raising the camera

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

Entries in Mission Disctrict (2)

Friday

Jun262009

Nacho Libre

Proving once agian that I have no imagination when it comes to titles.

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Tuesday

Jun232009

826 Valencia

826 Valencia located in San Francisco's Mission district is the brainchild of writer Dave Eggers to help kids ages 8-18 with their writing skills. In the front is a pirate supply store and the back of the store is where the workshops are conducted. I ventured in one day and was bold enough to ask if I could take some pictures. These are the ones that survived the darkness that was in there.

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"The pirate supply store was originally created through necessity. After being turned down for regular use of church basements and school facilities, the founders discovered an empty store for sale on Valencia Street. The city ordinances stated that any businesses in that particular area of the city must be either retail or catering, so the Pirate Supply Store was developed as the "legitimate" business front for the writing center." from Wikipedia