en français, si vous plait

1. the sound of rolling thunder while the big dog snores on the tiles as you eat bread with honey.
2. thoughts as a run on sentence like this: what if bees wore tiny leisure suits and had tiny briefcases because it's like grand central station and wall street all wrapped in one in a big sunflower field and they are paid in honey!
3. relive your life a second time exploring a tiny detail.
4. chocolate on your face.
5. broken french.
6. melon and croque monsieur and yogurt and rose.
7. delicious.
8. c'est tout.

amazing food for thought from GOOD Magazine....

Let's make better mistakes tomorrow. Let's scratch our heads and give up and wake up and try again. Let's fail at digging the well the first three times to get it right the fourth. Let's build faster horses and then strap rocket ships onto them. Let's start a company, let's watch it fail, and then let's start another one. Let's be the boss. Let's take the boss down. Let's order too much of something just to see what our limits are. Let's take a chance precisely because it might fail. Let's take the hard way out. Let's go to the moon. Fuck it; let's go to the moon again. Let's quit our jobs. Let's work at being better at what we do by fucking up faster, not less. Let's fuck up really fast. Let's wrestle sharks, fight monsters, and disagree with the board. Let's borrow so much money it becomes someone else's problem. Let's start a 10 hour drive by announcing "I'm not into you anymore". Let's dump everything out of the garage onto the sidewalk and build something really cool in that space. Let's start out to build a better mousetrap, and halfway there let's decide to jump on the mice's team. Let's bet on a longshot. Let's buy her a drink. Let's start baking bread in our cubicle. Let's try bringing fresh water to distant villages precisely because we have no idea how to do it. Let's pool our money. Let's take their money. Let's solve that hard problem. You know that one that keeps you up at night? Let's tackle that bastard. Let it kick our ass a few times, and then finally get it right. Let's find out what's at the bottom of the ocean. Let's tame the Kraken. Let's just fucking tell people we've read Infinite Jest and move on. Let's forgive our parents. Let's do something with the goddamed planet. Let's rent an electric generator and open a food cart that sells nothing but frosted PopTarts, but makes a lot of fucking noise. Let's have a breakthrough. Let's have a breakdown. Let's agree that bruises fade, bones heal, hearts mend, and tomorrow we're right back on that horse and that THIS TIME! we've at least got another rocket strapped to it's back.

discovering some old work: 2001 - 2005

success / intuition / letters from the east coast of Italy, aka wine makes everything better.

Success: it can be designing, executing, and continuously breathing life into a brand with a clearly defined vision that projects vast influence and recognition for change and growth. Or just being perfectly happy doing exactly what you’re doing at this moment, accepting it as it is.

Intuition: 'In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.' Malcolm Gladwell

Relaying into semi related new letters post; overheard in Italy: ‘I must drink wine; if I drink water, I will rust’.

this can be about anything or anyone.

I don’t care how long it takes I will wait for you.
if I'm done with what I have now and you're not there, I’ll still be happy to know that you exist and you changed my life and now I can live a different way. your ideas change me, your life changes me, I already know I love you, you can make me dream again, and I know I love you. I loved you before I knew you.

slow.

This is how I've fallen in love again. Mamiya C330 and film. It forces you to slow down and focus. I feel like I've gone from spraying machine gun bullets with my digital to a slingshot and a rock with film. If it had a voice, it would probably call me on my birthday, send me flowers, and tell me everything is going to be okay, if we can all just slow down and realize this is why we started loving photography/art/life in the first place.

letters from paris and provence, part 2

We can be in the same room together and we don't have to say a word; we're totally comfortable and just know...