Month: April 2020
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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LA Originals
Photographer Estevan Oriol and artist Mister Cartoon turned their Chicano roots into gritty art, impacting street culture, hip hop and beyond. LA Originals – Netflix
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Back Problems
I’ve had some back problems, which I’m treating with pills. Tim Heidecker to a woman he’s met on their first date in episode 2 of Beef House
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The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it. The Devastating Decline of a Brilliant Young Coder
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Quotes
Norman Ornstein, a political scientist specializing in congressional matters at the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute, told me that he has known every Senate Majority Leader in the past fifty years, and that McConnell “will go down in history as one of the most significant people in destroying the fundamentals of our constitutional democracy.” He continued,…
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Burning Cell Towers, Out of Baseless Fear They Spread the Virus
“You know when they turn this on it’s going to kill everyone,”a woman said of 5G in a recent video on Twitter, as she confronted technicians laying fiber-optic cables in an unidentified British town. Burning Cell Towers, Out of Baseless Fear They Spread the Virus
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music
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Candela Podcast : Matt Stuart
Street photographer Matt Stuart discusses his coverage of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting, the wake-up call that was a plastic bullet whizzing past his head at a Hong Kong protest, how to balance creative work with work that puts food on the table, and much more. Matt Stuart Candela: Photography & Cinematography masters
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April 8, 2020
The day when they shut down the restaurants. That’s when I started photographing COVID-19 obsessively. An editor directed me to a row of restaurants downtown. It was so quiet on the street that day. Very few people were out. It felt real. I photographed the empty dining room of a Mexican restaurant, complete with that…
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April 6, 2020
Going off the rails. This new hyperactive photography thing needs better management. I have am shooting too many photographs to put out. And the entire idea of the Rough Draft blog [here, this site] was to have no limits, no thoughts about editing, not think about quality – just free expression. But at this moment…
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You’ve never owned a camera.
I have no interest in taking pictures. Who cares? What’s the point? Larry David
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This Week’s Notable Album Art*
*Not an endorsement of the music