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nomenclature

So I figured I should mention something about the new title of this blog. It comes from my English translation of a Spanish translation of a quote by Sci-Fi Novelist J.G. Ballard, author of the book Crash, adapted to the David Cronenberg film. In Spanish, it reads "El Futuro Será Aburrido" and it was the title for an exhibition at CCCB. I latched onto this phrase mainly because really the future will be boring. Where is my flying car? Where is my hover board? But more seriously, perhaps I identify with this phrase differently than Ballard meant it when he said it, likely because I encountered it decontextualized. I identify in that our futures that actually matter, our foreseeable futures, will be boring. We will keep going to work, keep driving our same cars, keep going to the same stores, eating the same things, seeing the same buildings walking to our homes, the list goes on. But I feel this may be where the power of photography lies, and I know there is nothing radically new in this statement but I feel it dovetails nicely with the Ballard quote, photography allows us to radically reimagine the spaces we inhabit on a daily basis and gives us the tools to elevate the banal to the academic and artful.

"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."
-J.G. Ballard, Interview

everything is everything else

So those of you who have been keeping up with my flickr will have seen my recent uploads of a spate of double exposures. There's a kind of interesting story behind this. When I was home over winter break, I found a roll of Fuji Superia. I have never bought or shot Superia, but my parents and I figured I must have picked it up somewhere. So, I shot it a few weeks ago. When I first got these photos back I thought I got someone else's. Then I looked closer and realized that this roll was first exposed at least ten years ago, back when we first got my dog. The result is, I think, an interesting juxtapostion of how 10 years can change what a definition of home is. Unintentionally, almost all of the photos double exposed on my roll are of some of the most important people in my life or places in my life at both times. I am beyond pleased with the results. Below are my favorites. What a lucky accident.



I love the eye peeking out here from the burner.



Like father like son. The exposure with my dad is from decorating the tree this year. Both exposures are from the same room in my home in new hampshire, 10 years apart.



I really like the way the trees disintegrate the bottom of the frame in this one.

AmLit Submission!

Today I submitted a few photographs to American Literary, American University's student run literary magazine. It's the first time I've ever really submitted my photography to the judgment of anyone else's eyes so fingers crossed. Here are the photos I submitted:



La Boqueria on a Winter Afternoon.



Baby Beluga at L'Oceanografic in Valencia



Graffiti in Berlin



More Berliner Graffiti.

resurrection?

So, I've decided that I wanted a space to tell stories about the multitudinous photographs that I post to my flickr. Also, I wanted some place to pick out my favorites, and talk about my journey in finally embracing my long-standing interest in photography. follow me, don't. whatever. I originally started this as a blog for my travels in Spain and Europe, then it was going to become a photoblog of those travels, then I started that tumblr some of you have probably looked at, but that was too burdensome to use. So now I'm here. Just as gatorade came back as G, i'm coming back.