Burn Magazine Interviews Scott Thode at LOOK3

 

 

Look3 is upon us. Again. This week. Right now.

We will try to keep you updated, mostly through Burn Instagram but also right here and for sure when the EPF is announced on Friday morning at the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, Va. the  traditional “center stage” for LOOK3.org     

There are lots of great artists floating around. Terrific exhibitions curated this year by Kathy Ryan, Director of Photography NYTimes Magazine, and Scott Thode, Curator at Large…

Kaya Lee Berne now takes you quickly on a video tour through all the shows with Scott Thode…

BurnBooks will also have a special presence in both the Paramount Theater and in the LOOK3 bookstore.. Authors from Burn will be there to sign, including Michael Loyd Young, Allison O’Keefe, Federica Valabrega and Panos Skoulidas launching his “Death in Venice” fold out tabloid….also launching are my Tell It Like It Is, and Haenyeo books.

Diego Orlando, Burn Picture Editor, will be flying in from Italy to join us. At the last possible moment of course!!!

So we have a lot going on at LOOK…

Oh yes, Brazil band playing in front of McGuffy Art Center on Friday late afternoon early evening…My exhibition is there. So grab a beer and look at some prints. 

Hope to see many of you in Charlottesville in the next few days….

Look3, Festival of the Photograph 2015 featured artists include Larry Fink, Zanele Muholi, Walter Iooss, Alec Soth, Vincent J. Musi, David Alan Harvey, Monica Haller, Sally Mann, Piotr Naskrecki, Andrea Douglas

59 thoughts on “Burn Magazine Interviews Scott Thode at LOOK3”

  1. DAVID! :)

    First and most importantly, BIG BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY (a couple of days late!)…..

    Second: BIG BIG CONGRATULATIONS on the exhibition and interview! That is amazing and so happy for you about all 3 exhibitions and the launch of TELL IT LIKE IT IS! :)

    Kind of like a homecoming for that Va kid with the leica and starched shirt and bleached surf hair….

    I can’t imagine a better festival to bring in all home for you with love and booze and grace and magnolia sifting in the air with sweet sweet sweat, tea and herb…..

    I know I’ve been away far far too long and silent (just working like a dog and writing traveling and finishing Wan Li) but suffice it say y’all, and especially you, are never far from my thoughts….i will, drunkenly, try to write the kind of post you deserve…

    and guess what, Lancer will be here in August…so, at least, he and i will sit down w/whiskey….

    with you all this week…seriously! :)

    always know, never far from your porch, even when I am far away and galloping…

    i’ve had to gallop the world these last 18 months….but some times that shit just comes…

    can’t wait to get the book in my hands! :)

    love you proud of you David!

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    BURNING BUTTERFLIES and BEETLES…LOOK,We are ALL BURNIANS:

    BUTTERFLIES

    MARYANNA HARVEY(MAMA SOCRATES) AS Dreamy Duskywing or Aspen Dusky Wing (Erynnis icelus)

    AGA AS Wall Brown (Lasiommata maera)

    ANNA MARIAB. J AS Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton)

    ANNA.B AS White Patch (Chiomara asychis)

    ANNE H. AS Arctic Blue (Agriades glandon)

    ANDREA G AS wood white (Leptidea sinapis)

    AUDREY BARDOU AS Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)

    ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI AS green-veined white (Pieris napi)

    ARAGO MARIE AS small white (Pieris rapae)

    CANDY AS Magnificent Swallowtail, (Papilio garamas)

    CATHY SCHOLL As Androgeus Swallowtail, Queen Page

    CARRIE ROSEMAN AS Euchloe hyantis, the Pearly Marble

    CAROLINE AS Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon)

    CRISTINA.F AS Tree Grayling (Hipparchia statilinus)

    DONNA FERRATO AS American copper, (Lycaena phlaeas)

    EDITEH. AS White M Hairstreak, Parrhasius m-album

    ERICA MACDONALD AS Lasaia sula, commonly known as the Blue Metalmark

    EVA AS Grayling (Hipparchia semele)

    FRAMERS.I AS green hairstreak, Callophrys rubi,

    GINA MARTIN AS Dynamine postverta, the Mylitta Greenwing

    HILLARY AS Appalachian azure (Celastrina neglectamajor)

    JENNY L.WALKER AS long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus)

    KATHLEEN FONSECA,KATIE,STREET FIGHTER AS Phocides belus, the Beautiful Beamer

    KATHARINA AS (Danaus chrysippus), Plain Tiger.

    KATIA ROBERTS AS White Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus albescens)

    KIMBERLY(GREEK) AS Anthanassa texana, the Texan Crescentspot

    KELLY LYNN JAMES AS Falcate Orangetip (Anthocharis midea)

    KERRY PAYNE AS Paralucia pyrodiscus, the Fiery

    KYUNGHEE LEE AS Eurema brigitta, the small grass yellow

    LASSAL AS Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

    LAURA EL-TANTAWY AS Gonepteryx cleopatra

    LAURA M. AS Two-tailed Pasha or Foxy Emperor

    LEE AS Hawaiian Blue (Udara blackburnii)

    LISA LOGHEN AS Wood white Jezebel (Delias aganippe)

    LISA WILTSE AS Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)

    MARINA BLACK AS Parnassius eversmanni

    MICHELE MAIDEN.H.AS West Virginia white butterfly (Pieris virginiensis)

    MY GRACIE AS Astraptes (Astraptes anaphus)

    NANCY.P AS Achalarus toxeus, the Coyote Cloudywing

    PATRICIA LAY- DORSEY AS regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia)

    ROSA V holly blue (Celastrina argiolus)

    ROBERTA(RIO) AS (Doxocopa laure), Silver Emperor
    RENATA (RIO) AS (Doxocopa pavon), Pavon Emperor

    SALLY MANN AS Lasiommata megera

    SOFIA QUINTAS As long-tailed blue (Lampides boeticus)

    VALERY RIZZO AS Gonepteryx rhamni

    WENDY AS California Patch (Chlosyne californica)

    WEBB NORRIS AS simius roadside skipper (Amblyscirtes simius)

    BURNING BEETLES

    DAVID ALAN HARVEY AS Megaceras briansaltini

    ANTON,THE ANTON AS Popillia japonica , Japanese beetle

    ABELE GUARENGA AS Graphoderus bilineatus

    ANDREW B AS Dytiscus marginalis

    ANTONY.RZ.AS Tomarus

    ANDREW SULLIVAN AS Oulema melanopus

    ANDRIEW W. AS Xylotrupes ulysses

    AKAKY AS Aulacophora nigripennis

    ASHER AS Ancyronyx, spider water beetles

    JAMES NACHTWEY AS Autocrates vitalisi

    JOHN VINK AS Eupatorus gracilicornis, the five-horned rhinoceros beetle

    JAMIE M. AS Helochares obscurus

    BILL ALLARD AS Mezium americanum

    BOB BLACK AS Pelidnota punctata

    BRUCE DAVIDSON AS Glaphyridae

    BRUCE GILDEN AS Laricobius osakensis

    BRIAN FRANK AS Carolina Tiger-Megacephala carolina

    BJARTE AS Graphoderus zonatus

    BRENT.F AS Bananaquit

    CARLO AS Colymbetes fuscus

    CARSTEN AS Psilothrix viridicoerulea

    CHARLES PETERSON AS Protosilvanus

    CHARLIE MAHONEY AS Chrysochares asiaticus

    CHRIS BICKFORD AS Galeruca pomonae

    CHRIS HINKLE AS Otiorhynchus sulcatus, black vine weevil

    DAVID BOWEN AS Korynetes caeruleus

    DAVID MCGOWAN AS Amphizoa davidis

    DELLICSON AS Hydroporus pubescens

    DIEGO ORLANDO AS Ochina latrellii

    DOUGMCLELLAN AS Ergates spiculatus

    DOMINIK AS Rhagonycha nigriceps

    ECONOMOPOULOS.N(GR) AS Geotrupidae

    EDUARDO AS Xanthogaleruca luteola

    ERIC ESPINOSA AS Arima marginata

    FRANSESCO AS Ptinus plagiatus

    FROSTFROG AS Priorus Laticollis

    GAETANO AS Hedobia pubescens

    GORDON LAFLEUR AS Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

    GLENN CAMPBELL AS Acanthocnemus nigricans

    GREG GORMAN AS Ptinus dubius

    HAIK AS false stag beetles (Diphyllostoma)

    HARRY AS Crioceris

    HERVE AS Ptinus sexpunctatus

    IAN AITKEN AS Orsodacne

    IMANTS AS Niptus ~alternans

    JAMES CHANCE AS Colasposoma mutabile

    JARED IORIO AS Hemicrepidius californicus

    JEFF. H AS monochamus scutellatus
    JEREMY WADE SHOCKLEY AS Lucanus capreolus

    JIM POWERS AS lesser silver water beetle, Hydrochara caraboides

    JOE MCNALLY AS Crioceris duodecimpunctata

    JOHN CLADDY AS European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis)

    JONI KARANKA AS Hydroporus palustris

    JOHN LANGMORE AS Callotillus

    JASON HOUGE AS Chrysochus auratus

    JORDANW. AS Deilelater physoderus

    JUSTIN PARTYKA AS capensis

    JUSTIN SMITH AS Calopteron reticulatum

    KIRIL SUROV AS Hydroporus erythrocephalus

    KURT LENGFIELD AS Pennsylvania leatherwing (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus)

    LANCE ROSENFIELD AS Typocerus sinuatus

    MARCIN AS Cheilotoma erythrostoma

    MARK TOMALTY AS Acalymma vittatum

    MARK DAVIDSON AS Zopherus haldemani

    MARTIN BRINK AS Dynastes tityus, the eastern Hercules beetle

    MATTHEW NEWTON AS Ernobius

    MATT AS Acalymma gouldi

    MEDFORD TAYLOR AS Trachyderes mandibularis

    MICHAEL C. BROWN AS Galerucella lineola

    MICHAEL COURVOISIER AS Megalodacne

    MICHAEL KIRCHER AS Galerucella calmariensis

    MICHAEL LOYD YOUNG AS ox beetle, Strategus aloeus

    MICHAEL WEBSTER AS Stygoparnus

    MIKE HALMINSKI AS Cybister fimbriolatus

    MIKE BERUBE AS Episernus

    MIKE PETERS AS Acalymma albidovittata

    MIKE R AS Cathartocryptus obscurus

    MIMI AS Mezium

    PANOS SKOULIDAS AS Stegobium paniceum

    PARR MARTIN AS Platycorynus compressicornis

    PATRICIO.M. As Languriomorpha bicolor

    PAUL TREACY AS Xestobium

    PAUL PARKER AS Longitarsus ventricosus

    PETE MAROVICH AS Western Hercules Beetle (Dynastes granti)

    PETER GRANT AS Stagetus borealis

    POMARA(PAUL) AS Cotinus nitida

    PRESTON MERCHANT AS northern masked chafer (Cyclocephala borealis)

    RAMON MAS AS Lilioceris

    REIMAR OTT AS Pyrrhalta viburni

    ROSSY AS Pericoptus frontalis

    SAM HARRIS AS Hydrophilus piceus

    SEAN GALLAGHER AS Cneorane elegans

    SIDNEY ATKINS AS Atlas beetle, Chalcosoma atlas

    STEFAN ROHNER AS Aplosonyx nigricollis

    STEVE MCCURRY AS Moellenkampi beetle (Chalcosoma moellenkampi)

    STUPID PHOTOGRAPHER AS Hydrobius fuscipes

    THODORIS AS Athous balcanicus

    THOMAS BREGULA AS Trichodes apiarius

    TIM RIPLEY AS Xanthonia

    TOM YOUNG AS Neochlamisus platani

    TOWELL LARRY AS Neochlamisus bimaculatus

    TRENT PARKE AS Phalacridae

    VASILIOS AS Ptilinus

    VIVEK AS Trictenotoma childreni,

    WEBB ALEX AS Chauliognathus lugubris

    WROBERTANGEL AS Neglectus

    SPACE COWBOY AS Plaesius javanus

    LOVE U ALL
    Civi

    P.S BURNIANS …You are All flying, Entomology (from Greek ἔντομος, entomos) …LOOK3 ,here we ARE !!!

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    BURNIANS ALERT :

    BURNING BUTERFLIES and BEETLES

    MARYANNA HARVEY(MAMA SOCRATES) AS Dreamy Duskywing or Aspen
    Dusky Wing (Erynnis icelus)

    AGA AS Wall Brown (Lasiommata maera)

    ANNA MARIAB. J AS Baltimore checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton)

    ANNA.B AS White Patch (Chiomara asychis)

    ANNE H. AS Arctic Blue (Agriades glandon)

    ANDREA G AS wood white (Leptidea sinapis)

    AUDREY BARDOU AS Aphrodite fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite)

    ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI AS green-veined white (Pieris napi)

    ARAGO MARIE AS small white (Pieris rapae)

    CANDY AS Magnificent Swallowtail, (Papilio garamas)

    CATHY SCHOLL As Androgeus Swallowtail, Queen Page

    CARRIE ROSEMAN AS Euchloe hyantis, the Pearly Marble

    CAROLINE AS Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon)

    CRISTINA.F AS Tree Grayling (Hipparchia statilinus)

    DONNA FERRATO AS American copper, (Lycaena phlaeas)

    EDITEH. AS White M Hairstreak, Parrhasius m-album

    ERICA MACDONALD AS Lasaia sula, commonly known as the Blue Metalmark

    EVA AS Grayling (Hipparchia semele)

    FRAMERS.I AS green hairstreak, Callophrys rubi,

    GINA MARTIN AS Dynamine postverta, the Mylitta Greenwing

    HILLARY AS Appalachian azure (Celastrina neglectamajor)

    JENNY L.WALKER AS long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus)

    KATHLEEN FONSECA,KATIE,STREET FIGHTER AS Phocides belus, the Beautiful Beamer

    KATHARINA AS (Danaus chrysippus), Plain Tiger.

    KATIA ROBERTS AS White Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus albescens)

    KIMBERLY(GREEK) AS Anthanassa texana, the Texan Crescentspot

    KELLY LYNN JAMES AS Falcate Orangetip (Anthocharis midea)

    KERRY PAYNE AS Paralucia pyrodiscus, the Fiery

    KYUNGHEE LEE AS Eurema brigitta, the small grass yellow

    LASSAL AS Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

    LAURA EL-TANTAWY AS Gonepteryx cleopatra

    LAURA M. AS Two-tailed Pasha or Foxy Emperor

    LEE AS Hawaiian Blue (Udara blackburnii)

    LISA LOGHEN AS Wood white Jezebel (Delias aganippe)

    LISA WILTSE AS Silver-spotted Skipper (Epargyreus clarus)

    MARINA BLACK AS Parnassius eversmanni

    MICHELE MAIDEN.H.AS West Virginia white butterfly (Pieris virginiensis)

    MY GRACIE AS Astraptes (Astraptes anaphus)

    NANCY.P AS Achalarus toxeus, the Coyote Cloudywing

    PATRICIA LAY- DORSEY AS regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia)
    ROSA V holly blue (Celastrina argiolus)

    ROBERTA(RIO) AS (Doxocopa laure), Silver Emperor
    RENATA (RIO) AS (Doxocopa pavon), Pavon Emperor

    SALLY MANN AS Lasiommata megera,

    SOFIA QUINTAS As long-tailed blue (Lampides boeticus)

    VALERY RIZZO AS Gonepteryx rhamni

    WENDY AS California Patch (Chlosyne californica)

    WEBB NORRIS AS simius roadside skipper (Amblyscirtes simius)

    BURNING BEETLES

    DAVID ALAN HARVEY AS Megaceras briansaltini

    ANTON,THE ANTON AS Popillia japonica , Japanese beetle

    ABELE GUARENGA AS Graphoderus bilineatus

    ANDREW B AS Dytiscus marginalis,

    ANTONY.RZ.AS Tomarus

    ANDREW SULLIVAN AS Oulema melanopus

    ANDRIEW W. AS Xylotrupes ulysses

    AKAKY AS Aulacophora nigripennis

    ASHER AS Ancyronyx, spider water beetles

    JAMES NACHTWEY AS Autocrates vitalisi

    JOHN VINK AS Eupatorus gracilicornis, the five-horned rhinoceros beetle

    JAMIE M. AS Helochares obscurus

    BILL ALLARD AS Mezium americanum

    BOB BLACK AS Pelidnota punctata

    BRUCE DAVIDSON AS Glaphyridae

    BRUCE GILDEN AS Laricobius osakensis

    BRIAN FRANK AS Carolina Tiger-Megacephala carolina

    BJARTE AS Graphoderus zonatus

    BRENT.F AS Bananaquit

    CARLO AS Colymbetes fuscus

    CARSTEN AS Psilothrix viridicoerulea

    CHARLES PETERSON AS Protosilvanus

    CHARLIE MAHONEY AS Chrysochares asiaticus

    CHRIS BICKFORD AS Galeruca pomonae
    CHRIS HINKLE AS Otiorhynchus sulcatus, black vine weevil

    DAVID BOWEN AS Korynetes caeruleus

    DAVID MCGOWAN AS Amphizoa davidis

    DELLICSON AS Hydroporus pubescens

    DIEGO ORLANDO AS Ochina latrellii

    DOUGMCLELLAN AS Ergates spiculatus
    DOMINIK AS Rhagonycha nigriceps

    ECONOMOPOULOS.N(GR) AS Geotrupidae

    EDUARDO AS Xanthogaleruca luteola

    ERIC ESPINOSA AS Arima marginata

    FRANSESCO AS Ptinus plagiatus

    FROSTFROG AS Priorus Laticollis
    GAETANO AS Hedobia pubescens

    GORDON LAFLEUR AS Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

    GLENN CAMPBELL AS Acanthocnemus nigricans

    GREG GORMAN AS Ptinus dubius

    HAIK AS false stag beetles (Diphyllostoma)

    HARRY AS Crioceris

    HERVE AS Ptinus sexpunctatus

    IAN AITKEN AS Orsodacne

    IMANTS AS Niptus ~alternans

    JAMES CHANCE AS Colasposoma mutabile

    JARED IORIO AS Hemicrepidius californicus

    JEFF. H AS monochamus scintillates

    JEREMY WADE SHOCKLEY AS Lucanus capreolus

    JIM POWERS AS lesser silver water beetle, Hydrochara caraboides

    JOE MCNALLY AS Crioceris duodecimpunctata

    JOHN CLADDY AS European rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes nasicornis)

    JONI KARANKA AS Hydroporus palustris

    JOHN LANGMORE AS Callotillus

    JASON HOUGE AS Chrysochus auratus

    JORDANW. AS Deilelater physoderus

    JUSTIN PARTYKA AS capensis

    JUSTIN SMITH AS Calopteron reticulatum
    KIRIL SUROV AS Hydroporus erythrocephalus

    KURT LENGFIELD AS Pennsylvania leatherwing (Chauliognathus pensylvanicus)

    LANCE ROSENFIELD AS Typocerus sinuatus
    MARCIN AS Cheilotoma erythrostoma

    MARK TOMALTY AS Acalymma vittatum

    MARK DAVIDSON AS Zopherus haldemani
    MARTIN BRINK AS Dynastes tityus, the eastern Hercules beetle

    MATTHEW NEWTON AS Ernobius

    MATT AS Acalymma gouldi

    MEDFORD TAYLOR AS Trachyderes mandibularis

    MICHAEL C. BROWN AS Galerucella lineola

    MICHAEL COURVOISIER AS Megalodacne

    MICHAEL KIRCHER AS Galerucella calmariensis

    MICHAEL LOYD YOUNG AS ox beetle, Strategus aloeus

    MICHAEL WEBSTER AS Stygoparnus

    MIKE HALMINSKI AS Cybister fibrillates

    MIKE BERUBE AS Episernus

    MIKE PETERS AS Acalymma albidovittata

    MIKE R AS Cathartocryptus obscurus

    MIMI AS Mezium

    PANOS SKOULIDAS AS Stegobium paniceum

    PARR MARTIN AS Platycorynus compressicornis

    PATRICIO.M. As Languriomorpha bicolor

    PAUL TREACY AS Xestobium

    PAUL PARKER AS Longitarsus ventricosus

    PETE MAROVICH AS Western Hercules Beetle (Dynastes granti)

    PETER GRANT AS Stagetus borealis

    POMARA(PAUL) AS Cotinus nitida

    PRESTON MERCHANT AS northern masked chafer (Cyclocephala borealis)

    RAMON MAS AS Lilioceris

    REIMAR OTT AS Pyrrhalta viburni

    ROSSY AS Pericoptus frontalis

    SAM HARRIS AS Hydrophilus piceus

    SEAN GALLAGHER AS Cneorane elegans

    SIDNEY ATKINS AS Atlas beetle, Chalcosoma atlas

    STEFAN ROHNER AS Aplosonyx nigricollis

    STEVE MCCURRY AS Moellenkampi beetle (Chalcosoma moellenkampi)

    STUPID PHOTOGRAPHER AS Hydrobius fuscipes

    THODORIS AS Athous balcanicus

    THOMAS BREGULA AS Trichodes apiarius

    TIM RIPLEY AS Xanthonia

    TOM YOUNG AS Neochlamisus platani

    TOWELL LARRY AS Neochlamisus bimaculatus

    TRENT PARKE AS Phalacridae

    VASILIOS AS Ptilinus

    VIVEK AS Trictenotoma childreni,

    WEBB ALEX AS Chauliognathus lugubris

    WROBERTANGEL AS Neglectus

    SPACE COWBOY AS Plaesius javanus

    LOVE U ALL
    Civi

    P.S BURNIANS …You are All flying …LOOK3 ,here we ARE !!!
    Entomology (from Greek ἔντομος, entomos)

  4. a civilian-mass audience

    If you don’t see your name…don’t hesitate to contact me…

    Ouzo time my Flying Entoma !!!

  5. Thank you, Civi, for making me feel important today – I made the list! I couldn’t find Priorus Laticolli on google, but I did find Priorus Laticolli on Google, but I did find Prionus Laticollis – a beetle!

  6. a civilian-mass audience

    Please, if you don’t see your name…contact me …this list is an ongoing project

  7. “For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn’t any other tale to tell, it’s the only light we’ve got in all this darkness.” ― James Baldwin

    “In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.” ― James Agee

    “Some years there exists a wanting to escape—
    you, floating above your certain ache—
    still the ache coexists.
    Call that the immanent you—

    You are you even before you
    grow into understanding you
    are not anyone, worthless,
    not worth you.

    Even as your own weight insists
    you are here, fighting off
    the weight of nonexistence.

    And still this life parts your lids, you see
    you seeing your extending hand

    as a falling wave— “–Claudia Rankine, from “Citizen”

    This afternoon, slightly hobbled and wearied after a visit to the Doctors, I nearly tripped over a large, rectangular envelope leaning against my apartment door, like a joist pole. My first thought was, ‘why the fuck did the postman leave this here’ which was quickly swallowed up by the euphoria and recognition as to what that yellow’d and bumper=crunched envelop was…..it must surely be the book I’ve patiently waited for for almost 7 years to see lighten my doorway….

    Tell It Like It Is

    I’ve written many times before about my own selfish reasons why I had always hoped that this small-in-scale but outersized-in-heart book should be republished and I shall spare the readers all the reasons I’d previously written (it is iconic, it is filled with love and optimism, honed by a dreamer who refused to see the scalped lighting and fractured light as poverty but instead as familiar, familial and elegant) but instead wish to recount something simple and truthful: the constellation of seeing as it plays itself upon the stars of both our daily macadam (all that chalk and skip-roping bites and pigeon shit and southern collards) and the firmament of each of our imaginations regardless of skin or material taxonomy or age or distance from the sea.

    Look carefully and you might miss the small hole knived into the bottom of the child’s shoe, bored out from wear and excitement and inability to shoe a new and yet you may be forgiven for not have noticing that for it is the power of her pack and her beautiful chalkline country she has drawn upon her dirtied, glass-repaired street, the nation of which she is emperor and god and that she is gazing toward her own reign, for she sits inside that white-lined nation, a church and a constellation of her own making and the hole in the shoe does not matter, and the shorn sleeves in her backward dress do not matter and the cigarette detritus and the tar stain and the splatter of trucks do not matter for she is not impoverish but is filled by knowing and we, most of us, have failed to see that…..

    what I love about David’s book, as I love with the best of his work, is not an annexing or refusal of the sorrow and the poverty that surrounds but the his refusal to kowtow to it, a refusal to turn people and place into objects, a refusal to bend toward political or aesthetic cynicism and cleverness. Instead, here at the very beginning of his life as a photographer are all the characteristics and faces and lives that shall mark out his entire live as a photographer as a father as a mentor as a friend: that irrevocable believe in connecting, born out of a deep well of love that was birth’d by loneliness and sorrow.

    And what I am struck again by in this book are the children. David’s ability and insight into the lives of strong and unwavering children for in truth, as I have written before, each of the great portraits of children that make up his life’s work, be it in Cuba or Mexico or Vietnam or Korea or Portugal or Brazil, each of those children are in truth David. Not the David as ‘artist’ but the real David who in many ways did not grow up or rather did not discard that strength and believe and luminous imagination, even through suffering, that all children possess. for the children, until they are made afold by adults and life and society’s cruelty and ignorance, possess something that is akin to the reign of the stars: unmovable even from gravity’s devouring hunger.

    And while the Liggins family is ‘stuffed’ into a small apartment in a ‘ghetto’ (how horrid and sociologically empty and spiritually patronizing that word seems to me) in Norfolk, Va, 1967, they are far far from caged, for in these pictures and in this family there is an abiding strength, not the strength of ‘the other’ but the strength of what character means, what utility and autonomy means and in not one picture are they objects, in not one picture are they sociological/political representations but strong, powerful selves: a family that cannot be defined by either the narrowness of our imaginations or the falling away of the floorboards

    and watch that child skateboard, far far away from the oceans of California……

    In the end, Tell It Like It Is is not a study of poverty but something much closer to Agee/Walkers ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’, for it contains a simple truth and that truth is not about poverty (though that is surely part of the story) or segregation (though that is part of the story) or history of folk in Norfolk and in the South and in the US (though that is part of the story) but is about something much simpler and much much harder to relate in our world of objectification and effigy, sociological, political, existential, and it is this:

    show me the person who sees not with his eyes but with his body and his head and his bones and I shall show you a person who builds homes in community with others….

    What is most remarkable to me wast that at a time when a nation was tearing itself (and continues to saddle itself with suppression) over poverty and inequality and hatred and ill-gotten gains, at a time when the world of photography (and continues to do so to this day) charts and sells in cliche and tropes and colonial patronizing imagery, here stands a book (ahead of its time) that spoke to the character of not a nation (thought that too) but to the character of a family….

    and past the dangling black wire and the ship-wreck walls and the crowded sink and the sagging porch, there is something transcendent and aglow. And I shall name it: song.

    Remember that young skateborder, remember those kids holding hands, remember that girl building her church and stars and nation, for she was once you.

    How far have we lost to have forgotten that….

    but it rises and flags, again

    love
    bob

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    …”show me the person who sees not with his eyes but with his body and his head and his bones and I shall show you a person who builds homes in community with others”

    BOBBY…THANK YOU…

  9. @ ALL

    Look3 is becoming greater and greater every single year! Hope to be there soon! I’d like the way to hang out pictures outside, hence, everybody can see them! Not in cozy and intelectual museums!
    The earth is the biggest museum (and free)!!

    See you in Arles 2015 next month.

    patricio Lugurompophia color M.

  10. Okay, so here’s the thing: I do have some stuff to post, but the pieces (there are two of them, you know, but they are not about the same thing, which makes them fraternal twins, I suppose) are not ready for prime time. In short, I have not finished either one of them and I have used a great deal of psychic energy these past few weeks justifying to myself why I have not finished them. I could blame George W. Bush, but I started both of these pieces several years after Bush left the Presidency, although, if the newspapers are anything to go by, incumbency is not a requirement for things to be George W. Bush’s fault. But I can’t, not really, a result, I think, of long years of Roman Catholic teaching. The well-developed Catholic conscience understands that blaming others for one’s own faults is the oldest sin in the Book, other than eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and that the excuse that she made me, and her excuse that the serpent made me, does not excuse either one of us at all. So it is not George W. Bush’s fault that I have not been posting as much as I should, much as I would like to say otherwise.

    My desultory posting is also not the fault of my brother and his potato salad, even if I am certain beyond a reasonable doubt that he gave me that potato salad in order to poison me. In the cold salad realm, I have always been partial to macaroni salad, especially my mother’s macaroni salad. Unlike so many people, including my brother, my mother does not annoy the palate with a multitude of flavors. There’s vinegar and mayonnaise, some tomatoes and celery, which I pick out of the salad and throw to the nearest cat, and macaroni. Simple, basic, filling, all the things I want in a cold salad. My brother, on the other hand, is a pupil of the more is better culinary school, and in his potato salad there are potatoes that you cannot taste and every manner of spice that you can, sort of, when those spices are not fighting for space and attention on your taste buds. In short, I hate my brother’s potato salad and I would not eat the ghastly stuff at all except that my mother values family peace over almost everything else, especially at family get-togethers, and so in the interest of peace and brotherhood and good will I ate my brother’s potato salad and quickly came down with a nasty case of food poisoning. As you might imagine, my brother did not like my accusing him of attempted murder nor did he appreciate my calling his potato salad loathsome noisome swill. All right, I didn’t use those words exactly, but I am sure you get the point. My brother certainly did and he certainly didn’t like it. Some people get very defensive about their potato salad and my brother is one of those people. In his defense, however, I should point out that my refusal to buckle down and start writing pre-dated his attempted fratricide for quite a while, and so, in the interests of truth and fair play and all sorts of other virtues Americans hold sacred, I cannot blame him for my unswerving loyalty to procrastination as a virtue. I still hate his potato salad, though.

    What I do blame for all the delay is my recent commitment to lemur ranching for fun and profit. Ranching on a spread filled with ring-tailed lemurs is something that can drive a grown man to Despair, which, people tell me, is a pretty upscale new French bar and grill here in our happy little burn. I didn’t know that the French had bars and grills; none of those bistros you see in the travel brochures ever look like what I’d consider to be a bar and grill, but then I don’t get out much. The food is very nice though, if you like overly intellectualized hamburger. Contrary to what you might have heard, the cow involved is not having an existential crisis as a response to its search for meaning in a meaningless world; the cow has passed from being to nothingness by becoming hamburger. Ergo, the cow has solved its existential crisis by finding the meaning denied to so many human beings. For the cow, the purpose of existence is simple: it is dinner. That the cow is no longer in a position to grasp this elegant solution to its existential problem simply demonstrates the inadequacy of any overarching philosophical system when that system confronts reality. And steak tastes good.

    I don’t know what the lemurs taste like and I don’t intend to find out. I’m not raising them for food, at least not for people, and I don’t think the furry little bastards have enough meat on them to interest the pet food manufacturers. So why bother with lemurs? Lemur oil will cure a boatload of skin ailments, yes it will, everything from eczema to seborrhea and psoriasis, so step right up and put in your order for your own 12 oz. bottle of Dr. Green’s Old Fashioned Green Lemur Miracle Oil and if you order within the next ten minutes I will be happy to send you another bottle absolutely free; just pay shipping and handling. And then I sit and watch the money roll in, or I would, if only get the ornery little beasts to stay still for long enough to press some oil out of them. Lemurs object to pressing, for reasons I am not sure I fathom—a consequence of poor parenting and equally poor socialization in the public schools seems a reasonable hypothesis—and while I am not pressing them the lemurs insist on three meals a day and a roof over their heads, which makes them seem less an investment than members of my family. In addition to this, I have the Department of Agriculture inspectors going over every inch of my operation and the Humane Society and every other animal rights group in the country camped out in my front yard demonstrating against my pressing the lemurs at all. The lemurs don’t like the animal rights people very much; one of those PETA people broke into the lemurs’ compound two weeks ago to “liberate” them and the lemurs bit him on his ass for his troubles. Serves him right, too; I hope the bastard gets rabies.

    So as you can see, as a small aspiring entrepreneur in the age of the Illinois Incitatus I am up to my backside in money problems and government red tape and high-minded idiots who don’t know the first thing about lemurs or business trying to tell me how to run my business. I simply do not have the time to whip up these little funny bits regularly. I have things to do, important things, like trying to figure out where the damn lemurs are hiding my pencils. Damn, I hate when they do that; it’s more annoying than you can imagine.

  11. The fact that you are reading the above once again proves, as if this needing proving, that my proofreading skills really bite the big one.

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    My ACADEMIANS,BOBBY, AKAKY…This is BURN…the one and only …

    My ouzo,my chickens,my olives and BURN…

    as JOHNYG says…je suis BURNIAN

  13. AKAKY_IRL: Needing proving? Is that even a thing?

    AKAKY: I didn’t proofread. So sue me.

    AKAKY_IRL: Dude, that needing thing was in the bit about your lack of proofreading skills. If you can’t proofread the bit about your needing to proofread your stuff, then there really isn’t any point to your complaining about your lack of proofreading skills.

    AKAKY: Go blow it out your ass.

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    Thank you ALL THE BURNIANS at LOOK3…thank you for reporting…

    I am a proud Civilian !!!

    Can I sign now?

  15. I get to be a “banded net winged beetle… commonly found resting on vegetation in moist woods throughout much of the eastern United States”. Sounds like most of my hikes in the forest now that I am older :)

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    JUSTIN…this project was a challenge for me cause I was going through some “weird “details and some amazing pictures…BUT now,the challenge is on YOU…your future hikes will be… with your “beetle” family…hiii,oime !!!

    Viva BURN…!!!

  17. JOHN GLADDY

    hmmm, why are you worried about Panos’ book? shouldn’t you be focusing on YOUR book? whoops , wrong universe…

    point is, Panos does HAVE a book! few do….

    as soon as we have an inventory of Panos’ books to sell, they will of course be in the BurnStore…along with a Burn story announcing the book officially…Panos did his own launch on FB etc which did not exactly coincide with our schedule at Burn…that’s totally cool, and that’s Panos!! and so is the book….

  18. BOB BLACK

    welcome home!!

    so nice to hear from you….last i heard you were writing like crazy (no surprise)…and with a new girlfriend (also no surprise)

    still waiting for you on my front porch….i will be here all summer…taking a bit of time off…cold beer and clean sheets and towels here for you…after that you are on your own…..

    thank you for your insights….i do get discouraged….three months after the original Tell It Like It Is was published, Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated…..and three days after the Tell It presentation at LOOK3 and Lois Liggins came onstage to steal the show (no surprise) with not a dry eye in the house, and some asshole kills nine black people in an historic church….so there is no end to racism i am sorry to say….

    still we must move foreword

    welcome back Bob…..

    hugs, david

  19. CIVILIAN

    amazing list…and basically right on it…..big hello to you and to Visaria!!!

    AKAKY

    what a pleasure to meet you in person at LOOK3….especially since when i first met you i did not know that you were you….mystery man….great writer……you missed the late night dancing and pool party….and i would have been way better off missing both as well

    cheers, david

  20. All
    I missed the pool party and I’m also happy about it …
    Nice meeting Akaky … SCARY MAN. I’m not easily into a freakin out mode anymore,
    But Akaky’s presence is dominant .
    He’s DA MAN!

    John , big hug

  21. DAVID. “shouldn’t you be focusing on YOUR book?” NO!. Absolutely not.
    I SHOULD be focusing on a hundred other things in my life that are way more important than a book of pictures.

  22. David…
    It’s been a long time since I was last “winded” by an image or even a photobook. But today I’ve been Knocked for six. I knew your book was going to be brilliant. However I absolutely underestimated by how much. My jaw slapped to the floor as I turned the second page and the beautiful scent of high quality paper engulfed me and through me on a roller coaster ride of EyeBall Kicks.
    Man, you had soul right from the start didn’t you?
    It’s been way to long since I’ve felt the sheer hunger which comes with the inspiration at looking through a photobook and needing to run out immediately and shoot the hell out of my camera searching for THE IMAGE. This work is sooo inspiring.
    It’s very rare to find a damn good photographer who’s a good printer… It ain’t that common. I’m not a very good printer, in fact extremely average. However I can recognize a good one or bad one a mile away… And you are good. Kind of like perfect pitch in music. Your images sing and dance off the paper, they engulf me and I can see your printing influences were very Eugene Smith… Those blacks.
    Bloody hell! Twenty three years old and grooving with such soul like some old jazz great. Those kids images are absolutely amazing I never thought I’d see a better kid portrait than yours from Divided Soul, but man this book is so loaded with deep soul.
    Actually, this book means a damn lot to me. The first time you wrote about it was on the good old RoadTrips blog. I was going through bad times. I was in a very bad financial state, practically bankrupt. Basically I was fucked. I had just given up a very decent and healthy part time job doing landscape photography for the local tourist board. Two days later I found out my savings had taken a very bad hit… well basically there was practically nothing left and finally as if this wasn’t enough I received a letter announcing my mother had finally managed to legally disinherit me. So it was a “great” week. With two little kids who were still crawling, a mortgage and a wife who hadn’t the slightest idea about all the hell that I had suddenly let loose in our life – I wasn’t about to tell her either, she recently had come out of a six month depression. I found myself feeling extremely lonely, lost and confused. In fact I was scared shitless…
    So there I was feeling very low one early evening, my wife was out studying at night school and my youngest son fast asleep on my lap. I decided to go over to RoadTrips to see what was up… And the following words hit me so HARD. They gave me so much hope that I could somehow fix my life…

    “well, this is old “work in progress” which is totally related to my new
    “work in progress” which is totally related to my old “work in progress”

    we must go back a few years……picture me in grad school…..22 and
    married with new baby bryan…..summer comes and i have an opportunity
    to do a “test shoot” for national geographic…blew it….i mean blew
    it….here are the first three sentences of the letter i received
    after my test from robert e.gilka, director of photography:

    “Dear David,

    You are young and strong. That is good. For what I have to tell you,
    will make you feel sick and old.”

    the letter went on to detail my mistakes and why i was inappropriate to
    work at national geographic magazine….

    i swallowed hard…….walked around the block…..eyes moist….kicked
    a can….second time around the block, i said to myself…”wait a
    minute…..i hate color…..i hate those postcardy pictures i just took
    for those editors……i hate national geographic….i will “show them”
    and everyone what i really will “do” with my work!!! my true intentions!!”

    Congratulations David the book is amazing and thank you.

  23. AKAKY..

    I did not know about it until it happened…it grew out of the dance party at the theater, where i saw you as you were leaving… stick around next time..

    PAUL

    i have been down and out many times…matter of fact, i believe crisis a good thing…forces you to be whomever you are or will be….i also like this story of Tell It….it has been such an amazing circle….nothing could have been more rewarding than bringing Lois out on stage at LOOK after 48 years….she was amazing…..she was a sweetheart then and is a sweetheart now…such a great woman….and to be able to show her what had become of the pictures back then was very rewarding….i hope you can see the video of that talk….in any case, i am very pleased the book moves you as it does….

    cheers david

  24. David:

    :)

    you deserve time off…..BUT, i’ll believe it when i see it amigo! ;).hahahahhahah…..and yes, im planning on that porch…and the fresh linen…and beer…and to hold that granddaughter of yours as well…

    well, my long-winded tribute to your book could have been simplified by this: I LOVE IT…but you knew that long ago, needed to come back and write in public about how good it is and how good you are as a human…and that matters most to me….:)

    writing (yep)…gf (ummmm, yep)….dima in india, marina and i still best of friends…and yesterday spent the day reading poems at an event i was invited to by the poet laureate here and a big big name in canada…a bit intimidating but well, we play it like it is :)

    and dont worry you are on my radar….:)…and so is obx….i’ll see lancer soon too when he comes up…

    and Panos book is on my next buylist…and trying to get a gallery for him here for it….

    it’s all good….

    as i told you long ago, i may travel afar from time to time, my home is rooted…and you know that :)

    besides, am i going to be the last person to meet Akaky?…or Akaky ILR…

    as for the devastation in Charleston….well..speechless…talking all week w/my brother and papa about that…..

    we have such a long long way to go…devastating…

    but we abide, i know your heart knows that…

    please take some time for yourself, to celebrate yourself and your accomplishment and the true meaning of what that means, which i tried to write about: the building of a community, which you continue to do…

    will try to write later in the week to u private…

    so happy and proud of you…and yes, the tears come from the world…it is our duty to turn them into hardened gems!

    hugs

  25. and if i could have made it down (much to tell u) i would….I’m so happy for y’all that Lois was there…not surprised at all, that picture and that 7 year old, now a grown woman, needs to be remember and everything that it stands for!!!! and everything that She was and has become! :)

  26. Yeah I gotta admit I broke some “unwritten” rules here and there , I love the old school aggressive LA self promotion style though … STREET STYLE.. Waterfront style.. When u STOP and “harass” folks to listen to your latest RAP CD.. Hoping they’ll buy it or get bored of u and give u $5 just to leave them ALONE…
    Your latest fanzine etc etc… Anything goes. Whatever u can sell… To get the next fix or burger …or pitcher of Corona..
    But that’s what is all about: CONTRIBUTION and AUTHORSHIP…
    Steal don’t borrow!!!!

  27. David…
    Did you shoot Tell It Like It Is with your Leica IIIF? I was wondering whether if that was so because the lens you used seemed to be a wide angle and not a 50mm which the IIIF was really designed for.

  28. PAUL

    you are right …i had some wide lens….i was always shooting with the IIIF but i must have borrowed somebody’s wide lens…i vaguely recall having a Nikon with a 28 or a 21….i did not ever own a Nikon or such a wide lens, and i just cannot remember where i might have gotten it…for sure its possible that when i shot that failed NatGeo test earlier the same summer, i had a piece of NatGeo gear…that is the only thing i can imagine…i also cannot remember why i shot three different films..Panatomic
    X, Plus X and Tri X…this i did not even realize until i looked at the contact sheets carefully this year….i do know i did not have a light meter at the time…and i used to just go by the paper in the box with recommended settings….at the time i guess i thought slow film outside , fast film inside…later when i got a newspaper job, and was around people who knew what was up, i used TriX for everything, yet probably did not know any better at the time…sorry for the poor memory on this one…yet it was a long time ago!!!

    cheers, david

  29. A good photog has a formula , a master ? Not really… A master uses everything from Polaroids to disposable to iPhones to hassebladd to Leica and back to a flip phone and or a Holga.
    It’s AUTHORSHIP that counts and it’s way more important than techniques or even technology

  30. Hi all, yeah, authorship is the only that matters… I’ve remembered an article where MichaelBrown telling about that every dsingle DSRL camera stopped working in Libya due to sand storm… he only had his Iphone to shoot… an THE result becomes a terrible piece of work!

    @Parisian burninas.
    I’ll pop up tonite at 19hs, during the portraits session in Magnum Paris just to have a look…. Anyone there? Cold Beer after that??
    Shine. P.

  31. AKAKY: My presence is dominant? What the hell does that mean?

    AKAKY_IRL: It means you could stand to lose about forty pounds, guy. I told you not to go down there; they were going to take pictures of you and you weren’t going to like the pictures. But no, you just had to go, didn’t you?

    AKAKY: I hadn’t taken a vacation in fourteen years, dude; I figured I was due, you know.

    AKAKY_IRL: Due, schmue. Most people go their entire lives without taking a vacation. You never heard of some rice farmer in Bangladesh going on vacation, have you?

    AKAKY: I don’t know anyone in Bangladesh.

    AKAKY_IRL: Don’t get technical. They plant rice morning, noon, and night, and they don’t take vacations. And they work a hell of a lot harder than you do, if you call sitting on your ass all day long in an air-conditioned office work. There’s some argument about that.

    AKAKY: Not from me, there’s not.

    AKAKY_IRL: You’re biased, guy. So stop bitching about it; you went when I told you not to and now you have to live with everyone knowing what a chunk of lard you are. Your first mistake was seeing those two French girls three years ago. I knew then that this whole thing was going to hit the fan eventually.

    AKAKY: French and Italian.

    AKAKY_IRL: What?

    AKAKY: Laura is Italian, not French. Audrey is French.

    AKAKY_IRL: Stop obsessing about the damn details, guy. Foreigners are foreigners.

    AKAKY: I wonder sometimes why I even talk to you.

    AKAKY_IRL: So do I, and to be honest, I wish you would stop. You’re freakin’ annoying.

  32. ROSS NOLLY

    i think that is probably right….i probably bought whatever was available at the local drugstore…there were no big camera shops with dozens of rolls of film….

  33. Now that pretty much anyone who clicks “print” out of Photoshop is a “master” printer and anyone who plants a flower they bought at Home Depot is a “master” gardner, I think it’s time to retire the use of the word “master,” at least for anyone still living.

    But if that’s too much to ask, people should at least be required to say it like a souther slaveholder (what used to be referred to as “gentleman”) and pronounce it “massah.” And “massah” should always be preceded by the word “suh,” which is “sir” with a southern accent.

    For example, “the corn in mah garden is waist high before the fourth of July whereas and wherefore mah neighbor’s corn ain’t even knee high, so you see, suh, I am a massah gardener.

    It’s not perfect, but still a lot less foolish than referring to people as “masters” while still alive. That’s an honor that time bestows, not fanboys.

  34. “Now that pretty much anyone who clicks “print” out of Photoshop is a “master” printer”

    What utter horseshit Michael! Any idiot can push a button and make a pretty picture, just like with instagram. And many think they are skilled photographers/printers because the output looks kinda neat.

    But if you want color fidelity to match a known swatch, or an existing print, or a client product code…and you may need to be switching profiles and checking gamut to go to a postscript device…not to mention just being reallly really good at translating client/artists vision to a specific, or new paper type,ink types, and being able to do all this consistently and across different OS/Manufacturer platforms…and dont even get started thinking about ‘Raster image processing’……A ‘MASTER'(ie: A professional printer with lots of experience) can do all that and much much more….Thinking that outputting a file from potatoshop, with maybe a contrast curve or two counts as the same thing is naive to say the very least.

  35. Looks like someone forgot to take their sarcasm pill this morning. Of course it’s utter horseshoe. That’s my point, suh.

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    1940 the heroic “NO” of Greece
    2015 the heroic “NO” of Greece
    History repeats itself !!!

    civi

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    Love you IMANTS…yes, we will beat up Italians and Austrians and some Australians …
    and I will beat up some eggs now …before I run to the market for some bottles of ouzo…

    Viva MY BURNIANS…don’t forget to shoot. Trust your vision and believe in YOU !!!
    I love you ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

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    Dearest IMANTS…you are right.The verb “beat up” is totally inappropriate for the occasion.
    Love,Peace and solidarity !!! Greeks,Italians,Austrians,Australians…we are ALL citizens of this planet.

    We are ALL responsible for our actions and I am not trying to be overly philosophical here…
    Greeks are responsible for not taking action…
    We need to learn new skills…
    We have to start believing…
    We have to stop waiting for the “financial heads” to solve our problems…

    Life is a circle…up and down here we go,power games on the board…laugh and love before you “go”…
    Viva BURN !!!

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    A big big THANK YOU TO OUR EVA…EVA, words cannot express my gratitude !!!

    DOUG and ALL MY BURNIANS( so many souls out there)…thank you for being next to me…

    A message to ALL the BURNIANS in Greece…contact me here ,facebook, e-mail if you “stuck” somewhere in grecolandia…Civi’s house open 24/7…

    Thank YOU ALLLLLLL
    civi
    “the fighter”

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    “United we stand; divided we fall”

    Aesop

    THANK YOU ALLLLLLLLL !!!

  41. civilian-mass audience,

    good to see you staying active here and giving everyone there appropriate butterfly name. i was really sorry to have missed Look 3 this year and DAH in particular. but it sounds like it was a blast as always. glad to hear it! best to all, John

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