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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)
June 2013
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May 2013
2 posts
“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.”
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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.”
April 2013
5 posts
“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.”
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E.B. White, in this spare, lovely, melancholy New York Times profile from 1969. (via rachael-maddux)
So great.
March 2013
5 posts
“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.
Tupperwolf: Wealth, risk, and stuff →
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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.
February 2013
5 posts
Flickr is still great
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
Lots of great photography here. I still adore Flickr. Wish all my instagram folks would move there.
January 2013
2 posts
“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)
