Fear of cancer gets a mainstream break from a well schooled maverick.
Jim Allison.
Jim Allison.
3 days - 9 hours hunting - same camera.
Titmice squeak at my puny catch - I feed them.
Back on the bus tomorrow - new head.
In '63 I lived on a fork:
Graduate UC in PolSci and wander.
Be a bad sad grad school guy.
Try something completely different.
Walked into the Art department - stayed to graduate and wander with focus.
Graduate UC in PolSci and wander.
Be a bad sad grad school guy.
Try something completely different.
Walked into the Art department - stayed to graduate and wander with focus.
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
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.)
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.
Every time we evolve this Website we're self-highed for days.
Comes time to re-realize - who cares but the family circle.
Then - so what!
Ready to re-evolve!? Oh yeah.
Comes time to re-realize - who cares but the family circle.
Then - so what!
Ready to re-evolve!? Oh yeah.
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.
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.
Adolescence lasted years.
Then I had two male trust friends.
One just died.
Everywhere every split second for all of us.
Then I had two male trust friends.
One just died.
Everywhere every split second for all of us.
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!
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.
Russell Brand:
On revolution.
On revolution.
I spent the last 4 weeks editing-pruning-naming-dating-
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
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.