A very enjoyable book: Excellent Advice for Living. The advice applies to photographers, too.
To move through a place you may not be permitted, act like you belong there.
Don’t create things to make money; make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work.
Ignore what others may be thinking of you because they aren’t thinking of you.
I still ended up liking the black-and-white images of Money & The Man and Magnetic Spacemen better.
Developed today. Friday seen. I saw lovely bands at the Slachthuis in Haarlem: Money & the Man and Magnetic Spacemen. Both very energetic and good.
Selecting the best landscape photo from a collection of ten for an exhibition suddenly becomes a challenging task.
I selected the sunset photo from Carters Beach. While it might seem clichéd, I barely adjusted any settings – the image captured exactly what was there: the evening light, the cloudy sky, and the red car. Perhaps I’m becoming a photographic purist?
De tuintjes is de duinen, de duinlandjes, bij Egmond aan Zee staan onder water. En goed ook.
This week Steve Albini passed away. For someone of my generation an icon so a shock.
In addition to musician (Big Black, Rapeman, Shellac) and producer (Pixies, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, you name it), he was a music industry critic. He explained how the big record labels abuse musicians but also explained to musicians that they should make the music they want and not let the record companies push them around. Musicians should make music they think is cool and perform.
He explained that in plain language, as square and hermetic as his music.
A striking person I will miss.
In 2017, I took these photos at Shellac’s performance in Vera, Groningen.
Kitchen, light.
