Ziggy Played Guitar

Lap guitar to be precise.

In Heat

Today I got my first Tel Aviv parking ticket.I am not even angry.
100Nis(20$)(100 feet of trix cost110Nis).

Lena has landed.

and brought me presents!

RED! Iwo Jima! Водка!

Tonight Lena returns!



I watched Letters from Iwo Jima.Wonderful movie.Much better then Private Rayan and Flags of our fathers.

В пятницу был у друзей и ВДРУГ Лёня вытащил бутылку Голда!
Все долго фыркали, но бутылка исчезла очень быстро,и заметьте, во благо.
Потом захотелось еще и кто то сгонял в ларёк и купил (непалённой) Финляндий
которая исчезла медленней и в ее конце Марина сказала "Да.Голд был лучше".
Не зажирайтесь,дамы и господа.

Lena comes back tomorrow!

got a nikon fe2 for 25$.It has a slightly sticky winding mechanism,which servisol solves for a few hours.

last memories of summer

המים הכחולים
ביצוע: עמיר לב
מילים ולחן: עמיר לב


הן יושבות על החול הכי קרוב למים
אני יושב ממול ליד הדגים
אחת שותקת, השניה מזמזמת שיר
כל כך יפה החוף, הזה עם המים הכחולים

שני בחורים עם שני כלבים גדולים
הקטנה יושבת זקוף מורידה את הצמידים
הגדולה לוקחת חולצה ומכסה לעצמה את הפנים
יפה החוף הזה, עם המים הכחולים

הן נכנסות למים, אחת עומדת והשניה שוחה
נשמעת צעקה, הגדולה נוגעת בקטנה
פתאום היא מחליקה על אחת האבנים
קרוב לחוף בתוך המים הכחולים

איש מבוגר דוחף כסא, על הכסא יושב הילד
האיש דוחף שותק, והילד צועק
הן עומדות הגדולה עם השקית
והקטנה היא מחזיקה את הבגדים
מחכות שהשמש תיגע במים הכחולים

in a hurry

Jaffa market

insert cliche title here

Free The Burmese Prisoners

Protest near the embassies,Tel Aviv.
The film got off the spool(bad sticky tape holding it - it was bulkloaded) and was slightly exposed when kept in the cassette.When you have lemons - make lemonade.

"Can I buy you a drink?"

watched "Palindromes".Excelent movie,well made,great acting,sad and funny,yet very disturbing.

"walking on the beaches looking at the peaches"

Allenby,Tel Aviv.

trix@400 in diafine looks like crap.
Low contrast,low sharpness,huge grain.

no title

I developed some trix@400 in diafine.Didnt scan yet but the negs look good.

I read somewhere that trix can be shot at 400 in low contrast and 1600 in high contrast in diafine.

If this is true - I will finish all my stocks of fp4,plusx and hp5 and use trix exclusively(in 35mm).

sometimes life is black and white

nothing to fear but fear itself

same as yesterday.

גבעתי שלי

military wake,Jerusalem.

I visited Jerusalem last night to see a concert\art show\birthday. All were nice.
It is winter in Jerusalem,good chance for the local hipsters to dress up.

Went to shoot in Tel Aviv - Jaffa.

"To dream of having your hair cut, denotes serious disappointments"

three different attitudes

hunting,celebrating,venting.

I love taking pictures on pedestrian crossings.
They are never very good.

special olympics

apocalypse is nigh

Mermaid on land

I am much happier and calmer than I was 10 years ago,
than I was 5 years ago,
than I was a year ago,
than I was 6 month ago,
than I was 3 months ago.

early sunset

Sunset over Gennesaret(The Sea of Galilee).The sun sets early now. Yesterday we got wet in the first rain of the year.Walked around Tel Aviv(including a museum) from 10:00 to 18:00 or so.

all is filled with beauty

Discovered and fell in love with Egon Schiele.

new toys,again

As always,photographic equipment comes to me(keep 'em coming!).


Some for free(Thank you Victor!),




some for cash(thank you Alexz!).

conversation

Who cares

Олден Уитмен. Какое место вы отводите себе среди писателей (ныне здравствующих) и писателей недавнего прошлого?

Владимир Набоков. Я часто думаю, что должен существовать специальный типографский знак, обозначающий улыбку, — нечто вроде выгнутой линии, лежащей навзничь скобки,, именно этот значок я поставил бы вместо ответа на ваш вопрос.

Интервью в апреле 1969 года (перевод А. Г. Николаевской). Опубликовано в сборнике Nabokov V. Strong Opinions.


Could I love him more?

Lena came back!

The wonderful Lena landed a couple of hours ago.
This is very very good.


day


night

I love to watch women apply makeup.

Tender,sometimes a song really pierces your heart

Life is riddled with tough choices



PJ Harvey-Memphis(Tribute to Jeff Buckley)
You breathing into my mouth
I'll take it
I'll take it for you

You wanna sing
Then sing it for me
You got something
Left to say

Untie me
We're taking away
Unlikely
Out of time

When you still got
So much to say
I'll write it
A song for you

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling

Oh what a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing

You said
There's a special place
And it's scaring
The shit out of me

In Memphis
On Valentine's day
You wrote it
In a letter to me

Well I wish I had given you more time
To say thank you
My beautiful friend

But sometimes you gotta send it away
To bring it
To bring it back again

You'll always
Have open eyes
You'll always
Have a special place

In Memphis
On Valentine's day
Die suddenly
At a wonderful age
We're ready
We're ready to go
When you still got so much to say

Somehow I know
You drank and stole
Receiving just everything

But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling

foreign employees

foreign employees are todays migrant workers, only recently laws were made to protect their intrests and they started to get decent treatment.

Most of them live in Southern Tel Aviv.
They spend years here doing agricultural work,construction,menial labour and wet nursing the elderly among other things. Most are from the Philippines,Thailand,China,Romania and Nigeria. They seem lonely,but in southern Tel Aviv they have their own diners,stores,clubs and bordellos - they seem much more relaxed there.Some have children born here.

Watched:"Eastern Promises"(weak with good points) and "History of Violence"(good). Cronenberg is improving with age.

ссуки

"Although he continued to paint, Modigliani's health was deteriorating rapidly, and his alcohol-induced blackouts became more frequent.

In 1920, after not hearing from him for several days, his downstairs neighbor checked on the family and found Modigliani in bed delirious and holding onto Hébuterne who was nearly nine months pregnant. They summoned a doctor, but little could be done because Modigliani was dying of the then-incurable disease tubercular meningitis.

Modigliani died on January 24, 1920. There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.

Hébuterne was taken to her parents' home, where, inconsolable, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window two days after Modigliani's death, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani.

Modigliani died penniless and destitute—managing only one solo exhibition in his life and giving his work away in exchange for meals in restaurants. Since his death his reputation has soared. Nine novels, a play, a documentary and three feature films have been devoted to his life."

Wikipedia

who needs men anyway?

big fan of photographing feet,they say a lot about a person without being direct.

lazy feelin'

dont cut off the feet of people you like.
I still like the picture.

שם השיר : Mama, You Been On My Mind
מתוך : The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3
גרסה עברית: מותק, את אצלי בראש
מילים ולחן: בוב דילן
תרגום: שלומי שבן

אולי זה הצבע של השמש שדהה
ומכסה את הצומת בו אני עומד
או שאולי זה משהו באוויר או משהו אחר
אבל מותק את אצלי בראש
אני לא מחפש צרות אל תכעסי
אל תדאגי לא אתחנן
ולא אומר שלא אוכל לשכוח
ולא אזחל ולא אבכה ולא אסתיר ממך שכן
מותק את אצלי בראש
אפילו שמוחי הזוי ועולמי סגור וצר
איפה היית לא משנה לי
ולא מציף אותי בצער
גם לא אכפת לי איפה או עם מי תתעוררי מחר
רק שמותק את אצלי בראש
אני לא מבקש ממך לומר מילים כמו כן ולא אנא הביני
אין לי מקום לקרוא לך בוא לבוא
סתם התלחשתי עם עצמי
כאילו אין מי שיגיד לי
מותק את אצלי בראש
אז כשתתעוררי מחר יפה הביטי בראי
ולא אהיה שם לצידך ,לא אהיה קרוב אל תופתעי
רק אהיה סקרן אם את רואה אותך צלול כמו מי
שהיית אצלו בתוך הראש
שהיית אצלו בתוך הראש

early morning,serene.

Lena in the morning. Tonight she leaves to Moscow on family matters for a few days.She packs her bags as I type this.


Today I took a 6 hour photo walk with the very talented Allon Kira who just happens to be a darn nice guy,Moshik and Dvir from d-spot analogue photography forum. Shot several rolls of plus-x,tested the polaris lightmeter.I like it. I met Kobi Wolf in Jaffa ,(who I met at his exhibition about an year ago),and we talked for several minutes.He drooled over my leica. He did not remember my name but remembered the photos I took of him there and thanked me for them.I still feel like an idiot for not asking him to sign his book then. He leaves for Chad in a few days with his canon 1DMk2 which he says he hates but uses for asigments. He wet prints his own prints.