Categories friends

Quotes and Pretty Girls

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson (via holly) If you go home with someone, and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them. – John Waters

Categories photo

Photoshopped

Just had another photo chosen as Photo of the Day on DCist. And immediately — and not for the first time — received some comments about photoshopping. I adjust things like the lightness and darkness and sharpness. In that sense, yes it’s photoshopped. But these are the same things photographers Continue Reading

Categories quotes

Design is

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs (via Kelowna)

Categories rant

Shopping

I am impressed. I placed an order with Amazon yesterday. Well … one of the retailers who sells through Amazon. Because if this was Amazon, I would not be impressed. If this was Amazon, they would tell me “Your order has shipped”, and for the next 3 days, UPS would Continue Reading

Categories art

Faces Project

Looking for people who’d like to participate in a (hopefully) fun project; writing a short piece — in any style — about a provided photo. To learn more, visit https://strangeday.net/projects/faces/faces.html

Categories art

Artist and Audience

To an artist, first an audience is a life jacket, then it is a dinner jacket, then it is a straightjacket. – Clayton Cubitt

Categories quotes

to all the devils…

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. – Patricia Highsmith, New Years Eve, 1947

Categories art

Katie West

Things like this are why I love Katie West’s work. Normally she’s known as a self-portrait photographer; but she expresses herself so well in any format she chooses. This appeals to me both directly if not exactly, and in wanting a woman who thinks like this. How I choose my Continue Reading

Categories intangibles

Heart and Mind

If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders. – via Holly Seems very fitting right now. *shrug*

Categories quotes

Quotes

Sometimes girls go gay when drunk. Sometimes gays go girl when drunk. – Clayton Cubitt Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. – Mark Twain, via (Dave T)