Articles Written By Rosecrans Baldwin
Rosecrans Baldwin co-founded TMN with publisher Andrew Womack in 1999. His latest book is Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles. More information can be found at rosecransbaldwin.com.
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Hand Job
The composition of everyday things is up for review. Each week we find out new things about genes, about molecular structures—so why not the letters we read on signs, in magazines, on the flipside of our hovering skateboards?
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Pitchaya Sudbanthad
New York: Farris Libsey
Name: Farris Libsey. Time of birth: 1928. Occupation title(s), both real and desired-in-another-lifetime? Retired electrician. How would you describe your look? Well, I look the best I can every day....
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Mai Le
San Francisco: Will Chiapella
Name: Will Chiapella Time of birth: Two whole days of childbirth (sorry Ma) Occupation title(s), both real and desired-in-another-lifetime? Street photographer, flaneur, crytoscopophiliac, generally harmless person How would you...
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Back to Nature
The watercolors and packing-tape installations of Robert Waters are frank and intimate, with luminous simplicity; what they’re made from serves the message, and not the other way around.
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A Day in the Life
KayLynn Deveney photographs the comings and goings of a man in Wales, drawing out moments of repose and oddness from the humdrum.
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Dreamland
What becomes of resorts planned with big dreams—yachts, country clubs, roads paved and phone poles wired—that never materialize? Forty minutes from Palm Springs, photographer Marshall Sokoloff spent two years roaming the deserted zones of Salton City, tracking the desolation.
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Mingering Mike
These handmade records—found at a flea market and “recorded” by an unknown singer, Mingering Mike—are exquisite in realistic-seeming details: gatefolds, label logos, complete lyrics, artwork. Even the platters are cardboard.
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Listening
Departure Journal, Volume One
I have reason to reminisce. My tenure of living in New York City is ending, and in the weeks before I move, I’m starting to forget what I dislike...
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Hanging Around
These photos from Tom Sandberg display composure, stillness, mystery—despite being taken years apart.
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Listening
A Crush Admitted
Spring is taking its time this year, teasing us with a few warm days. When the weather’s nice, I want to listen to HOT 97. My finger’s drawn to...
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Reader Letters
American, March
Dear TMN,I should, to begin with, admit that I am in the minority who feels that English, August deserved better than it got at Colin Meloy's hands. I will,...
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End of a New Dawn
Life would be dull, all greasy dishes, Dixie Chicks, and junk mail, were it not for the giant tuna balloons moored outside the house, waiting to fly us to excitements somewhere else.