Thanks, Simon, for reminding us that sometimes you don’t need to go far for inspiration, you just need to wait.
Photographer Simon Hoegsberg’s 100 meter-wide photograph capturing “one-hundred seventy-eight people, all shot in the course of twenty days from the same spot on a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasses in Berlin in the summer of 2007.” Aside from being technically stunning, it’s also an understated narrative triumph: every figure in this image, silhouetted starkly and [...]
That everyone is equal to everyone else. I believe it, but I don’t pretend it’s literally true.
Cover of Little Women (Collector’s Series) When I introduce myself as a dictionary editor to a stranger, I can usually count on a few things. The stranger will say, “Oh, I’ll have to watch how I talk in front of you.” The stranger will ask me about why some word like bling was put into [...]
Jan Von Holleben
Biography “I once ruled the worlds. Not just one, but many. I ruled them with mirrors and lenses. I ruled them with light and shadow and time. Sometimes I ruled with a trick of the eye. Through my camera, an entire cosmos took shape, and each world within it seemed to operate by a certain [...]
Man, I met this guy and he was a Freegan. He was also an executive at this company. Serious, he was so loaded ’cause he doesn’t buy food.
What is a Freegan? diver emerging from dumpster with bag of vegetables Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, [...]