Entries from March 2009 ↓

Don’t Mess with Texas.

Exline Park, R. C. Hickman (1955)
Exline Park by R. C. Hickman (1955)
From the R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive at the
Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin

I’m giving you really short notice, as this show will only be up until Sunday, March 8. But if you’re anywhere near the Irving Arts Center (3333 N. MacArthur Blvd) in Irving TX between now and then, make it your business to stop by and see Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, which features 56 black and white photographs from his eponymous archive at the University of Texas at Austin.

For those who, like I, had never heard of the man,

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Pimpin’-est. Yacht. Ever.

Oculus Yacht by Schöpfer, 3/4 view

A really amazing design, at first sight, should almost make your eyes water.

Oculus, above, is a great design.

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