…and it makes me glad that i made these photographs. that i make photographs.
I like these simple sentences by Megan McIsaac. I like that she describes “making photographs” instead of taking them. It may seem like a hair-fine semantic argument, but I think it’s important, and it’s something I’ve been struggling with lately.
I [...]
There’s something freeing about a crappy camera. The type of camera that belongs in a messenger bag. At the bottom, among the Doritos crumbs and pencil shavings. It’s the camera you don’t mind being ruined. The kind of camera you can take with you wherever you go. The sewers, for example. It’s the type of [...]
David Sherwin, Senior Art Director, UX Strategy at Worktank, argues designers should stop seeking perfection in design and instead embrace the warmth and natural elegance imperfections provide us:
When I try to think of a paradigm for pursuing elegance through imperfection, the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi comes to mind.
Leonard Koren, in his book Wabi-Sabi for Artists, [...]
This is insane and lovely: Every Person in New York
“Learn to play your instruments; then get sexy.” -Deborah Harry