Skin deep

On the left: An unattributed stock photo I came across online. On the right: Hank Willis Thomas, Your Skin has the Power to Protect You, 2008. Digital chromogenic print.

Worlds away. And yet. . .

On the left: Agua Fria Street, Santa Fe, NM 2007; On the right: Williamson Street, Madison, WI 2014.

Dueling Danny Deevers

On the left: Reeve Taylor and Dan Molloy singing "Danny Deever" as part of Dan's senior recital at New Mexico State University, streaming live on my laptop in Santa Fe, February 2010. On the right: Reeve Taylor and Todd Resseguie sing "Danny Deever" as part of Reeve's graduate recital at University of Northern Colorado, April 2014.

Contrapuntal trunk show

On the left: the trunk where Tim keeps his clothes. On the right: my trunk.

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Addendum:
Not much has changed.

Hmm. . .

On the left: A photo I posted on Facebook last night of Memorial Terrace in Madison, Wisconsin. On the right: A "suggestion" posted by Facebook this morning.

Coincidence?

Ocean Beach flashback

On the left: Nick at Ocean Beach, San Francisco; March 26, 1995. (Photo by Jordan St. John); On the right: Nick at Ocean Beach, San Francisco; March 16, 2014 (Photo by Nikita Agrawal)

Man v. Play-Doh

On the left: Man I, 2002 by Tiina Itkonen; On the right: Eleanor Mcnair's version in Play-Doh. (More fun recreations here. Check it out; she's chosen some really stunning photos to emulate!)

Dressing one's age?

A "cross-dressing" project by the artist qozop. (In a series called Spring-Autumn, the artist took portraits of young people with their parents or grandparents, then had the two swap outfits.

To see more, go here.

(Thanks to Robin for the tip!)

Multi-level housing

On the left: Part of an offbeat outdoor theater set for Theater het Amsterdam Bos's 2005 production of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, designed by Catherina Scholten. On the right: Manarola, one of the five villages that make up the picturesque Italian area known as Cinque Terre.

Thanks to Sue Haas for making this connection!

Theater het Amsterdam Bos for a 2005 production of the Anton Chekhov play Ivanov:

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/redneck.asp#Oq2zj7gKU4sgwJ6b.99

Oh. . .

On the left: Notre-Dame, une fin d'après-midi (A Glimpse of Notre Dame in the Late Afternoon) 1902 by Henri Matisse; on the right: View of Notre-Dame (1914) by Henri Matisse.

In case you were wondering how that the painting from that last post (on the right above) might be of Notre Dame. . .

Henri and Richard

On the left: View of Notre-Dame (1914) by Henri Matisse; on the right: Untitled (Ocean Park), 1971, by Richard Diebenkorn.

Just recently came across this Matisse painting that I'd never seen before and thought how much it felt like Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series. Obviously, I'm not the only one who's thought that. (Poking about online, I found this:

"In the catalogue for her 1998 Diebenkorn retrospective, Jane Livingston points to how important Matisse’s View of Notre Dame (1914) was to Diebenkorn. He first saw it at just about the time he started the Ocean Park series: The Matisse made its first American appearance in Los Angeles in early 1966. By the end of 1967, the Ocean Park series was underway.)"

Art imitating life — or vice versa?

On the left: New Orleans street performer Uncle Louie crossing the street with his tiny stuffed dog, Lil Willie. On the right: a painting in a store window of Uncle Louie crossing the street with his tiny stuffed dog, Lil Willie. (Photo by Daniel Krone)