Walk past these most days on the way to work. They are just in the main entrance hall of the UTS Main Campus Building. Just hanging on the wall there - together. Flight is a common theme but they juxtapose each other by their compostion - one with no central focus and the other couldn't be more so. I love them both, but Matthew's Untitled #66 is just brilliant because it breaks all the rules of convential photography. And, works brilliantly because of it.
letting go always requires one to feel the pain of attachment. It requires one to head into terra incognito. It also requires one to take responsibility for having chosen to cling to a path of resistance.via TIME TO BE | Feeling Our Way Around by Maggie Barret
I Wrote this for You on Failure:
You fail with your heart on your sleeve.via The Millions Ways To Fail by I Wrote this for You.You fail like you mean it with every part of you.
You fail attempting the impossible and the ridiculous.
You fail in front of others and you fail and they laugh at you and you fail and you feel nothing and regret less.
You fail sincerely and earnestly and you risk everything at every opportunity.
This is how you fail: You fail beautifully. You fail with grace.
An amazing piece of writing. Passionate, powerful and, oddly enough, incredibly Inspiring. To be a must, and often read post.
There are gifts (*) everywhere, and you “just” need to be able to spot them, accept (*) them, work with them.via Review: Emile Hyperion Dubuisson’s Far (*) by Jorg Colberg (*).
I write a lot about photobooks on this blog. The photobook world is small, a few thousand people, but it is dynamic. Sometimes it's too small and it gets too self-congratulatory. When it becomes most interesting is when it looks out of itself, That's when you get great photobooks that are great books - that touch on the world at large, that tie in with a bigger picture, and touch hearts and souls beyond those of the 10,000 people in the world who regularly buy photobooks.via Luton Airport, x-rays and Blue Peter (*) by Colin Pantall (*).
StreetShooter writes on Photography and Intent:
Here’s some things I discovered and figured out. I am not claiming to be the inventor or Doctor of Photography. I am just a guy that’s made photography a very important of my existence and these are things I try to live by.via Streetshooter … Thoughts and Findings … Defining and Finding “Intent” by StreetShooter.There are 3 facets to photography. Eye, Heart and Mind. The Important thing is INTENT. Try to visualize a Pie. In the center is INTENT. Equally at three points are Eye, Heart and Mind. There are 3 parts because Intent is why you do things and not how you do things. The other 3 are how you do things.
All parts are the sum of one and effect each other at different times.
Doug Anderson on Architecture:
architecture is public art which, eyesore or triumph of taste and beauty, affects the lives of all. Unlike a painting in a gallery, the public doesn't get to choose whether or not to look at it.via Show of the Week: Getting Frank Gehr by Doug Anderson.
Reciprocity Failure writes:
What possible life lesson is to be learned when one can no longer remember, let alone understand?via Good Riddance 2015... by Reciprocity Failure.
Tony Martin on a Moment:
It was just the right moment for me to try my chance.
Adding:
I don’t know what happened in the back but I was so nervous, I was just pulling. I don’t know how many watts I pulled but it was more than I ever did. Now I am so happy, and a thousand thanks to my team for supporting me the whole week.via GC stalemate on the cobbles as Martin strikes it fourth time lucky by Cycling Central and Tour de France quotes: Martin digs deep for yellow jersey by Cycling News.
Watched this live – it was 1:15am this morning on the coldest night we have had this winter. Warmed my heart to see him make that break with 3.2km to go and just take it home like he did. You just knew he was going to do “it” and it was not even his own bike, at 20km to go he punctured and swapped bikes with his team mate (as my 3 year old nephew told me 15 years ago - a team is a powerful thing). As Tony Martin said - I actually was [on my limit] when I launched in that moment .. It was just the right moment for me to try my chance. And he found something in himself that he did not know he had - I was so nervous, I was just pulling. I don’t know how many watts I pulled but it was more than I ever did. Often your best is not good enough and the first 3 days of the Tour showed this to Tony Martin and those watching. You have to go Beyond Yourself to find the Happiness he displayed on a life-time Dream come true last night. Just brilliant to watch his performance and his post-race interview. Congrats to Tony Martin.
[Fond memories of Sandy Casar doing the same kind of break in Stage 18 of the 2007 TdF, after crashing with a dog at 27km.]
Jimmy Le on Photography:
It’s about showing the world how I see people through my own eyes and experiences.via Snappers Jimmy Le and John Appleyard celebrate inclusion in Australian Life photographic prize by James Gorman.
In my life I constantly heard "You can't do this. You should not do that." Yet I did so many things I was told I couldn't do.via Saul Leiter or the Art of going unnoticed by Sam Stourdze.
The Incoherent Light on Relationships:
We are the sum of our relationships, whatever form they might take.via Paolo Morales – Looking Back by The Incoherent Light.
Nathan Haas on Competing:
I was feeling terrible so I thought sometimes when you feel terrible, everyone must, so I thought I’d give it a crack and see where they were,via Haas shows class but can't hold on by Cycling Central.I was away for a little bit, but then they started working so it was unfortunate. They were on good days too.
You have to keep these kind of thoughts in your head when competing. So if you are feeling tired (or terrible as Nathan puts it), you have to remember those you are competing against, will most likely be feeling the same. This then is your big chance to give it a crack and test yourself and the others out. One day it will work for you. He added that while he was disappointed, he confidently felt his first win at the TdF will be even an sweeter experience. Love the attitude and confidence. Go Nathan.
Did ya ever feel like your going against the flow that others do? How about feeling like you’re alone and there are many others around? How about you doubt yourself and what you’re doing? Not a pretty picture huh [..]via Streets of Philadelphia … A Visual Diary … Page 37 … Olympus Pen EP-5 … One ShoT pEr ShOOt by Streetshooter.The land of complacency and mass acceptance swallows up many individual people every second. That hunger that wants to devour us has an insatiable appetite and is coming for you any minute.
When you doubt yourself, that is when you need to believe in yourself the most. Streetshooter. My favourite photoblogger!!
Alec Soth on Intangible:
so much of what draws you in is intangible; it can’t be explained. It just resonates, in some way.via Photographer Alec Soth: 'To me the most beautiful thing is vulnerability' by Mick Brown.
