January 2012
10 posts
I'm Done Here
For more than a year I’ve been considering whether to put this blog on hiatus or give it up altogether. Since I shuttered my previous blog, Gallery Hopper, the effort I put into blogging has gotten smaller and smaller. Tumblr’s structure let me keep going with a minimum of effort while fooling myself that I was producing something useful or worthwhile.
I want to grow more as a...
Little Brown Miscellanea: Advice →
littlebrownmushroom:
From Nick Hornby in the The Believer (December, 2011):
One of the things that did me no good at all in the formative years of my career was prescriptive advice from established writers, even though I craved it at the time. You know the sort of thing: “Write a minimum of 15 drafts.” “A good…
there are no magic tricks or short cuts. Just work and work and work.
Explore Old S.F. →
heymiki:
Really slick interface for exploring old photos of San Francisco :)
The gulf between practitioner and public taste
From A Photo Editor, here’s the list of top selling photo books from 2011. Where’s Redheaded Peckerwood?
Simply Beautiful Photographs (National Geographic)
The Great LIFE Photographers (Little, Brown & Co.)
The Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton (LIFE)
One Nation: America Remembers September 11, 2001, 10 Years Later (Little, Brown & Co.)
Portraits of...