Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week:
- What Your Favorite Pavement Record Says About You. This made me laugh in a hipster Cosmo magazine sort of way.
- Lupen Grainne‘s Flickr stream. Look at that color. I’m clearly obsessing over good use of color lately, maybe because it rained all of last week and it was totally depressing.
- The gallery feature on Flickr. Ash used it to make this gallery that features some of my photos of rock star shoes; I am slowly using to pull together collections of unexpected rock and roll moments and unexpected baseball moments. I think it’s a fantastically cool little feature, and I’ve enjoyed seeing what other people are doing with as well as using it myself; I just wish people wouldn’t turn off the “Add this to Gallery” feature on their photos. There are photos I’d have put in one of my galleries if I had been able to, and that disappointed me.
- Atlas Obscura, which bills itself as “a conpendium of the world’s wonders, curiosities and esoterica”. AMAZING. Also courtesy Ash.
- The Hold Steady. Not that I even listened to them much this week — but I’ve been thinking about them, and about Craig Finn’s inexorable talent for storytelling within the confines of a song or an album. The phrases he turns that stop my heart with their beauty. Sometimes you just have to spend time being inspired by other people being really amazing at what they do.
On my way home from work today, I wondered intensely if the number of signs directing Carolina football fans to parking was indicative of the average level of intelligence of Carolina football fans, but then I remembered that TJ Yates is our quarterback and a large number of people seem to truly believe that he doesn’t suck goat balls at what he does, so that’s that question answered.
brand new kind of photography 