Finding Vivian Maier on Having It:
She didn't have these measures of status that people aspire to but she didn't have to compromise with it. She did what she wanted. That's what she taught me. She got the life she wanted. She had it.via Finding Vivian Maier by Finding Vivian Maier.
William Shakespeare on Outlook:
there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it sovia Embracing Impermanence by JenInBhutan.
Richard B. Woodward on Walker Evans:
Walker Evans’s subjects were never sensational or celebrities—his genius was in his ability to exploit the medium’s natural bias, to find beauty in the mundane.via ‘Walker Evans: Depth of Field’ Review: Unwinding the DNA of American Photography by William Meyers.
Joel Spolsky on Communication:
the most successful people are the ones who can explain their ideas the bestvia Stack Overflow founder Spolsky: The three skills every software developer should learn by Nick Heath.
Everyone should do this. When you play you need a vision of something. It can be human, it can be a tree, it can be abstract, it can be happiness ...via Giovanni Sollima breaks rules with the ACO by Nick Galvin.
Kevin McCleod on Passion:
Don’t confuse passion and energy for eccentricityvia Grand Designs: Kevin McCloud on the renovation job sites since 1999 by Graeme Blundell.
Up early for a big day. Decide to go get a coffee, but the local coffee shops wont be open until 8am, so decide to go up to the coffee shop you lived in for the first six months after Jenny's passing. It was frequented many times in the subsequent years and many fond memories with family, friends and mostly, myself, in my thoughts that the place nurtured. If I could write, I could write a book about the place and what I felt and experienced there. Many of the early blog posts implicitly encapsulate this, so I am glad to have made the effort.
It is over 12 months since I have been here and when I arrived just after 7 this morning, I sat and noticed the small changes that a prolonged separation facilitates and makes so obvious. I noticed the staff. Many were the same, which says a lot for the place which becomes incredibly busy later in the day and night.
I am served by a young waiter I know by face. He has been here for as long as I can remember. We don't know each others names but we know each enough to know each other even after 12 months of not seeing or even thinking each other.
You are touched when he remembers to ask before I can say what he is just about to say "large flat white?". "Thanks, that would be perfect" I said, "you remembered". He smiled and then proceeded on his way to make sure my coffee arrived to please me as best he could.
This is the second time in a week you have experienced something like this. And you wonder how and why?
You've walked through life trying your hardest not to be noticed, for that is where a shy person finds refuge and comfort. However, it's moments like this that make you realise that you do exist and in some ways touch people. Maybe it is because you touch people by just being there in the corner, trying your hardest to not be noticed ...
"Knowing you, knowing me" as the ABBA Classic goes ..
Skip Broussard on Love:
there lies at our core an elemental desire to love and be lovedvia PURPOSE: Children Know This by David Brooks.
Joel Meyerowitz writes on Ordinariness:
the ordinariness of it all made me reach for the cameravia Contadina by Joel Meyerowitz.
Saw this a mile off and I knew there was a photo amongst it all.
Iain S. Thomas on Art and Empathy:
[nice artists] create because they want to describe the world to others so that they won’t make the same mistakes or so that they’ll know what to look out for. They’re extreme empaths and if you’re extremely empathetic, you’re extremely good at communicating and art is about communicating a feelings from a thing to a person.via Intentional Dissonance by Iain S. Thomas.
Niceness is a symptom of empathy. It means you understand how someone else feels and if you understand how someone else feels, it nearly always means you care about them and if you care about them then you’re nearly always nice to them.via Intentional Dissonance by Iain S. Thomas.
Ransom Riggs on Art and Street Art:
[Art can be] what’s painted on the outside of the museum wall that reflects what [we] - at least the ones wielding cans of spray-paint - are thinking now.via Photos: Venice Graffiti (Thu 17 Sep 2009) by eljeiffel.
The mid-20th century was when street photography became well known, thanks to photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Garry Winogrand and others. Armed with unobtrusive hand-held cameras, they rapidly snapped pictures of passersby, searching for unstudied compositions [..]Brian Sholis (*) continues:
In the 21st century, for better or worse, there are fewer people at home during the day and we’ve offloaded a lot of that ‘eyes on the street’ to surveillance cameras,Steven Rosen (*) summarises:
At the same time, those cameras fill many with unease.Brian Sholis (*) concludes:
So 21st century street photographers are dealing with techniques and issues far different from their forebears
What unites them is they’re incredibly attentive and able to reveal things that we might not otherwise see because the street is such a kinetic and dynamic placevia Street Photography in the 21st Century (*) by Steven Rosen (*).
Sharing your dreams (*) can be scary. It can make you feel vulnerable and afraid. But if you share them with the right people, you might just get more help and support (*) than you could have hoped for. And then maybe those dreams will actually come true…via Why I gave a busker ten times more than I normally would (*) by Do What You Love (*).
People usually love talking about their photographs, and they love telling you what is in those pictures (even if most of that is not apparent to a stranger at all – we’re certainly all photographers in the sense of believing there are things in the pictures someone else simply can’t see, given her or his lack of background knowledge).via Photography’s Existential Dread (*).
It’s a beautiful system, this game of photography, to see in an instant and go back and think about later on.via Joel Meyerowitz on What He’s Learned: Part II (*) by David Walker.
It’s pure philosophy. And poetry.”
It’s OK to fail.where she adds:
You learn more from failure, than from success.
It becomes a time to take stock and reassess.
Success is fleeting anyway...it’s all about being true to yourself and making the best work possible.
And often, your best work rises from the ashes of failure, when you change directions.
It’s OK not to show up [..] to every opportunity.via it’s ok to step back from the roar of the crowd (*) by Aline Smithson (*).
