Sam

He makes coffee nervous.
- Lou Burdette,

pitcher for Milwaukee Brewers, said about another pitcher who seemed unable to hold still on the pitcher's mound.

#quote #baseball-lore

Baseball was first played in Italy in 1884!!

We must be coming into spring. My neighbour is out playing the bagpipes in his front garden again. Twice in one morning!
Oh, my. 😜
#bagpipes

Two-year-old me carrying a bucket of water from a pump, on a camping trip. Assisted by my brother and sister.

TIL John McPhee once tried tying himself to a chair to force himself to write more, but it didn’t work. He said, “People say to me, ‘Oh, you’re so prolific.’ God, it doesn’t feel like it — nothing like it. But, you know, you put an ounce in a bucket each day, you get a quart.”

There's that saying "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's, few."

Tough day on Facebook. I still don't know what you're supposed to post under a picture of a cousin's newborn baby, but I've learned that it isn't 'Yikes'.

Probably one of the first ‘art nude’ photographs I shot … 1989 - I think the models name was Sally, she was patient and kind as well as fun to hang out with. This image is a print produced in my home darkroom at the time #artnude #mediumformat #filmphotography #naked

D just spotted our first hummingbird of the year. I've been expecting them for about ten days now. Spring started really early this year. I put up a feeder. Time to get more sugar.

Wet Plate experiments with Samuel Mark

4x5 Tintype

I was asking you. Your work is really good.

The weight of memory - by Noémia Prada (1969), Portuguese

My film grows older and so do I?

The tyranny of clocks.
Dear clocks,
Why do we let you boss us? We're people. You're machines.

More understanding, less judging. All of us need to stop all the judging.

"One day we'll all understand."
Dan Fogleberg

Binoche in a short-sleeved shirt, standing by the Seine

Juliette Binoche by Robert Doisneau, 1991

"The joy of creating is that it’s not painful. There’s a lightness in it. It doesn’t mean that certain films are not difficult — because sometimes it is very difficult — but at least you try something new."

Have you ever showed your work at any of those more high end photo reviews? You might be really happily surprised if you get your pictures in front of the right people.

It often seems that way to me too Steve.

But to give others hope, maybe, here's a quote from a Keith Carter workshop I attended years ago:

"Nobody paid any attention to my work until I started making pictures I liked, for me."

We got a second one, kinda by accident, I don't remember who gave it to us, but it's half-full of film. Most of which sits there and grows older.

I've never figured out sales of photos as artwork, but to my eye yours is the most salable of any I've seen here, by far. Yours are in a different league.

It's that time of year when I ask myself am I on today's time? Or yesterday's time?

The clock all too often has become our boss.

You're gonna need a bigger fridge.

My better half has always said that scene does not fit.

We do not at present educate people to think, but rather to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
- Louis L'Amour, Education of a Wandering Man

A surprisingly good and interesting memoir.

#SundaySentence

Whatever the diagnosis, she lived according to the rules of her own fantasyland, outside of which she had never set foot.
- Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

#sundaysentence

Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” reveals.

Cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a tool designed to measure susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric.

Don't forget to water your clocks; in six months they will grow that hour back for you.

Yes, if you want to talk about books or most anything that's not politics there's not much engagement.

Is there such a thing as the ice cream diet? Just asking, for "a friend."

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination."

- Hunter S. Thompson