Hoping to get "TREASURE" by bill dane Open To All.
lil'billy n flickr
we spent a week together back n forthin'
day breaks came n went
they schooled me fa-sho
got my Photostream back in their groove w/o undocumented nudies
this "TREASURE" thing is another bird
nursin' it for flight
wanna make it open to all you cool nonYahoos
You might be fine cuz you're signed-in to this biggie in our skies
I gotta love it
Finally! Flickr got me straight & OPEN.
They were very nice about my short-comings.
Jun 25, 2014
Every wee thing is a biggish deal for neurotic-perfectionist lil'billy
At this time in Flickr-me-hist !They're fuckin' wit me today - tomorrow sunshine possible = I should bitch = I gotta damn house n family n cats ta feed n FlickrEntertainmentCentral!
Jun 18, 2014
My new Flickr Group:
"TREASURE" by bill dane
* ONLY 1 or 2 PICTURES BY EACH PERSON *
* MANY PEOPLE'S VISIONS *
* Point me to your pictures:
* Add Photos here, and/or
* Favorite my pictures @
www.flickr.com/photos/billdane/
I look. I sort. I marvel. I CHOOSE.
I plant. Weed. Add. Subtract.
Thank you all.
My pleasure, Bill.
"TREASURE" by bill dane
* ONLY 1 or 2 PICTURES BY EACH PERSON *
* MANY PEOPLE'S VISIONS *
* Point me to your pictures:
* Add Photos here, and/or
* Favorite my pictures @
www.flickr.com/photos/billdane/
I look. I sort. I marvel. I CHOOSE.
I plant. Weed. Add. Subtract.
Thank you all.
My pleasure, Bill.
Jun 14, 2014
You think I have time to travel your "icestation", Dr.WK ?!
I'm now handson dicktaterhead at "Simply Gallery ..." (now "TREASURE" bill dane).
At least I can bliss-croak ahhhh Stuffs will be well repped-on by your ilk.
You know - the most intriguing edgy edu poignant thing about Flickr is that it screams at me,
"Go Look Hunt Elsewhere Billyboy. Anywhere but here n there where others trip n trample."
I gotta love it to death. Thank You WK, et all !
I'm now handson dicktaterhead at "Simply Gallery ..." (now "TREASURE" bill dane).
At least I can bliss-croak ahhhh Stuffs will be well repped-on by your ilk.
You know - the most intriguing edgy edu poignant thing about Flickr is that it screams at me,
"Go Look Hunt Elsewhere Billyboy. Anywhere but here n there where others trip n trample."
I gotta love it to death. Thank You WK, et all !
Jun 11, 2014
How can I help myself ?!:
Bill Dane: The Photographic Postcard As a Conceptual Art Work
William Williams - Haverford College - Pennsylvania
Thomas Garver Haverford College class of 1956 was contacted last June to solicit ideas as to how to structure an exhibition to acknowledge his support of the photography collection at Haverford over two decades. He replied that his gift should be thought of as an “Accidental Collection” because that is what it is. The hundreds of prints and related material that he has given signify that it is more than that. O. Winston Link, Charles Currier, vernacular photography and Bill Dane’s real photographic post card correspondence stand out because of their sheer numbers and affinity with each other. Graver wrote of Dane’s postcard photographs:
One might imagine Dane as one photographer among many in a crowd, waiting for the momentary appearance of a "great personality," The figure appears--all cameras fire in unison--except Dane's, His reflexes appear to be curiously skewed. While all the other Photographers get the standard "shot," Dane gets the special, perhaps awkward, but very personal photograph, the photograph that turns our "personality" bock into a person.
Dane’s Photographic post card correspondence to Garver is a succinct summing up of this esthetic and the state of photography in the middle of the 20th century. The twenty-four post cards on exhibition are at once a meditation on the meaning of photographs, the technology of image transmission and a record of a correspondence between friends. The cards are displayed so that both sides can be seen. This allows the image and text to be experienced as Dane made them. Tom’s description of his gift as “Accidents” is instructive and a rewarding way to look at and to appreciate the originality of Bill Dane’s work.
Jun 9, 2014
Jun 8, 2014

Charles Jackson 1975, BD
"Odyssey" Berkeley Public Schools
"The Case For Reparations"
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 21, 2014
Jun 2, 2014
Re: "Gallery Edgy Poignant Pictures"
( with comrade bossy bill )
I'm trying to get different people picture visions.
Not just more pictures from the usual wonderful suspects !
I am editing in-n-out
Making my way my way...
see billy run
he has fun
see spot run
spot ran away
billy is bossy dick-tater-head
spot won't play with billy
oh here comes jane
maybe jane likes taters
( with comrade bossy bill )
I'm trying to get different people picture visions.
Not just more pictures from the usual wonderful suspects !
I am editing in-n-out
Making my way my way...
see billy run
he has fun
see spot run
spot ran away
billy is bossy dick-tater-head
spot won't play with billy
oh here comes jane
maybe jane likes taters
May 31, 2014
KEEP ON TRUCKIN'... YOUR VERY OWN DEFINING, wn !
You have always been the boss of you !
"Hey Bill, Most of the pix in your Flicker blog aren't edgy enough for me. I'll pass, but so glad you're stay'n busy with projects like "Edgy Poignant Pictures." Best regards, as always, wn"
Too Cool to leave off my actual Blog = Thanks wn.!.
I love it !
Best for You Bill.
bs: get your own fuckin' group wn.
bs: get your own fuckin' group wn.
May 28, 2014
U.S.A. Corporate Capitalist Media Pimps = it's all . ? . ? . ? . ? . ? . ? . ?s . . .
Senseless Act of Violence. ?
Homeless Person Scares Tourists. ?
Hoodie Leads To Death. ?
Gays Beaten In Plain Sight. ?
Health Care Not For All. ?
Raped By Husband. ?
Real Estate Prices Drive San Franciscans Out of Their Own City. ?
Rich Teen Steals Car For Fun. ?
Reparations. ?
Supreme Court Rules - Corporations = Persons. ?
BART Strike Hurts Commuters. ?
9/11. ?
Random Acts of Violence. ?
Tuition Costs Rule Out College For Most Americans. ?
Innocent Black Man Freed From Jail After 20 Years. ?
Abortion Doctor Murdered. ?
Banks Cause Crash - Millions Suffer. ?
Epidemic Of Violence Against Women. ?
College Debt In Trillions. ?
Peace Talks Stall. ?
Local Man Molests. ?
Money Buys Elections. ?
Woman Kills Her Children. ?
U.S Continues Cuba Boycott-Sanctions. ?
Sports Filled With Drugs - Athletes Sick?
Blah - Sad - Blah. ?
Blah - Senseless - Blah. ?
Not Senseless At All Folks. !
Human Nature + This Stage Capitalism + Oligarchy.
This is us.
The Communal Is Disappeared. !
Senseless Act of Violence. ?
Homeless Person Scares Tourists. ?
Hoodie Leads To Death. ?
Gays Beaten In Plain Sight. ?
Health Care Not For All. ?
Raped By Husband. ?
Real Estate Prices Drive San Franciscans Out of Their Own City. ?
Rich Teen Steals Car For Fun. ?
Reparations. ?
Supreme Court Rules - Corporations = Persons. ?
BART Strike Hurts Commuters. ?
9/11. ?
Random Acts of Violence. ?
Tuition Costs Rule Out College For Most Americans. ?
Innocent Black Man Freed From Jail After 20 Years. ?
Abortion Doctor Murdered. ?
Banks Cause Crash - Millions Suffer. ?
Epidemic Of Violence Against Women. ?
College Debt In Trillions. ?
Peace Talks Stall. ?
Local Man Molests. ?
Money Buys Elections. ?
Woman Kills Her Children. ?
U.S Continues Cuba Boycott-Sanctions. ?
Sports Filled With Drugs - Athletes Sick?
Blah - Sad - Blah. ?
Blah - Senseless - Blah. ?
Not Senseless At All Folks. !
Human Nature + This Stage Capitalism + Oligarchy.
This is us.
The Communal Is Disappeared. !
May 27, 2014
May 26, 2014
Students Now Indentured to the Banksters
America's student loan debt crisis is a massive, devastating, trillion dollar morally criminal conspiracy, committed by Wall Street banksters, libertarian billionaires and Reaganomics devotees.May 25, 2014
Re: this Flickr Group I started:
Remember POI,
I had to be righteously schooled to reluctantly accept my dictaterhood.
There was mindful concern re a chaotic, commonist dumping ground.
Thus: Dictator For Fellow Toilers - another pollution of The Marx. oh dear Thank you POI, Edgy - Poignant - Appreciated ! & I Thought - I Wrote . . . to 'fill a polite purpose'. Bill billdane.com says:![]() There will be unhappy moments - even in our gardens. There are x possible ways to deal with this flickr life. You already know about, and mention, the fickle nature of 'art' (and science) choices. Your personal choices are your own best mentoring. How I've gone about making pictures since 1963 is very simple and very nuanced. I do 'art' every day in different ways. Living a Personal Engaged Psych and Social life. Edgy Poignant Alienated Disturbed Sad Hilarious +. A history of adventures in expression - from crib-screaming to making pictures. In the beginning I looked all over places for Picture signals - the Politics and Musics of our passages - I stayed alive. I taught an encompassing demographic - a range of USA-'victim' teenagers for 33 years. Very soon this-my-history took over and I've been on a form of picture-art-auto-pilot. My daily choices - decisions - are within the boundaries of stuff I do not much control. Ie: It is only possible for me to takes pictures of 'certain' stuff - stuff that grabs me - then I find out if it makes a Picture - with the caveat of all the fickle ingredients we all experience - minute to minute in this life. So! Mind me or don't. (You don't even have a fucking name yet.) ((I don't even know how I'll Lenin-Marx this group.)) We're all hyped n fucked again & who cares - it's our teeny raucous riot of planetary inconsequential doo doo. I spent my whole life prepping for mentorshipping. You'll find 'it' packaged and messy at: billdane.com |
May 18, 2014
Getting questions (and answers!) about my Flickr Group and the Website.
I'll post some, fun for me, stuff that could help my kids after I croak.
answer:
Nick, Major Powers, and I have been evolving the site since '07.
We we we have rollicking fun and do some self-serious shit.
I had +- 1500 pictures in older versions of the site.
Overwhelming and Underedited !
The 3 eras have logics.
The eras are functional divisions - for viewers.
I edited for 2 months 'weeding' my garden = very satisfying.
We found the logical breaks and put +-100 pictures in each.
We created 'Right Now' = Flickr - for recent pictures.
These are rough edited pictures - not digested over time - yet !
? Do I prefer an era (no) or pictures = I selected each picture from thousands since '69.
Jan-Feb - 2 months of re-editing = I prefer them all.
But ! I don't look back (except to website).
So ! Could say I prefer the pictures in reverse chronological order.
What I'm up to Right Now is all it's about.
I'll post some, fun for me, stuff that could help my kids after I croak.
answer:
Nick, Major Powers, and I have been evolving the site since '07.
We we we have rollicking fun and do some self-serious shit.
I had +- 1500 pictures in older versions of the site.
Overwhelming and Underedited !
The 3 eras have logics.
The eras are functional divisions - for viewers.
I edited for 2 months 'weeding' my garden = very satisfying.
We found the logical breaks and put +-100 pictures in each.
We created 'Right Now' = Flickr - for recent pictures.
These are rough edited pictures - not digested over time - yet !
? Do I prefer an era (no) or pictures = I selected each picture from thousands since '69.
Jan-Feb - 2 months of re-editing = I prefer them all.
But ! I don't look back (except to website).
So ! Could say I prefer the pictures in reverse chronological order.
What I'm up to Right Now is all it's about.
May 16, 2014
May 15, 2014
Re: 'my' flickr group.
Response to a possible participant:
Response to a possible participant:
I started this group for fun - curiosity.
I was helped to understand my open-to-all-commonism leads to dumping-ground.
End of the adventure - so! - went with Edgy Poignant Pictures Please.
Which leads to unholy shit = I have to reject stuff - draw lines.
End up with only my own pictures ?!
Then I start dinging my pictures - until what ?
Some kinda masterbatory editing mission accomplished ?!
oh dear.
I was helped to understand my open-to-all-commonism leads to dumping-ground.
End of the adventure - so! - went with Edgy Poignant Pictures Please.
Which leads to unholy shit = I have to reject stuff - draw lines.
End up with only my own pictures ?!
Then I start dinging my pictures - until what ?
Some kinda masterbatory editing mission accomplished ?!
oh dear.
May 14, 2014
This flickr adventure has been supported fun after only 3 days of reach-outs.
Sharing-wise = way better than limited picturepostcard mailings.
One Brooklyn fellow hopes we're within one-big-serendipitous-article of virality.
Oh dear folks! but Thank you.
Oh dear folks! but Thank you.
Yes - I put up my pictures of women w/o clothes to test viewers.
How do folks find them ?!
No clue - yet.
I got 1500 views on each of those.
Usually 200-500 a picture on my Flickr.
How do folks find them ?!
No clue - yet.
I got 1500 views on each of those.
Usually 200-500 a picture on my Flickr.
flickr commonist notes
Oh dear.
(I have even lost myself !)
Looking for order and clarity.?
But reality requires a poetic mix of ingredients in our lab-work, art-adventures, and in writing notes to cabbages.
This is fun, but perhaps not worth your lab time.
We will fade away very soon.
So, IT IS ALL FUN CODE, CABBAGE.
My funky translation is in the capital letters.
Cabbage wrote and I tried to clarify:
Fighting the urge to exclaim "was that code?" with a puzzled face (and assuming it wasn't), I think I must point out that although I manage quite well with high-horsed literary English, I really don't understand slang or dialect that well (especially not of the Northern American variety), so if any of the words listed below were of vital importance to understanding your last mail, please feel free to supply me with translations into, well, English that a foreigner with a basic understanding in English would understand. Again, no disrespect intended at all, but in between "at your whim" = WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT, and "marijuana" I kind of lost you in translation (although I'm not sure why the pot popped up, I'm glad to assume you're not a fan - neither am I). And no, Google translate didn't improve things (although it did add some humurous twists, such as you being a "stabber" = HUGGER = ONE WHO HUGS PEOPLE, and rinsing laundry while 18 = SOAKING UP EXPERIENCES LIKE A SPONGE)...
"wonder stuff" - would that be imaginary ideas?
AMAZING-ENTERTAINING SHIT TALK,
"no hustle" = DO NOT PROMOTE MYSELF FOR MONEY - would that imply that you don't engage in fraud, or that you don't like to move around? I MOVE A LOT, C.
"$non-starter" = I HAVE NEVER REALLY MADE MONEY, AND CERTAINLY NOT A LIVING, FROM THE SALE OF MY PICTURES - I assume it has to do with money, and that money is not a great motivating force to you, would that be correct?
"unholy shit" = YOU ARE REALLY ON MY CASE CABBAGE, YOU ARE IN ATTACK MODE, TRASH-TALKING - is that good or bad? and would it be better or worse than "holy" shit? SAID WHILE GRINNING, WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK.
"army weekends" = I SPENT A YEAR STUDYING RUSSIAN IN THE ARMY IM MONTEREY CA, AND WENT TO S.F. = SAN FRANCISCO, ON WEEKENDS TO GO WHERE THE 'BEATS' WERE, ETC- no idea
"S.F." = SAN FRANCISCO - I'm stumped. Science Fiction? Swedish Film? Sinn Fein? Security Forces?
"A.G." = ALLEN GINSBERG, WROTE "HOWL" I assume it's a person, but I can't for my life recall enough modern US history to figure out who it might be (or why he/she would howl, for that matter)
"soaking" = EXPERIENCING - I can only suspect that it has nothing to do with actually being placed in a waterbath"
Anyway, time for some tea and then pick up the kiddies = MOSES & ESTHER ARE BOTH 23 + MONET IS 39,THIS IS HER HUSBAND NICK, http://lofisymphony.com/, AND WE DESIGN MY WEBSITE TOGETHER. I STILL PICK THEM UP SOMETIMES!
Hope you're having a pleasant day.
Swede = RUTABAGA / TURNIP (vegetable pun intended)
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE "CABBAGE" TO ME.
Os = HUGS, Bill
Oh dear.
(I have even lost myself !)
Looking for order and clarity.?
But reality requires a poetic mix of ingredients in our lab-work, art-adventures, and in writing notes to cabbages.
This is fun, but perhaps not worth your lab time.
We will fade away very soon.
So, IT IS ALL FUN CODE, CABBAGE.
My funky translation is in the capital letters.
Cabbage wrote and I tried to clarify:
Fighting the urge to exclaim "was that code?" with a puzzled face (and assuming it wasn't), I think I must point out that although I manage quite well with high-horsed literary English, I really don't understand slang or dialect that well (especially not of the Northern American variety), so if any of the words listed below were of vital importance to understanding your last mail, please feel free to supply me with translations into, well, English that a foreigner with a basic understanding in English would understand. Again, no disrespect intended at all, but in between "at your whim" = WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT, and "marijuana" I kind of lost you in translation (although I'm not sure why the pot popped up, I'm glad to assume you're not a fan - neither am I). And no, Google translate didn't improve things (although it did add some humurous twists, such as you being a "stabber" = HUGGER = ONE WHO HUGS PEOPLE, and rinsing laundry while 18 = SOAKING UP EXPERIENCES LIKE A SPONGE)...
"wonder stuff" - would that be imaginary ideas?
AMAZING-ENTERTAINING SHIT TALK,
"no hustle" = DO NOT PROMOTE MYSELF FOR MONEY - would that imply that you don't engage in fraud, or that you don't like to move around? I MOVE A LOT, C.
"$non-starter" = I HAVE NEVER REALLY MADE MONEY, AND CERTAINLY NOT A LIVING, FROM THE SALE OF MY PICTURES - I assume it has to do with money, and that money is not a great motivating force to you, would that be correct?
"unholy shit" = YOU ARE REALLY ON MY CASE CABBAGE, YOU ARE IN ATTACK MODE, TRASH-TALKING - is that good or bad? and would it be better or worse than "holy" shit? SAID WHILE GRINNING, WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK.
"army weekends" = I SPENT A YEAR STUDYING RUSSIAN IN THE ARMY IM MONTEREY CA, AND WENT TO S.F. = SAN FRANCISCO, ON WEEKENDS TO GO WHERE THE 'BEATS' WERE, ETC- no idea
"S.F." = SAN FRANCISCO - I'm stumped. Science Fiction? Swedish Film? Sinn Fein? Security Forces?
"A.G." = ALLEN GINSBERG, WROTE "HOWL" I assume it's a person, but I can't for my life recall enough modern US history to figure out who it might be (or why he/she would howl, for that matter)
"soaking" = EXPERIENCING - I can only suspect that it has nothing to do with actually being placed in a waterbath"
Anyway, time for some tea and then pick up the kiddies = MOSES & ESTHER ARE BOTH 23 + MONET IS 39,THIS IS HER HUSBAND NICK, http://lofisymphony.com/, AND WE DESIGN MY WEBSITE TOGETHER. I STILL PICK THEM UP SOMETIMES!
Hope you're having a pleasant day.
Swede = RUTABAGA / TURNIP (vegetable pun intended)
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE "CABBAGE" TO ME.
Os = HUGS, Bill
May 11, 2014
Thank you D. for your Flickr Group propping +.
Fine Mother's Days Years for you.
Heard that Szarkowski thought long ago that I'd gone 'too literal'.
Fine Mother's Days Years for you.
Heard that Szarkowski thought long ago that I'd gone 'too literal'.
I must expand and short-circuit my 'literal' - rather than whatever a vice-versa might be:
the old me? Garry Lee . . .
Some kinda 'literal' winds up everywhere - after all.
the old me? Garry Lee . . .
Some kinda 'literal' winds up everywhere - after all.
My head offers itself no choices - very strict - hunt and gather and edit my way:
see - struck - click - edit.
see - struck - click - edit.
There is room for and there certainly are plenty of different 'style' picture folks.
There may be an excuse here for this indulgence ---> John Szarkowski
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Append:
There may be an excuse here for this indulgence ---> John Szarkowski
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Append:
You are screwing up my story M.
'Conceptual - mail art', hmmmnn, an issue for J.S. - doesn't figure ... 'literal' fits perfect.
My first photo-pictures were informed by pop - process & environment art - finding existing subjects.
Rather than spending millions wrapping shit - digging big holes - buying $$$studio materials ...
Defrocking the masterpiece ... then seeing Ruscha parking lots-gas stations - then Frank + ...
What about that could have bothered J.S.?
I'd started mailing in '69 - met him in '71 and started mailing him the pictures from the '73 show +++
I will assume you gotta be right M. but 'conceptual-mail art' never registered = 'literal' forever.
It's all stories . . . this one's fun fragmented.
May 10, 2014
May 7, 2014
May 5, 2014
May 1, 2014
Apr 29, 2014
Apr 28, 2014
"Jewish Voice for Peace" making sense.
Anti-semitic? I don't think so.
We guided Esther and Moses thru 10 years of Jewish 'education' and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
In a Synagogue that supports Justice for both Palestine and Israel.
Anti-semitic? I don't think so.
We guided Esther and Moses thru 10 years of Jewish 'education' and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs
In a Synagogue that supports Justice for both Palestine and Israel.
Apr 25, 2014
Apr 23, 2014
Yes, I live here on the edge of realities - going on no matter:
Khalidi: It's Time for Palestinians `to get off their knees' and Turn to Europe and the ICC.
Rashid Khalidi is an American historian of the Middle East, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs. He is a former adviser to the PLO.
Apr 22, 2014
Apr 21, 2014
Apr 20, 2014
me:
(he favorited my Flickr pictures late this easter eve)
You're f---in' on duty WK!
him:
I sleep such weird schedules. I'm supposed to be watching horror movies with the partner but just wanted to get some texty things done real fast and then jump off.him:
I was having such fun reading Etgar Keret short stories in the tub.
Hope you're having a great evening..morning..well, whatever time it is where you are now.
me:
lucky us - we're horrified by most all of it
+! whatever & whenever you decide ta do it - jesus rises WK.
him:
The eighties movies are a hoot. I had forgotten how many The Blob remakes there are. crazy religious maniac in tent...going town to town, transmitting his Apocalypse...forgot that one.
&
I forgot it's Easter most of the day. We didn't do anything, family wise or diet wise or anything.
I do have a sparkly bunny on the door. So I think I'm safe from the sword.
me:
i'm speechless
lucky for you
(he favorited my Flickr pictures late this easter eve)
You're f---in' on duty WK!
him:
I sleep such weird schedules. I'm supposed to be watching horror movies with the partner but just wanted to get some texty things done real fast and then jump off.him:
I was having such fun reading Etgar Keret short stories in the tub.
Hope you're having a great evening..morning..well, whatever time it is where you are now.
me:
lucky us - we're horrified by most all of it
+! whatever & whenever you decide ta do it - jesus rises WK.
him:
The eighties movies are a hoot. I had forgotten how many The Blob remakes there are. crazy religious maniac in tent...going town to town, transmitting his Apocalypse...forgot that one.
&
I forgot it's Easter most of the day. We didn't do anything, family wise or diet wise or anything.
I do have a sparkly bunny on the door. So I think I'm safe from the sword.
me:
i'm speechless
lucky for you
Apr 19, 2014
Apr 17, 2014
Apr 16, 2014
Apr 15, 2014
Apr 14, 2014
Apr 13, 2014
Apr 11, 2014
Apr 10, 2014
I have an itching - it's probably personally best that the 'scene' I lived with - the brain I got - here on a western edge of reality - offered the degree of blind that perped my picture making identity all these years - at 75 it will be entitledly painless and quite entertaining to slowly discover the naive futility of my gestures - I loved those guys' films - missed whole points in my swoons - Bresson Godard Truffaut Renais Rohmer Bergman - Vous êtes un remorqueur! (tugboat) And there are folks who say they love my pictures - they must live on an edge too. I love it - and will evolve some shit tomorrow to Keep On Truckin'... Thanks
Apr 9, 2014
My tiny picture evolution means scattering the 'unwashed' into electro space - less=more.
You Your Books should be reapin' audience share!
Commonists coming on board the good ship 'You Us All'.
How to keep your head in touch - !caution. (I am not challenged.)
Apr 6, 2014
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
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.
Apr 2, 2014
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
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!
¡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.
Feb 9, 2014
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
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
Galerie Rudolfinum Prague Czech Republic
Michal Nanoru
1/24/14 to 4/6/14

San Diego 1972
Dec 21, 2013
Dec 19, 2013
Respectfully to some friends:
No Hillary Clinton - unless you can tolerate stuff like NAFTA - global neoliberal capitalism - big$$$elections - No universal healthcare and education - Banking system 'right' back on top - capitalism - human nature doin' us all.
Even the Pope is down - appearing.
For salvage folks - Elizabeth Warren speaks some truths.
Love Bill.
No Hillary Clinton - unless you can tolerate stuff like NAFTA - global neoliberal capitalism - big$$$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
Dec 7, 2013
Bill Dane
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Dec 6, 2013
Oct 22, 2013
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: