Black and White World

 

As many of you may have noticed whilst Googling your favorite celebrity gossip or low-cal recipes, today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of French photographer Robert Doisneau, a titan in the world of black-and-white photography and all around bad-ass image capturer. 

Google's Doisneau "doodle"

 

It's been an embarrassingly long time since I've made a post (well over a month, I know) and I thought I'd ease back into things with a quick "best-of" of Doisneau's images.  Many of his works are iconic and I encourage you to check out more of his work either online or stop into the John Cleary Gallery and see them in person!

 

La dame indignee, 1948

 

Danse

Jacques Prevert au Gueridon, 1955

 

Le menage de monsieur Barre, 1955

 

 

Mademoiselle Anita and Pablo Picasso

 

Les helicopteres, 1976

 

Le baiser de l'Hotel de Ville (The Kiss), 1950

 

Artist: Elvis Costello / Album: Ten Bloody Marys and Ten How's Your Fathers

Rainy Days and Mondays

 

I was awoken yesterday morning at the crack of dawn (9:00 am—it was my day off) by the perpetual booming of thunder and offhandedly checked the weather report for Houston to discover a GIANT RED DOT headed right for Houston.  Now, mind you, I love nothing more than staying in, wrapped up in a blanket, to watch movies in the rain.  That was… until I got this text message from Catherine:

Catherine: Uh, this is Robert’s Carpet.  If you go out, will you swing by the gallery?  If you don’t, no worries. If it floods, then it does.  Ugh.

No relation, btw

 

For those of you unfamiliar with the vicinity of Robert’s Carpet to the gallery… let’s have Senor GoogleMaps help us out a bit, shall we?

Yup, that would be 358 feet

 

Being five minutes away from the gallery means that it’s easy easy to get there if need be, and when I got to the parking lot I was greeted by what I am affectionately referring to as the “Tiny Charybdis of Richmont Square”:

If you listen you can hear it’s twin on the other side of the lot!

 

 

Luckily everything was dry as a bone in the gallery and no last minute art saving had to be done. I later read in an article on cnn.com that over 7,000 people (that would be the entire population of my hometown, Crockett, mind you) were without power in Fort Bend County alone and that the rain came so quickly that in just ten minutes 1.6 inches of water fell, leading to a total of 6.3 inches in 12 hours.  This picture I saw floating around on facebook just about sums it up.

Artist: The Carpenters / Album: Classics, Volume 1

White Car

 

I was driving home from work the other night and I came upon this at a stop light

It’s the Google Street View car!!!!!!!!

 

Artist: Yes/ Album: Drama