Margaret Bourke-White

I know of nothing to equal the happy expectancy of finding something new, something unguessed in advance, something only you would find, because as well as being a photographer, you were a certain kind of human being, and you would react to something all others might walk by.



 

Joan Didion

I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work and take pride in it. To seize the moment. And if you ask me why you should bother to do that, I could tell you that the grave's a fine and private place, but none I think do there embrace. Nor do they sing there, or write, or argue, or see the tidal bore on the Amazon, or touch their children. And that's what there is to do and get it while you can and good luck at it.
David Hurn

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of such complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure for me, in things such as they are

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Jan132012

oh, the places you'll go

Dr. Seuss by way of Burning Man. It's on my bucket list.

 

READING

  • A Poem A Day  Amy Turn Sharp is writing a poem a day for an entire year. That's some ambitioius shit.

 LOOKING

WORKING ON

  • 28 Ways to Stop Complicating Your Life
  • My word of the year, which is DO. Last year it was FOCUS and I didn't do so well. I'm keeping lists of things that need to be done, trying not to let too many moments of idle time drift by. But every now and then I find myself hopelessly wandering around at the corner of Facebook and Twitter and I don't know how to get back. And by every now and then I mean EVERY EFFING DAY. But the year is still young and I'm much too hard on myself.

LISTENING

  • Free by Graffiti6 I have been listening to this song for weeks now and I can't stop.

WATCHING

  • Jeff Harris: 4748 Self Portraits and Counting. I have seen this video floating around on various blogs for the past week or so. I bookmarked it but it wasn't until yesterday that I finally watched it. I'm not sure why I kept avoiding it. Maybe a power greater than me knew that I wouldn't be able to give myself over to it quite yet. But I'm glad I finally did. It wasn't what I expected. At all. It's beautiful. It's poignant. And you must watch it.

 

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