On my way into Rapid City, I stopped for a quick look at Devil’s Tower (1), which is certainly a sight to see. But got in on the first night to Leah and her family, who took me out to see Mt. Rushmore (2). Leah’s dad tried to take a few proportion shots of us that weren’t working out as well as we would have liked compositionally, but we had a ball anyways. Saw George by looking through a rock (3) and a billy goat enjoying the sights and grass (4).
We climbed Harney Peak (5) and soaked in the view over lunch and a cliff.
Tried to go through a 8.5 by 24 in cement block testing ability to go though a spelunking cave. You can see by the veins in my hand (6) I was trying really hard to get unstuck. We did go on a lantern tour of a cave however (7), which greatly amused my inner child.
We drove through Custer State Park (8) and saw some buffalo (ie driving through two herds) and had a little run-in with a young bull. Entered and left by way of the Needles Highway (9). Unfortunately, I didn’t get to see Iron Mountain, but I’ll just save that for next time.
And from there, I took off from SD and headed north to Bismark and North Dakota’s plains.
“It may be unnecessary to point out how our visual interests can lead us in endless circles; nevertheless, today there is another new enthusiasm for certain aspects of the classical.”
(Offness research project, 2016–2017. This video is the result of the multidisciplinary research program “Architecture and/for Photography” developed by the CCA, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.)
Actively tired of the hypocrisy, and as a former southerner I’ve always hated bullshit racism being disguised as concerns about white history & heritage. Fuck that all right into the sun.
Experiencing the joy of looking out the small window of an airplane at a big world made smaller by the experience. The upside to deadheading…
As a metaphor for how we live our lives…opening the window shade is a conscious choice we make to engage with the outside world, to broaden our view of the world by letting in a little light and looking beyond the limits of our place and our possessions.…
New blog post up on Waiting Time x #Juneteenth………The rituals of Watch Nights + Freedom Days puts waiting time and political time together. Black people have always needed to be vigilant of political and institutional time, with an intimate understanding of how it moves. | #blackquantumfuturism #afrofuturism #retrofuturism #civilwar #monuments #blackspacetimematters https://www.instagram.com/p/CBl4Ck7lpxF/?igshid=ifi5mb66y5qb
