Wayne
@wayneb.bsky.social
usually in California - currently LBC. topics include: jazz, art, photographers. the annoying friend who brings his cocker spaniel everywhere
blogging about photography at
https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes
blogging about photography at
https://bremser.tumblr.com/tagged/notes
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Wayne
@wayneb.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Robert Frank on Ocean Boulevard
The late afternoon light, palm trees, their shadows and a covered car are elements so classic to LA and Southern California that Robert Frank's "Covered car -- Long Beach, California" could have been…
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I spent some time looking at Robert Frank’s contact sheets to determine the exact location of his 1956 “Covered Car — Long Beach”
this started with the widespread use and acceptance of colorized historical photos about a decade ago - if there’s no friction for turning history into treacle, where does it stop?
been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me
November 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
this started with the widespread use and acceptance of colorized historical photos about a decade ago - if there’s no friction for turning history into treacle, where does it stop?
nostalgia for one night in 1995 with friends on shrooms and walking through the plaza we discovered the fountain was still on. you could go out that walkway and feel like you were inside the thing: the roar of the water, the lights in the green murk and the texture of the concrete!
Reading in @sfstandard.com that SF's Vallaincourt Fountain will be taken down. A bummer that SF let this weird piece of landscape design wither. I love that it looked like a collapsed freeway. (A freeway used to run next to it).
Here are pix I got with water in 2022:
sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/v...
Here are pix I got with water in 2022:
sfstandard.com/2025/11/03/v...
November 6, 2025 at 8:39 PM
nostalgia for one night in 1995 with friends on shrooms and walking through the plaza we discovered the fountain was still on. you could go out that walkway and feel like you were inside the thing: the roar of the water, the lights in the green murk and the texture of the concrete!
“Cheney Piñata” The Bad Plus, 2004, composed by @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
youtu.be/gNeefGl5azw?...
youtu.be/gNeefGl5azw?...
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“Cheney Piñata” The Bad Plus, 2004, composed by @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social
youtu.be/gNeefGl5azw?...
youtu.be/gNeefGl5azw?...
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Carrie Mae Weems, From the 'Roaming' series, 2006
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November 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Carrie Mae Weems, From the 'Roaming' series, 2006
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just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
November 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!
this blender, a can of whole tomatoes, garlic or shallots, red chili, salt. olive oil. and you never buy Rao’s again.
I cannot emphasize enough how much this small, inexpensive appliance has made it easier for me to get the calories I need, cook better meals, save money, and avoid crying from chopping onions: www.costco.com/p/-/cuisinar...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM
this blender, a can of whole tomatoes, garlic or shallots, red chili, salt. olive oil. and you never buy Rao’s again.
favorite SNL skit of all time: “Whee (Genuine)”
I still want to be sad in France or Italy, because at least the food and views would be great, but I can't leave the country: youtu.be/TbwlC2B-BIg?...
Romano Tours - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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October 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
favorite SNL skit of all time: “Whee (Genuine)”
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Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.
Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83
Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.
www.npr.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Jack DeJohnette, just one of the deepest musicians ever, and a personal hero. Here is my obituary for NPR Music.
read this a few weeks ago and after this week feel like I should read it one more time
Since it seems to be coming up a lot, I went back to dig up some details from the 1937 "Degenerate Art Show" to see what the lessons are
news.artnet.com/art-world/de...
news.artnet.com/art-world/de...
The Disturbing Lessons of the 1937 ‘Degenerate Art’ Show | Artnet News
7 points to keep in mind when the specter of the 1937 "Entartete Kunst," or "Degenerate Art" show, is invoked today.
news.artnet.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
read this a few weeks ago and after this week feel like I should read it one more time
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Harry Bertoia’s Untitled (Broccoli) (c. 1965), patinated bronze
October 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Harry Bertoia’s Untitled (Broccoli) (c. 1965), patinated bronze
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You know what rules? Wayne Shorter’s solo on “The Chess Players” youtu.be/fI0S6ioserI?...
The Chess Players (Remastered 2005)
YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
You know what rules? Wayne Shorter’s solo on “The Chess Players” youtu.be/fI0S6ioserI?...
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In September 1958, Columbia threw a jazz party at the Plaza Hotel. Ralph Ellison wrote afterward to Albert Murray about "poor, evil, lost little Miles Davis" and his band. "These cats have gotten lost, man. They're trying to get hold of something by fucking up the blues." 🤨 youtu.be/_PrJhAERZlQ?...
Straight, No Chaser (Live at the Plaza Hotel, New York, NY - Sept. 1958)
YouTube video by Miles Davis - Topic
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
In September 1958, Columbia threw a jazz party at the Plaza Hotel. Ralph Ellison wrote afterward to Albert Murray about "poor, evil, lost little Miles Davis" and his band. "These cats have gotten lost, man. They're trying to get hold of something by fucking up the blues." 🤨 youtu.be/_PrJhAERZlQ?...
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Grateful to have my essay linking Confederate monuments to Nazi rhetoric of "degenerate art" included in the exhibition's catalogue—and can't wait to see the show when out in LA next month
www.artforum.com/columns/mich...
www.artforum.com/columns/mich...
October 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Grateful to have my essay linking Confederate monuments to Nazi rhetoric of "degenerate art" included in the exhibition's catalogue—and can't wait to see the show when out in LA next month
www.artforum.com/columns/mich...
www.artforum.com/columns/mich...
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Pharoah Sanders - "Kazuko" - Live
In an Abandoned Tunnel in San Francisco (Marin Headlands - close to the Golden Gate Bridge) 1982
In an Abandoned Tunnel in San Francisco (Marin Headlands - close to the Golden Gate Bridge) 1982
Pharoah Sanders - "Kazuko" - An Abandoned Tunnel
YouTube video by sun01disz
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October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Pharoah Sanders - "Kazuko" - Live
In an Abandoned Tunnel in San Francisco (Marin Headlands - close to the Golden Gate Bridge) 1982
In an Abandoned Tunnel in San Francisco (Marin Headlands - close to the Golden Gate Bridge) 1982
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Take 2
Define jazz?
Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...
Blakey was born 10/11/19
Define jazz?
Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...
Blakey was born 10/11/19
Tell It Like It Is
YouTube video by Art Blakey - Topic
youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Take 2
Define jazz?
Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...
Blakey was born 10/11/19
Define jazz?
Sure: Art Blakey's shuffle beat. youtube.com/watch?v=vE4i...
Blakey was born 10/11/19
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Happy Birthday to Sphere. All the jazz greats knew what they were doing, but Thelonious Monk REALLY knew what he was doing. It was Precise. iverson.substack.com/p/tt-442-bri...
TT 442: Brief Overview: Thelonious Monk on Record
October 10 is Sphere's Birthday
iverson.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy Birthday to Sphere. All the jazz greats knew what they were doing, but Thelonious Monk REALLY knew what he was doing. It was Precise. iverson.substack.com/p/tt-442-bri...
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Slightly Damaged Chair, Malibu, 1973 by David Hockney
October 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Slightly Damaged Chair, Malibu, 1973 by David Hockney
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Eugéne Atget, Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée Paris, France c. 1924/25
October 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Eugéne Atget, Café, Avenue de la Grande-Armée Paris, France c. 1924/25
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national gallery of art is closed as of tomorrow (10/5), which is too bad because the photography and the black arts movement show is incredible www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 | National Gallery of Art
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
www.nga.gov
October 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
national gallery of art is closed as of tomorrow (10/5), which is too bad because the photography and the black arts movement show is incredible www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
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Ansel Adams, Basketball game at an Internment Camp for Japanese American citizens during World War II
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Ansel Adams, Basketball game at an Internment Camp for Japanese American citizens during World War II
made a Marcel Duchamp fan fic video. Sora’s default tone is so upbeat and schmaltzy.
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dd9d49...
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dd9d49...
bremser on Sora
a young Marcel Duchamp he is riding a bike down a paris street in 1913, wearing a white shirt and bow tie. Image is shot in black and white, high contrast. He takes a minor fall on the bike and as he ...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:21 AM
made a Marcel Duchamp fan fic video. Sora’s default tone is so upbeat and schmaltzy.
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dd9d49...
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68dd9d49...
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in the Smithsonian archives yesterday, I learned when the Hirshhorn bought Wolfgang Tillmans' Concorde Grid in 2006, they also got an exhibition copy, so they could show it with the lights turned up, like the artist likes it, without frying their 56 fragile C-prints greg.org/archive/2025...
September 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
in the Smithsonian archives yesterday, I learned when the Hirshhorn bought Wolfgang Tillmans' Concorde Grid in 2006, they also got an exhibition copy, so they could show it with the lights turned up, like the artist likes it, without frying their 56 fragile C-prints greg.org/archive/2025...
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stared at this Richard Diebenkorn gouache-crayon on paper (Untitled #37 from 1981, 23 x 28 inches) for more time than i thought i would
September 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
stared at this Richard Diebenkorn gouache-crayon on paper (Untitled #37 from 1981, 23 x 28 inches) for more time than i thought i would
great example of a film that is so much better than the book it’s based on (at least the English translation)
everyone should take three hours out of their day and watch THE LEOPARD, a total masterpiece of a film. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Claudia Cardinale, glamorous star of The Leopard and Once Upon a Time in the West, dies aged 87
The husky-voiced, chain-smoking actor had a reputation as a fiercely independent, free-spirited woman
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
great example of a film that is so much better than the book it’s based on (at least the English translation)