“Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.”
― E.B. White
Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texas
A Trick That Is Too Much For Him
Category Archives: Photography
Signs No On Has Ever Read
“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Adolphus Hotel
Dallas, Texas
You Will See the Wildness
“If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse… but surely you will see the wildness!”
― Pablo Picasso
Downtown Dallas, Texas
He Who Can Stroll
He who can stroll by his fellow man deep in need without batting an eyelash, like a ghost passing through a shade, proves not only a miserable human being, but also possesses a great power, a person that can do anything they want.
—-Armando Vitalis, From Hell’s Heart I Stab At Thee
Belo Garden Park
Dallas, Texas
The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience is the Mysterious
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
― Albert Einstein
Downtown Dallas, Texas
A Dumbshow Composed of the Helpless and the Impotent
“In my father’s last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running of it. If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
Downtown Dallas, Texas
He Is Not A Cheese
“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear ’27 months.’ ‘He’s two’ will do just fine. He’s not a cheese. And I didn’t really care in the first place.”
― George Carlin
Sculptureson the exterior of the Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, Texas
Photograph taken during the Dallas Photo Walk.
I am at Austin Street Shelter
I was walking through downtown Dallas with a group of folks doing a photo walk – everybody with their cameras dangling, strolling, shooting – when on a bench in Main Street Garden Park I saw a tattered spiral notebook. I picked it up and saw that it was full of writing.
There wasn’t much time, everyone else was moving on – so all I could do is skim through. It was full of nice handwriting – page after page of misery and despair set down in cursive. I briefly thought of taking it with me so I could read it completely – maybe learn something.
But I didn’t. That didn’t seem right – the owner might come back for it. So I snapped a quick photo of the first page and set it back on the bench, exactly where it was.
First page of notebook found in Main Street Garden Park, Dallas, Texas
Full Sized Version of the Photo on Flickr
9/22/2015
6:00 PM
I am at Austin Street Shelter, I’ve been here since March 23 with a couple of detours. They say it will be at least 6 more months before I get an apt. I hope this works out. I’m tired. I’m old.I need a place to call my own. I’m not interested in any relationship with men ever again. I’m thinking I might buy a trailer. I’m gonna start saving all I can…
What We Really Want Is Just Stuff That Works
“It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization’s most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Keep Your Curiosity Fresh
You can’t do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
—-John Singer Sargent
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texa
Bill Chance