The first color photographs taken in America

My Modern Met recently published some of the earliest color photographs taken in the United States.  They are amazing.  

This shot below, of Mulberry St., looks like it came straight from The Godfather/G2....if they had hired more extras. You can jump to the article here. 

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poem: Here

By Jack Brummet

When I'm not here
I'm often there

e.g., anywhere
that's not here

I'm there,
but not all there

I have to be
a little here

to be there
and a little there

to be here
being here

or being there
is not being everywhere

when you go anywhere
you leave a little bit behind

shedding pieces
here there and everywhere

if you're not here
and you're not there

you are somewhere
neither here nor there

and somewhere
could be anywhere

but can't be
everywhere
I saw a bear

where? over there.

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Buck Henry meets The Grateful Dead

A pretty delightful short in which a skeptical Buck Henry appears to become a Deadhead. 

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Drawing: Faces # 1410

By Jack Brummet

[Pencil, India ink, and Sharpie on Goodwill shadow box]

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Poem: The Curtain

By Jack Brummet

There are pockets of sanity

still scattered among us,

and light years between those
shining seas of tranquility.

The task we face
is keeping the tiller

aimed away from
the sea of madness,

the silver rain
drawn like a curtain

between us
and God.

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Two friends I met last week - caballos en la playa de San Pedrito de las Palmas

by Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.

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The Faces Museum of Todos Santos, BCS

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.

Note: Flash photography was not alowed, so many shots are in low light.

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Photos of Dave Hokit surfing at El Cerrito, BCS

By Jack Brummet, Sports Photographer
(#2 by Maureen Roberts)

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drawing: Faces # 1409

By Jack Brummet

[Sharpie, pencil, and industrial Sharpie on 2'x3'x1/4" concrete board. The board was so rough it ground down 4 Sharpies + two industrial Sharpies]

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Signs in and around Todos Los Santos, Baja California Sur (part 2)

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.

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Signs in and around Todos Los Santos, Baja California Sur (part 1)

By Jack Brummet, Mexico Travel Ed.

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No woman, no cry—article from 1938

A fascinating piece, although probably not so true when you consider the people who have been born blind.

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