Aug/090
this is the saddest and most beautiful story I've seen in a long time. Found on Rob Haggart's Blog.
Click on the photo to link to Maisie Crow's video "A Life Alone".
Aug/090
inspirational portraits
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
In no particular order:
Richard Avedon, Matthew Rolston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Annie Leibovitz, Paolo Roversi, Peter Lindbergh, Tony Duran, Arnold Newman, Michael Thompson, and Jim Marshall.
Aug/090
La Tzigane
La tzigane savait d'avance
Nos deux vies barrées par les nuits
Nous lui dîmes adieu et puis
De ce puits sortit l'EspéranceL'amour lourd comme un ours privé
Dansa debout quand nous voulûmes
Et l'oiseau bleu perdit ses plumes
Et les mendiants leurs AveOn sait très bien que l'on se damne
Mais l'espoir d'aimer en chemin
Nous fait penser main dans la main
A ce qu'a prédit la tzigane
-Apollinaire
Aug/090
Gypsy Guitar
Yesterday I met with an old friend I used to play jazz with a thousand years ago, and it was good talking influences - like old days.
Aug/090
Henri Cartier-Bresson's portrait of Henry Miller on the cliffs of Big Sur.
But that wasn't entirely Henry. Here are two more:
Aug/091
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Favorite
NYTimes Photography Blog
- Pictures of the Day: West Bank and Elsewhere 9 September, 2010Ramadan and Rosh Hashana are observed. […]By THE NEW YORK TIMES
- Medieval Flagellation in an Italian Town 9 September, 2010The images are medieval but Roberto Boccaccino shot them only a month ago, as Daniel J. Wakin reports. […]By DANIEL J. WAKIN
- When the Shah of Iran Took the Pictures 8 September, 2010Newsha Tavakolian was inspired by an intimate series of photos taken by the shah of Iran. Yes, the shah. […]By KERRI MACDONALD and AMANDA RIVKIN
- Pictures of the Day: On a Chinese Oil Rig and Elsewhere 8 September, 2010Oil workers were perched precariously but the oil company said no oil had been spilled. […]By RAYMOND MCCREA JONES
- Mourning at the Scene of a Stabbing 8 September, 2010At the scene of a stabbing in Manhattan, a little girl mourned a young woman she didn't know. […]By KERRI MACDONALD and ANGEL FRANCO