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.
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
Aug 7, 2013
Aug 1, 2013
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:
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:
Apr 23, 2013
Apr 9, 2013
Neighborhood Watch.
When 'stuff' hits home it is difficult to remember that the 'perps' are also victims.
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.
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.))))
!Mostly, "Bill Dane on the internet.".
Mar 27, 2013
Mar 20, 2013
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.
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
Feb 10, 2013
Jan 14, 2013
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.
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
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.
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.
End of November.
(another)
Beginning of "Bill Dane on the internet.".
Thank You.
Bill & Nick.
Nov 26, 2012
Nov 18, 2012
Nov 13, 2012
Nov 12, 2012
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Aug 25, 2012
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