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more is not better.
better is better.

Donald Graves - Expert 2 days ago

Hemingway 2 weeks ago

"Never confuse movement with action."

-Ernest Hemingway-

A. Schiller 2 weeks ago

Convicted forger A. Schiller was serving time in Sing Sing prison
in the late 1800s when guards found him dead in his cell.

On his body they found seven regular straight pins whose heads
measured the typical 47/1000ths of an inch or 1.17 millimeters
in diameter. Under 500 magnification it was found that the tiny
etchings seen on the heads of the pins were the words to The
Lord's Prayer, which is 65 words and 254 letters long.

Of the seven pins, six were silver and one was gold - the gold pin's
prayer was flawless and a true masterpiece. Schiller had spent the
last 25 years of his life creating the pins, using a tool too small to
be seen by the naked eye. It is estimated that it took 1,863 separate
carving strokes to make it. Schiller went blind because of his artwork.

today in history.... 3 weeks ago

Jul 4 1054

A supernova suddenly appears in the constellation Taurus.
It is so bright that for the first 23 days it is visible during the day.
Then it gradually fades away, finally disappearing after a year or so.
Today the remnants of this star are the Crab Nebula.

bronx, new york 3 weeks ago

The Secret News (George Carlin) Jun 23

All people are afraid.
No one knows what they're doing.
Everything is getting worse.
Some people deserve to die.
Your money is worthless.
No one is properly dressed.
At least one of your children will disappoint you.
The system is rigged.
Your house will never be completely clean.
All teachers are incompetent.
There are people who really dislike you.
Nothing is as good as it seems.
Things don't last.
No one is paying attention.
The country is dying.
God doesn't care.
Ssshhh.

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about me

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I am (a):
Photographer.
Thinker.
Music lover.
I do not suffer fools gladly.
My genetic makeup,
as well as the folly of the world around me
necessitates a dark sense of humour.
Funny, curious.
Hopeful, occasionally.
I hate hyprocrites, but do not deny being one.
I procrastinate, but have high expectations.

"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there."
L.P. Hartley - The Go Betweens (1953)

I dig people who can embrace
the randomness of the universe
without having to attribute convenient
rationalizations to happenings in the world.
In other words:
people who do good things because they want to,
not who act nice because they think
there is some sort of "reward" coming.

I'd rather hang out with an honest, surly asshole
than a disingenuous new age phony.
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I like:
Music,
cultural anthropology,
Absinthe,
contemporary photography, observing human folly,
sensible shoes,
anti-heroes,
real eccentrics,
misuse "of" quotation marks,
dark humour,
dark chocolate,
alan watts lectures,
lean fiction and modern poetry,
collage,
the sound of trains in the distance,
the light when there is moisture in the sky,
the night landscape when it is overcast,
squished pennies,
natural history museums,
fashion,
Politics,
early 1970's American cinema,
Danny Kaye,
the 10 cent coffee at Philippe's,
the triumph of the small,
New York,
rounded toothpicks,
strange word combinations,
industrial design,
and of course... Music

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you can see more images at herzco.com ? ;-)

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All photographs ©Beth Herzhaft 2007