Brother man

These 2 show my brother Ted a few weeks ago at the beach near his home in Santa Cruz, CA.


"God texts Moses," Tim Connor, All rights reserved


"Teddy at the dog beach," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

Fragments of empire

The two photos below inspired a post by the witty & industrious Michael David Murphy on his whileseated site. He imagines an installation of life-sized, distortion-free photographs of the fading mural in a nearby gallery "free and clear of the elements."

"I'd really like to see that," he says.

I remembered the one-paragraph Borges' story about an empire in which the science of cartography has become so exact only a map on a one-to-one scale with the empire itself will suffice. The story ends, "...succeeding Generations… came to judge a map of such Magnitude cumbersome... In the western Deserts, tattered Fragments of the Map are still to be found, Sheltering an occasional Beast or beggar..."

Archeology

"Riverside mural, Newburgh, NY," Tim Connor, All rights reserved


"Riverside mural 2, Newburgh, NY," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

To get a notion of where this mural's dilapidated (& , frankly, absurd) vision of triumphant wealth came from, try this Wikipedia entry about Newburgh's recent history.

Entrance of the brown lady

"Brown lady partial face & hair," Tim Connor, All rights reserved


"Brown lady half-life," Tim Connor, All rights reserved


"Stroking the brown lady's leg," Tim Connor, All rights reserved

I'm told this will be the ad for "Sex and the City II."

Unintentional history

"Hunter S. Thompson, passed out drunk, 1960," Photographer unknown