SHOW

Gallery La Petite Mort ask me to put up some work to
accompany paintings by my old friend Lyle Richardson.
I thought I might print up a few LIVE THROUGH THIS
images, frame ‘em up and take ‘em out for a test spin
on a gallery wall.

Lyle looking at his paintings, trying to decide

3 perspectives of the show

Lyle and me. We’ve known each other for over 40 years

It has to be said it was a funny pairing. Something about it
made my head hurt. But it was a complicated hurt, partly
pain and partly pleasure with a good dash of WTF thrown
in. . .kinda like life.

PINTEREST

I just opened a Pinterest account to see what all that noise
was about. I’m no fortune teller and have no idea if Pinterest
will take off or not, but let me tell you: from my minimal ex-
ploration of the thing my first reaction is: PINTEREST SUCKS
on so many levels. Or, perhaps a better way to say it would
be: people who use Pinterest suck.

First there’s the whole steal-others-images-and-stick-’em-
up aspect, which feels like a good old-fashioned stickup.
That is: robbery.

But the thing that really pisses me off about it is the aspir-
ational aspects. Here are a bunch of fucking losers making
public their lack of any personal creativity. It’s all about: I-
see-this-and-want/like-it. There is no I-made-this-myself
aspect to it. It’s pure consumerism.

But in the end humans will have their way. Any and all forms
of communication will be tried and boors will continue to boor.
The one good thing is that, unlike in “real” life when someone
is an idiot, with social media it’s just so easy to turn your back
and walk away.

Having said all that, I just opened a Twitter account. . .you may
follow me here or turn your back and walk away.

ADVENTURES IN PUBLISHING

GERMAN REJECTION

I’ve been sending dummies of LTT and USER to various publishers.
Mostly I have yet to hear back from any of them. Seems they are all
overworked and underpaid. But let me tell you, those Germans really
know how to reject you.

I sent copies to Steidl and before you could say “sauerkraut” the
rejection came back. All nicely packaged and warm in tone.

As much as it sucks getting rejected by one of the top fotobook
publishers, I’ve gotta give them the gold star for efficiency and
neatness.