Happy 89th Birthday George Takei!
George Takei, born on April 20, 1937, in Los Angeles, California, is an actor, activist, and social media phenomenon who has lived one of the most remarkable lives in American entertainment.
As a child, Takei and his family were forcibly relocated to Japanese...
Thank you for your service!
From my collab with artist Amy Kaps.
Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.
God I miss you ๐๐
A happy Monochrome Monday to all who celebrate.
#MCM
Where's Schwaldo? ๐ฆบ
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th.
www.nokings.org
#NoKings
#joshuatree Saturday 11-1 at Hwy 62 & Park
See you at Hwy 62 & Park on Saturday in #joshuatree
Good morning, BlueSky
You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her.
Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day
Eisenhower
War will never give us peace.
I know *you* know this already, and Iโm saying nothing profound, but I needed you to know I know too.
๐ was the only remaining subscription I had on @profgalloway.com's #resistandunsubscribe list. I've been an Apple customer since I was a teenager (I'm 45), and until last week, I used them for everything. It took all month to get all the cloud stuff moved over but it's done, and I'm happy about it.
maybe itโll happen in the middle of his speech
A split-image portrait of Katherine Johnson, the pioneering Black NASA mathematician: On the left, a black-and-white historical photo from her NASA career in the 1960s shows a smiling middle-aged woman wearing cat-eye glasses and a light-colored dress with white collar and trim, seated at her desk with a globe and papers in the background. On the right, a color photo from 2015 depicts an elderly Katherine Johnson (in her late 90s) seated in a wheelchair during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony, wearing glasses, a dark suit jacket, an orange top, a blue ribbon with the medal, and holding a green item in her lap, as she looks directly at the viewer with a gentle expression. The side-by-side images contrast her youthful professional life with her honored later years.
Mathematician & NASA ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ Katherine Johnson died #OTD in 2020.
She was instrumental in the success of the first US manned spaceflights, calculating complex trajectories enabling humans to reach orbit & land on the moon. Her story was told in ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด (book/movie). #WomenInSTEM #BHM
Desert Folks: these items will be distributed on Sunday, along with home cooked meals. If you're able to contribute any of these items but not able to get them to 29 Palms, I'm happy to pick up from Palm Springs to Yucca Valley before Sunday. And of course if you need any of these items, c'mon by!
(4/4) I never loved the group shots, so they're not here. My agent liked them though and used them to get me ad gigs -- you'll just have to flip through your 2007 copy of Frontiers to find those ๐
I always liked working with this ragtag crew. Small mags that valued art were the best.
This model was also the underwater swimmer. I clearly liked that railing.
That railing was maybe 2 inches wide if I recall.
Kudos to this model (whose name I can't recall) for the balancing act.
This particular mag was large format, so you could get a little weird with details. Once everything went online, I think styles had to change because photos got smaller and need to be "understandable" in an instant.
Happy Friday!
Here's a fashion / swimwear story I shot for a local rag in my 20s, which I think was the tail end of the magazine explosion.
I was "classically (commercially) trained" so I always left room for text back then, but designers rarely took advantage of it.
Happy #thirstday!
Here's another one from the book.
Scott, photographed in my studio back in 2007.
All that's left for me on this list is Apple (will happen this month) and I still have an Instagram account, so Meta.
Weโre canceling all streaming as part of #resistandunsubscribe, which means no more Apple Music, so Iโm gonna start playing vinyl more. This morning needed jazz so itโs Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool.
Gonna check out the used shops this weekend. Any album recommendations?
Happy #humpday!
Shot this 20 years ago. If I recall, the model preferred anonymity so I shan't name him... and I think that beach ball came with an issue of some fashion mag. This was published in my 2009 book, "Shooting Male"
I still have those apple boxes. They served as tables at my wedding.
Donโt know how many more examples itโs going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
