-
cameras.
i think i'm going to buy one of these when i deposit my next paycheck. cheap, pretty, and i never claimed to be an artist, no way. hm, and i have to say the whole lomography.com ethos is a little alluring ['lomographers shoot as many impossible pictures as possible in the most impossible of situations from the most impossible of positions' to ( Read more... ) -
asi bych měla vodejít...
i usually find something useful in Slate, but it's never in their travelogues. it might be something about how i'm against travelogues on principle, or that somehow Americans' perspectives on places foreign [no matter where the place is] end up sounding the same, or i just don't like things that mix expository and personal writing [which rules out ( Read more... ) -
kleiner deutscher
at the Jewish Museum in Berlin there was a little paper tree with little paper apples where people could write their wishes, mostly for world peace and things like that, in all different languages. my favorite one said this: "ich wunsche, dass ich mein Abi scharfe und dass immer frieden ist." [i wish to pass my Abi and for peace forever.] oh, i ( Read more... ) -
ah, a passionate people
i have nothing to do lately. Caitlin has gone to drive Ben to school in Canada, and i can't think of anyone else i'd like to spend time with. i miss the atmosphere of transience, bah.
***
tonight i watched Absolut Warhola, about Andy Warhol's relatives in eastern Slovakia. i've been liking Warhol more and more since i read what Hrabal said about ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
what an absolutely ridiculous idea. -
i've spent too much time on the train lately.
on the way back from Grant Park the other week, after we were climbing the metal horses, Caitlin and Ben and i had to take this ridiculous, convoluted route back to near my house, transferring three or four times. taking the train out of the loop, transferring, riding back into the loop, transferring again. we talked about why the CTA has to be so ( Read more... ) -
nonfiction is unethical.
so i went to the opening of that photography exhibition, by that girl i went to school with. it was really all right, lots of the pictures were nice and colorful and warm-looking, i drank her soda and ate her tortilla chips and she said, i'm glad you're doing well, you look great. she called the exhibition "Stories for ****: photographing for love ( Read more... ) -
sexual cliches.
a girl i went to high school with has an exhibition of photos she took in South America at a coffeeshop near my house, with prose-poetry-ish captions. i didn't think they were particularly good, honestly; black-and-white pictures of things like an old man's hands, carved wooden Jesuses. black-and-white makes things look softer, less real, more ( Read more... ) -
attack of the ultra-liberal extremists!
interestingit's funny that it's New York that has to be sacrificed; the metaphor is obvious. Lena said something awhile ago about the irony of red-staters saying "remember September 11th" when they didn't experience it first-hand the way people did in New York, and also that if people who live there feel more secure under a Democratic president, ( Read more... )
