown goodies.
! TheLacan/Bertold/Slavoj/Marc/Cayley know-shit.
? I thrash.
Amazed-starving.
This is where I communalize recent pictures.
These strike me but probably won't be in my next volume, 16:

May 12, 2013



here at outsider hq
99% of $100
My teeny 99%er gesture.

Apr 23, 2013

I am losing my mind.
!This will help:
http://lofisymphony.com/

Apr 9, 2013

Neighborhood Watch.
When 'stuff' hits home it is difficult to remember that the 'perps' are also victims.
HumanNature plus capitalism 'creates' sickness - often beyond our 'entitled' comprehension.
I must think of theft as 'recycling'.
Hopefully without injury.
The injured are everywhere among us and within.
We live in a 'maiming' culture - always have.
We are the 99%.
Good luck for all of us.
Bill.

Mar 29, 2013

Like yours.
'Just' reminded that Nancy's 'parents' have whisper-dissed me for years,
"He doesn't work."  + ...
(Sad: these 'workers' have mostly treated Nancy & their grandchildren like ...)   
((Good: I really cant remember ever 'not-working'.))
Oh dear.
My self-serving construct:
1938 + 
We played our asses off constantly w/o much supervision.
Like lots of kids in the '40s - '50s. 
Started working at about day-one = self-care.
Gardening + 'caring' for my frightened parent-mother. 
(1 week mommy had measles - in the dark - I did meals + beck n calls.)
While the funky-father used the merchant marines. 
A 'relatively-safe' WWII  3-year-escape from his family fears. 
At 10 yrs yardwork for neighbors + family-connection odd-jobs.
Delivering drugs w/car at 16 and thru hi sch & PCC. 
Army at 18 = 3 years of pretty-much work.
PCC w/jobs ... UCB w/jobs ... BA & Ma w/jobs ... teaching credential w/jobs ...
Berkeley Schools '66 - '98 = pretty-much work.
'63 to '70  I painted pictures constantly while pretty-much 'working' at BHS. 
'69-'70  started taking pictures while teaching-'working'. 
Nancy & I connected in '80 (!& I've always been 15 years older than Nancy).
Nancy works her ass off = Jobs-U.C.Doctorate-writes Book-Does Twins-me.
Berkeley Schools - taught & w/med benefits '66 til 2003 - incl twins meds.
2004 Edie died - we made her inheritance Nancy's retirement fund.
We live in the house that Edie underwrote = Nancy's & M&E's now.
Cant recall being out-of-work.  
In-Love  - retired -  guilty  - sad  - elated  - medicated  - ejaculated  - small, oh-dear 
Not-working  = !never.
I simply gotta comprehend that 'art-work' + life  is difficult to digest/consume.
& that's only me-tiny parts of it ... so much left ... like yours ...
'Love'.
Bill.
PSsst:
!Commonist +-! Fa-Sho.
(((Hmmmnn - Edie never questioned what I be.)))
((((& she went ta Vassar n got A's.))))

Mar 27, 2013

Brief history of visitors to this:
"Bill Dane on the internet."
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Mar 25, 2013

My new and two-faced 'pr' card:






Mar 20, 2013

?! '1st world democracy here'.
For 2 we get 230K$+ college debt.
?! How many usa citizens are going to college.
Not 99% ... !Fa-!Sho.
"Read All About It":
Capitalism + HumanNature = sicker n sicker ...

Mar 4, 2013

Age-appropriate walking.
I notice I now stroll while picture-hunting.
This includes some weaving.
My first fall is hilarious.
I stumble for literally 19 ft and almost down. 
Grab onto a tourist from behind who is initially dumbfounded.
We all guffaw with the guy across the street. 
He watches the whole thing unfold and cheers.

Feb 13, 2013

Again - again forever.
!Always The Big Shames.
Zuckerberg with Christie.
Capitalism - HumanNature.
We have a sadder smaller facebook.

Feb 10, 2013

? How in the 'worlds' are our dreams delivered.
? From what 'collections' are these amazing events fabricated.
! I believe in dreams.

Jan 14, 2013

Neurotic emperor without clothes.
A seminal authority remembrance.
My father naked on the toilet taking a dump.
He does that.
I do that.

Jan 2, 2013

?! What is there to say.
! Plenty.
?! Say it.
Necessity is the mutha of sayin' stuff.

Dec 21, 2012

Sam says that his day has gone completely out of control today.
Can you come in tomorrow at 4pm??
I am William Thacher Dane.
Roofing on the east coast of England for ages.
Humped by Vikings +-1100 AD.
My life gone completely out of control daily.
And you expect me !? ...... at 4pm tomorrow.
Injuries-insults-boohoo's. 
Poor lilbilly.
See ya.
Punctually.

Dec 20, 2012

I dont even know how to 'play' the lottery.
But I am lucky.
Berkeley public-schools art-teacher 32 years.
Picture-hunter w/$1600 mo 'pension'.
Way-underpaid Edu-Prof-Wife doin' good-works.
Twins in colleges = loans n joys.
Plus hella-goodies.
Entitled-white-guy still gotta chuckle every time I'm asked to donate.
My Grandfather could - William Larned Thacher = Thacher Gates.
My Thacher-Mother couldn't afford Midland -Grampa's gates got me 2 years free.
Forget Thacher.  Even I said that.
'Poorish'-blacksheep cousin Edith Thacher Dane born at Thacher School in '13.
'Raised' at Thacher.  We got to come up from LA every xmas n summer to play.
Vassar whizz But, "You cant be a doctor, Edie." = WOMAN in the 1930s.
Her fucking favorite uncle-male doctor at Yale dished-up this bile.
She worked at LA County hospital screening cancer-slides.
With doctors always coming around the house & her pants.
A communist-symp & socialist-heart.
Lucky for Pasadena area she then lived off her died-father's leftovers. 
Started HeadStart in black-Pasadena.
Headed the Valley-area EconOppCouncil under LBJ.
Got a cross burned on our lawn for fighting to get jesus outta-town-center at xmas.
There's a dreidel & Star o David there today.
HoHoHo.
! OhOhOh was Midland a huge Gift for me.
Literally saved my-pink-ass.
I went to silly-pasadena-high 12th grade. 
In order to complete my momentary-renaissance.
I needed to physically leave Midland and my past for a billy-tabula rasa.

Relieving myself in public. 
The least of stuff.
Be well.
Bill.

Dec 9, 2012

Pasadena, CA. 
Talk about ice-stone-cold racism in the '40s n '50s ... Now.
Immersed !& life-saved by !Mommy's Acts ... little-talk. 
How we even danced-in-awe 9 feet from Nat King Cole.
!? At the Pasadena Civic Aud in '56.

A kind of real.
I put 'new' pictures on Flickr every week.
Bob Dylan.
I use Pandora.
Feels like I could find words that pretty-much-sum-it from each of his '60's + songs.
Being a Baroque n Mozart guy - I've mostly 'listened' to 'sounds'.

Dec 3, 2012

Wrote:
I would AdventureRock this:
(I could do mo-betta)  ((Spike)):
The '70's = Leadbelly-JamesB-AC/DC-Hendricks-Joplin-Marley- + -
+ Your,  Et-Al ... 
I listened, +.
Queen was good, w/o, among other ingredients, the-taut-intensity.
but: !No MP&TL-FS.
Today's folks need to have touch-stones,  launching recent mostly-fine-reviews of MajorPowers.
I experience your 'takes'.
!ThankYou.
!&, Oh dear, we're differnt too.
!So:
What I can-do-hear is MP&TL-FS. :
http://lofisymphony.com/music.html
Good luck for all of us.

Nov 30, 2012

People.
End of November.
(another)
Beginning of "Bill Dane on the internet.".
Thank You.
Bill & Nick.

Nov 26, 2012

(! DeltaDental only covers our front 6 whities.
IE: I have a gap at #7.
Helping to define The 99%.
! And proud of it.)

Nov 18, 2012

! MajorPowers live in NorCal:
lofisymphony.com/

Nov 13, 2012

Now I will read Toni Morrison's novels.
In the order she wrote them.
See you later.

Nov 12, 2012

I finish this "Light In August".
Lightly-stoned on "Lava" from Iceland.
I'll just float here a bit ...

Nov 6, 2012

?! R&B in East Pasadena:
Wilson Jr Hi +  '51+.
Listen to Huggie Boy on our radios.   Wolf Man Jack.
Three little whities ride the trolly & bus to LA's Vernon At Central record store.
Buy R&B 45's to bring back  for selves   and 7th grade parties.
We found LittleRichard in mid '50's.
He fucking came to Pasadena in '56.
We got front row. 
All by himself  the Man was explosive  messianic. 
Danced   balanced his piano-chair  up in his mouth.
Seems we imported black R&B to the lil-ole-white-ladies-of-East Pasadena.
Some of their children can still be heard sayin' "Nigger"   if you listen.
Joined the army to get out of town.
Berkeley next.
Now  you sign books & I'm invited.
Stay well Joel Selvin.
And Thank you for this back-in-our-day picture at Vernon and Central.


Oct 14, 2012

Wrote:
As some kinda Zizek-commie w/entitled whiteguy-wetsuit cred ... n blah bla bs.
I will remain discombobulated.
Damn right I'll vote for saving more lives with Barack Hussein Obama II.
Human nature will not cease to beget evilites.
? When is it that real 'Evolution' kicks-in.
? Could this be intelligent-design.
! Unholy-Shit.

Oct 8, 2012

Wrote:
Capitalism is an evil human nature encourages.

Sep 25, 2012

Stage:
We experienced "CHINGLISH".
David Henry Hwang.
A treasure-package.
  My find among the gifts:
      Western romantic-love-life bind 
      vis a vis 
      Respect-commitment-family bind.
Heard:
Oh, he'll always need a sub.

Sep 3, 2012

Dream.
I have recurring classroom dreams.
Usually 5-7 AM.
I am frantically rearranging the furniture.
Class starts in minutes.
Wildly I have no plan for the lesson.
This time:
Alone in this big yellowish, off-white room.
High ceiling, bare walls, white tables, no supplies.
People I can't see, "Your father is having an attack."(? Heart-choking-seizure)
My father's severed head is brought in, put on a table in front of me.
They, "The only way to save him, we had to cut off all the rest."
If he's to live, it's understood, I must to give him mouth-to-mouth.
I do it. It's not ghastly. He pukes up some bile. Starts to breath.
Me, "He's not dead."
He does not speak or look at me. The breathing head.
I think, "This won't work. A head can't survive.
? How the fuck does a head do things. ? How can I care for a head.
I can't."
I put the head on it's side and cover it with a cloth.
I see that it tries to stay alive.
I decide not to help ... and wake up.

Sep 1, 2012

! Major Powers sold-out the "Bottom Of The Hill" last night.
! Their Vinyl was released.
! BigFun. Thanks Nick-Kevin-Dylan & TheMoonbeamer.

Aug 25, 2012

Aug 21, 2012

MajorPowers&TheLo-FiSymphony

Aug 6, 2012

I decided to trade My vintage prints for U.S.D. @ 'market-value'.!.

Jul 25, 2012

An introduction:
Slavoj Zizek.

Jul 19, 2012

Toni Morrison.
..."Beloved"
.....Amazing!.
Next, "Light In August".

Jul 12, 2012

Flickr-fellow comments on a picture of mine:
Him:
Very cool yet creepy.
With that said...isn't this just a photo you took of someone else's pic???
A little bit misrepresentative don't you think....
Me:
Thank you.
With that said ...
Oh, dear.
I'm a street photographer-hunter-gatherer.
For fun try: billdane.com
I built it for you.
Him:
Nice website Bill...interesting pics.
Me:
My pleasure.
The evolution from Volume 1 thru 14.
Picture by picture, 1969 - 2012.
No deviant god nor concept me-truckin' hath driven.
Thank the spirits you wrote !
Know that some-persons call persons-like-me names = mini-doodoo.
Try living Black-Palestinian-Jew-Latino-Queer-'Trash'-Commie +.
I am on record as an appropriation-lover and self-defining commie.
Love.
Bill.

Jun 29, 2012

YouTube new-stuff.
¿With white-whiny-entitled-gadfly?
Go figure.
I'm tryin'...
I read an email:
"I think Volume 2 scared the shit out of people.
When you went one step further in Volume 3
they had to let go because their tiny shitty little brains
couldn’t deal with the fear.
Whata buncha fuckin seat-belted mannequins."

Jun 20, 2012

Volume 14 is in-progress.
"One Hundred Years Of Solitude".
What else would I think about.

May 28, 2012

Time to at-least chuckle.
?Wry. ?Bemused. !Amazed. !Sad.
Always.
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.

May 19, 2012

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.

Apr 18, 2012

The Padded-One in Space.
Marc James Leger Les Avenues Cosmiques:
unholy-fun.

Apr 2, 2012

Coming soon:
The Nick Powers Internet Company.

Mar 11, 2012

Sweet-song
Bo Carter
He may have written this when he was 99:

Mar 9, 2012

"a small evolutionary-devolutionary tale continues:"

Mar 8, 2012

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.

Mar 5, 2012

Wondered over the years
Who would I 'be'
If I were a $picture-star$
Nothing but denims ?
$99. unlimited-editions ?
99%er ?
Evolved into what ?

Mar 1, 2012

Thank you Doctor:
"whenever I hear the word entitled
I reach for my manifesto"
He also sent me this direct-hit: