I think July 2 should be a national holiday, but I am also unhealthily obsessed with Amelia Earhart.

It’s been 71 years since she disappeared. What an interesting mystery. Wired.com has a good article today about her disappearance.

The disappearance of the celebrated flier remains perhaps the most tantalizing unsolved mystery in aviation history. In the age of Charles Lindbergh and other daredevil fliers, Amelia Earhart became a household name in 1928, after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. True, it was as a passenger with a male pilot and copilot, but she soloed across the Atlantic in 1932.

The latest from filmmaker Lasse Gjertsen is a short animation featuring a friendly game of Rock, Paper, Scissors… and other things.

http://www.playdamage.org/market-o-matic/

Try it out.

A Final Reminder, to anyone in LA go see Turn at Shotgun Space because I am featured in it.

Turn

Shotgun Space’s Final Show, One Night Only

This Saturday, June 28th, 2008

From 7 to 10 pm

Come join us for Turn, taking place as part of our closing gala. Turn is a one-night only group photo exhibition. All photos are available in an affordable ($25! $50!) open edition for the night of the event only, featuring an amazing and eclectic group of photographers:

Brian Widdis / Johanna Reed / Kurney Ramsey / Greg Wasserstrom / Noel Rodo-Vankeulen / Paul Herbst / Ian Aleksander Adams / Charity Vargas / Zack Genin / Aline Smithson / Maury Gortemiller / Alex Van Clief / Marilyn Galosy / Jacqueline Truong / Casey Coy / Shari Simonsen / Lydia McCarthy / Paul Pescador / David Weiner / Katie Dexter / Thomas Macker / James Lundstrom / Molly Garvey / Kasey Andrews / Libby Dierker / Ian Hunter / Star Rosencrans

1. Go Swimming at Pretty Boy.

That’s a photograph of my friend Sara at Pretty Boy last year.

2. Take a break from Captain, start a relationship with wine.

3. Hike the Billy Goat trail at Great Falls and join my local gym.

I love this trail.

4. Read my books.

A few weeks ago I received an e-mail from Justin James Reed announcing he had new work to view on his website. Things were a little hectic then and now that I am back from Arizona / Colorado / Utah I have actually had the time to take a look at his work. And it is wonderful. I feel a sense of bleak suburban hope when I look at it. Suburbs have always scared me. I grew up in a urban / semi-urban environment and I have yet to experience any other sort of living situation. I have a lot of thoughts of suburbs and the demise of children.  But I will save this all for another time. Now please go to Justin’s website and look at his new photographs.

A few of my favorites are below.

© Justin James Reed, 2008

© Justin James Reed, 2008

I hate Flickr. Because it sucks. I use it solely as photo storage but other people use it for other weird things like awards (something that I do not understand.) However The Smithsonian uses it for something awesome. It’s a really large archive of interesting people and things. Spend some time browsing around — you won’t be disappointed. I’m posting a few of my favorites below.

Felix Nadar

Description: Identification on front (handwritten): Page -1885; Ames - 1872; Durand - 1886; Quinn Ward - 1910; George Fuller Artist - 1884; H.K. Brown Sculptor - 1886; Gifford - 1880. Pictured left to right: unidentified man, George Fuller, William Page, Henry Kirke Brown, Joseph A. Ames, Asher B. Durand, John Quincy Adams Ward and Sanford Robinson Gifford (seated).

Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer

Medium: Black and white photographic print

Dimensions: 16 in x 19 in

Date: 1865

Hello friends,

I am writing from Utah, but if anyone here reads this in LA or will be in LA next week. Make it out to the Shotgun Space for the Opening of Turn. I have some images featured in the show. Here is the write up about it:

, Turn will take place at Shotgun Space on Saturday, June 28th from 7
to 10pm. If you’re receiving this email it’s because you submitted an image
or two (or three) to us, and we’re happy to have you in the exhibition.
You’ll see you’re in excellent company:

Johanna Reed / Kurney Ramsey / Greg Wasserstrom / Noel Rodo-Vankeulen / Paul
Herbst / Ian Aleksander Adams / Zack Genin / Aline Smithson /  Maury
Gortemiller / Alex Van Clief / Marilyn Galosy / Jacqueline Truong / Casey
Coy / Shari Simonsen / Lydia McCarthy / Paul Pescador / David Weiner / Katie
Dexter / Thomas Macker / James Lundstrom / Molly Garvey /

June 28th will also be Shotgun Space’s closing gala, as we’ll be moving out
of our current space on June 29th.

Feel free to follow-up with any questions, or let me know if you’ve changed
your mind about your image entry, or if you’d like to withdraw, or anything
else - but please do so no later than June 22nd.

Thanks again - for those of you who aren’t able to attend the evening, we’ll
put show documentation up at http://www.shotgunspace.com following the
event. Otherwise, we hope to see you there!

When I arrive in Phoenix on Sunday here is the temperature:

Sunny High
110°F

And for the remainder of the week the temperature isn’t reaching below 105. How exciting. Luckily I will be in Utah as well where the temperatures are not expected to reach about 98 degrees. Yay.

Copyright 2005. K. Dexter

Here is an interesting collection of various computer hardware pieces playing music. Pretty interesting stuff.

1. Floppy Disk Playing Imperial March

2. HP Scanner Playing Ode To Joy

3. Mario Theme With A Lot of Random Parts

4. Radiohead Nude Remix (Pretty Amazing)