The Alpha Site went to the beach on Friday, and I took pictures of beach implements abandoned by their humans. Also this rad tsunami warning sign. RUN, LITTLE SIGN GUY, THE TSUNAMI’S GOING TO GET YOU. Anyway: behind the jump, an impromptu series I’m calling Washed Up.
Tag: beach
they say danko would have sounded just like me
“You grow up with a dream of discovering this place, not in terms of Columbus but in terms of your own imagination.” — Robbie Robertson of The Band At the moment, in between trashy mystery paperbacks, I’m slowly reading — savoring — Barney Hoskyns’ Across The Great Divide: The Band and America, which is exactly…
all the sweetest winds
holden beach, nc, christmas 2007, originally uploaded by minervacat. i went down to houston and i stopped in san antone i passed up the station for the bus i was trying to find me something but i wasn’t sure just what man i ended up with pockets full of dust so i went on to…
isle of palms, sc, april 2010
isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. trying to be thoughtful in the first brights of dawn (Mary Oliver) i am thinking, or trying to think, about all the imponderables for which we have no answers yet endless interest all the range of our lives and it’s good for the head, no…
isle of palms, sc, april 2010
isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. It’s been almost two months since we’ve been to the beach, and I’m itching for another trip to the ocean. Soon, soon. Isle of Palms, South Carolina. April, 2010. For Watery Wednesday.
sullivan’s island, sc, april 2010
sullivan’s island, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” — Eudora Welty
isle of palms, sc, april 2010
isle of palms, sc, april 2010, originally uploaded by minervacat. The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. — Henry Miller
the morning benders — big echo
wrightsville beach, originally uploaded by minervacat. the morning benders, Big Echo. Out 3/9, Rough Trade Records. This is going to be kind of a big statement, but trust me, I don’t make it without having considered and considered and considered the new record from New-York-via-Berkeley’s the morning benders: I think that album-opener “Excuses” might just…
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. you give me miles and miles of mountains and i’ll ask for the sea — Damien Rice, “Volcano”
holden beach, north carolina
holden beach, north carolina, originally uploaded by minervacat. This is my favorite place in the world.
brand new kind of photography 