Monthly Archives: April 2011

From photographer, Isa Leshko’s Elderly Animals project.

Above: Kelly, Irish Wolfhound, aged 11; Embden Goose, aged 28; Morgan, Arabian stallion, aged 28, housecat, aged 19. Isa sez:

Images of animals that are prevalent in popular culture generally depict animals that are juvenile, or at the very least, in the prime of their lives. In these images, animals are exoticized, anthropomorphized, and/or infantilized. This project examines animals who are elderly or at the end stage of their lives.

For this project I am traveling to animal sanctuaries across the country to photograph elderly subjects. I have been especially drawn toward photographing farm animals. Because of the nature of their existence, farm animals typically do not live out their natural life spans. I was intrigued to observe and photograph working animals that actually reached a geriatric age.

More squelderly beauty here.

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Twenty years ago last night – April 17, 1991 – Nirvana played ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ for the first time at a concert in Seattle’s OK Hotel. Footage of this debut performance was included on Nirvana’s posthumous 2004 box set With the Lights Out. The single was released in August that same year.

The rest, as they say, was misery. And Courtney Love

Of the song, Cobain famously said he “was basically trying to rip off the Pixies… we used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.” It’s an apt homage, considering that Nirvana’s explosive success — and Nevermind’s ushering in of mainstream alternative — was in many ways a culmination of the long road tread by the bands that comprised the ’80s college rock and indie underground universe.

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