Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ben Shahn - Musicians

Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration. He had a strong social conscience and attempted to show, through his photographs, the effects of hard times on the lives of his subjects.

But this set focuses on people playing music. I only wish I had recordings of them!

 Aunt Samantha Baumgarner, fiddler, banjoist, guitarist, North Carolina, Asheville, 1937

 Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, mountain fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina , 1937

 Jeeter Gentry, Elmer Thompson and Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, Asheville, North Carolina, 1937

 Lovengood sisters, Asheville, North Carolina, 1937

 Mrs. Mary McLean, Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937

 Practising for the Westmoreland Fair, Pennsylvania, 1937

 Sunday at home, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937

Young musician at Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937

Friday, July 19, 2013

Pearl Jam - Black [HD]


"Black"


Hey... oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...
Uh huh... uh huh... ooh...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, can't it be mine