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'Madness' is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are losing their minds. That word is too exciting, too literary, too interesting in its connotations, to convey the boredom, the slowness, the dreariness, the dampness of depression.

Elizabeth Wurtzel






One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday.

- Eeyore






"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

On Photography

Tue Dec 4, 2007, 11:04 PM
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment.


It is important to see what is invisible to others – perhaps the look of hope or the look of sadness. Also, it is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.


-Robert Frank


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Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff – being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you want get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.


To take photographs means to recognize -- simultaneously and within a fraction of a second -- both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.


The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.


-Henri Cartier-Bresson


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To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.


- Elliott Erwitt


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A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.


What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.


-Diane Arbus


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The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.


-Edward Weston



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The state of mind of a photographer while creating is a blank...For those who would equate "blank" with a kind of static emptiness, I must explain that this is a special kind of blank. It is a very active state of mind really, a very receptive state of mind, ready at an instant to grasp an image, yet with no image pre-formed in it at any time. We should note that the lack of a pre-formed pattern or preconceived idea of how anything ought to look is essential to this blank condition. Such a state of mind is not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it. (Not just life, but "a" life).


-Minor White

  • Mood: Depressed
  • Listening to: mumblings .. klmjk...these mumblings....everywhere

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Caterpillar infested shithole
  • Interests: Photography, Literature, Cinema, Biology, Hearing Voices, Rutgers Football, Murmurings, Solitude
  • Favourite movie: Favorite Directors: Coen Brothers, Ki-duk Kim, Kar Wai Wong, Darren Aronofsky, Wes Anderson
  • Favourite band or musician: RADIOHEAD, Arcade Fire, Tom Mcrae, Iron and Wine, The Shins, Beck, Muse, Andrew Bird
  • Favourite poet or writer: Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Steinbeck, Haruki Murakami,John Updike, Nathanael West
  • Favourite style of art: Film/Darkroom photography, Street or Photojournalistic Photography. None of those fuckn posed shots
  • Personal Quote: This world exists because I am conscious of it
  • Tools of the Trade: Nikon F3HP, Nikon FM3a, Nikkor Lenses, B&W Films, Beseler Enlarger, Rodenstock Enlarger Lens

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:icondissembled59:
sorry dingus, my web cam software only allows for video recording. have no freakin idea how to connect it with another camera.

did find this free live stream though. the quality sucks but at least it's free.

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found the sony walkman's mp3 cable. don't know when they'll mail i though.
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$295 for 3 nights. falls aren't at a walkable distance though.
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niagara lodge & suite. lady reserved it already.
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please don't forget that audio cable thing that connects my mp3 player to the van
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Not really in the mood to write about this.
It’s a feeling that is so miserably familiar by now.
It’s hard to muster up the mood to write about something that has become so repetitive.
It will soon curl up into nothingness like the others.
I just wish that it is a thing -- a thing that I can handle and grapple.
I want to feel it suffocate into nothingness with my own hands.
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Expression of ADAM-17, TIMP-3 and fractalkine in the human adult brain endothelial cell line, hCMEC/D3, following pro-inflammatory cytokine treatment.
:icondissembled59:
can you bring the camera bag tomorrow please? thanks dingus.
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whale watching $40 a person. don't know if it's guaranteed though.

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