with doomsday prepping an ‘in’ thing, you truly have to unload that shipping container
full of bags so you could use it as a mobile darkroom of sorts to document the end of the world.

cheer(s)ful.
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a camera bag you shall have….you were actually in first place for a long time in my mind with a very nice short caption that would work in most newspapers and magazines…so as first runner up, you will receive either a working back pack or shoulder bag of your choice after shopping in the harvey bag store (witnesses will tell you there are many choices) ..find me on Skype: davidalanharvey and i will take you on a virtual shopping tour…now, we have never met..so maybe many of my bags, fit for a tall guy, might not be suitable..just guessing, you may be a size or two down from me and i do have some smaller bags as well..anyway, you will decide…and of course a bag is more useful than a book anyway…Gladdy and Hyde i believe both have harvey bags already, so this is just perfect…call when you can…orders taken before 3pm are shipped out the same day….there is a 30 day return policy…customer service hotline: 202 413 1137

JOHN GLADDY

i will stand by my decision (or rather Sidney’s decision, a wise one i initially rejected, but later accepted)for many reasons not the least of which is that this often cold and crumbling planet needs humor more and more and more…it is not easy to be funny..you are….i don’t know what i like more the Cindy Sherman caption or the security camera bit….anyway you got it…and you have been a long time contributor and supporter here and Beto likes you and well you may be the only reader here who will recognize the players, the set, the scene…so for all those reasons a signed copy is yours…oh,i can imagine your next line will be “dammit harvey , i would rather have another bag” …no worries…there is always another bag contest…bags i have a closet full , but books only show up from time to time….

cheers, david

May I offer my apologies for the trapped wind comment last night. Blame it on the fun I had at the beach yesterday which left me in high spirits and realizing I hadn’t noticed the gallery title for your link the other night which caused me to crack in laughter and left me with a grin all night :)!

ADMIN…
can I say …”fuck”?…cause I wanna say this

FUCK…I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLLLLLL!!!

HERVE…no worries,cold turkey goes to JOHNYG AND TOMMYH…be safe out there…I will call you for the next one…

THANK YOU ALL BURNIANS…for paricipating…you are all a good sport…VIVA MESSI!!!

i changed my mind….you are right no matter the value…both of these guys are good friends, both have contributed to Burn a lot…so yes, two books to both John G. and Young Tom….sorry for getting a bit selfish there for a few hours…..it is my tendency of course to give all my books away…so it is others who won’t let me do that…

this book really is different…i want YOU to look at it as writing…there are no captions, there is no text..this is my best attempt ever at visual literacy…you cannot get it in one reading…i was pissed off at Joyce and Faulkner (too much work) , preferring Hemingway and Steinbeck and then Hunter S. Thompson and then always always Mark Twain, but anyway really going for the story within the story and then trying to make the readers work a bit if they want….the obvious and then the undercurrent, some mystery, some questions never answered, a small story a novella of sorts….something attempted

we worked so hard on this book, it is so tactile the way we built it that i dont even really want to sell it…we did not make many …it is expensive, but we spared no expense to build it…ok, i cannot promote my own book, but i can speak of an amazing collaboration..but later….

thanks for a good idea…

cheers, david

Just had to say that..

OYE..congrats`to Tom and John..both hugely deserving! Tom let loose with the facts sand John let loose with the absurdity. John rendered the absurd factual and Tom rendered the facts absurd. DAH, excellent choice!

Civilian..i hear such sadness, Gracie, i hear cheerful calm. Hmm…

DAH..the tension in Goodfellas curls my hair. I almost can`t stand it, but it`s oh so good i can`t look away. That particular scene, you are so right. Henry just gets the psychological crap beat outta him. To be the victim of that kind of bullying. Haven`t we all been there to some degree at some point in our lives? I remember being 11 years old in a John`s Bargain Store when a 13 year old had me up against a counter, her face twisted with contempt, her balled up fist close to my cheek, denouncing me for stuffing my bra with cotton. Crap, who can watch this scene between Tommy and Henry and not relate?

best to ALL and to ALL the best:
Kath

John Gladdy employs a blue filter in this black and white wedding portrait recently seen on the cover of Modern Bride.

Which WAS the assignment. I went a bit too far in the opposite direction on one these previous exercises. Something like 80 percent of mag readers read the photo captions but not the accompanying story. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to write a “serious” cutline within the context of Burn (or the age of Stephen Colbert) without sounding too literal, or like a tool, or ironic … or all of the above … sort of like wearing a Phil Collins t-shirt in public. :P

CONGRATS, beautiful motherfuckers :))))

Young Tom’s caption seemed more bobblackesque in its length than a bonefide caption for magazine or newspaper …and thus, it was fucking hilarious too, (MW is on the ball) especially all those factoids dropped in comparison to the iphone/upclose/offkilter shot……I believe that the newyorker fact checker might ask him for a rumble with a tumble-weed over those stats….but 2 better men would be hard to match….and here’s one of them gents is going to toss that money back into beverage call in either OBX or NYC or LOOK3 wherever the crew meets up next

now, what i would like to see (though, alas, i’m about to disappear again for ano0ther extended period of time) is a writing competition between Gracie and Akaky…

by the way, i dig Spring on the Lucie too :))

arrivederci, miles to go before i sleep……

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actually you do make a good point…hmmm i might have made a mistake..but alas now a runoff…i mean runoffs are fun and now Sidney is giving away my books for me!! the Tom Hyde caption of course was a perfect copy of a major magazine caption…the whole idea of captions for the larger magazines is to get the whole damned story into the captions assuming that many readers never get around to the actual text…so the larger magazines have a staff dedicated to writing the legends (captions)….short text (captions) does not mean less serious text ..harder to write short…

(based on a true story) is a special construction …unbound… 90% hand assembled…at first glance you might not think so, but you will see…i think i can safely say this is a unique book….and designed as no other…therefore it is not a $50.book….but still a good idea, so one of them will get it as a prize for the best caption….