http://www.wechoosethemoon.org/

Amazing...

http://www.worldphoto.org/news-and-events/wpo-news/visa-pour-limage-2010-coming-soon-to-perpignan/

My first assignment at the WPO. Working and living in London isn't too shabby...

UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

KOBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BRRRRRYAAAANNNNNTTTTT

It's my second day in London. My friend Dan and I visited Paris for 2 days and I'm not sure if I was that excited about it. I'm sure if I had visited it at a time when there was less of a crowd I would have enjoyed it much more. I mean, shit, the city is still pretty amazing, and so is their wine. We walked through the Louvre, saw the Mona Lisa. The Louvre is a pretty amazing example of architecture. Our first meal was a set of cheeses, beer and many bowls of bread. We watched the USA vs. England game at a local cafe and had some fine French wine and a cheeseburger. A member of the French Legion bought us a couple of drinks and we went off to bed pretty drunk.

Before this blog I went running through Hyde Park... what an amazing park...

Don't ever take your rolls of film, if your using something other than a multipurpose film, to CVS or any drug store, they'll fuck it up. Yah I'm probably an idiot, but they ruined about 5 rolls of black & white film and I'm not too happy right now. But here are some survivors of some color film I shot while I've been home. Ektar 100...yippedeeedooooo

From a recent trip to Santa Barbara with some friends.

Marzo is a stud. Really Inspiring. Sometimes I feel, I mean everyone feels like an outsider to some extent. Talk about self-understanding, Clay or his family didn't understand him until they diagnosed him with Asperger's Syndrome.

Reading parts of this book right now, damn well written, will make you re-think about the power of walking from here to there.

I saw this film last night at the University Town Center near UCI. One of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. Really well done. Kept me laughing and thinking the entire way through. If you like street art, Shepard Fairey or Banksy (both street artists), I suggest you go see it. I sometimes have a strong dislike for artists and the pretentiousness that they bring. This film clearly documents that as it challenges you to think of what is and isn't art. I just remember seeing some jackass kid at the end talk about an artist who was "doing something new in a modern way". I remember laughing because it wasn't new at all. That artist, at the end of the film, made about a million dollars in sales because he was doing something "new". Just watch it... you'll see...

CFA portraits. I think they're coming out well...

Depersonalized, maybe. Destroyed, possibly; I think really by the power of her beauty. It is as isolating as genius, or deformity. Unlike genius, it is one of the qualities that removes you from the world, but offers no real compensation. I have always been aware of a relationship between madness and beauty. Does this help to explain some of what appear to be contradictions in my work? It’s only one part. It had nothing to do with the discipline of work, and other things, but you will find, if you look to the portraits, that connection. A possibility of failure and danger and poetry in life — and the close line.

-Richard Avedon