carlagirl photo.

practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

pet peeve

You folks who walk up or down the escalator banging into us riders when there’s a flight of stairs adjacent to it that’s meant for you. I hate you. What are you rushing for?

oh, now this just lacks class

http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1727309,00.html
It lost. It wasn’t the great gay cinematic coming, so to speak.
What is wrong with gay people (and those who write about them; I know nothing about Annie Proulx except that liberals seem to like her)? Is it that serious? I’ve never seen the Oscars award the best movie of any year!

we’re fucked (up)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/cases/aaron.html

these look interesting

http://www.suzanneopton.com/ (the Soldier pictures)
I sure hate artists’ sites that use Flash (though who doesn’t nowadays?). But I can’t stop looking at this work!
I don’t know why I can’t upload from, um, my remote work station, but here it is, finally.

i know people.

smart people.
Click the subject line above for the whole story.
Go, Greg!

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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      Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
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