ghost in the machine
October 22, 2012
Photograph by Douglas Kirkland, from Marilyn: An Evening/1961
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go.
Things go wrong so that you can appreciate them when they’re right.
You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.
And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
—Marilyn Monroe
(joe) you’ve never heard such cheering
May 10, 2012
watch with glittering eyes the whole world
April 18, 2012
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
—Roald Dahl
casting my reflection
April 14, 2012
Be daring, be different, be impractical,
be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision
against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace,
the slaves of the ordinary.
—Cecil Beaton
let them eat cake
April 11, 2012
our lives are shaped by what we love
April 8, 2012
imperfection is beauty
April 5, 2012
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
—Marilyn Monroe
spirits & ghosts
April 3, 2012
This September, Glitterati will publish Douglas Kirkland’s With Marilyn. As I paged through the blues last week, I was overcome. This book is filled with the eternal spirit of Marilyn Monroe or Norma Jean Baker, or whoever She was.
Make that Is. Because she never left. These pages are a testament to photography as magic. A magic we do not understand. I’ve been thinking a lot about this. About what the Native Americans felt. Something is captured on paper. Why? How? The spirit travels through light. Light on paper becomes the image. But it’s not what we see before us. It is the ether. Captured. Forever.
I don’t even have words…
