Archive for the ‘Albuquerque’ Category
Repost of an entry deleted during Stargazer’s Domain Transfer Fiasco 2010 There are a lot of things I don’t like about where I’m from – the drugs, the crime, the politics, the heat. But there are also a lot of beautiful things about the Southwest, of which I was recently reminded when a friend posted [...]
Yesterday, Garfield turned 30. Just a few of the things I love and remember as a kid of the 80s include jellies, neon clothes, rubix cubes, mousse…watching Steven Tyler gyrate down a pole of scarves 5 seconds before my dad turned it off and announced Mtv was banned in our house because ‘you’ll see a [...]
Loren Blanton Bentley, 1943-2008 Out of the five rolls of film I shot in Albuquerque last year, not a single image captured what I wanted. Instead, they captured what was really there: a total blur.
above the Sandia Mountains, NM October 2007
Of my many features there are several I would change, specifically my Cyrano-like nose. But if there’s one thing I DO like, it’s my eyes. Because they are my grandfather’s eyes, my mother’s eyes, my sister’s eyes. They are her eyes.
