I make pictures. I do it for a living. I do it for fun. I do it because I love it.
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"Tragedy is if I cut my finger. Comedy is if I walk into a sewer and die." -Mel Brooks
Photojournalism, meeting people, music, traveling, exploring.
You. Other storytellers — may it be through pictures, words, or just about anything else.
In some kind of an order:13th Floor Elevators, Air, Alexander-Sergei Ramirez, Ali Farka Toure, Alice In Chains, Anoushka Shankar, Bali Gamelan — Traditional Balinisian Music, Beck, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The Books, Bruce Springsteen, Calexico, Cat Power, Charlie Parker, Coldplay, David Bowie, David Lindley, Dead Can Dance, The Dead, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Digable Planets, Elliot Smith, Fischerspooner, Four Tet, Frank Zappa, Fulani Music of Gambia, Gamelan Angklung, Gamelan Gong Kebjar, Gillian Welch, Grateful Dead, Hackberry Ramblers, Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson (friends of Sigur Røs), Hooverphonic, Interpol, Ive Mendes, Janes Addiction, J.S. Bach, James McMurtry, John, Coltrane, John Lennon, John McLaughlin, Johnny Cash, José Gonzalez, Kaki King, Keith Jarrett Trio, Kraftwek, Kronos Quartet, L7, Lady Tron, Laurie Anderson, Led Zeppelin, Les Primitifs Du Futur, Lisa Gerard, Loreena McKennet, Los Amigos Invisibiles, Lou Reed, Luna, M83, Mandinka Music of the Gambia, Manu Chao, Massive Attack, Mathematicians, Miles Davis, Ministry, Moby, Modest Mouse, Neil Young, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Orbital, Orb, Orgy, Paul Simon, Pemungkah, Peter Tosh, Phillip Glass, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, The Pogues, Portishead, Primus, The Pupils, Radiohead, Ravi Shankar, Ralph Stanley, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Red House Painters, The Rolling Stones, Röyskopp, Ry Cooder, Sekar Leret, The Shins, Sigur Røs, Sonny Rollins, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sound Garden, Stabbing Westward, The Staple Singers, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Stone Temple Pilots, Sugar Cubes, Syd Barrett, Theolonious Monk — mainly w/Coltrane, Thievery Corporation, Tom Waits, U2, Underworld, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, Weather Report, Ween, The White Stripes, Wilco, Yo La Tengo.
Every chance I get.
It's been suggested that I watch "Arrested Development". I generally don't have the time, or energy to watch television these days. We also don't have cable hooked up, thus relying upon movies quite frequently. Hey ... I'm a busy guy.
They're mostly packed away on a loft in the barn. One of these days, I'll bring them down to sort through and shelve.
William Safire, not because of his work with the Nixon Administration while in the White House, but for his weekly column "On Language" which appears in the New York Times Magazine every Sunday.John Stanmeyer and Christopher Morris: http://www.viiphoto.org/David Burnett: http://www.davidburnett.comEdward R. Murrow. He had this to say, among other things: "The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it."