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June 2013

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“Please, embrace self-empowerment. You gain confidence, an unswerving belief that you matter and the ability of your existence to make an indelible mark on the world. You gain compassion and empathy. You will love and be loved. … I have a few final, closing thoughts, before I turn over the podium. First, I find Zachary Quinto’s eyebrows very attractive. Second, I would like to be friends with Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. And third, I would like everyone to remember that “Starships were meant to fly, Hands up and touch the sky, Can’t stop ‘cause we’re so high, let’s do this one more time.” —TX high school student comes out in commencement speech. (via aminatou, naturally)
Jun 11, 201318 notes

May 2013

2 posts

May 10, 20134,518 notes
“My heart started racing, and not the bad kind of heart racing, like, I’m going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because i’m about to kick the shit out of life.” —

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? (via brookehatfield)

Also:

“This is why you must love life: one day you’re offering up your social security number to the Russian Mafia; two weeks later you’re using the word calve as a verb.” 

May 02, 20135 notes

April 2013

5 posts

Apr 24, 20131 note
Apr 10, 20136 notes
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” —

E.B. White, in this spare, lovely, melancholy New York Times profile from 1969. (via rachael-maddux)

So great.

Apr 05, 201326 notes
Apr 05, 20132,343 notes
Apr 01, 201346 notes

March 2013

5 posts

Mar 29, 201372 notes
Mar 29, 201334,590 notes

meltzer:

“Moving to New York ended up bringing me closer to home. Berkeley ceased to be the city where I lived, and became instead a set of values and memories—a nationality.

Suddenly I was Californian, something I’d never been before… How wonderful is it to explain away your peculiarities by attributing them to some faraway place!”

Southern > Georgian > ATLien > Savannian.  Yes.

Mar 29, 201332 notes
Mar 28, 2013340,476 notes
Tupperwolf: Wealth, risk, and stuff → vruba.tumblr.com

timoni:

vruba:

Please, if you are rich, stop explaining the idea of freedom from stuff as if it’s a trick that even you have somehow mastered. The only way to own very little and be safe is to be rich.

This entire response piece is worth a read. The farm I grew up on was full of stuff. We never threw anything away. I feel guilty throwing away useful things to this day, even though it also feels a bit luxurious: bought a soap I don’t like the smell of? Throw it away!

You can do that when you’re not poor.

Truth.

Mar 19, 20131,297 notes

February 2013

5 posts

Feb 26, 201347 notes
Feb 26, 20131,644 notes
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Feb 26, 2013132 notes
Feb 11, 2013562 notes
Flickr is still great

bremser:

Recently I looked at my Flickr account, and of my 768 contacts, 240 have uploaded in the past week, 360 this month. This was before the new iOS app and Instagram TOS meltdown. These are impressive statistics, considering I’ve been a member since 2005. After hearing it declared “dead” and “irrelevant,” this is a community of people that care about what they are putting up. So much so that many of them pay for it. Flickr is already the paid alternative so many people are clamoring for. Your photos will not be used to create “meaningful brand engagement.” Years after Flickr ceased to be an exciting business story, it remains one of the most important places for photography culture online.

Here are some people active in the last month that I suggest following after you sign up or reset your old password. I am leaving many out, and will update this post.

  • Gustavo Gomes
  • Marcelo Montecino - drawing from his archive of Pinochet-era Chile
  • Alex Cretey Systermans - Magic in France
  • Louis Vest - the view from the deck on the Houston Ship Channel
  • Pierre Wayser - his musical blend of new and archive photos is one of the best uses of Flickr as its own medium
  • gzi24◎歌無岸
  • Anton Singurov - like Koudelka? try Singurov

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Lots of great photography here.  I still adore Flickr.  Wish all my instagram folks would move there.

Feb 01, 2013281 notes

January 2013

2 posts

Jan 14, 2013100 notes
“Drink two glasses of wine, then write an email to someone you love, saying why they’re brilliant. Like a fan letter you’d write to a pop star, or favoured physicist. Most people never know why they’re great- SO TELL THEM. Enthuse over why you love them. Be a one-woman fan club. End it with a million ‘XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX”s. Then finish the wine and go to bed.” —SPREAD THE JOY- Company Issue 143. Caitlin Moran. (via obliter8)
Jan 11, 2013113 notes
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