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Loving all of the pieces in Shaun Kardinal's Alterations (Found And Unbound).
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Shaun Kardinal - Alteration No. 93 Hand-embroidered vintage postcard, 2013
Loving all of the pieces in Shaun Kardinal's Alterations (Found And Unbound).
José González has long been a favorite, and I was pleased to discover (via last night's Breaking Bad, a bit embarrassingly) that in addition to his somewhat subdued solo work, he puts out more heavily layered work as part of a duo called Junip. "Line of Fire" is the standout track for me so far on their eponymous album, challenging the listener:
What would you say
If you had to leave today
Leave everything behind
Even though for once you're shining
We should all of us look at the moon a little more often.
All the pretty colors at the first farmer's market of the year.
The Innkeeper
Though I now identify as an atheist, I grew up the son of a Presbyterian minister. My father, having long since hung up his robes and now working as a creative director, still pulls from two decades spent behind the pulpit at moments of life's passing, be it at celebrations, at remembrances, or most recently, at the holidays.
Before this year's Christmas dinner, he read the following passage by writer and theologian Frederick Buechner. Stripped outside its religious context, I think it still carries a particular potence.
These are a few of my favorite things.
We need to go into the woods and gather 'round fires and listen to music and sleep on the earth more often.
Years later, finding a necklace you gave her (while foolishly trying to fan to flames some long since cooled embers) turned into art on walls.
Airports: tiny snapshots of what we thought the future looked like yesterday.
This song is summer sweat in a jeep with the top down on the way to the beach in your cut-offs and sipping coke from a bottle and crushing on your best friend's older sister in her two piece and I simply can't approve more.
Charleston, in a paragraph (not actually about us, but oh how familiar a scene - I'm shaking my head at you, CofC boys):
I often see young men on dates, dressed in T-shirts, jeans, and sneakers, accompanying well-groomed, prettily clad girls in dresses and high heels, and it looks like they are going entirely difference places. I somehow hope that the fellow is a chauffeur [...], but I know better and I think, Where did our culture go off the rails?
On those things which matter:
A man should be prepared to hold out for life on matters of principle such as tie width.
The summer of twenty-eleven started in a basement bar with a beach boy band banging out match box blues in sweat stained hues -- out back were the swings and the misses and the fumbled first kisses of kids doublin' down on their dues.
Damage Points
In hindsight, every time I thought the stars were lined right
It only meant the punchline hadn't landed yet--
Turns out that most everybody's working on a future regret
From the title track of the new Slowrunner album.
These boys know how to make hurting sound earnest and honest and relatable and learn-from-able instead of like pubescent whining. Go. Buy. Listen.
And then be sad that you missed a fantastic release show on Saturday that set itself way apart from Yet Another Show In The Typical Fashion By Local Band You've Already Heard Five Times This Month. The show rejuvenated my sense that live music needn't die out as long as it continues to adapt and renew itself. People are willing to pay for and be excited about a good product with novel presentation (the trick, of course, is balancing on the ride of side of the thin line between "mechanic" and "gimmick").
True story.
Heard this one in undergrad as "computer science is as much about computers as astronomy is about telescopes", but really holds true for just about every discipline where people geek out on gear - that new keyboard I'm lusting over? It's just not going to write better songs for me than the one I've got now.
adrnsly:
People keep asking me what kind of camera I shoot with, but I think they are missing the real point at hand.
In reality cameras have about as much to do with photography as pencils have to do with writing.
-adrnsly
Leaving an iPhone charger at someone's house is the new toothbrush.
GPOYW
Roommate: "So these people just take pictures of themselves and post them and other people heart them and that's called a blog?"
Me: "Welcome to tumblr. Let's go take one of me drinking a beer in the shower and call it a night."
(consider this the first in an ongoing series of shots of sad scenesters drinking in their clothes in showers)
tullesthephoto:
[... W]hy do 70% of [SEWE] exhibitions promote sport hunting the species we are being educated to conserve? Game hunting and fishing for meat- fine- but zebra killing, safari slaying, and the like? Barbaric and disrespectful.
The sustainable seafood dinners held at the aquarium used to make me uneasy too - come marvel at these amazing creatures and then... eat them? But I think that at the core you've identified what separates the two: a moment of recognition, the removal of any sense of entitlement or dominion, and most importantly, the presence of a bit of respect and wonder for other life.