Dogfish (Mary Oliver) Some kind of relaxed and beautiful thing kept flickering in with the tide and looking around. Black as a fisherman’s boot, with a white belly. If you asked for a picture I would have to draw a smile under the perfectly round eyes and above the chin, which was rough as a…
Category: words i wish i'd written
a little of both
Maybe they aren’t artists, maybe they’re just assholes. — Heather Havrilesky, Disaster Preparedness
everything is illuminated (and an accident)
This is how it goes. You thrash around, then you meet people, and maybe you wind up becoming friends. You just don’t know where it goes. But I believe you’ve got to be out there thrashing around, creating ways for yourself. — Ken Markus
manic creativity
Being heartbroken is like having this really horrible freedom. You can be selfish with your thoughts, which can lead to manic creativity, but at the same time you’re just really miserable. — Florence Welch
rock and roll matters
“Rock ‘n’ roll matters because it is the story of growing up. Arguably, rock ‘n’ roll is the reason American culture contains the myth of adolescence. In the fifties this allegory was acted out almost literally as rock’s emergence crucially split adolescents from their parents. Loving something your parents couldn’t understand was the first way…
good vs great
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. — Ansel Adams
you knew the poetry
Three of Cups (Marty McConnell) at some point it becomes true that all stories are love stories. all making, love making. I didn’t make this rule. but it binds me all the same. I wish there were a law against condescending against love. against the economy of fear that says your joy means less joy…
happy national poetry month
159 Ways To Get On Base (Zach Hample) Squib, squirt, nub, chop, Drive, line, send, pop. Lift, loft, lace, lash, Scald, slice, serve, slash. Slap, swat, belt, smack, Loop, bloop, bounce, whack. Fist, flare, muscle, mash, Deliver, doink, unload, smash. Rifle, plaster, pepper, jack, Rip, rope, deposit, crack. Push, pull, clobber, knock, Bash, tag, tattoo,…
a woman
If a woman wants to be a war photographer, she should. It’s important. Women offer a different perspective. We have access to women on a different level than men have, just as male photographers have a different relationship with the men they’re covering.In the Muslim world, most of my male colleagues can’t enter private homes….
joke’s on me
I’m not sure if all creative people struggle with this, I suspect not, but sometimes I have a difficult time taking myself seriously. As seriously as maybe I should. I really like taking pictures. I like being in the moment, doing it. I like exploring it, I like looking at the pictures. I don’t like…
brand new kind of photography 