Mark Gessler and the team from the Historic Vehicle Association of America called in to Stanford’s Revs Program today on their epic trip from Detroit to San Francisco in a 1915 Model T Ford [Link] (Click on the photos for full evocative resolution) They’re following the tracks of Edsel Ford who took a Model T…
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Pebble Beach 2015 – history as advocacy
Yesterday I was again at Pebble Beach Concours d’Élegance – that rather exclusive and impressive gathering of car collectors and connoisseurs [Link] I was there to wind up our Stanford class concerned with the historical significance of the automobile (Jon Feiber, David Kelley, Reilly Brennan and myself running ME200). Since April we have been debating…
Navarro River
Hendy Woods, Navarro River, California Times of drought (click on image for full evocative resolution)
archaeology in the making – biographies
Biography: Interrogations, Observations, Studies – “BIOS” – is a seminar workshop running this year at Stanford Humanities Center and organized by Anne Duray and Thea De Armond – [Link] Yesterday I shared some thoughts on my collection, with Bill Rathje and Chris Witmore, of conversations with archaeologists – the book Archaeology in the Making [link]…
through a glass darkly
Flowers – 2006 and after Crystal glass – 1976 and after April 2006 Boonville California – Hasselblad 503CW camera (2000), Zeiss 120mm lens (2000), Hasselblad CFV digital back (2006) April 2015 Boonville California – Leica 90mm macro lens (2015) on Leica Macro Adapter (2014) on Sony A7ii camera (2015) April 2015 Stanford California – Polaroid…
history’s ruin – the case of an automobile – 2
Damian Ortega – Cosmic Thing (2002) (thoughts on the manifestation of history’s ruin – [Link])
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