VISIONS FOR 2009
Just as we cross the seemingly imaginary time line into 2009, the world appears to be in turmoil. We are all wishing each other Happy New Year while more and more attacks are levied into Palestine, the world financial crisis gets worse by the minute, and our most immediate world of print publishing is in a virtual state of panic. Most of us are now facing the biting jaws of winter and spring flowers seem far far away.
Well, we are not in control of any of the above. We must just do what we can do with our talents and make the most immediate space around us a better place. Since photography is what I seem to do best, and since my role as a photographer has extended into the photographic lives of others as a mentor, I will just do what little I can here on BURN to push all of you to use your eyes, hearts, and intellect in the most constructive ways. Either as documentary photographers or conceptual artists or whatever category of photography you may identify. Labels tend to be just that…labels. I do want BURN to have the windows wide open for whatever leading edge photography and writing may come our way.
Many of you may know that BURN is a spinoff of my two year old blog “Road Trips”. This blog/forum was almost exclusively intended as an online workshop or mentoring program for those who logged on. The essays I have published here so far are indeed works in progress from “Road Trips” or from my students from the four or five workshops I do every year. My primary goal as a mentor is to lead photographers towards their own books. To become authors. To celebrate the vision of a photographer unfettered by preconceived notions of commercial publishing. Commercial publishing has certainly been the lifeblood for my livelihood and education , yet it has always been the struggle between personal vision and editorial “needs” that have forced me to light a candle for independence, without biting the very hand that has quite literally fed me. This is a delicate balance for me and I am sure for most of you.
One of my goals here on BURN is to finance some of you so that this can be a source of income and a room where you can grow. In a downsliding economy , this may be difficult for me. OR the timing is just right. As advertisers flee the traditional print media, they are looking for content on the web. While their budgets are down, we here on BURN would only need a very small piece of the old pie to rock n’ roll right off the proverbial charts. Why not have sponsors directly finance a photographer for a specific body of work?? The idea is not to give funding to BURN, but to give in the form of stipends or grants funds directly to the photographer.
This may prove to be a silly dream. This may be a new wave to ride.
To kick things off, and to prove to you and to potential sponsors that I am serious, I now announce on this New Years Day the Emerging Photographer Fund grant for 2009.
A $10,000 grant will be given in a few weeks to one of you.
Any photographer anywhere in the world is eligible.
Generous private donors, who have believed in me and my mentoring programs have provided this funding for you, the readers/photographers of BURN. They are able to donate tax exempt funds into the Magnum Cultural Foundation, a non-profit wing of Magnum Inc. Inside this umbrella of the MCF, I created in 2008 the Emerging Photographer Fund and was able to give a $5,000 grant last year to Sean Gallagher for his continued work on the desertification of China. I am still holding funds for additional stipends.
I will not be on the jury. I will choose the jury from the best talents I can find. One of the jury will be from Magnum, but I want to cast a wide net. For example, James Nachtwey from VII will be one of the jury. This will be a five person jury representing the magazine world, the art gallery world and the book publishing world. Details for entering , jury selection , and deadlines for entry will be posted under “Emerging Photographer Fund” in the column immediately to the upper right.
Some of you know that in the last two years I have developed strong online friends based on “Road Trips”. I mentored several books with these friends. Turned online friends into “persona a persona” relationships and have in general tried to take online into “the real world”. While the early essays on BURN do represent the relationships built from “Road Trips”, the door is wide open to anyone reading now or to anyone in the future who so desires to submit work here or become part of my editing/mentoring world. Like any magazine editor, I will have some photographers I know and develop and collaborate with and yet keep my eyes open for new talent at all times and from any direction.
Simultaneous with this New Year’s story , I present now (below) the work of Patricia Lay -Dorsey. She is one of my online prodigies. We have met in person during the year, but most of our collaboration has been online…Patricia is not a professional photographer. Patricia has had multiple sclerosis for 20 years and before she discovered photography she was obsessed with being a painter. Patricia does not aspire to become a magazine photojournalist, yet she is every bit as brave as iconic war photographer James Nachtwey. He would be the first to say so.
Patricia is a free spirit in the best sense. We have wrangled, scrambled and collaborated in the most amazing ways. Please appreciate Patricia, and then let Patricia appreciate you in the future.
Please stay tuned…..2009 could turn out just fine after all….
Cheers, David
Mr. Harvey, the world is always in turmoil; this gives it something to do and keeps it off the street.
The Middle East is always in crisis; it would hardly know what to do with itself if it wasn’t in crisis. Money is always hard to get if you don’t have any, the difference these days being that while banks didn’t want to loan you money back in the day, now they don’t want to loan each other money. As for the print biz going belly up, well, you’d know more about that than I would, but businesses are always going belly up for one reason or another. Livery stable owners were positive that automobiles were just a passing fad and back in July I thought that they might have been right about that, after all. So disasters are with us always, I fear.
As for the New Year, well, New Year’s has always struck me a particularly phony holiday, since you can pick any day of the year to serve as your calendrical starting point; there’s nothing special about January 1st. For a very long time March 25th was New Year’s Day, that day being the feast of the Annunciation, or Lady Day, as the people of the Middle Ages called it. For the non-Christians hereabouts, merely add nine months to the date in order to discover its theological significance. Then there’s the other new year’s days celebrated hereabouts; Chinese New Year’s is in February, Rosh ha-Shonah is in September, the Islamic New Year is in December this year, the Celtic New Year is on November 1st, and the fiscal new year of the egregious mold pit wherein I labor for my daily bread starts on July 1st. Clearly, there is nothing sacrosanct about January 1st; it is simply an arbitrary date Pope Gregory the whatever his Roman numeral was picked arbitrarily in 15something or other to denote that the Earth had passed an arbitrary point in space and that all of us were now one year closer to death.
Why January 1st? Pope Gregory the choose the Roman numeral of your choice picked the date because the day was the start of the old Roman new year, the feast day of the god of beginnings, Janus, whom the ancients usually represent as having two faces, one facing forward towards the future and the other backwards towards the police, and what Renaissance man could pass up the chance of rescuing the old Roman new year from the mythological dustbin and giving the date a fresh new coat of paint and the chance for a comeback? Of course, the bit about Janus’s two faces is a bit of mythological poetic license at best; Janus was the used chariot dealer to the gods, having snapped up the used chariot concession for a song when every banker in Greece said that investing in Olympian business opportunities was flushing money down a rat hole. Janus got the concession from Jupiter, the king of the gods, in a moment of Jovian weakness; Janus had a private eye and a team of paparazzi to trail Jupiter as he went about his divine duties and, lo and behold, they got some good photos of the king of the gods cavorting and canoodling with some hot Greek babes on the French Riviera. In exchange for the photos and a free hand in the used chariot business, Janus promised not to tell Jupiter’s wife, Hera, about his somewhat less than divine leisure activities.
The used chariot business has gone about as well as you might expect. Janus did get himself in some small degree of trouble when he sold a slightly used Mercedes Benz to Apollo and the thing turned out to be a repainted Buick Skylark with 300,000 miles on the odometer and a faulty transmission, or would have had 300,000 miles on the odometer if Janus hadn’t turned the mileage back. This led to some major problems when Apollo tried to drive his new chariot of the sun across the sky; the engine kept overheating, appropriately enough, and then Apollo lost control of the chariot for a couple of seconds, thereby scorching all of North Africa pretty thoroughly and creating what is now the Sahara Desert. Worse yet, Apollo couldn’t get his money back; all sales with Janus are final, something that led to the first lemon law in the history of Mount Olympus, an event made possible by Hera’s reading about Jupiter’s escapades on the Riviera in a cover story in The National Enquirer, a story that came complete with explicit photos of the aforementioned cavorting and canoodling, all suitably airbrushed for publication in a family newspaper. Jupiter promptly hit the untrustworthy paparazzi with thunderbolts for their effrontery and Janus had to end some of his more egregious sales practices, which he didn’t like but could do nothing about; you really can’t blackmail someone if their wife already knows about about the other woman, after all.
Personally, I am all for moving New Year’s Day back to March 25th. That way anyone who feels they didn’t get sufficiently crocked on St. Patrick’s Day can have another go at it before the week is out. The weather is usually, although not always, better at the end of March. There is no guarantee, of course; warm St. Patrick’s Days are a hit and miss affair at best, but even this is an improvement over having the New Year fall in the dead of winter. Maybe if we could move the day to April 1st that might solve our problem with the day; we could all play tricks on one another for April Fools Day while we get drunk celebrating the New Year. I don’t think that’s going to happen, though; too many people have a vested interest in January 1st nowadays for anyone to move the New Year to some other date. That’s a shame, really.
2009 could turn out just fine after all….
I do not know about destiny, but I know about ACTITUDE. And that is something that is in our hand. The “crossing” of that imaginary time line may not mean anything as today is just a day as it was yesterday, but beginnings always come with hope. And hope and dreams fill our will and, if we work on it, if we work on our actitudes, we will make it.
Lets do it!
Peace and magic
Ana
PD- Thank you, David for making the EPF a reality. That’s hope for all of us!
a more beautiful vision for the world and future and 2009 i cannot imagine….
to celebrate this passing world….if only someday the entirety of our species, each of us, finally gets that….
still without most of my voice ;)), but so happy for you and photography and burn….
hugs
bob
Happy NEW Year to all..
and thank you David..
for your vision,
talent
encouragement
inspiration
and your love of photography~
which we all embrace….
***
David, my mentor, my friend,
I love your vision for 2009 and I can say from personal experience that you live that vision of peace & inclusion in every encounter you make. From mentoring an aging “emerging” photog like me, to celebrating & becoming a lifelong friend of Hip Hop artist Ruckus, to “adopting’ our talented brother Panos and supporting his vision & amazing vitality, you walk through life sowing seeds of love, creative zeal and artistic excellence wherever you go.
After collaborating with you on preparing my essay for inclusion here on BURN, I also know you are mighty patient, forgiving and tolerant of the idiosyncrasies of non-professional photographers like me. I was NOT easy to work with and I thank you and Anton for not giving up on me during those crazy days that I changed my edit with every breath!
Speaking of how difficult I am to work with, David, could you please call me at your earliest convenience? And just ignore my recent emails. Thanks.
I am humbled by your posting my essay here on BURN and introducing it in the way you did. You, my friend, are THE BEST! I look forward to our ongoing collaboration on this project. It would never be where it is today had it not been for your ongoing support, critiques, edits and encouragement. If a book does come out of this project, you will have been the one who dreamed it into being.
hugs
Patricia
Oh David. you are so good. i know you’re also bad, but not where it counts.
You’re one of the most sincerely generous people i’ve ever met and man how you inspire electronically.
How effective is that.
Burn is just great. It’s going down in history.
love, anne
ohhh… i see.. this is the page that we all admit we passed/crossed/finished/ the line…2009
peace
DAVID.
Way to start the year off right! You go…..and we will come along with you.
Always raising our standards to meet you THERE.
Looking forward to a great 2009.
David
Didn’t you said that you have one person with grant a few month ago? I wish to know who “she” is :)
I never expected when we “meet” first time that this place will be so valuable (valuable in many ways).
Good luck.
All
I wish the grant to many of you. There is so many extraordinary photographers who should be highlighted that or other way.
So good luck, many frames and many pleasure with camera in hand.
Is peculiar. Where I live, when we refer in the professional life that some photographer is burned -quemado-, we mean that he or she can’t do something appart of the editorial needs or clichés. Is like he or she solds his or her soul to the devil and have not anymore a personal vision. A few days ago, i found thanks to a post in lightstalkers this site. And is peculiar that here i found some fresh images. Now i want to be burned for the spirit of this space, in this sense that is new for me. So thanks and yes, 2009 could be fine after all.
To all at Burn,
This is an example that when people are moved towards a goal, and really have passion into it…things happen! This is the most importante lesson I’ve learn so far with Road Trip and Burn. It may seem to you all as a small thing, but where I came from people talk a lot about the state of the business but don’t do much (not to say nothing) to change it. There are great ideas and oportunities around the corner, it’s up to us to grab and feed them…or not.
My congratulations to all behind and in this project. So far, I’m devoring all the essays and photos posted here. They are great lessons about not only photography but life itself.
To you David, a source of inspiration and perseverance in these troubled days we’re all living in some way or another. Please don’t ever chage the way you face life and live it.
DAVID,
Happy new year for 2009 David and let’s hope that all our collective dreams for BURN come to fruition. You certainly have an exciting vision and I know that there is even more to it than finding grants for photographers… There are dreamers in this world but you also have some that implement a vision, do the hard work, stay committed with their time, passion and energy. Those turn the vision into reality and make things happen. You are certainly of the last type. There are also others like Anton, Mike, well so many that you have gathered around you and who not only want to dream but also realize big things. The amazing part of it is that you are doing this for helping other photographers, mentoring them towards books etc. I never stop to be amazed by your generosity and availability for us all. It is a real priviledge to be part of this BURN adventure and I will continue to contribute to the extend that I can. Exciting!
Happy 2009 to all! Off in a couple of hours to go to Silver Gloves boxing tournament for below 15 years old in Ohio… Need to drive for about 3 1/2 hours to get there…. This thing never stops…. You are putting us all on the Road my friend!!!!
Eric
Just want to take a moment to say thank you for the initial idea for us to work toward something specific in a particular timeframe..it sounds obvious now, but having the goal of a completed project really did push me along. Granted, now I feel like it will never be finished and I have only scratched the surface, but at least I am underway in a direction that has evolved because of this process.
Wishing a very beautiful year to all..if you are interested in horoscopes and are an artist, check out the ever intelligent and insightful words of Leigh Oswald at http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/horoscope/horoscope.asp
David
long life to burn and all of us
Feliz año nuevo
David!
Man of sound thoughts and good words you are, but that alone would not mean much if you were not above all a man of deeds, one who makes a lasting difference, in the life of those fortunate enough to have crossed your path, in person, or on the web. Once again, best of health to you, and good luck to the EPF entries.
DAH,
“…To celebrate the vision of a photographer unfettered by preconceived notions of commercial publishing. ”
THANKS for the reminder !
Happy new year David, was very happy to hear your voice :) The magazine looks very sharp ;) my congratulations!
Happy new year to everyone! Chinese symbol of which either plows heavily, chews lazily or throws its horns left and right. im wishing everyone to overcome all the difficult turns of the coming year as smoothly as possible. but arent they all difficult turns anyway? arent we all: druids, chinese, julians and grigorians, muslims just trying hard to get through the twists of life each of us in our own way? i guess i can extend my wishes for another lifetime :) thank you, David for staying around to support :)
BOB B.
Can you send me an email with your address? I want to send you something.
charlesphoto@speakeasy.net
And thanks for the nice reply on Katherine’s thread. Nice to know we think alike.
Charles
Happy New Year to all! I already exposed my first roll of film in 2009… This will be the year of hard work, but with lots of satisfaction. Looking fwd to that and wish you all the same! Veba
Wonderful visions, David …
Might they all come true!
David,
How about multimedia pieces, not just a slideshow but something that we already format in Final Cut or as a Quicktime movie or similar? Is there going to be a way to submit that kind of work?
Wish you all the best again.
Veba
Good question, Veba, I would like to submit multimedia too … If possible.
with regards to Burn, 2008: ‘Alea iacta est’ and ironically David Alan Harvey, you do have a suspiciously Caesar-esque look to you in that image above ;-)
i suspect there are some more ironic but bold similarities between these two leaders in store for 2009, and even more thereafter.
EVERYONE! Thank you for making it so incredibly easy for me to participate in this already established and already healthy community; it’s a wonderful place to invest thought and share ideas.
Bring on 2009!
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velibor, lassal,
this is perfectly possible… if selected for an essay, we will give you details for a “regular” slideshow (with or without music), or for a full multimedia piece. only difference is that a quicktime mm piece will not be able to go fullscreen, as opposed to the slideshows now. if you want to experiment, tech specs will be: Quicktime .mov with H.264 encoding (high or highest qualtiy), or Flash .flv file with On2 VP6 encoding (high quality, 700K/sec); dimensions: 800px wide.
cheers,
anton
VELIBOR …LASSAL
we are looking for good video and multi-media….please let us know what you have in mind…
cheers, david
Anton, thanks for the info!
I think that for me the right timing for different voice overs might be more important than a full screen mode. I noticed that Safari / Firefox etc, have different interpretations about how long a second is supposed to last. This could get me into trouble with my voice overs that do have to pop in at the right time.
I will experiment with the parameters. Never done something like this before but … well … time to learn! :)
BTW my brother lives there and next time I visit him, I would like to invite you for a coffee, so that we both finally meet, as it did not work out in Perpignan last year. Maybe Eric could join in if he is there already?!
Would be so nice to meet you!
Good night Brussels,
Lassal
What I wanted to say is that my brother lives in Brussels with his little family …
Sorry …
Joe
that in fact is the only latin I still seem to remember … Thanks to the unfortunate pirates. :)
Hope we have more luck than them.
Thanks David, and a happy new year to you! Been busy lately with the day job so haven`t been able to participate much (not that i ever did) but this new magazine continues to inspire and motivate just the way Road Trips did. Am an avid follower and I have loved the essays so far, especially Patricia`s which was so moving. All the best for 2009, strength to strength, bigger and brighter. This feels like a lucky year inspite of everything.
Damon
this place just breeds good Kharma Lassal ;-)
i’ve painfully witnessed someone try to do something only half as ambitious as Burn for far over a year now, and since that individual is still struggling to get out of the parking lot it makes you wonder what this place will look like in a year considering it’s existence can still be measured in days.
The future seems very appealing.
..
Thank you so much for giving photographers an opportunity like this, David. I was turned onto this site by George Steinmetz and I am so happy he lead me here. I am 17 years old and I am obsessed with photography; I am constantly exploring photography sites and magazines for inspiration. There are hundreds of photography sites, but none are like this. The essays I see on burn. all possess the qualities that inspired me to start taking photographs of my own years ago and have inspired me to start a photo essay of my own. This is real photography. This is what I hope I will be able to create some day.
mr harvey, i learned of your site from stephen alvarez’s site. youre the inspiration ive been searching for. coincidentally, ive thought of doing self=portraits because i have a fear of the camera aimed at my face, but seeing patricia’s work has given me such a strong surge of inspiration and courage because that woman is talented and beautiful. her disABILITY is a part of her inner beauty and peace.
maria
Hey there Anton, BIG Congrats on ‘Sugar’ BTW! You sure grew up overnight ‘lil bro!
Question about the multimedia, if I wanted to put something together with HDV (which is broadcast standard) wouldn’t the mixture of stills and video be a bit hefty for the site unless I sized it down tremendously?
The project I was working on for about eight months last year will have a couple of different manifestations when its complete (sigh, funding pending of course) but I would love to somehow run it here at some point if David allows but I am not sure whether the site will have the space for it.
Will burn be able to host fairly big files?
hey lisa!
happy new year to you… and thanks for the word about sugar :-)
any kind of multimedia is no problem: the main thing is, you’ll always also have to provide an 800px wide resized version, so we can have the “standard integrated” version that plays within the site frame. besides that, we can host/link to any higher res version we want… just as long as it’s quicktime :-)
practically speaking, we cannot host full HDV resolution just yet – well, we could technically, but – right now this would just be too expensive to host (QT streaming server, bandwidth cost through the roof, bla bla you know…).
this might/will change very soon when we find the right partners to work with… so as soon as $$ permits, super hi-quality full screen MM projects can be presented on BURN. but it just ain’t cheap…
so, for the time being, the “middle ground” (800px wide) is what we’ll be using. and i’m hoping this “for the time being” will be very short :)
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tech: a well exported quicktime mov, coded with H.264. or a flash flv, coded with On2 VP6. both standards you should be able to export easily from final cut or from any other pro editing platform
cheers,
anton
lassal
it would be so cool to do this. really. let’s set a date.
cheers,
anton
hey joe,
good words. i had more the feeling of
in the arena. fighting, showing off, in front of thousands of onlookers. thumbs up and thumbs down everywhere.
glad there are more thumbs up than down.
happy new year to you.
anton
DAVID / Mr. BURN MAGAZINE …
please have a look here: http://www.harpofoundation.org/info.html
It is a foundation that gives grants to non-profit institutions that support under recognized artists. This applies to all artists whether emerging or further along in their careers. From how I understand it, photographers could be included there.
Deadline April1, 2009.
Yes, there does appear to be a bit of that energy over here as well Anton :-)
David and All, a very beautiful year 2009!!
David, thank you very much of all that you make…
Tyler Gavett, welcome to the fold. You articulate yourself well for someone so young. You are off to a flying start, I think. I look forward to seeing your work at some point.
Thanks David yet again for your enormous generosity. Your efforts have brought together a wonderful and diverse community of insightful image makers. What a beautiful achievement.
Continued good health and appetites to you and yours for this new year, Mr. Harvey.
Best,
Paulyman.
TYLER….
welcome….you are at exactly the right age to really allow yourself to develop into an accomplished photographer…the most important thing for you to remember is never never let your enthusiasm wan…you should do whatever you have to do to keep the fire in your gut…i can attribute my “luck” in photography to only one thing…when i get out of bed in the morning, i feel the same sense of exhilaration for photography as i did when i first started to explore the world with my camera as a teenager…maybe even more now than ever…and “my world” is the world just across the room or the other side of the planet..one not better than the other…
please give my wormest regards to George Steinmetz if you see him before do i….i hope to publish some of his work here soonest, and hopefully yours as well…
cheers, david
When I get out of bed in the morning, I feel the overwhelming need to get back into bed and turn out the lights that I felt when I went to bed the night before.
When I get out of bed in the morning, I feel the same overwhelming need to get back into bed and turn out the lights that I felt when I went to bed the night before.
Wow, I’m stuttering now, too.
DAVID …
the good thing about restarting something is, that you can think it over. So the new version of ASW will have a multimedia part for the web which will go much further than the simple mouseover-text that I have now on the site. It will be made especially for the web – to compensate for the disadvantages of showing only small pictures. So every person I “portrait” now become a much more complex sub-project. By doing this and some other alterations I might really, really manage to get what I long for. So I am very excited! EXTREMELY excited.
It just will take me a while. I have never done anything of what I will be doing now. But at least I found musicians who want to compose especifically for the project! Imagine how lucky I feel because this solves all kind of copyright problems. I am looking for very specific sounds and I am positive they can come up with it.
I will send you a description of the new ASW soon via eMail. I would love to submitt this for EPF, but … it is just a concept. And when I get to do the portraits/interviews, I will have to work through all kind of software I have never even heard of for editing. It is just not a “simple” portrait-foto project anymore. Although there will be this version later for print. I will be editing very differently regarding to purpose. I am very excited to do that.
But as this is my very first time to ever do something the like … and I do not know anybody whom I could ask for advise … It will be try&error until I get it right. No weekend job.
I bought some Magnum in Motion DVDs lately … Actually they gave me the idea of expanding ASW in direction MM … They just opened a door in my mind.
AKAKY…
laughing!!…
i think some of us need to take the time to get you your own show…there is more money in comedy than there is in photography…you would be a wealthy man!!
cheers, david
last night, early in the late night, i walked around my neighborhood to pick up some mint chocolate for Marina…fresh slow like the downy pillow i remember from my grandmother’s bed, almost no footsteps by my own, and i find myself a child….slipping past the steps that had become my own, for once a small rabbit or obdurate raccoon, another a slippery giant, another remembering the cadence of my wife and son and then, i thought of an early poem of Auden….and while the world tilted and tossed around me, as silent as the drip of a faucet, i thought, ok, new year, i shall sing it upon burn…..sometimes, though in my saddened hunger to always make anew, especially the rhyme, this more then ever makes sense to me as a vision, not only for 2009 but for the entire buckling walks of our late-night snowy walks….
running, daft
bob
As I Walked Out One Evening
by W. H. Auden
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.
And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
‘Love has no ending.
‘I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
‘I’ll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
‘The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.’
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
‘O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
‘In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.
‘In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.
‘Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver’s brilliant bow.
‘O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you’ve missed.
‘The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
‘Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.
‘O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.
‘O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.’
It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.
David,
I sent you a message through the site. I couldnt find your email.
DAVID, ALL..
indeed the burning glow of this collaboration is a beacon in the oft tumultuous and disconcerting waters of the photographic seas; a galvanization of inspired efforts and thoughts; a synergy that nourishes and incites purposeful propulsion for each of our visions and endeavors.
you know what i’m sayin. here’s to a kick-ass 2009.
lance
David and all my friends,
Happy New Year and Wish all happness!
I really recognize ‘David’s Noble spiits of Photographand Photographers’ very well.
I will do my best to learn and come true this valuale spirits on ‘Burn’.
Tahnk you,
Kyunghee Lee
p.s. David, I have sent an e-mail just now.