December 2009
86 posts
“And if a day goes by without my doing something related to photography,...”
– Richard Avedon
“My arms feel hollow
empty and invisible,
when they can’t hold you.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
jamiekay are those alphabet pretzels? i can't...
(via concentriclines)
(jameykay) Yes, yes these are alphabet pretzels.
Damn you History Channel!!
Yet again, my plans to lay down and sleep have been thwarted by one of your shows— a show on how the Great Salt Lakes were formed!! F-ing geologists figuring shit out.
“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a...”
– The Great Gatsby (via vild) (via clockwisewitness)
“Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via quote-book)
“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen,...”
– Walker Evans
I am...
Only what I reblog. I identify more with others on here more than I do with anything. The quotes, the photos, the humor…. I am not myself.
“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via simtan) (via quote-book)
“When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I’d like...”
– Annie Leibovitz
“Most people think they can play tennis, shoot, write novels, and photograph as...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via louobedlam)
“Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.”
– Dalai Lama (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask “how,”...”
– Man Ray (via louobedlam)
“Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste,...”
– Walker Evans (via louobedlam)
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...”
– Bill Cosby (via johannal) (via quote-book)
“Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (via nowheretohide) (via quote-book)
“When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem...”
– Alexander Dumas, ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’, 1844 (via yelljt)
Facebook is a soap opera
robot-heart:
Especially now that a lot of the people I grew up with are on facebook.
So this one girl from back home dated this one guy for a very long time, they got engaged over the summer, blah, blah. Anyhow, they broke up in early October. Not really sure why. It was a lot of drama. She complained, complained, complained in her facebook status, and then one day, less than a month later, she...
“Love is all you need.”
– Paul McCartney
(i beg to differ— nonetheless it’s a wonderful concept)
House votes to lower volume on noisy TV ads -... →
mae-b:
The House on Tuesday voted to level off the abrupt spikes in volume felt by television viewers during commercial breaks. The bill — approved by a voice vote — is aimed at stopping TV ads from playing noticeably louder than programs. “It’s very frustrating,” said Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va. “It’s an annoying experience, and something really should be done about it.”
Is the volume on your TV...
Watchderekmisler:
Rainn Wilson, best known for playing Dwight Schrute on The Office, shot a 140-second film using a Nikon D5000 as part of his participation in the Nikon Film Festival. He talked with us about directing, pancakes and solar-powered deer-meat grinders.
Rainn is one of three judges in the inaugural Twitter-themed Nikon Festival, in which people submit 140-second videos in the hopes...
“A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view”
– Wilma Askinas
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by...”
– William J. H. Boetcker
“Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.”
– Lee Iacocca
