thinking...thinking...

a pensive young girl in sapporo, japan.
(photo by carey anderson)

if a picture is worth a thousand words...

...what is the value of 1000 pictures? or 4000?

headshots for the nonconformist

my friend, actress erica mansfield, by my friend, photographer kevin thomas garcia.

there's more erica by kevin below the fold.

new yorkers: about face

simon hogsberg gets ten new yorkers to talk about their faces.

the d.c. blizzard of 2010 1918!

(hat tip gawker / shorpy)

a new york city night

waiting

photographs 5-8







see photographs 1-4 here.

waiting

photographs 1-4

caption me now

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caption me now

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just the prez

you know. hanging with his peeps. outside the u.s. ambassador's residence in paris. this makes me like the guy even more.

(hat tip andrew sullivan)

obama in saudi arabia

saudi king abdullah bin abdul aziz al-saud greets president barack obama in riyadh.

manhattanhenge

(photo by jonbell has no h)

42nd street and 3rd avenue on saturday, may 30th – also known as manhattanhenge – one of only two occasions this year when the sun sets in exact alignment with the manhattan grid, illuminating every single cross-street for the last fifteen minutes of daylight. 2009's second manhattanhenge happens the evening of sunday, july 12th.

owning a car in manhattan, pt. 1

(photograph by naftels)

simple beauty

from new york city's riverside park.

i can see your house from here

wanna see where i live?

passing the day

an elderly man enjoying a beautiful, sunny day on the pacific coast in ventura, california. and yes, he's doing exactly what you think he's doing. i know because i heard it.

do you want to know a secret?

john lennon, august 1966, in the beatles dressing room at jfk stadium (actually the old locker room for the philadelphia eagles.) one of 3500 recently discovered photographs of the beatles and the rolling stones taken by tour manager bob bonis, many of which are on display until april 14 at new york's not fade away gallery.

sign of the times

we're all gonna die

one image: 100 meters long, 178 people, 20 days.

photographer simon hoegsberg has created an intriguing online image that i first saw about a week ago. it's a composite of photographs taken over the course of 20 days from the same spot on a railroad bridge in berlin (a fraction of which appears below.) at first glance, i thought it was interesting, but i moved on rather quickly.



over the course of the week i've returned to it time and again, sometimes without thinking. i've spent time with it, gotten to know it. each visit revealed something new, some new person, some new story to be told.

hoegsberg's title for the image, we're all gonna die – 100 meters of existence is nearly as intriguing as the image itself. the finality of that initial thought is not made any cheerier by labeling this an image merely of existence.

sometimes i expect to see myself in this image. sometimes i do. i see people i know, and people i've come to know. one particular face, one smirk or sideways look, can prove endlessly fascinating one day. the next day, another is much more interesting.

in many faces there appears to be a blissful ignorance – no immediate awareness of that statement: we're all gonna die. in a few – some sad, some stark, some content, some rebellious – there seems to be an unbelievably clear grasp of it.