“She hoped that although he could not hear her she could somehow imprint her ordinary love upon his memory through all eternity, hoped he would rise thinking of her, we were each other, we were each other, not that it mattered much in the long run but what else mattered as much.”
—river run, joan didion, page 264. (via jessicaxmaria)
September 2010
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This Morning, In Bed
- Me: I wonder what Huey Lewis is up to.
- J: He's in the news.
“The funny part of it all is that you have to come to New York to appreciate the virtues of a small town just as you have to go to college to learn how easily you can do without at B.A.”
—Dawn Powell, in a letter to her friend Charlotte Johnson, December 6, 1918. (from Selected Letters of Dawn Powell)
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The narcissism of small differences →
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The narcissism of small differences is a term coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917, based on the earlier work of British anthropologist Ernest Crawley. The term describes the manner in which our negative feelings are sometimes directed at people who resemble us, while we take pride in the “small differences” that distinguish us from them.
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Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee (audio via)
Tonight: Teenage Fanclub at Bowery Ballroom. Miraculously, I’ve never seen them play live. Also miraculously, they have a new album out that they’re touring and I get to see them play one of my favorite venues in New York. This has been a trend in the past 12 months; seeing favorite bands all growed up and playing good, relatively small venues. I like this trend. I like it a lot. Carry on, Mr. Goodtrend.
(Also, I purposefully did not wear any denim today because I was afraid everyone would think I’d come dressed as this song.)
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I never, ever, ever want to hear Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” ever again.
Your New Favorite: One Year →
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In September 2009, I set out to post a daily photograph here for a year and as of last week, I did it. My motivation was to become a better photographer and editor by practicing everyday.
When I began, I was shooting with a Nikon D40X using the kit lens and a 50mm and editing with…
Chris Glass and Katie Spence have lately been my biggest photographic inspiration*. Their photographs never feel too crafted, or, for that matter, entirely real. They both have this calm and satisfying everyday fairytale quality that I keep trying to pin down in the pictures I take. It’s been fantastic to have their daily inspiration to push me to take pictures that give weight to a particular moment.
And so I very formally and seriously say (in this very informal and non-serious place): Congratulations, Katie! May your flashbulb always explode when you want it to, may your tripod be forever steady. Thanks for the images that make the rest of us want to do better.
Four of my recent favorites from Your New Favorite:
*And I first saw them both on Tumblr. Thanks, Tumblr!
