STILL GOING STRONG AT 71!
HAUNTING EYES FROM 70 YEARS AGO
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Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California. Children Living in Camp... Rent $2.75 Plus Electricity.
This photograph and the accompanying description are by Dorothea Lange (1895-1965), one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. After apprenticing in New York City, Lange moved to San Francisco and in 1919 established her own studio. During the 1920s and early 1930s, she worked as a portrait photographer. In 1932, wanting to see a world different from the society families she had been photographing, she began shooting San Francisco's labor unrest and urban unemployed. In 1935, she accepted a position as a staff photographer with the Federal Resettlement Administration, later renamed the Farm Security Administration. Her new job took her to the South, where she documented small towns, the lives of tenant farmers, and experimental agricultural communities. Returning to the West, Lange focused on the lives of migrant workers. In 1940, she was hired by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to produce photographs for a series of community studies in California and Arizona.
Photographer: Dorothea Lange, (1895-1965) Date Created : April 12, 1940
MUSEUM PIECE
France
1958
Not only incredibly designed externally, this futuristic wonder was equipped with High Definition imaging - in the late fifties! Designed by Flaminio Bertroni, of Citroen DS fame, ours is a very fine example, worthy of any modern design museum! It is also equipped with voltage switching, which ranges from 110 volts to 240 volts, allowing it to be used all over the world. Its rarity today certainly attests to how far ahead of its time it was, and I'm sure few were really ever delivered.
Price
$7,500
Condition*
Fine Original Condition
Measurements
height: 4 ft. 8 in.
depth: 25.5 in.
width/length: 22.5 in.
Specifications
Number of items: 1
Materials/Techniques: Painted Metals, Plastics, and Wood
Creator: Teleavia of France
Photography
provided by Off The Wall Antiques
Location
Off The Wall Antiques
7325 Melrose Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
USA
Phone: 323-930-1185
E-Mail: weirdstuff@earthlink.net
Ref. : U1002168120897
SUV SIZED FISH
This artist's reconstruction of the 70-million-year old giant suspension-feeding bony fish Bonnerichthys as it cruises through the seaway covering what is today Kansas. Researchers had believed that these prehistoric bony fish only existed for a short period of time, but newly examined fossils reveal that this group actually persisted for more than 100 million years during the Mesozoic. By reinterpreting old findings and analyzing new fossils, researchers found that the massive suspension feeders, which engulfed water with an open mouth and sieved food while water escaped through gill slits, lived from 170 to 65 million years ago. During that time, they pioneered the unique (and highly effective) filter-feeding strategies that can still be seen in the largest marine vertebrates living today.
DEFENESTRATION IN SAN FRANCISCO
Perched on the corner of Sixth and Howard Street in San Francisco, a ruined building provides a magical moment for anyone who thinks to look up. Queen Anne tables gallop off the roof, sideshow murals decorate the ground floor, table lamps light the window ledges, and a sofa makes its bid for freedom. Built by world-renown artist Brian Goggin plus a hoard of volunteers thirteen years ago,Defenestration, this famous example of dedicated whimsy, was only meant to last a year.
Housed in the defunct and decaying Hugo Hotel, Defenestration is to undergo some massive renovation to keep pace with the gentrifying neighborhood.
THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE DAZZLING PANTS
COLD COLD ART ? OR NOT!
UNDERWATER RIVER IN MEXICO
SUFFER THE CHILDREN
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. has decided that providing foster care services is not as important as their opposition to same sex marriage. In a couple of weeks, the D.C. marriage bill will become law and the Archdiocese feels that the city’s religious exemptions are too narrow to give them any wiggle room. I guess placing children in the homes of loving gay couples or having to offer benefits to the same-sex partners of employees is so distasteful they decided that the abandonment of needy children is, um, Christ-like? Christian charity, indeed.
SLOW GAINS TOWARDS FREEDOM
This two part video documents the progress our LGBT community has made in it's struggle for equality. It is a rousing testament to the bravery and fortitude that remain a part of who we are.
Being gay in America today....
CORONA OF THE SUN
This is a composite of 31 different images, taken in
the shadow of the solar eclipse
Asia and parts of the Pacific back in July of 2009
for 6 minutes and 39 seconds. That’s the longest
solar eclipse anyone on Earth will witness this
century; a longer one isn’t coming until 2132.
Mathematician and eclipse photographer Miloslav
Druckmüller didn’t waste a second of it,
positioned with a team of colleagues on
Enewetak Atoll in the South Pacific, which just
happens to be where the first hydrogen bomb was
tested by the United States back in 1952. The photo
shows the solar corona that make up the sun’s
“atmosphere” in glorious detail. Its whorls and
loops extend millions of miles into space, are
nearly 200 times hotter than the visible surface
of the sun, and yet aren’t nearly as bright (by a
factor of something like a million), hence, we
can only see them during eclipses. I love the
delicate beauty of this photo, and how it makes
various features of the corona so plainly visible,
like the difference in activity around its polar
regions, as well as the dim, cratered surface of
the moon.
CARNIVAL IN RIO
SHANGHAI ORIENTAL CROWN
Construction is finally complete on the national pavilion for Shanghai’s 2010 World Expo, which is set to start on May 1st of this year. The China Pavilion, also known as the Oriental Crown, represents the spirit of the people of China and showcases a variety of sustainable building practices ranging from passive design to rainwater harvesting. The Oriental Crown is one of the 5 permanent green buildings on the Expo site, and it will be converted into a national history museum upon the conclusion of the expo next October.