you guys seen this?

upper class white dude makes beautiful images using google maps of poor black people:

http://www.dougrickard.com/photographs/a-new-american-picture/

thoughts?

Disneyland

So Kate and I started an odd conversation about disneyland. It started as a conversation about the pervasiveness of Disney and other western brands into all crevasses of the world. However, this reminded me of my deep, strange, complex relationship with disney and specifically disneyland. We all remember Zuromskis lecture on disneyland and it's relationship to the simulacrum and postmodernism blahblahblahblahblahblabhalekr;jw. I have an extremely real and great relationship with disneyland. Some of my only perfect, sincere, happy memories of childhood are because of disneyland. It's hard to balance and justify these sublime memories with the bitter cognizance of adulthood. One way I've tried to do that is by going back and viewing the only "objective" forms of these memories: video. (yes I get this is philosophically problematic in so many ways blah blah sontag blah blah plato blah blah shadows on a cave wall) ANYWAYS I thought that video would be an interesting way of capturing the dilemma of sublimity of childhood vs the cognizance of adulthood. maybe?

Anyways here are some pictures.

I've never thought of these as relevant to the work I'm currently making, but as shards of something that might surface later.

The first are still images of VHS home videos paused. They are all from the same trip to disneyland, I believe I was in 4th grade? The last few images are screen capture from youtube videos of people filming the ride they're on. (there are tons of these)

Disneyland Hotel

Self Portrait on the Jungle Boat Cruise

In line for Indiana Jones 

In line for Indiana Jones

The Matterhorn

Splash Mountain

Space Mountain (with lights on)

Space Mountain (with lights on)

And. . . .

I want to see more pictures . . . .  on this blog. . . .  please. . . . .    It is lonely out here.  

Show titles/theme

George (and everyone),  I just noticed the David Foster Wallace quote you posted on your blog.   A good one.   I assume it is a passage that is resonating with you now.   Tourism and how much having a camera in your hand links you to tourism is something I find myself resenting recently. . .  and that devolves into a complete confusion about what it is that I am doing here, photographing, with my life, et cetera.   Is there a theme for a show somewhere in there?   "It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience."  Can that part speak to photography generally?   Or is it too specific to traveling?   Thoughts?