“To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.”
—–Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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Faces of Deep Ellum – Woman at a Beat Poetry Reading
“It is a great feeling to know
that from a window
I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves.
And from these gather enough dream
to sneak out a back door.”
—Gregory Corso, The Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Poems
Faces of Deep Ellum – man at a poetry reading
“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Faces of Deep Ellum – The Stinkeye
“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle
Faces of Deep Ellum – A Woman Listening to Beat Poetry
“Our heads are round so thought can change direction”
― Allen Ginsberg
Woman listening to a poetry reading by Mad Swirl – at The Independent Bar and Kitchen, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
Faces of Deep Ellum – Bob Crawford
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard
Bob Crawford, in Easy Slider restaurant, Deep Ellum, Dallas, Texas
We ran into Bob Crawford, arguably the most famous man in East Dallas while getting a bite in Easy Slider in Deep Ellum. It was good to see him back.
Her Face Was Made Of Angular Planes
“Her face was made of angular planes, the shape of her mouth clear-cut, a sensual mouth held closed with inflexible precision. She kept her hands in the coat pockets, her posture taut, as if she resented immobility…”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texas
What Rhythm Is
“Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it …”
― Virginia Woolf
Klyde Warren Park
Dallas, Texsas
Having A Picnic In A Dream
“I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”
― Richard Brautigan, Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
Klyde Warren Park,
Dallas, Texas
Posed
Seersucker Bicycle Ride and Picnic
Dallas, Texas
Yesterday, I had some photographs I took at the Seersucker Bicycle Ride in Lee Park in Dallas.
Today, I’ll put a few more up – but this time, they were posed shots. Something different, something I want to work on. I’ve never been comfortable posing people for photographs. The only way to get used to it – to get better at it – is to do it over and over again.
So says the master.
I have a long way to go.
(click on image for larger version on flickr)
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Bill Chance 