The Cutest Boots

Style right out of a J. Crew catalog; a clear face and excited teeth
the tiny bit of hair right before each ear is like a prequel to yr jawline.
I imagine that underneath yr bed is full of boxes--
disposable camera sleeves of high school memories,
layered between ticket stubs, and nostalgia.
You see things beautifully, delicately
like each freckle across yr nose.
Wearing yr heart on yr
pinky finger as a modern romantic.

Skateboarder Ross Capicchioni-shot multiple times with a shotgun and survives

I know this is late and this isn't part of my blog portfolio, but the way this kid tells this story is so amazing that I had to post it.

watch part 1 here
watch part 2 here

I wouldn't have this story told any other way. Videography and skateboarding go hand in hand, so if it were a typed out article, it would feel contrived or sell out-ish, which is something skateboarders try so hard to avoid. The way that different film strips of Detroit, skateboarding, and still images break up the narrative don't take away from Ross's story at all. I feel that's it's equivalent to an image within a block of text. The way that film accentuates this story is so representative of the skateboarding lifestyle and without it, it would fall short.

Ada Limon reading Evolution

	Ada Limon - Evolution .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

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Paul- vegan straight edge lifestyle
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Tyler Knott-creative writing and photography
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LOST

"Lie to them, Jack. If you do it half as well as you lie to yourself, they'll believe you.”
-John Locke


Your dog in his shrunken sweater,
buries into my hair when we kiss.
A type of jealousy I can relate to.
I know you’re getting tired of watching
what happens between Desmond and Penny
because it’s breaking my heart.

My new apartment
doesn’t allow pets,
so we can be alone
after long nights of standing
in chilly houses
waiting for hours
to hear your friend’s band.
I’ll always cook when you’re hungry
but I can’t promise that I won’t fuck up
the pancakes or have much to say.

I will no longer feel self conscious about
the bras hanging off my bed posts
because your Ikea bedframe is broken, doesn’t have any--
You will be familiar with the black
and nude lace.

It shouldn’t be this hard to feel particular.

Tonight I hate most everything
About your one-word answers,
how I’m left to think about
love.

There is one thing I’ve actually never told you.

Carlos Miller

Interviewing Carlos Miller

I interviewed Carlos Miller via Facebook a couple weeks back for an assignment for my internship. This dude is big, muscly, and tan but he is also one of the forerunners in the photographer's rights movement. As a photographer myself, knowing your rights to photograph public property is extremely important. Cops often make up their own rules or harass people with cameras when they are free to take pictures of things like subway systems, car accidents, and police officers themselves. Miller writes non-fiction articles about different injustices to photojournalists and videographers because he himself was arrested twice for photographing police and he won both cases against the police without a lawyer. That is how integrated digital media, public property, and the first amendment all are. It's so important to be aware of your rights especially if you plan on taking pictures or video of any of the occupy protests. Even the activists have turned ugly against media journalists. There are countless videos of harmless photographer's being harassed, attacked, and threatened by the "peaceful" sit-inners. As long as it's a public space, you can shoot whatever you'd like (with a camera of course, not a gun) and as Carlos Miller coined, "Photography is not a crime".