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Just got back from NY last night - Really beautiful, but, like 25 degrees.
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This is funny: I actually got flown out there by an ad agency to do a
"screen test". Considering I am not an actress, this is hilarious.
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The story: Several months ago, I wrote a thank-you letter to
Jet Blue for saving my life when "x' airline sent my cameras
on a plane but sold MY ticket to someone else (while I was
stuck in security).
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Not good. I called Jet Blue in a total panic, and they were SO
helpful, that I wrote a thank you letter commending the lady who
went so out of her way for me (and saved my cameras).
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Then a few months later (last week) I get an email from Jet Blue telling
me their upcoming ad campaign is based on customer letters like these,
and that they liked my letter SO much they want to put me on a plane to
NY to tell the story in person, on camera, to the advertising executives (yes
I brought my portfolio along too - naturally)
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Will see how it ends up, but no matter what, it had to be one of the most
surreal and hilarious episodes of recent memory. And I'm grateful for that.
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02.28.06 @ 12:57PDT Wednesday, February 15th

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there are no atheists in foxholes.
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02.15.06 @ 20:28PDT Thursday, February 9th

perceptive thought about photography.
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"Photography has something important that film is lacking.
Roland Barthes describes it as the power of the 'punctum'.
To learn how to control this point is at the very core of
photography - to produce a 'normal' picture that contains
an almost unnoticeable disturbance or 'twitch', and make
it stand out and deliver the message in a more powerful
way."
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02.09.06 @ 15:37PDT Sunday, February 5th

tree, echo park
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02.05.06 @ 21:08PDT

(by Maruice Zeitlin, prof University of Wisconsin at Madison)
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I have only respect for the men who fought in that war.
Because they didn't make the war. They didn't choose
to fight in that war, but they accepted a responsibility
that they thought was theirs as an American citizen.
They carried the burden of being an American citizen.
When they were sent to war, they fought.
And I carried the burden - not at all comparable - of
being an American citizen by opposing that war.
And I had the choice, and they didn't.
And for that, I was priviledged, and they weren't.
But we were both doing our duty.

02.05.06 @ 02:50PDT Thursday, February 2nd

some thoughts on photography, by T
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I want to take pictures of things I look at, the things I find,
the things I see so that I can save them and share them.
I want to see if its possible to photograph something that you see,
I mean really, will the photograph contain what I saw? What did I see?
An exquisite and ephemeral lighting/world moment, weeds, a ditch,
colors of the land, black water, a single cloud, a shadow.
I saw myself standing there for a few moments in my life.
I saw something beautiful and ordinary and then an awesome infinity.
TD
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02.02.06 @ 18:14PDT