04 January 2010

TOO FRESH!



The three baddest dudes at the [1970s] Easter Egg Hunt.

I found these negatives recently, and they make the prints, (different images), I posted months ago look really tame.

Oh man.

found/photographer unknown.
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02 January 2010

Buster Keaton, as Pippo the clown in the 1964 TV series...

This looks Like...

This looks Like... (via jbpics)


...Buster Keaton, as Pippo the clown in the 1964 TV series, The Greatest Show on Earth.
This is a set photo found by John Bosko, a prolific, and favorite collector of mine on flickr.

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"Tell Those Girls, Mums-The Word"

12.09ND.244ax Telegram, 1943

Found Western Union Telegram, 1943.
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30 December 2009

Found Photobooth



found photobooth

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29 December 2009

Young Musicians-Found Negative



This is a really beautiful negative that i found yesterday in the bottom of a box... I don't have the ability to scan anything above 35mm, so i scanned this as reflective, then reversed it in Graphic Converter- tinkering with the levels and contrast, it turned out passable so I could share it. I can't tell you how much I love this photograph.

found/photographer unknown.
2.25" X 3.5" negative
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25 December 2009

Happy Holidays, Y'all

12.09ND.142bx I know, it's weak, but...
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21 December 2009

Zombie, Curlers, And A Buick Wildcat

12.09ND.139a Buick "Wildcat"

1965-67 Buick "Wildcat" This poor guy looks messed-up, and she's in curlers. Nice car, though.

found/photographer unknown
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19 December 2009

Unmarked Cabinet Card



Looks like a Shakespearean actor or the like. Late 19th century.


found/photographer unknown
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18 December 2009

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Blackberry with added contrast.
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12 December 2009

Photobooth Wallet, and Locks of Hair



2 1/8 X 4 canvas photobooth wallet, with lock of hair. 1930s.
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Flea Market Porn

via Jim's BlackBerry

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10 December 2009

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There is EVIL in this house.

I can feel it.
Sent via Jim's BlackBerry

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09 December 2009

12.09ND.100a <3.



12.09ND.100a , originally uploaded by HillbillyXX.




Found/photographer unknown

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04 December 2009

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If you receive a package of pictures from me, and you suddenly get itchy...

I need help giving this new addition to the Hillbilly family a new name. Please help via xomments.
Sent via Jim's BlackBerry

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Beware Of Your Local Camera Store



I hate going to the locally owned, 50 year-old camera store for a bunch of reasons. One is that no matter where you are, a locally-owned camera store is a good-old-boy clique, and if you are not a member, you get the rude treatment all the way around. Take my advice and go to Ritz.

The other reason, is that whether I like it or not, I am unable to avoid seeing a display like the one above every trip to the store, reminding me of the flourishing collapsible reflector market.

I entered the market at #2 behind the original, Flexfill in the late 80s, the premise being that one can make a "better mousetrap"- Which I did. Better materials stronger and wider spring-steel-- all but one sewing step was done with my own two little hands, as well as the marketing and sales. I also made bags for stands, tripods, and other gear, like refill-able set-weights and what-not.

Trouble was, very few people then were convinced of the idea that the things could make your pictures better, and so only a thin-layer of professionals used them-- Most of my former classmates and colleagues did-- Something that only changed in the 90s, and then blew wide-open with the advent of financially accessible digital cameras.


Enter the #3 player in about 1990(?) MADE IN KOREA. Inferior product, 1/3 cheaper, last nail in my coffin.

I now count no fewer than 7 manufacturers of this simple, now common tool.

Bitter? Nah. Just sad that I wasn't capitalized fully, or had enough help to market it, and wait it out until became a must-have tool. Just bad timing. First crack at my fully owned and operated business. Failure breeds character, btw.

I still think I have the best product name. wth is "LastoLite" ?? Pfffft.

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30 November 2009

Happy (Discovery) Birthday, Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis) 30.11.1974



Lucy (also given a second (Amharic) name: ድንቅነሽ dinqineš, "you are wonderful"[2]) is the common name of AL 288-1, the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered on November 30, 1974 by the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE; director: Maurice Taieb, co-directors: Donald Johanson and Yves Coppens) in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago.(...)

(...)Johanson and his colleague Tim White, a Californian born paleoanthropologist, placed Australopithecus afarensis as the last ancestor common to humans and chimpanzees living from 3.9 to 3 million years ago. Although fossils closer to the chimpanzee/human common ancestor have been recovered since the early 1970s, Lucy remains a treasure among anthropologists studying human origins. The fragmentary nature of the older fossils furthermore deter confident conclusions as to the degree of bipedality or their relation to true hominines.

via: The Free Dictionary

Thank you, AL 288-1, for the huge fucking impression you made on me in 1982.

fuckyeahhominines

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29 November 2009

Melissa Farlow and Mustangs... FTW



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Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, and limitless possibilities, as well as the vanishing West. Along with that fantasy, wild horses embody some of the intractable complexities and contradictions of modern American life.


In 1900, two million wild horses roamed the still largely unfenced American West. In the hundred years since, a growing human population’s expanding urbanization has eaten up much of the range. Less than 30,000 wild horses are squeezed onto public lands in ten western states.


Today, the Bureau of Land Management spends 40 million dollars annually caring for wild horses. Most visible are the gathers or roundups performed by contractors who use helicopters to drive horses into a trap to be culled. Mustangs can be adopted by the public, but much of the BLM’s funding is spent caring for the once wild horses for the rest of their lives in long-term facilities.


Melissa Farlow, photographer




Melissa Farlow and Mustangs... FTW.


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26 November 2009

The Promenade And The Trailer Park



found, (1960s), photographer unknown
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