Wonderful New Tenant:
First-'Reported'-Slug-Inside-The-Castle-In-25-Years ! .You da Man, A ! .And da Man, not picky-squeamish, .will receive extra attention! .With a Smile, Dude - You deserve it! .Slugo is poison - don't wanna compromise other aspects of your life. I put some outta your reach - rt of sink, way back & across 'front' door way. .Keep slippers n flip-flops handy - slide feet ? - night light ? - call kinglette! .Singing, "WE SHALL OVER...THIS GET TOGETHER" ! .A, If you get back at a decent hour, 8 - 11pm and are in your usual Socialist-Sci-Guy-Mood : summon me - I bring treasure ! 5 mins ! .(In any event, no offense taken here with 'no summons'! . Another kludgin' time !) Rest up, A.. An eventful night w/o contact-lenes in the offing (of slugs), .Bill

I log:
Tar-driftwood-stones-seaweed-sand-shells-shorebirds-crabs-starfish-and then in order of find with No Duplications Allowed:."Keep Out" buoy, stingray carcass, dead seal, tennis ball, Bud beer can, chunk of foam, seagull wing, bright green cloth entangled in silver cable, huge crab claw, feather, bamboo stick, rusty pipe in 3' concrete block, crushed plastic coated wire cylinder, 1/2 gal plastic bottle, pink foam flip-flop, 5" x 9' black rubber banding, lizard, pine cone, film canister, 5" pink plastic tube heart, palm branch, 10' rusty 4"diameter pipe with a pointed end, 11' rusty steel girder, 2' diameter stone model of 'Stonehenge', apple core, 3/4 of a Rt. b&w Nike, 17" of motorbike tire, toy tire wheel, 1' scrap of naugahyde boat cover, 2" x 1" x 9" plastic box, fiberglass surfboard fragment, bottom only of a 20" fisherman's boot, 5' x 6' piece of jagged tar paper, 750ml Bacardi bottle, 5' nasty carpet bundle, plaid shirt fragment in wire mesh, red plastic comb w/handle, piece of gray plastic trashcan lid, 7' fragment of black felt, yellow Bic lighter, 6" yellow toy shovel, yellow plastic rope mess, 4' x 5' x 2' crab trap, 3' black rubber hose, left med gray fabric glove, rt leg of blue pants, used napkin, pink plastic bubble blower, pelican carcass, piece of white pom pom, Starbucks big cup, tin foil clump, airless red balloon, green stuff in a 1qt Bell jar, orange peel, rusty linkchain between 4' rusty posts, real big tractor tire, 3' concrete chunk w/embedded rebar, tangle of hemp rope around 2' white plastic pipe, real neatly stacked dog shit, 12' x 12' concrete slab w/3' pipe hole dated 1927, 'rescued' n happy: 3 Great Danes & a huge deaf white Pitbull, tied off green plastic bag w/dogshit?, baby seal seemingly almost dead-just croaked at me-what to do at 11:30AM -nature- 5:30 PM gone after high tide, Dragon graffiti on sea wall (there since at least '79), cartilage, umbrellas, 9 surfers: some old guys-women-Latinos-yes!, diving pelican, orange coral, big conch filled with tar. And folks, I've been on this beach since 1942, never before: for 5 days - at different times- this, 'back n forth, whirling and twirling, up n down the beach, non stop, amazing dancing woman !' Rincon Point, Carpenteria

Happy Birthday MonetThirty Five Years Gift
For Us !

Childhood-Story:
1944, I'm 7 - It could be A. Phillip Randolf himself !Mom takes Frankie and me on the train from LA to Boston.
Black men help us.
Sleeping car sleeping ! White table cloth dining, silverware, water.
Men in military uniform drinking and smoking in special cars - I roam and spy.
He gives me a stick of real Wrigley's Spearmint Gum. I know the War.
Then to Kennebunkport, Maine, to stay at the Dane 'beach house'.
The Atlantic Ocean is chopping-splashing. It will let us swim, "Watch it !"
I am more than free to climb the rocks, find friends, fish , eat hot dogs.
It goes hours without seeing a relative. We smoke coffee in straws.
Pinball machines are big-color-fantasy. We row boats, crawl the sand.
A bandaid does for my palm what 15 stitches should. It still looks nasty-good !

Jury-Rigged/Jerry-Rigged:You know the game,. a word-phrase starts with a person
and gets whispered around the circle
"jury-rigged" .could become ."jerry-rigged"In his writings the 1616 John Smith uses "jury" (nautical) as "rigged"
Plus! clinging to my family tree - both sides Mayflower - he marries Pocahontas .
Gifting me Native-Anglo "rigging" !
Don't folks just make this stuff up and send it to Salt Lake City ? Thank you A,. "kludge" will work just fine - never mind "jerry-rigged"

BILLDANE.COM - SIDESHOW 'views'I bought this Flickr-view-check service a few months ago.
At SIDESHOW the 1982 picture from the Ivar Theater
has recorded 250 'views'. . All others have 0-15 views !Garry Winogrand pictured - could be relevant ?
I have 100s of 'marginal' Ivar pictures somewhere(some with Garry - Garry has some with me).
Do I owe it to my family to dig 'em out n hustle ?!
Never mind.

Childhood-Story:
Bad DreamsFrom '1941 - '1965 they are usually about war battles and escape.
During the Korean War I actually start jumping out windows - asleep.
This is not good in hotels - in the army - I stack chairs against windows.
That stops around '65 when teaching dreams take over !
I'm always struggling to maintain order.
Don't have the slightest idea what I'm supposed to teach.
Nothing works.
I still have them - Even with Subbing - Anxious every time - Too bad, BillyBoy.
And then there's cuckoldings and my children in danger.

Another 'imagined-quantum-leap-for-mankind' !?

Visit .billdane,com . today !

Yes

We rent an in-law-apartment in our house - Survival!We have a new 2 year Chemistry PhD Guy - good fellow - til 2012.
Getting a new tenant apparently means working for 3 weeks. Fun.
He gets an eccentric place with funkies aplenty ! I work on it.It's that very fine feeling: making-doing-with-head-and-hands.
Keep finding new stuff to improve. Good times.

Childhood-Story:
1950, Jack Hawley
Edie knows people.
The frustrated psychologist and the parents need a home for their boy.My Single Mother 'relieves' them all.Jack is big, strong, 13 and psychotic.
We shoot baskets together for hours.
Jack stares at himself in the mirror.
I show him how to do our 7th grade at Wilson.
He never bothers me - knows I'm kinda ...
Jack's last minutes in our house:
He's alone with mellow-comfortable brother Frankie, 10.
Jack has Frankie on the floor choking . screaming
'The answer ?! ..What's the answer ?! ..Tell me how you do it !'
The neighbor who never passes through our yard ..does .saves Frankie.
Three years later Jack chops up his mother. Dives into a 60mph-16 wheeler.

FUGITIVE SKETCHES

Childhood-Story:
1980? The Fraenkel Gallery decides to 'represent' me.
2010? The Fraenkel Gallery decides to 'associate' me.
It's news to me.

2007 .A BEGINNING
The Website concept arrived when Monet and Nick
told me the Internet would get my pictures out there.
And I realized, would take me another step beyond
critic - gallery - museum - publisher decisions.
A process I'd started with the photo-postcard mailing in 1969.Yes ! All of the pictures I want you to see will be on the Website,
from 1964 to the present. (I have to 'never-mind' all the 'lost' pictures)Nick Jarvis Powers does computer-form-content-humor-music-spirit
while I sit second chair wondering how he does it, over 'n over again.
We hope you will share the experience.

...Dear Monet and Nick,
...You sure started something !
...Thank you so much.
...Love, BillDad

BILL DANE PHOTOGRAPHS OUTSIDE INSIDE
VOLUME 1 DEDICATION
JOHN SZARKOWSKI
...My VOLUME 1 is dedicated to you John.
These are the pictures you knew and supported.
...You All helped me to understand and made me feel
part of something before I could know what it was:
Edith Thacher Dane, Patrick Siler, Bill Burback,
Bill Mott-Smith, Lea A. Bartneck, Ron Goldstein,
Nora Fanshel, Camille Zulpo, John FitzGibbon,
Joan Rosenbaum, Diana Edkins, Ben Lifson, Henry Wessel,
Tod Papageorge, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander,
and you John.
...Thank you to the above and the following
for validating my explorations: Nancy Dulberg,
Jeffrey Fraenkel, Frish Brandt, Fraenkel Gallery Folks,
Alain Dupuy, Tom Garver, Leo Rubinfien, Ann Swidler,
Elliott Linwood, Carlos Gollonet, Sandra Phillips,
Pamela Bonino, Jack Fischer, Vagn Sparre-Ulrich,
Nick Jarvis Powers, Monet Zulpo-Dane, You,
and so many Others !
...I hope that my sense of this life in the form of
these pictures turns out to be worth sharing.
My Pleasure, Bill

Bill Burback
Coming and going since '67
Drives way faster than I can
And so much more
MoMA '73 Show = B. B.
GAC '08 Show = B. B.
Lucky me = B. D.

Nancy Esther Moses
Being here every day
What a gift
I Love You BillDad

Nancy and I in 1985
Thank You Rabbi Beerman and All.

I hear:How could you be so greedy as to think
that someone will love you the way ...

Ben Lifson sent me the following after he received my Website invite.
Luckily he said I could quote him:
Dear Bill
Thank you very much indeed for having sent me this link to your work.
I've had time this morning to look only at the most recent Volume 9.
This is not only excellent work but also among the most important current photography I've seen ...
I can think of nothing better and very little even in the same league...
I can't think of anything this strong, wide-ranging (what a net you're casting over our culture!), surprising (no sensibility more open)...
Of subject matter so various...
Of style so flexible...
Of literacy (w/ respect to photography, painting and popular imagery) so vast and deep...
Of variations on motifs and themes so strenuous and searching...
Of compositions so original but w/ roots so obviously in the great past...
And so on.
Yours is history at its best, committed, passionate, & the kind of making that makes Gibbon and Clarendon also monuments of English imaginative prose. (See Clarendon's famous account of the assassination of the Duke of Buckingham.)
Documentary? Yes, of course. But in the sense of Ezra Pound's statement, when he called poetry (or, perhaps, literature generally) "News that stays news."
It deserves to be universally known.
What plans for exhibitions (here, abroad), books? Keep me posted.
Thank you again. This is strong, significant work and a good jolt on a Sunday morning.
"Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamaling
To keep a drowsy emperor awake..."
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium
Good to hear from you.
yrs,
Ben

What are you up to. down there
What are you down for. up there
The politics of existence - chaos-order-
loss-grief-anger-anxiety-sadness-
sex-love-pleasure-hope-health-death-
histories-circumstances-perspectives
It's about the timely encounter with pieces:
Brecht-Tebaldi-Chomsky-Van Gogh-Warhol-
Godard-Boll-King-Dylan-the Blues-Frank-
Arbus-Friedlander-Winogrand-Evans-Atget
and so many others and so much more !
It's about Context
Framing
Light
Tension between forces-ingredients-opposers
It's about JS's ''The Photographers's Eye'' and
''Looking At Photographs''
Treasure hunting our 'Mirrors and Windows'
Outside Inside
Focus
Intuition
Diffused vision
Walking and Looking and Finding 'It'
Seeing what 'It' looks like photographed
Editing
Me and the Image and You