The First Love (Mari Terashima, 1989)

I rearranged my bookshelves with the festive season in mind, and I get so much joy from just looking at them.

Imo the most important thing a writer (or any artist) can be is earnest. You can have no technical skill whatsoever and write a complete stinker and you'll still have a story some readers will fall in love with, so long as they can tell you really meant it and really gave it a shot. Everything else is artifice.

joanna newsom by miranda july

can you be a fucking faggot with me for a second

2015. i think. 

where you’re not, and neither am i

i hope there’s a kid in the future digging through my internet archives seein what they can see about me, like how i do it

i hope we find what we’re looking for

reverse image search

The Concept of Non-Photography:

Non-photography, theorized by François Laruelle, is about devorcing all context from a photgraph. There is no concept of a subject, photographer, composition, pretext, or context. It exsists in a void as a sort of non-thing, as if there was no sentient being able to percive and analize it. It exsist’s merely as an aeasthetic, but not even really as an aesthetic because that is a philosophy in itself.

He states that the photograph is not a picture of reality or even a copy or abstraction. It is a fiction that is “wholly real but in its own mode”- the fictional realm. The photograph is unique unto itself, an unlimited opening into the world occasioned by lights and shadows in time, but is in no way constrained by either the experiential universe or the theoretical and art historical preconditions set up for it.”

Anna Haifisch

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Eve Arnold during a press conference at the Plaza Hotel in New York on February 2, 1956.

Alaska trip 12

What the Living Do, Marie Howe