February 2012
6 posts
A post I wrote for the New Yorker photo blog on... →
Just one comment: Grannan’s Boulevard was photographed digitally, not with a 4x5.
“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– Judge Stephen Reinhardt, in a federal appellate court’s majority opinion overturning the notorious California anti-gay marriage law. (via motherjones)
A very good day for civil rights and human decency!
Cool, just never eat chicken again. →
motherjones:
liberalyouth:
Survey results seem to indicate that about 80 percent of poultry growers don’t ever sanitize their crates, according to an Auburn University survey of 10,317 farms. What’s more, just 18.3 percent sanitize their trucks and trailers—two areas that contribute to the spread of Salmonella and Campylobacter.
Seriously, the title isn’t a joke. Prepare to be grossed out...
January 2012
34 posts
“I came across a couple of rants (ironically online) about the pointless noise of...”
– Jin Zhu
“The striking, sad irony of the exhibition “Zoe Strauss: 10 Years” at the...”
– Tyler Green
“I can’t understand why Congress can’t seem to agree on anything that...”
– Alexis Ohanion (Reddit)
RIP Jon Huntsman's Campaign, 2011–2012 →
motherjones:
You’re Jon Huntsman. You like to play the keyboard and talk about young people things, like rock music. You once called called Mitt Romney a “perfectly lubricated weather vane”—a pretty good line—and said he was running for “the Waffle House” instead of the White House. You cut an advertisement juxtaposing your toughest rival with a flip-flopping monkey. You said he represented...
...: Cass Bird & Lucas Foglia : Rewilding &... →
whileseated:
Cass Bird has a book due to launch in February for a project called “Rewilding”.
“Over the past ten years, Cass Bird (born 1974) has established herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary America. Her photographs of young women and men casually…
As much as I like these photographs/bodies of work, those press statements are really borderline absurd. For...
Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
laphamsquarterly:
Why didn’t we think of this? WHY?
michellelegro:
“At 4 a.m. on an Upper East Side subway platform, a stare-down between two men was being held. One blinked, and Joseph Owens, 32, attacked.”
Félix Fenéon, meet @neofeneon: Three line poems from the NYPD police blotter.
“I have books that are still in their shrink-wrap, bought because I know they are...”
– Colin Pantall’s blog: Introspective, navel-gazing nitpickers (via photographsonthebrain)
JMC: None of this is really about photobooks, though. It’s about how we deal with photobooks (or, let’s face it, anything else we collect).
“As 2011 drew to a close there were stories from all over the United States about...”
– Donald R. Winslow, News Photographer magazine
“…there’s an element of fantasy and storytelling involved. It’s sometimes useful...”
– Shane Lynam | LPV Magazine
I’m a big fan of Shane’s photography, as well as his dedication, and its been great to see his work develop over the time I’ve been following him. This interview on LPV is a great read, and an interesting insight into the persistent value of formal critique and structured...
Only the platitudes: Obama in Cleveland, OH, 4 Jan...
Hello, Cleveland! It’s great to be back in Ohio. And it’s great to be here at Shaker Heights, home of the Red Raiders. Finally, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. One of my resolutions is to make sure I get out of Washington enough and spend more time with people like you. Because folks here in Ohio and across the country - you’re the reason why I ran for this office in the first...
“Most likely, it’ll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters’...”
– Matt Taibbi
It's a numbers game
There’s a lot of talk online about how to make business on the web work. Can one sell work (by “work” I here mean anything ranging from songs to articles to books) online without using the middle men? The usual answer is “yes,” and people like Radiohead or Louis CK or Neil Gaiman are given as examples. Inevitably, the argument is then extended so show that...
December 2011
17 posts
The big question, getting more pressing than...
Given that I’m increasingly producing longer and more in-depth content and given that I’m constantly being told people won’t pay for content how will this work?
Let’s re-phrase the question: What incentive is there for me - as a writer - to spend a lot of time producing content when the business model is unsustainable?
“There are a lot of photographs made to look like someone else’s. There are a lot...”
– Greg Halpern
“As our societies get bigger, and rely more and more on the Internet, fewer and...”
– Mark Pagel
via Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: From hunter-gatherer to cutter-paster
(via photographsonthebrain)