January 2010
69 posts
December 2009
75 posts
Tumblr resolutions for 2010
1) Don’t reblog anything that doesn’t credit a photographer (unless I can figure out the photographer myself). People don’t seem to realize why this is important because most of them have never created anything themselves. Until the world can unlearn the Great Delusion of the 2000s (Information, Creativity, Imagination and Intellectual Property Should All Be Free!), I’m...
The Best Photobook of the Year?
There seems to be some consensus (as much consensus as you’ll ever get out of photo bloggers) that Mark Steinmetz’s spooky B&W tome, Greater Atlanta, is, if not the photobook of the year, then at least one of the greatest photobooks of the year. I loaded a bunch of shots below so that you can judge for yourself.
Personally, I prefer Steinmetz’s earlier photobooks (South...
Defeating Terrorism
9/11, Richard Reid, and now this.
Forget the Department of Homeland Security, the war in Afghanistan, all your tax dollars. We have to depend on the bravery of our fellow air passengers if we don’t want to be blown up. Anyone else feel insecure?
Fantastic: Nan Goldin Interviews Danny Lyon →
Next spring's vacation
Should I go to Berlin or Rome?
It’s strange, sad, and indefensible that 95% of image Tumblrs do not credit,...
– and unforgivable. Twitter / Atley G. Kasky (via nevver)
Seriously, people need to cut this shit out.
On the Couch with Philip Roth
conscientious:
Beautiful: “As a rule, I read and write poetry in bed; philosophy and serious essays sitting down at my desk; newspapers and magazines while I eat breakfast or lunch, and novels while lying on the couch. It’s toughest to find a good place to read history, since what one is reading usually is a story of injustices and atrocities and wherever one does that, be it in the garden on a...