visual art, conceptual and performance art, photography, 19th century photo-history, large-format cameras and pinholes, anthropology,the french language, natural sciences, volunteer work, watching films (foreign and domestic), making films, hiking, running, my pet rabbit Spooky Von Doom, forwarding my education, my job that I love (BHG rocks!), my friends, comic books, the beautiful shade of blue light that begins morning, knitting, old cameras (just say no to digital!), thrift store t-shirts, street detris, good views, adventures, road-side oddities, dumpster-diving, children's books, red shoes and black dresses, crotcheted pot holders, hot tea, squirrels, nightime in Europe, plate-tectonics, geology, clean warm sheets, institutional green, truck stops, psychology, big turtleneck sweaters, cat-eye glasses, hot metal, dirty work, lightening, violins, ken burns documentaries, refrigerator magnets, EVP (electro-voice phenomenon), giant squid, cephlapods, evolutionary psychology, sewing badly, day-trips, dinosaurs, paleontology, archeaology
I think that what makes a photograph so powerful is the fact that, as opposed to other forms, like video or motion pictures, it is about stillness. I think the reason a person becomes a photographer is because they want to take it all and compress it into one particular stillness. When you really want to say something to someone, you grab them, you hold them, you embrace them. That's what happens in this still form. -Joel Peter WitkinDarkness Light Darkness
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Belle and Sebastian, The Smiths, Modest Mouse, eighties synth pop aka The Human League, Jeff Buckley, old school country like Emmy Lou and Johnny Cash, The decemberists, Air, Portishead, The GentlePeople, The Magnetic Fields, Leonard Cohen, The Shins, Blondie, The Postal Service, The Hold-Steady, Guided By Voices, Camera Obscura, The National, Field Mice, The Cure, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Ghostland Observatory, Hooverphonic, Interpol
1970-s and 80's horror classics (The Omen, Exorcist,etc) Musicals (Sound of Music, woohoo), foreign films, Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation), Thank You for Smoking. Just watched Spike Lee's documentary, When the Levees Broke, I am ashamed of my country and anguished for my home. Jan Svankmajer's Neco z Alenky (Czech Alice in Wonderland with puppets, Superstar:The life of Andy Warhol, Jaws (the first one is the best)
Marty Stouffer nature documentaries from the seventies on APT on Sunday mornings. That guy has a serious lumberjack shirt collection!PBS, the poor persons Discovery Channel. Everything else is too bad.
"The Secret Life of Human Cadavers" (great if your interested in donating your body to science) "Spook: Science Takes on the After Life," "Catch 22," "To Kill A Mockingbird," "The Barrens," "Guns, Germs and Steel," "On Photography," "Alas Babylon," Eightball comics, Acme novelty comics, "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death," anything by Shel Silverstein or Roald Dahl, Washington Irvng, "Fast Food Nation,""The Cajuns: The Americanization of a People," Art Criticism and Theory, the backs of cereal boxes
Marie Curie, Margaret Bourke-White, Joel-Peter Witkin, Edward Gorey, Jan Saudek, Susan Sontag, my mother, the inventor of the drinking straw...