As part of their Retooling Residencies Exhibition, Akademie Schloss Solitude is hosting Herman Wallace’s dream library until his home is built in New Orleans.

The following books are missing from Herman’s Library, if they happen to be collecting dust on a shelf in your house, or you would like to donate them to the library; jump in. Send them directly to Akademie Schloss Solitude, Solitude 3, Stuttgart Germany 70197 or contact: un at okcancel dot org.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS:
My Bondage, My Freedom
Life & Times of Frederick Douglass

MIKE MARGUESSE:
Redemption Song

KENNETH NEIL CAMERON:
Marxism, A Living Science

MARCUS GARVEY:
Africa for Africans

PETER MATTHIESSE:
The Spirit of Crazy Horse

TOM BOTTOMORE:
Marxist Thought

DONALD CARBONA:
Death at Midnight

JOAN M. CHEEVER:
Back From The Dead

ENVER HOXHA:
Proletarian Internationalism, Imperialism and the Revolution
Reflections on China

TROTSKY
In Defense of the October Revolution
On the Paris Commune

JOSEPH STALIN:
Marxism And The National Question
Anarchism Or Socialism
Collective Works 1-12

V.I. LENIN:
The Collective Works

MARX/ENGELS:
Das Capital Volumes 2&3

LINDA METCALFE, PHD
Writing the Mind Alive

J. BOSTON DEMANVILLE
Prisoner’s Self Help LItigation Manual

THOMAS S. COWAN MD
The Four-Fold Path to Reading

JENNY PHILLIPS
Letters from the Dhamma Brother’s

EDWARD REYNOLDS
The Middle Passage, A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade

SASHA ABRAMSKY
American Furies

GEORGE NOVAK
Democracy & Revolution
The Origins of Materialism
Pragmatism & Marxism

MAO TSE TUNG
Selected Military Writings

JOHN GURLEY
China’s Economy & Military Strategy

MAURICE CORNFORTH
Historical Materialism

MORTON MINTA & JERRY S. COHEN
Power Inc

BETREM GROSS
Friendly Fascism

LEONARD MOSLEY
The Reich Marshall

JOY JAMES/SOUTHEND PRESS
What Lies Beneath

OTHER:
Wall Street Journal Almanac
New Webster’s Encyclopedia
Webster’s New Spanish Dictionary
Georgetown Law Journal
Federal Rules Civil Procedure
Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure

krewe of eris: a mardi gras parade of choas in the quarter
this years theme: desire & light
valentine’s day: 14 february 2010

flic.kr/lightmotion photos:

krewe of eris parade 75 photos

creating eris + outtakes 90 photos

eris band rehersal 61 photos + 1 video!

more on Feb. 11 Day of Action.
more on Iran human rights from Amnesty Int’l.

jazz hand job – providence dance troupe
st. ferdinand church
fringe fest, new orleans
12 november 2009

last night i felt disappointed in myself as i photographed–or rather failed to photograph well–the day of the dead parade in new orleans. maybe i built myself up too much, getting excited for weeks to take photos of this event. maybe i should have gone in more relaxed. maybe i shouldn’t have had those two extra beers that made me have pee so bad.

i felt discoordinated the whole first half of the parade, beginning at the iron rail and heading through jackson square. i fumbled with exposures, with my wireless flash getup–which doesn’t work well outdoors i figured out–and realized i needed my wide-angle lens and not this heavy zoom that ached my wrist.

but now i’m editing and learning. i wrecked what would have been many great shots, getting mis-fires from the wireless flash and under- or over-exposing photos. and even though i keep telling myself to take more close-ups, tight portraits, etc., i don’t. i shy away from the confrontation thinking people will get annoyed with me flashing in their faces.

what i’ll take from this is the few shots that worked: finding the right exposure for shooting with a fill flash, and figuring out the disadvantages of hand-held flash in one hand and a heavy lens in the other. and of course, shoot more, more, more.