On one of the photography forums that I participate in, I just read that one woman's little three year old daughter died in a freak accident a few days ago in Australia. I did not know little Ava nor do I know her family, but my heart goes out to them nonetheless. It is these tragedies that remind me of how blessed most of us are. So hug your loved ones extra tight tonight and remember those who are not so lucky.
thoughts
Inspiration
Read this on Tara Whitney's blog and loved it. It is from Mike Colón.
The answer is sacrifice. You have to give something up in order to get results that excite you and inspire the artist within. You must give up perfection! Perfectionism only provokes fear and fear is what holds us back in pretty much every area of our lives. I love the way Joe Buissink puts it when he says "There is no such thing as a perfect image, only a perfect moment". He is so right.
Nirvana
Did you know that Dreyer's makes ice cream with Girl Scout cookies in it? The world just gets better and better (except for the whole Bush thing).
Funny Moments
In Mr. Kidd's monograph, Augusten Burroughs describes an exchange, overhead at an airport bookstore, about the paperback version of his memoir "Dry," published by Picador last year. Mr. Kidd, whose title at Knopf is associate art director, has always had the freedom to design for whomever he liked (he is also an editor at large for Pantheon's comics division). The book chronicles Mr. Burroughs's experiences with alcoholism and recovery, and Mr. Kidd designed a cover whose type was soaked, so that it bled in rivulets down the frontspiece."A woman picked up the book," the only copy in the store, Mr. Burroughs writes, "and brought it up to the clerk. She said: 'Excuse me? But do you have another copy of this book? This one looks like it got all wet.' The clerk said: 'No, I'm sorry. All of them were wet like that.'" read the NYTimes article about Chip Kidd here
Thought of the Day
It's just a bad idea to go out in public when your greasy hair is pulled back into a pathetic ponytail and you have on yesterday's clothes and you haven't showered or brushed your teeth. I mean, my God woman, have pity on people.
You Know You Read Too Much When...
you buy a book and get halfway into it before you realize that you have read it before. So either I am running out of books to read or I am losing my mind. Yep. That's right. It's the latter.
Missing
I miss Ben a couple hours after he has gone to sleep. At around 11:00 I want to go in and wake him up. I think Josh will kill me if I do this.