Alviso, California

Palo Alto, California

• Alfred Hitchcock ~ my all-time favorite director on his definition of happiness here
• Celebrating Gordon Parks - the International Center of Photography celebrates with an outside exhibition up until January of 2013. And I soo want to se it.
• If you're in the Los Angeles area the exhibit Who Shot Rock & Roll is coming to The Annenberg Space for Photography this summer and I can hardly wait. Surely worth a five hour drive. 
• "Think about where you are, this very moment — and imagine all that has happened there before now." A  project by photographer Gregg Segal mixing history and present day in an interesting way.

• The New York Times does Tumblr with the wonderful site The Lively Morgue ( Click on the small icons to the right of the photos and see the backs of the photographs).
• Listening: David Dondero, The Lumineers, and the wonderful Nina Simone.

Have a nice long weekend and be safe ~

...postcards. These are my last four acquisitions. If you ever go away and want to bring me something back bring me back a postcard. I will love you forever. Sort of. Well, I will definitely like you forever ( let's not get carried away ).

“It’s sublime, to go into another room and make pictures. It’s magic time, where all your weaknesses of character, the blemishes of your personality, whatever else torments you, fades away, just doesn’t matter. You’re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well and you know you do it well, and… you’re happy. The whole promise is to do the work, sitting down at the drawing table, turning on the radio, and I think, what a transcendent life this is, that I’m doing everything I want to do. In that moment, I feel like I’m a lucky man.”

(  Found via Austin Kleon )