The Coup
Aug 21, 2012
Aug 6, 2012
Jul 25, 2012
Jul 19, 2012
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
Jun 20, 2012
May 28, 2012
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.
Still-straight-street picture hunter-gatherer.
Self-defining communist.
Stop neo-conservative/liberal capitalism.
With a Nikon D80 w/28-105 macro ?!
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.
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.
No more edition prints.
Any size you choose to 42" by X". Ink-jet.
Mar 11, 2012
Mar 9, 2012
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
Mar 1, 2012
Feb 23, 2012
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-
I set up low-budget homing (ignore my bio-facade) underground.
'69-'71 Atget-Evans-Frank-Diane-Gary-
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
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."
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.
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.
Feb 21, 2012
Jan 16, 2012
Jan 14, 2012
Jan 11, 2012
Dec 12, 2011
Dec 9, 2011
Dec 3, 2011
Miles Davis
American
Thanks to PandoraFreeOnlineRadio
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 ?
Dec 1, 2011
Nov 12, 2011
Oct 17, 2011
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
Oct 14, 2011
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
Oct 12, 2011
Sep 22, 2011
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" EtcLeonard Michaels "To Feel These Things" Etc
Heinrich Boll "The Collected Stories" Etc
W.G. Sebald "On The Natural History Of Destruction" Etc
Amos Oz "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Etc
Breece DJ Pancake "The Stories of Breece DJ Pancake"
Russell Banks "Continental Drift" EtcLeonard Michaels "To Feel These Things" Etc
Heinrich Boll "The Collected Stories" Etc
W.G. Sebald "On The Natural History Of Destruction" Etc
Sep 10, 2011
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
Sep 3, 2011
Aug 26, 2011
So much good stuff out there:
Blog: We Can Shoot Too
Website: J. Wesley Brown
Blog: This Year in Pictures
Website: Danziger Projects
Thank you both
Wish we all had more time
Aug 17, 2011
Aug 16, 2011
Help Rebuild The Dream
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
Aug 13, 2011
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
Aug 6, 2011
Aug 5, 2011
Aug 1, 2011
Jul 29, 2011
Jul 24, 2011
This Website:
2007:
Coming: .
"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 ..
&
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
Jul 23, 2011
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
Jul 20, 2011
Jul 19, 2011
Jul 15, 2011
See:
Jul 13, 2011
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
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
Jul 11, 2011
Jul 9, 2011
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:
Jul 8, 2011
Jun 29, 2011
Jun 11, 2011
May 27, 2011
I read:
'If you have no more tears left to weep,
then don't weep. . Laugh.'
Amos Oz "A Tale Of Love And Darkness"
May 13, 2011
'Fictitious' email I sent in a context of it's own:
our Paul ... assassinated
for simply pointing out that
our USA is responsible for 1000s of times more deaths
than this Bin Laden is
and just in the past 20 years
and our Paul tried to explain
the realities which motivate these 'terrorists'
our Paul didn't stand a chance
...follow the middle east-money-oil-religions etc
nasty complex survival shit-pile of human-natures
everywhere
May 7, 2011
May 1, 2011
Photographer's email:
" ... one of the recurring hang-ups in my class
is the idea of authorship, and any images of
images are immediately tried for armed robbery ... "
images are immediately tried for armed robbery ... "
I reply:
school-daze Aaron
has to be talk
temp-fun-bull-shit-?
soon-forgotten-!
folks wander wherever or down ta wall st
gods will try us mutha-jumpin' photographers
for takin' pics of her authored people trees n holy-natures
what happens ta us atheist-straight-still-picture-takin'-armed-robber witches
holy-classroom trials for all !
be damned ...do what ya gotta do
then at least .wander over to the W.G. Sebald zone
Apr 26, 2011
It's obvious to me:
I am now .and since 1969..I have always been .
A .straight-still photographer.
Photoshop/+. are not a part of my processes.
I walk . find . take . share ..pictures.
I am now .and since consciousness. I have always been
A marxist-socialist.
I had a fine mother with a social conscience.
Boards of Directors .distributors of profits:
At least one-half must be workers in each enterprise.
Capitalsim. 'free' 'State' 'hybrid' .is nasty . never democratic.
Signed: .My Pleasure!. Bill Dane
Apr 7, 2011
Apr 2, 2011
Mar 17, 2011
Mar 14, 2011
To Whom it concerns:
With the birth of Bill Dane on the internet.
I have slowly evolved - changed important ingredients
of my photography - picture making processes.
This includes: a digital camera - computer editing -
printing company - and relationships with traditional
institutions for the presentation and sale of pictures.
Since 1969 I have made sold and gifted pictures.
This was done in various forms.
Hindsight shows the lack of a desirable consistency.
Fraenkel Gallery and Jack Fischer Gallery have
presented and sold pictures of mine over time.
I am changing to a new form for recording the sale of my pictures.
The 'overview' of that process is outlined below. (see 3-7-11)
Pictures purchased before this year 2011 will become 'Special Pictures'.
I understand that this is my declaration and definition.
They are most certainly a class of 'Vintage Print'
and in the traditional sense of the classification.
There should be little confusion about the 'status' of these pictures.
They will be easily identified and differentiated from pictures sold after 2010.
They should have a unique value.
I am sorry if this causes any person grief.
Bill Dane
I have slowly evolved - changed important ingredients
of my photography - picture making processes.
This includes: a digital camera - computer editing -
printing company - and relationships with traditional
institutions for the presentation and sale of pictures.
Since 1969 I have made sold and gifted pictures.
This was done in various forms.
Hindsight shows the lack of a desirable consistency.
Fraenkel Gallery and Jack Fischer Gallery have
presented and sold pictures of mine over time.
I am changing to a new form for recording the sale of my pictures.
The 'overview' of that process is outlined below. (see 3-7-11)
Pictures purchased before this year 2011 will become 'Special Pictures'.
I understand that this is my declaration and definition.
They are most certainly a class of 'Vintage Print'
and in the traditional sense of the classification.
There should be little confusion about the 'status' of these pictures.
They will be easily identified and differentiated from pictures sold after 2010.
They should have a unique value.
I am sorry if this causes any person grief.
Bill Dane