One Week In Japan (by Mike Matas)
Dear Japan,
I know I’ve been promising to visit you for a while. I even stood you up that time in ‘08 but life just kinda got in the way, you know? But I got 2.5 years left of school, which is plenty of time to save up and I’ll work on getting the travel bug to infect my boyfriend and I should be seeing you soonish. Like say, 2014? Pencil it in.
Love always,
Liz
One of my favorite quotes is “Done is better than perfect.” That doesn’t mean making crap – I believe you should always strive for the highest quality you can – but you have to finish. I think a lot of my friends in this situation don’t realize how in-demand their skills are. I think if you follow through on projects and just put the tiniest little effort into promoting yourself and have the tiniest bit of self-confidence, you can get the job you want.
Photographer: Simon Vahala
Simon Vahala disabled downloading of his images so I don’t have a direct image to post but I wanted to respect his wishes and at least post a link. It’s well worth seeing. I was especially fascinated by this portrait.
Happy Holidays, lovers!
I thought it would be appropriate to feature one of the iconic Kennedy portraits by Avedon, considering today’s a day mainly for celebrating with family.
Kennedy Family Portrait by Richard Avedon
(via fotografenwerk)
Portrait of Anton Chekhov.
Osip Braz, oil on canvas. 1898.
Fortune has it that I managed to procure a copy of Murakami’s 1Q84 just before the holidays so I can fully immerse myself within its smooth pages free of distractions. Well, at least until early January, though I’m hoping to have finished the enormous tome by then. (Currently hovering at 263 out of 925 pages, I really can’t say).
That being said, it’s given me the urge to read both Tales of the Heike and Chekhov’s Sakhalin Island. In my research I came across this fascinating portrait by Osip Braz, an artist who I’ve never heard of until now and due to a lack of a English Wikipedia, only managed to gather some sparse facts on the French site.
(On a side note, stubs on the french site are referred to as “pages orphelines”. I love it when different languages produce terms with entirely different connotations.)
This 2012 expect a lot to do with portraiture featured here. I feel compelled to spend a lot of time on this.
Hanging out with my dad a lot these days. Carlo Canziani Amico, Lima, 2009. From my Ciudad Natal series.
