thinking out loud

What if one of the most important street photographers of the 20th century was a 1950s children’s nanny who kept herself to herself and never showed a single one of her photographs to anyone?

Decades later in 2007, a Chicago real estate agent and historical hobbyist, John Maloof purchased a box of never-seen, never-developed film negatives of an unknown ‘amateur’ photographer for $380 at his local auction house.

 

John began developing his new collection of photographs, some 100,000 negatives in total, that had been abandoned in a storage locker in Chicago before they ended up at the auction house. It became clear these were no ordinary street snaps of 1950s & 60s Chicago and New York and so John embarked on a journey to find out who was behind the photographs and soon discovered her name: Vivien Maier.

 

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Mom & Dad bought me a bike for my birthday in a couple weeks!  Only catch is that it was shipped and required assembly, so I had to do it myself.  I’m amazed how much I was able to get done with my limited tools.  But I just need a wrench to adjust the seat.  And a nut and bolt to attach the front fender, which for some reason was missing from the box (the nut and bolt, not the fender).  And I’ve been wrestling with the rear break, which seems to drag on the tire.  But, all in all, not bad for a morning’s work., especially since there was a whole section of the directions I skipped because I didn’t know what they were talking about.  ;)  Also, it’s super cute.

This evening, Oswin (I wrote it on the vet form, so I guess it’s official) explored the living room for the first time, and then sat in my lap for about 30 minutes getting petted. I think she could get used to this. ;)

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We’ve been making progress.  She’s still a little skittish, and startles easily, but also calms pretty quickly. She hisses sometimes when I approach her, and then realizes she’s being petted and purrs a split second later.  And we had a whole 5 minutes of holding last night with no squirming.  Plus, I think she may finally understand what that be soft bed is for.  And she really likes that shelf.  Look at her sleepy eyes and shaved tummy!

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Commentary.

In February, I posted two pieces in Bed-Stuy on Tompkins and Halsey. These two pieces got the most attention of any pieces I’ve put up so far. Within a few days, someone had written his response to the work directly onto the posters. From there, a woman wrote a response to him. And it went on and, on with different hand-written comments creating this kind of interesting discussion. The pieces remained up until a week or so ago, when the phallic image was drawn. That’s when I decided to try to take them down. 

The “Stop Telling Women to Smile” piece remained in tact enough for me to include it in the exhibition. I thought it was important to present in the show, so that people could view these written reactions. 

I love when assertive women scare men to such an extent that they have to resort to infantile shit like this.

They think it will shut women up, but it really just fuels everything further, I hope they know that. 

The “devolution” of the poster is more interesting to me than the originals, which I’ve reblogged before.

The fact that a man decided to comment on the poster physically, and was the first to do so, says a lot. Whenever women defend ourselves we get these counter arguments. We get people in general, and not just men, trying to cut down our personal initiatives. And when women, like on the poster, attempt to hold a real discussion we get the brunt of the “dick solution” where we are told that we hate men, we haven’t had a “dick that was good” or we get a penis drawn on the poster meant to make a social commentary about our “place.”

I’ve reblogged the individual posters before because I understand them as a victim of the suggestions. But I’m reblogging them now to show the attempt to keep women in their societal place in our culture.

An excellent example of men not getting the point about street harassment.

“You find our unwanted projections of our opinions of you to be bothersome? Well … well … well … DICKS, THAT’S WHAT! DICKS!!!”

Serious grade-schooler shit here.  Grow the fuck up.

Sighs.

I’m kind of embarrassed by this as a guy. Although I do know we tend to put an undue amount of emphasis on our genitals as the solution to all of life’s problems. Being ornery? RIDE MY DICK! Lesbian? RIDE MY DICK! Depressed? RIDE MY DICK! Just got fired? RIDE MY DICK! *sigh*

And emphasis mine.

Yeahhh, this is a good example of why feminism still needs to be a thing.

All of the above. ALL OF IT.

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Patina Miller and Ben Vereen are the only Tony Award winners, of different genders, to win for the same role (Leading Player in Pippin).

Her hips in that last gif….

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