Apr 16, 2016

My primary connection for matters Israel and me is JVP   
Portside for general connecting
+ sanity: website
 99%      =    + + + + +  + 

Apr 13, 2016

Him, 
¿Qué es?
Me, 
Es una imagen
Cuadro
Picture
OK, a photo
Os

Apr 12, 2016

Mamma tried - Mamma tired - merle haggered
I'm a MFin' Willie n Ray guy - raised
​+Now  we need ta check this 'Mother Fucker' 'MF' thing and move on
     too gross-subtle fer MFin' merle et moi​ - 40s  50s  60s sad raised on it

Apr 7, 2016

Picture-taking is always about photographing pieces
And then doing stuff

Apr 6, 2016

Now! Get tough   weed out the damning-you funkies 
I love my funkies 
How am I to know what's what today 
That's why I love Flickr   where funkies can live on
Ready to be retrieved if I'm wrong   happy to be left in any garden 
Even available to be selected by the myopic & unsuspecting   like me 
Editing is always whats-up    can take ages
The website looks so-fine to me now   after our Monday tweaks   and before
Thank You Nick ! 
'07-'16   still TRUCKIN'... after all these beers years ...

Apr 5, 2016

Nick and I updated our website today
What a guy
I hug him
Check the Eras - now chronological  and 'Yours Truly'

Apr 4, 2016

Israel is now driven by 'settler-mentality'
Try Jewish Voice for Peace

Apr 3, 2016

Self pithy
Not quite sure if I'm getting ready to die or live

Mar 31, 2016

Gotta love Flickr = Another William
me: I must be repeating: 
Always good to know you're out there being You!
I try. Although more and more it seems the vanishing 
is the most important thing we do.
I spent a long afternoon walking through centuries past
in an antiques mall, so I think that inflected
my thing-like-thinking.
I'm away to bed as I have an appointment
with the dentist monster tomorrow morning early.
Maybe I should draw pics on my teeth to surprise him.
Or write him a message?
;p
me: at least tell him your thought that counts
they've started removing the teeth i can't afford to replace  3 so far  99%

Mar 30, 2016

1957-8  I could only wander the Grant Av  19yrs old  howling in wonder
wearing a fucking beret & smoking a fucking pipe   regular-tobacco 
obtuse-cool    so-what  hippityhop  felt close to the beat  salvation

Mar 29, 2016

Dear Bill,
It’s been a long time since our last communication and I feel really uncomfortable about this. 
Actually, I am a little depressed: the usual spring depression plus the political situation in Europe and in my country, in particular. I’ve been volunteering for some time in Piraeus Syrian refugees camp (over 5,000 persons, living in extremely crowded tent shelters, under conditions that make them losing their dignity as humans one day after another). I understood all the misery and hypocrisy of European philantrocapitalism. I feel sick and tired to be part of this Europe, I feel hopeless about all these people trying to find a safe place for their children. However, one good thing about this situation is that Greek citizens reacted better and quicker than the state itself.
Otherwise, I hope you and your beloved ones are fine ( I saw the family photo, it was nice to ‘’meet’’ you. Sotiris and I often talk about you; maybe, one day, when the capital controls will be lifted, we’ll be able to have one of your photos . 
I have already visited your new page and will keep visiting again and again. Keep up the good work.
Love from Greece, Katia

Aγκαλιάζει is good Katia +++
Thank you for trusting to message me.
Remember that in this usa - neoliberalcapitalist sucker-land ... we have not had real national calamity and grief since our civil war in the 1860s !!!! We don't know shit! Black and brown people here know what horror is.
White folks are clueless or helpless or self-protecting or ???
You are in the middle of STUFF Katia.
Comrades here - we do what we can and decide.
!Thank You!  We are all working for all of us.  Love, Bill.

Mar 28, 2016

this will have to do
my state of the union missive epitaph ?
'sad shit'

Mar 27, 2016

Mar 24, 2016

I don't think I've done enough homework:
Scandinavian-Style Social Welfare - Nordic Countries

Mar 23, 2016

I will not vote for a fucking clinton
(i think i did)

Mar 22, 2016

I'm going to treat myself
After years of mostly sober appraisals:
Atget  Winogrand  Dane   and go from there . . .

Mar 21, 2016

Jewish Voice for Peace - BDS et cetera
"usa-commoners" expected to do 
"go-fund-me" "kickstarter" or "fagetabouteducation" 
our family of four already shares $240K college loan payments
Our Black and Brown neighbors know this 'life' here
keep those 1%er tax-cuts cuttin'  bigassbros!    you-next

Mar 20, 2016

from John:
The whole issue of Israel, (Palestine, creation, mutual rights to exist, settlers, right of return) is so fraught with unsettling expectations that it may be a roadmap to the "settlement" of left v. right, class division, Rep. v Dem, one percenter v. 99 percenter issues. Meaning: there's no way to get there. Not even war, unless one side entirely wipes out the other. Since we apparently can't resolve our internal differences, all the while expecting things to get better, how can we expect the middle east to do any better? My family, basically Irish-American, isn't as depressed as I am about the future of this country or of Israel, maybe because they haven't been in Israel or traveled thru the middle east or lived much of their US life in largely Jewish communities.
Thank you John - here, a zit is to suffer ... 
I can only imagine transplanting "Israel" to some coastal piece of here ... 
In My Back Yard ...
Love to give my opinions  Dan  Marc  Nick  +
Very happy you continue engaged with my pictures   me too
To whatever degrees given your platters
Hope to hell you'll retire at will from this adventure guys    reality is
Haven't had this much fun in cages
Marc talk  seems to indicate some overlapping  co-mingling with Dan talk
Are you on pages together
Is NYMoMA's my-picture-card-collection impossible to access  logical target period
I'm easy to access
You comprehend  after these +-40yrs   I've grown accustomed to the nook
I can't hustle inside the capitalist-speculation-complex
Of course You give me booster-shots   not-sick  Big-fun
If ''we'' do something it should be internet-oriented   None of our $$$     
Publishing   none of our $$$    $$$ we don't have anywhere    Os  Bill

bs: I must not stop wondering what I'd Be  if I'd been $ucce$$ful ! ?

Mar 19, 2016

I do live in a saddened horrified Jewish family ...

Mar 18, 2016

Marc
would I love you if we roomed
whatever
How do you make time for tiny tangentials
Your honored guest,  

Mar 12, 2016

So consumed with positives now = my pictures up via the website
*Soon enough I'll be back to forgetting there are extra possibles out there
It's hella plus vitale que you-Marc happen      
(you-Dan can self-happen + +  study Marc's world, Os)
Whatevers forever
bs:
*You tryin to get Die Antwoord people +++ to write with my pictures
  Thought counts big in my li'lbilly club
Trump

Mar 10, 2016

so fucking sad and horrifying for Palestinians...Jews...All of Us...here there everywhere...
Elie Wiesel, "Always remember that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without protesting."

Mar 9, 2016

Speechless would work better for me MJL
This blog should be sufficient embarrassment      
I do pictures    
Made you a gift website   you've no time to know
Screw bookjacketblurbers à propos de elderwastebasketeers
Time pour les nouveaux vitale flamethrowers
À votre santé  Comrades

Mar 6, 2016

our 3-branch-neo-liberal-capitalist-government drags us under
republicans got stuff into the-streets  bully-streets  wall-streets 
estrange-streets   bigot-streets +++
maybe Bernie can educate us into an evolving future

Mar 5, 2016

"doctoring"  
I'd like to make it perfectly clear   but it isn't    and I love it
T w e a k i n g  my files in Adobe Lightroom 5  "photo processor and image organizer" 
cropping    contrast    light-dark    color-saturation/intensity    sharpening    spotting
I never printed my own color pictures in a darkroom   don't know how I woulda tweaked 'em
Whatever
Read my pictures
Gets So Much Right For All Of Us
Thank You Bernie

Mar 4, 2016

True and perfect 
Mikey had his heart attack in the car 
As we were about to enter the vet's for his ending
Esther wrapped Mikey ceremonially
Nancy and Esther   enviable emotions  Thank you
Backyard burial was beautiful
Mikey  very-fine cat-companion guy   
Months of caring for our 17year old    
Even 5 cat boxes in our small house
We spent hours with him on laps
Misty will finally get all the food she wants     yin-yang forever

Mar 3, 2016

Follow-up to another meet-up at Trader Joe's
Rommi from Estonia  thought I might do mentoring = email n tiny:
Flickr for picture sharing Rommi
I started this w/o help:
If you sign up for Flickr  you could search groups using the title Street Photographers + + + +
Here can be a start place to find picture-folks you might like - my group that I started with help :
Check the Groups that folks belong to    scan them for possibles
All my pictures are now at Flickr and my website
(Just finished an 8 month adventure   lost all my files    salvaged most    try to forget the lost)
Good places to start:  
ATGET  Evans  Frank  Winogrand  Friedlander  Kertesz  Brassai  Cartier-Bresson  +++
Follow Your Very Own Head-Heart-Libido
Os  Bill

Feb 28, 2016

Os Kitties! 17 year Companions 
Will find a way to help Mikey die at home   then Misty
 MJL 
Guilt by association
Is what I'm dreamin' of

Feb 27, 2016

I find him the most straightforward poignant accessible art-writer
Thank you Nick  I think of you
at least 3 times a day     for various reasons    none which involve nuts-in-the-dirt     ok  1 must have    
I am rocked n rolled
The Website  This Website  your website & mine!  
I'm exhausted    realizing   absorbing  the magnitude of your gift/s
Fuckin A  we said in the 50s   
​​Fuckin A  man
Fuckin A  Major-P
Love  Bill-dad
Why wouldn't I say that film is the fullest art form
Because it takes so much money
Because made-for-TV is    Music    Writing    Theater     +
Follow the money    
What's next for us

Feb 26, 2016

This MJL is on my what's-left mind

Feb 25, 2016

Since 2007 . . . and yesterday
Every time we website 
Nick at the codes-keyboard
Nick all-faculties-focused
Nick my comrade sun-in-law
TruthOut:
(i always sit-with and try to participate)
It's made in Nicholas Jarvis Powers 
SoLucky me  Thank You Monet
Os  Bill-dad

Feb 21, 2016

With a full heart-head   this may sound cheesy - tough:
If our today's commonist-picture-share-adventures never beget stuff   this'll fade 
Responses   dribs n drabs  over this time   
Our righteous fluctuations of energies goals wills
Our political dignity  integrity
We have lives    priorities going here n there  
Whatevers  I love it!  ​Thank Yous
Your boostershots along the Blvd + +  are my fine pleasures
This is to tell you  I have been surprise-energised by you  Marc   Dan
Happy lucky ages of props'ing by Nancy Monet Nick Esther Moses ++++++
I don't expect you to fill my li'l-hustle holes  pimpin'-blocked-Bill
The website is likely gonna be the plenty-enough pleasures   
Joy!  Pictures plus  all there  @ billdane.com    and responses
Some folks looking   seeing feeling thinking . . .

99% =  =   + + + + + 
​Os Bill​

Feb 20, 2016

good luck Dan
go   self-serving adventures   a lucky-must
the strength and will to try stuff
a new generational identity comin'
oy  but the chance you'll miss the classless train
go peddle  mutha fukka    seat saved here
(what's a sea-jew* do for heartburn Dan 
i'm dyin' here Dan
devil of a man   burning sand)
tryin' ta luv ya Dan
*norwegian

Feb 18, 2016

Re: li'lbilly = cute alter-self from original '07 website-builder playground ...
mail:
believe i might be in recovery Marc      Dan you there    Nick
this 8 month salvage-plus thing   website 
i'm winded   
not depressed  not anxious   fagged-out    love it
tax-shit  here a month   don't move   fuckit
nikon d3300+60mm macro  in my face    go-way
who's sean stewart    rod's   can't be
fuckin' ngai      no give-ups
if i was a cocksman    no Nancy
lose some   winsome li'lbilly
chairMacTRUCKIN'...  not bad at all    coffee breaks  'news'paper    entitled doo doo out my asshead
let's grind it ...   Bill
99% =  =   + + + + + 
website
bs: just old ?

Feb 17, 2016

Merci grands guys intelligents     
Mais jml pourquoi tu cible-exagère mon utilisation Lightroom5
Ce est junior 
Je queue d'aronde avec le docteur Ngai
Ok Guys   sadly  have to leave busy  Sianne Ngai   damn   find her plus tard!?
​I love your threads  I love post-bluejeans moi   living more in the gray areas en ce moment
Dear Marc in Montreal   Dan​ in Kvernaland/Paris
I am very grateful for your my-pictures-engaging
Sounds like possible fun adventures for you  me and my pictures   possible
Will you please tell me which size font font is best for commonist email-connecting
Os  Bill​   love it
bs: I can't generate a time-consuming interest in my postcards now  NYMoMA has all I'd care to re-see
    There are so many pictures there sent w/o much editing  I'd likely cringe if it went more-public ?!  
       We would edit !
I am ecstatic evolving this latest website ...
For the first time since 1963  I believe I see what I've been hunting relatively gut-clearly  head-cool
I just don't know the best size for my font choice     whaa whaa li'l pink boy  and
You guys are making me feel lazy and nonfunctional  But
What a pleasure to read your stuff about mine  
Thank You Very Much  
It's the thoughts that count 
It's you doing the you-work that you do  hoping not to-take-away-from
#1  I trust you two + + +
#2  I do not have art-world and $ expectations  beyond exciting periodic masterbatory indulgences
​#3  ​Prioritizing my connection with my pictures - the website does it - right now  back to 1971
        It's the pictures    I'm not happy to fit others' presentation-goals   unless they match mine-ours
​#4  My pictures  plus  are now accessible to all  on the website and Flickr  
​      If folks have an interest in  shows  books  words  ​trade    they Go places
#5  I use Lightroom5  a photoshop-junior tweaking is close to darkroom manipulations I do what I do  and love it
#6  ​I am not equipped to be very helpful with PR    I hope you ask    I believe the website tells all
#7  ?  Os Bill
99% =  =   + + + + + 

Feb 16, 2016

They have to 'love' my pictures   if it happens that someone writes 
Hello People
I have been looking as hard as I can for these past eight months
To find out if I can honestly see my pictures
Salvaging the 2700 disappeared files - editing - tweaking - over and over - again and again
Editing the number to 900
The last two months - deciding which of the 900 pictures are the 'me' to present
Final tweaking to 'discover' my pictures  again and new
Editing the three time Eras
? Which pictures must be in the 3 Eras  and which ones must not be lost - the others
I just went thru the website pictures again  now after publishing
So much of what goes-on-around   feels to have the pictures left-for-granted
? Easier to talk about bio-stuff  paper-rep   shows    pr ...   I can't be for long there ...
Seeing the pictures moves me   elsewhere   head and heart    and
I don't care if I'm speechless with the poetic

Feb 15, 2016


  • Didi S. Gilson
    We finished billdane.com/ YES! Damn! 8 fine grinding months ...then Nick and I did the website in 2 x 10 hour days of codes FUN n dancing ... Disappearing all my files =ed best major picture event of my decades! = salvage-edit-tweak-organize-edit-tweak-edit: WEBSITE! Os Didi - Bill
  • Nick Monet Romy were tethered to home those days = sad...
  • Nick is also powering up in studio - finishing album #2:
    lofisymphony.com/

Feb 13, 2016

Thanks!  Over n Over . . .
Nancy Dulberg   Monet Zulpo-Dane   Nick Powers!
Without you! not so much! 

= this website + + + +
LOVE  Bill

Feb 12, 2016

How are you three doing? 
Being 2 days in your home was up n over...
I am hungry.
But  to finish this website with you  has me chill  exhausted   mello  
   while the dishes pile here on the sink n counter and all over...
I am embarrassed to say I slept 10 hours easy   2 days
Since 2007  words have never been enough!
Os  THANK YOU  Monet and Nick   
Lucky Romy n Bill + + + +
+ But  Nicholas Jarvis Powers  I never find your design credit on the website.
This is not good!
It would include: Nick's Music  and  nickpowers@live.com  

Feb 11, 2016

This is it!
This is one of those "it"!
We finished our billdane.com makeover today.
Thanks to the intensity of Nicholas Jarvis Powers' powers*****!
My Pleasure  Bill

Feb 5, 2016

From my Flickr profile:
Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area + 
camera street picture hunter gatherer billdane.com/
Walking - scanning for striking signs of our human adventure
My sense of this life, like yours, worth sharing
Thank You for communing 
Good luck for all of us   Os  Bill
aka William Thacher Dane & Bill Zulpo-Dane
= = =
I also do Flickr Group: TREASURE my gallery for the pictures of others
= = =
Now I absolutely crucially pleasurefully use Lightroom5

Feb 3, 2016

I believe i just finished this part of my adventure.
All the pictures for Flickr are now there.
You may say, "Who cares?!"
I am not the one to funk wit you for your loss of pleasure!
Good luck for all of us!
Just gonna KEEP ON TRUCKIN'...
and finish my billdane.com/ pictures = soon . . .
I am, less n more, biildane.com

!Thank You for your Flickr visits People.
I been head down grinding for 8 months salvaging-editing-tweaking 
all my 2700+ self-Mac-disappeared picture-files.
Did not lose many.
One of the best and most productive events 
in my picture-life! = forced editing*****!
Os Bill