PRIMITIVE NERD SOUNDHOLE #1: DRIFTING WITH HAL MEACHUM

Take twelve minutes and listen to the strange stories and sounds of yesternow.

theparisreview:

“I rewrite my poems so often that I sometimes get mixed up about which version was finally published. I don’t want to let a poem go until I think I’ve got it honed down just to what it should be, and that involves all sorts of weird problems. One of them is that you overwrite it. You’ve got to know when to stop. Bach is the greatest of the human composers, but in my opinion Mozart is an angel. And one thing that makes him angelic is that he knows exactly when to stop. He knows when to shut up. And in doing that he gives you your own song.”

—James Wright, The Art of Poetry No. 19

"You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist doesn’t take risks, then it’s not worth it."

Robert Frank (via aaroncanipe)

yup.

jesuisperdu:

martin parr

(via volvulent)

ikilledjackjohnson:

Walter Kurt Wiemken

elamei:

098 on Flickr.

Krasnoyarsk, Russia. November 2011.

mianoti:

Francis Alÿs *

(Source: hausderkunst)

jesuisperdu:

walter iooss jr.

brazenswing:

Gonzalo García: La coraza de mi cuerpo.

mpdrolet:

From emmett

Ron Jude

michaelaccorsi:

The breathtaking and moving work of Australian artist, Ginny Grayson.

hooray for John Fante