September 2009
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Chop and Crop →
From the NYTimes Lens blog, on the ethics of cropping.
Interesting point of view from the photographer, but the staunch defense of objectivity always rings hollow to me. Yes, a photo should tell the truth — tell a story — and capture an authentic moment, teach us something, make us feel. But none of those things are contigent on objectivity, and isn’t it the photographer’s...
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What are your absolute favorite road-trip songs?
I’m going on a drive.
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“…Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard, 21, of New Portland, Maine, was struck by a...”
– St. Petersburg Times (via iteeth)
“Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather...”
– James Thurber on editing in a 1959 memo to The New Yorker.
(via Kottke)
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