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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
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.
-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.
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".
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
BELIEVE IN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION?
SUBMIT YOUR STATEMENTS HERE
Send your photos to info@sampsoniaway.org with a quote about what freedom of expression means to you. We have an important privilege here, use it to tell our readers of Sampsonia Way how you feel.
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Byliner.com
I followed three different writers on Byliner.com, Chuck Klosterman, Colson Whitehead, and W.C. Heinz
I feel that especially Chuck and Colson are dissimilar from one another. One often writes about sport-like events, more urgent and political issues, and Chuck writes about music, bands, and subculture, three topics I'm particularly interested in. Heinz wrote "Death of a Racehorse" which I found extremely moving. I cried while reading it. Neither Chuck nor Colson will probably evoke tears from me while I'm reading their work, most likely because of their biting sarcasm and wit. Each writer possess something that the others don't. Chuck is extremely self-aware within his writing, as well as Colson, but he doesn't focus on himself as much as Chuck does. They both are aware of themselves within their works, just in different ways. Heinz doesn't include any moments of inner speculation and the way Colson may write about a sport, or Klosterman may write about a sport is completely different than how Heinz writes about sports. It's less about sports are more about the emotion and anxiety in that sport. Chuck depicts emotions very bluntly, while Colson is slightly more poetic about it. If there was a scale on the poeticality of each of these writers, it would be on a scale from most poetic to "least" poetic starting with Heinz, then Colson, and finally Chuck. All of their techniques are effective depending on their subject matter and these techniques give way to their individual styles as writers. All in all, I'm saying that the same technique can be used by three writers, but each writer may be on a different spectrum than another. It's interested to see how all writers are aiming to evoke emotions from an audience, but the unique ways they go about utilizing their craft to do so.
I feel that especially Chuck and Colson are dissimilar from one another. One often writes about sport-like events, more urgent and political issues, and Chuck writes about music, bands, and subculture, three topics I'm particularly interested in. Heinz wrote "Death of a Racehorse" which I found extremely moving. I cried while reading it. Neither Chuck nor Colson will probably evoke tears from me while I'm reading their work, most likely because of their biting sarcasm and wit. Each writer possess something that the others don't. Chuck is extremely self-aware within his writing, as well as Colson, but he doesn't focus on himself as much as Chuck does. They both are aware of themselves within their works, just in different ways. Heinz doesn't include any moments of inner speculation and the way Colson may write about a sport, or Klosterman may write about a sport is completely different than how Heinz writes about sports. It's less about sports are more about the emotion and anxiety in that sport. Chuck depicts emotions very bluntly, while Colson is slightly more poetic about it. If there was a scale on the poeticality of each of these writers, it would be on a scale from most poetic to "least" poetic starting with Heinz, then Colson, and finally Chuck. All of their techniques are effective depending on their subject matter and these techniques give way to their individual styles as writers. All in all, I'm saying that the same technique can be used by three writers, but each writer may be on a different spectrum than another. It's interested to see how all writers are aiming to evoke emotions from an audience, but the unique ways they go about utilizing their craft to do so.
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