January 2011
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What if no amount of apathy could kill such a thing.
– Me, thinking about something or other vaguely artistic and fate related. Not a question.
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He’s right that the conversation is ahead of the White House. But that’s not...
– Peter Feld re: this
How is this lost on everyone criticizing Obama for not taking a clear side?
(via kateoplis)
Political wisdom is dead along with all the other wisdoms. We are knowledgeable but not wise.
Francis Ford Coppola as quoted on Boingboing today. Original source is this must read article Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration
I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep, he said, “I was so happy when this young person took from me.” Because that’s what...
Birthday, done. It’s a new year now in both respects. Thankful for lots, first of all, a great sister, and then friends, and I even got a happy birthday wish from mills and abby. How cool is that. This year, to Scotland and more photography and more poetry.
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Garfunkel & Oates to make an LA Flight of the... →
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With Niagara I had more problems photographing property than people. Sometimes I...
– Alec Soth, interview
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I always uncontrollably singing to myself whenever I “Search Tumblr”, “It’s All Been Done” before… and I’m quite certain this post has itself “All Been Done” before as well.
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Photography is light hitting an object…so if you scout something, when you go...
– Alec Soth on spontaneously finding subjects for a new project for The New York Times Magazine piece, Portraits from a Job-Starved City. Audio interviews accompany each of Soth’s portraits, of individuals from Rockford, Illinois. There’s also a great blog post about the assignment itself. (via...
The Sternewirth Privilege is a tradition in breweries where the brewery workers are given access to free beer from the brewery taproom when they feel thirsty. - Wikipedia of the day
The Sternewirth Privilege is a tradition in breweries where the brewery workers are given access to free beer from the brewery taproom when they feel thirsty. - Wikipedia of the day
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Capucine in my favorite video ever on the front page of Huffington Post just made my day. Correct, we’ve all known this amazing thing for years but seeing it there just made me smile.
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Word that has lost any discernible audible or visual meaning of-the-day: roomful. It doesn’t even appear to be composed of english characters. Are those runes?
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