Modern Alchemy Candles by D.L. & Co. are possibly the best I have ever, ever seen. They are ridiculously expensive, but possibly worth the cost, with scents such as Ex Libris (pictured,) Tincture of Winchester, Boston Tea Party, and even Speak Easy. I love the product description:
“Alchemy was the medieval pursuit to transform un-precious metals into gold through a combination of magic and science. Utilizing the rarest of extracts, essences and absolutes, D.L. & Co. is able to create fragrances that conjure time and place, transforming environments from the mundane to the sublime.”
Someone buy me some. Please.
Aug 07
Yves Saint Laurent’s Autumn/Winter 2008 collection in motion. Truly brilliant film.
When you are a photographer, and that fact is well known, everyone wants you to photograph something or teach them something. I have no problem teaching, in fact I really enjoy it. It gives me a chance to not only do something I love, but to share the joy of it with someone else, and thankfully, I get to do that fairly often. But - and I speak only for myself here - I really don’t want to shoot your wedding. And it’s nothing personal, but I know people out there who are not just wedding photographers, but incredible ones too. And ones who probably could use the work, at least more than I could. I’m probably going to tell you to go to them. Or for formal portraits? You’re probably not going to be happy with them. Or maybe you will, because of the content, and you either overlook or are not aware of the problems with the form. And that’s okay for you, but it’s not for me.
It’s funny though, because in spite of this, I have trouble finding business, at least for what I really do. I have yet to be paid for anything fashion-related that I am slowly shaping into a career. And here’s the core of the issue: it’s not that I’m above the other things, like weddings or family portraits, it’s just that they are not my line of work. It’s like asking a professional baseball player to fill in at a pro hockey game. They may be a great athlete, but that doesn’t mean they are good at all things athletic. I wish I could be good at it all. I would be able to do real work in a job that I enjoy and plan to do for the rest of my life, and I would be able to make others happy with photographs of what they desire to have photographed. But that’s just not the way the world works. At least not on this end.
Aug 02
This is the second or third of these I’ve caught, so I should totally be married by now. I think I’ve been lied to.
Aug 01
“ Frankly, I don’t want that version of America to survive — the America of chain stores, and muscle cars, and grown men obsessed with video games, drugs, and pornography, and women decorated like cannibals, and the vast, crushing purposelessness of it all. I have no doubt we’re heading into a convulsion that will wring much of this junk and dross into the backwaters of history. We’re capable of being something better than this, of putting our time on earth to better use, including a more respectful treatment of the land we inhabit. This year and the next will be the years of letting go, and out of that we’ll commence a re-becoming.
“ Out at sea for seven years
I got your letter in Tangier
I thought that I’d been on a boat
‘til that single word you wrote
That single word that landlocked me
Turned the mast to cedar trees
And the wind to gravel roads
Idaho, Idaho
Turned the wind to gravel roads
Idaho, Idaho
— Josh Ritter, “Idaho” from his album The Animal Years, which is full of truly masterful imagery. And this is just one stanza!
Jul 28
“ The current style sets a high but not impossible standard for decoration: better none at all unless it be good.
— Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Philip Johnson, The International Style
Jul 27
TR2N! It’s not only officially happening, but now we have a teaser that debuted at Comic-Con that not only confirms that it’s a sequel and that Jeff Bridges is indeed in it, but also that it looks completely amazing. Watch this soon, though; I don’t imagine Disney will allow it to be online for long.
