Saturday, December 03, 2005

grounded


grounded
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

From a test roll shot through my Zorki-4, an old-school Russian rangefinder with all sorts of mechanical quirks. I fogged most of the roll owing to a misunderstanding of the rewind procedure. But you can't fog freedom!

Friday, December 02, 2005

in a lonely place


in a lonely place
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

no photoshop was used nor animals harmed in the production of this picture.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

within a budding grove


within a budding grove
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

oh the wonderful music lately provided by the dedicated staff of filles sourires:

-one of many versions of serge gainsbourg's "harley davidson" posted recently, this one a trip-hoppy effort by one depth charge
-three selections from the ouevre of 80's euro-teen sensation (n.b.: racy!) Lio.

how you will sing and dance in many languages! a bientot!

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

tabloid ophelia


tabloid ophelia
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

tabloid photographs from the los angeles herald express

oh dog bark three


14080103
Originally uploaded by Oh Dog! You Sleuth!.

site via happy palace; also see the difficult to meaneuver but seemingly endless wonder of oh-dog-you-sleuth.

Monday, November 28, 2005

lay your head upon my pillow



the lizzie borden bed-n-breakfast
August 4, 1892. A wealthy businessman and his wife found brutally murdered in their Victorian home in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Accused: the youngest daughter, Lizzie. The Verdict: Not Guilty!

So goes the lore of the most famous crime in the annals of American history. The mystery remains: If Lizzie Borden did not wield the murder weapon, who did?

Our beautifully restored Greek-revival home is now a first-class bed & breakfast. You are invited to choose one of 7 beautifully appointed bedrooms and roam the house to learn the true facts. What were the thoughts of the first police officers on the scene? Who were the suspects? What was the public?s reaction? Will you join the legions who think Lizzie guilty, or will you choose to be a stalwart defender?

via lenny.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

true story


-- from a nameless yeast

pacify - by idio lector 1.3


-- from Idiolector 1.3

poor sewer-baby, eyeballing that binky from beneath the grates but powerless to retrieve it. let us who live aboveground appreicate the binkies we find because it is too rare.

a really big adventure


-- from a nameless yeast

Monday, November 21, 2005

attila


-- from a nameless yeast

the last days of the quarry house before new management takes over and sucks her marrow for a brazilian nose job. word is the famous burger - the best in the fahreakang tri-state area - will still be on the menu; word is also that the current staff knows dip about their future. what is this, the government?

Thursday, November 17, 2005



Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

new musik, unheralded "new wave" at siart.

loose ends, UK soul at bumrocks.

sixty-one versions of tico-tico at wfmu.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005

the transfiguration of blind bishop manning


the transfiguration of blind bishop manning
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

more from the Halloween Extravaganza @ Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

Monday, November 14, 2005

8:25; man without hat


8:25; man without hat
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

a friend received some correspondence from Australia which was inexplicably packaged with this and two other snapshots.

Saturday, November 12, 2005

Friday, November 11, 2005

a traveling pants of the mind


a traveling pants of the mind
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Ferlinghetti's blurb is for Traveling Pants actress Amber Tamblyn's new collection of poetry "Free Stallion." Miss Tamblyn was mentored by Michael McClure among others. Her verse is a sight better than Jewel's, and one hopes that her next collection will shed the stallions and mainstream imprint (Simon and Schuster Children) for truly beat pants.

when i paint my masterpiece


when i paint my masterpiece
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

just the two of us


just the two of us
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Thursday, November 10, 2005

as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina


as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

one of the first things I ever bought on eBay, this squished currency cost me a neat $1.25 plus p&h in before-everything-changed dollars, and thus was an inexpensive way to bolster my feedback and q-rating. and oh, the girls, whose virtue would melt faster than you can say Sacajawea in a barn at the Rolls Royce and Movado that possession of such a talisman boded.

Monday, November 07, 2005

dukes


dukes
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

summer leftovers. taken on the way to see the dukes of hazzard.

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Friday, November 04, 2005

boom! there she was


boom! there she was
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

sharon and stephanie on trip to


sharon and stephanie on trip to
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

the inscription on back of the picture indentifies the dames but leaves out their destination. where would a pair like this *not* go?

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

julia 44


julia 44
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

One of the vendors at the Hell's Kitchen flea market had a handful of contact sheets and glamour shots of this one model, whose name is Julia Tamosi or Lamosi or Famosi or Bamosi? The photographer is John Paul Ireland. A friend at koffeeklatsch told us that this is just how girls dressed when he was a freshman in college, which dates this to the late 60's or early 70's?

unnatural urges


unnatural urges
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

benji 77


benji 77
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

big baby, der zorn gottes


neils for your listening pleasure:

young's time fades away, not on cd and not likely to be.
via a million miles away


diamond's rick rubin-produced new album.
update: diamond's been removed. nuts. it's alright.

Monday, October 31, 2005

bishop manning


bishop manning
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

From the Halloween Spectacular at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. This is the spectre of William Thomas Manning (1866-1949), the tenth bishop of New York.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

a nameless yeast is not a cheeky monkey


a nameless yeast is not a cheeky monkey
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

"We the undersigned do hereby vouch for the excellent character of Pat Padua, a.k.a. 'a nameless yeast.' We like the cut of his jib we do, and mothers all over should feel confident that this man has the most noble intentions toward their daughters. He is also not gay, but he would like to design some clothes for her anyway.

PS He doesn't look fat in this picture."

--Signed, this girl and that other one.
photo par Snelson. scent by Givenchy.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Friday, October 21, 2005

you can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy willie brown


you can run, you can run, tell my friend-boy willie brown
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

On our excursion to Wheaton a few weekends ago, Jen/birdcage took this picture of me and Snelson with her pony 828, whose alchemical optics somehow resulted in what Jen identifies as "an odd yellowy-pinkish color cast that makes them look like pictures you found in the back of that hutch in your grandfather's dining room that he took with his old Pony II Camera in 1964 and then forgot about."

Thursday, October 20, 2005

shoot out the lights


shoot out the lights
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

On one of my trips to the Chelsea flea markets this summer, I picked up a few Polaroids taken at Graceland. I wonder if this is what the Kang used to shoot out the tv?

fear of farming


fear of farming
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

flickr convergence


flickr convergence
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

This has been an odd month for flickr connections. A few weeks ago, iwantamonkey, a local contact I'd never met, got a job at my old office. We finaly ran into each other in the coffeeshop that I've photographed so often.

Last week she posted a picture of her new cubicle - which looked awfully familiar. It happened to be my old cubicle! I spent ten years in that thing. I gave them the best years of my life!

Tonight I was waiting at the bus stop watching all the girls watching all the girls go by, when a couple goed by. I watched them. The red-haired fella looked familiar and he thought he recognized me - it was Will, the star of goodgolly's photostream - and here's goodgolly! Will knew me from the first-grade picture I use for my icon, because my hairline is the same you know. Golly wisely suggested we part before things got awkward and we'd stare at our shoes and ask if you like things and stuff.

I gave them the best years of my life!

It's a regular Flickr invasion in nameless yeast town, and that's not counting the one camped out and singing songs under my bedroom window, despite all my warnings about the rats. We've traced the phone call - it's coming from inside the house.

e.n.t.


Ent
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

I had an internal ear bath via suction and scrape. (I know, this isn't an ear you see above, but it's more interesting.) (Because out of the mouth you have words and song and the ear simply listens which is fine but, you know, participation is good.) (Although the passive nose strikes me as somehow more romantic than that of the ear; no you cannot smell music and without music what would we do, how would we woo and headbang?) (And yet, all three are intertwined, hence the professional compartmentalization of this specialty, which granted could also be prone to fetishism). The clog that had vexed me since sunday and before was more than waxy build-up, not one but *two* kinds of fungi. How they got in my pyjamas I'll never know. The suction originally produces a strangely pleasant sensation, like an aural scratch, but pleasure began to end when the suction ran out of stuff to suck.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

hedonism


hedonism
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

The effects of corn squeezins on the human female are as varied as the whole of human experience. This Aryan reveler ran free and openly; while another, whose unfortunate picture won't be seen on these pages, cursed out the photographer, who didn't even think her pants were that interesting and only stopped to take the picture because of John and whose fatal flaw was an indiscreet use of artificial light. As a dear person-of-uncertain-relationship-at-this-juncture noted, her fears are my reality.

Saturday, October 15, 2005

AND HULK SAYS HEYYY YEAH YEAH YEAH HEYYY YEAH YEAH YEAH HULK SAYS HEY! WHAT'S GOING ON?

HULK'S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET
THANK YOU PUNY HUMAN CHRISTINA FOR SENDING HULK THESE PICTURES THAT ARE VERY GOOD PICTURES OF A MONKEY AND A KITTEN WHO ARE FRIENDS!

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

come


come
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

come unto me
all ye that labor
and are heavy laden
and I will give you bread
--aimee semple mcpherson

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

hello a nameless yeast, you are a fine american


hello a nameless yeast, you are a fine american
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

this gentleman had just left the vfw hall around the corner. ah, wheaton, I love you.

ihop gothic


ihop gothic
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Friday, October 07, 2005

siri kaur


I take photographs of strangers. They are people unknown to me, whose lives I briefly investigate through the act of photography. The strangers select themselves by responding to notices I post around town or online, announcing that I need subjects for portraits. The fact that these individuals are from outside my sphere of existence is essential. Giving me permission to enter their lives satisfies a deep-seated curiosity I have nurtured for years. Watching people at cafes or chatting at parties, I am fascinated by people that I can never know anything about. My role as photographer gives me the key to accessing these anonymous existences.
via conscientious

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

10.01


10.01
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Monday, October 03, 2005

hey amanda


hey amanda
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

why am I getting so many hits from Norway?