1961 Pontiac Ventura

Thanks to Joe Hughes for the 1961 Pontiac Ventura. I want this car, please.

1950 Chevrolet 3/4 ton: the lustre of disaster.

From our man in south Saskatchewan, Alex Emond:
"Now we're pulling into Shamrock, Sask. This old Chev is really something ...takes a lickin' and keep on tickin'!  Just a beast, and the chronological sheen is most impressive ... the lustre of disaster.  Basically , a piece of public art. And a beast of burden... 

"Kind of like this multicoloured GMC that was sticking its snout out of a hedgerow." --AE

American Road & the Delta 88

From our Northern Calif/Nevada correspondent:
"Will be absent from the Silver State investigating southern Colorado environs for a bit;  this, just over the Utah line on 50, is one of my favorite signs enroute...for all your Oldsmobile fans:

         

        "East of Fallon, #1"

 "East of Fallon #2"

"East of Fallon #3"

all images ex. Oldsmobile ©2012 Michael S. Moore

Fourth of July on a Maine Island

                                                                   all images ©2012 Laura Lewis

Gary Snyder on Lew Welch

In a piece in The London Review (May 24 2012) Iain Sinclair visits Gary Snyder at home, and quotes Snyder about the cabin near the Forks of the Salmon where Lew Welch worked on his Hermit Poems and where he says Welch had achieved:  "the meeting of an ancient Asian sage-tradition, the “shack simple” post-frontier back country out-of-work working man’s style, and the rebel modernism of modern art’."

                                                         "Grizzly"      ©Alex Emond 2012

Ed Burtynsky: Highway #1

Edward Burtynsky, Highway #1, Intersection 105 & 110, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2003. Chromogenic color print. Photograph © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, New York; and Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC.

Ed Burtynsky's show OIL was up at this spring The Photographers' Gallery, London. Not sure where it is heading next but the work is stunning, frightening, impressive. 

1950 GMC 9100

                                     "On Main Street. Lafleche, Saskatchewan." ---Alex Emond