photograph by lindsay josal.
photograph by lindsay josal.
i already miss warm weather.
(polaroids made by lindsay josal.)
9:39 am • 21 November 2009
Tom Waits Interview.
smut-to-go:
aar0n:
This is a great interview. Here are a few of my favourite bits :
Q: What’s heaven for you?
A: Me and my wife on Rte. 66 with a pot of coffee, a cheap guitar, pawnshop tape recorder in a Motel 6, and a car that runs good parked right by the door.
Q: What’s wrong with the world?
A: We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. Leona Helmsley’s dog made 12 million last year… and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio made $30,000. It’s just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains. We are monkeys with money and guns.
Q: Can you tell me an odd thing that happened in an odd place? Any thoughts?
A: A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it’s at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said he remembered seeing a Donald Duck cartoon when he was a boy where there was a boat at the bottom of the ocean with a hole in its hull, and they injected it with ping-pong balls and it floated up. The skeptical group laughed but one of the experts was willing to give it a try. Of course, where in the world would you find twenty million ping-pong balls but in Tokyo? It turned out to be the perfect solution. The balls were injected into the hull and it floated to the surface, the engineer was elated. Moral solutions to problems are always found at an entirely different level; also, believe in yourself in the face of impossible odds.
Q: Do you have words to live by?
A: Jim Jarmusch once told me “Fast, Cheap, and Good… pick two. If it’s fast and cheap it wont be good. If it’s cheap and good it won’t be fast. If it’s fast and good it wont be cheap.” Fast, cheap and good… pick (2) words to live by.
Q: Tom, you love words and their origins. For $2,000…what is the origin of the word bedlam?
A: It’s a contraction of the word Bethlehem. It comes from the hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem outside London. The hospital began admitting mental patients in the late fourteenth century. In the sixteenth century it became a lunatic asylum. The word bedlam came to be used for any madhouse- and by extension, for any scene of noisy confusion.
Q: What is a gentleman?
A: A man who can play the accordion, but doesn’t.
1:21 pm • 20 November 2009
kateoplis:
Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74
She met her partner Christo in Paris in 1958. They have been collaborating for 51 years.
The family statement said Christo was deeply saddened by his wife’s death but was “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That includes completing their current installation, “Over The River”, a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or rectangle with outward-sloping sides, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.
Like all their projects, these are intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”
NYT
3:49 pm • 19 November 2009
working on another mix-tape, finally. if i don’t deliver tonight, i’ll try and have it up this week at least.
p.s. “hellomysilhouettedarling” and “vincentnicasio” won the print giveaway! both of you need to email me your address so i can mail you your prints :)
5:30 pm • 16 November 2009
venting
i am missing a white box (or two, i cant even remember) that contains over 30 rolls of negatives that i developed back in march. since march i have lived (couch surfed, at least) in a dozen different houses, many of which have been moved out of. these negatives contain the photographs i made while on the train to the west coast and my first few months in portland. i don’t think i have ever felt so sick to my stomach. i don’t think i have ever been so angry with myself about being so irresponsible. i can only hope they turn up soon.
12:27 pm • 13 November 2009
i gave myself another stick-n-poke tattoo last night. it reads “quiet” and it’s my reminder to listen twice as much as i speak.
these past few weeks have taught me a lot, and one of the things i realized was that i wasnt doing a very great job of listening this past year, which ended up unintentionally hurting a lot of people including myself.
6:04 pm • 11 November 2009
november 10, 2009.
quiet.
4:52 pm • 10 November 2009
i just think this is so precious.
janna’s father watching her walk to him, waiting to walk down the aisle.
from joe and janna irelands wedding this past september.
3:41 pm • 7 November 2009
photo giveaway!
hello there. as i sit here with my split pea soup, i have decided to host a little print giveaway. i have two 8x12 prints left over from this past spring when i was selling prints. instead of selling them i’d rather just gift them to you! im not telling you which photographs they are, and i really hope you enjoy them, but…well, yeah. the prize package will include one of the two photographs as well as some extra handmade goodies. so yes, that means you have two chances of winning! yay!
the winners will be chosen at random, but i feel like asking a question anyway, so respond with your answer and you will automatically be entered!
contest ends tomorrow (november the 7th) evening.
Q: what is one of your favourite non-profit organizations and why?
EDIT: CONTEST ENDED NOV 7, THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING :) stay tuned for the winners.
6:59 pm • 6 November 2009
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately…
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!
To put to rout all that was not life…
And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…"
— Henry David Thoreau (via reneelilley)
11:37 pm • 5 November 2009
fund raising.
the caption for my most recent self portrait is accurate and i do intend on disappearing for a while, i just have a lot of things that i need to figure out. my life has become somewhat of a mess… scratch that, it is entirely a mess and at my own fault, but there are some things i need to point out before i hibernate.
at the end of this year i will be releasing my first zine of sorts. i don’t want to share too many details about it, i want it to be a surprise, but i will tell you that i have over 30 rolls of various film sitting in my refrigerator, waiting to be developed. most of the photographs in my zine will (hopefully) come from those rolls, which leads me to this…
i will be selling prints once again to raise money to cover the costs of processing. this of course means that i will be selling prints at a low price to hopefully sell more. the only thing is, i will be doing it differently than i have in the past. instead of posting prints on etsy for you to choose from, i will instead ask you to look through my website, flickr, or wherever you can find my photographs and simply email me a link to (or copy+paste the photograph) the ones you are interested in possibly purchasing. from there, i will let you know if the photograph(s) you like are available for print or not and i will also let you know how much they cost :)
aside from that, i will most definitely let you know of the progress of my zine and film processing.
3:01 pm • 4 November 2009
i’d like to disappear, if just for a while.
1:39 pm • 4 November 2009
