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Chicago: Art in Transit

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While traveling in Chicago this spring, I came upon this installation of art at the Rockwell Brown Line stop. I didn't travel much on the north side of the Brown Line when I was a Chicago resident, so discovering some public art was a nice surprise.


The panes of glass printed with nature scenes are a serene way to exit or enter the station. The Art in Transit program began in 2004, and has since expanded today to a selection of stops along Chicago Red and Brown Lines. I'm an advocate of public art—it makes me stop what I'm doing, recognize my surroundings and take a moment to think about what I'm seeing (instead of continuing to stare at my tablet) If you enjoy the same experience, check out the Art in Transit website and enjoy some of the public art offerings around the city of Chicago.

My Love of Beantown: The Lower Depths Tap Room

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On our continued exploration Boston, my husband and I decided to head back to the Kenmore neighborhood, where last year we discovered some new spots for food and drinks.  This new night of exploring brought us to the Lower Depths Tap Room, and we decided to stop in for a beer and some more food on a quiet Saturday night.

We ended up with the special—a soft shelled crab which was originally a sandwich—but on recommendation from our friendly bartender we decided to have the bread on the side since we weren't as excited about the bread overpowering our crab. This was a good suggestion, though as a special, I'm not sure how often the dish is available. We topped off our meal with some beers, and along with the great customer service of our bartender, it was a nice place to stop for some eclectic bar food and drinks.

But my favorite part of the evening? When the bartenders put on the soundtrack to the Blues Brothers and everyone at the bar started singing along and banging the bar. True, this might not happen every weekend, but this little act of camaraderie with the customers, along with great customer service will bring me and my hubby back.


Photo: Leif Nordberg

Noteworthy links for May 19th

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Happy weekend readers—here are a few links that inspired me during the week:

1. The Atlantic Cities: How Creativity Works in Cities—This article really made me want to get out and explore my city. A favorite thought from the post:
"As Jacobs once wrote, 'By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.' Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas."

2. The Sahmmy: Toxic Free House Frau—I'm always looking for new recipes for homemade cleaning products, and here are a few new versions I haven't seen in the blogosphere yet.

3. Hyperallergic: NASA Captures the Motion of the Ocean—Enough said. Gorgeous picture.

4. Beantown Baker: Purple Potato, Tomato, and Goat Cheese Bruschetta—This week's recipe features purple potatoes—which I love.

5. Vagabondish: Is Shipping Your Luggage a Better Deal?—I've never even thought about this, but to read about it really perked my curiosity.

Enjoy the links!

Photo: Miguel Saavedra

Curry tempeh

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I am always looking for new ways to cook tempeh, and the other day my husband told me how they cook it at the restaurant he works at: with a coconut milk and curry marinade. I'm sure his version is a bit more complex than mine, but it inspired me to try something new.
First, I sliced the tempeh in half lengthwise, and then again in half crosswise to make smaller pieces. Then I filled a pyrex dish with the coconut milk and curry, carefully stirring the curry so it was evenly distributed. For the curry addition, I used the Muchi Curry blend from Whole Foods—it offers a wonderful flavor combination that isn't overpowering.

Then I placed the tempeh in coconut milk and curry powder to sit (see above). Thirty minutes would be the minimum the tempeh should absorb the flavors, but of course I forgot about my tempeh and it had a chance to marinade for over 24 hours. There aren't really any measurements here, but it is good to use enough coconut milk to cover the surface of the tempeh. The amount of curry powder is up to you.


After the marinade, melt coconut oil (or any other cooking oil you prefer) in a saute pan and cook the tempeh on medium. I like my tempeh crispy, so I cook it until it's brown around the edges. If you aren't sure how long to cook yours, here's a great source to help. I'll serve the tempeh with greens sauteed in coconut oil, but tempeh is great on it's own, or in sandwiches.

Do you have any favorite ways to make tempeh? Add them to the comments below!

GANGSTA RAP POSSE ROUNDS OUT TIMOTHY CALLAHAN'S BEST OF 2011 LIST

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Over at Comic Book Resources Timothy Callahan begins his Best of 2011 list in the latest installment of his column When Words Collide. GANGSTA RAP POSSE makes the list coming in at #30. This is what Tim said about the issue:

A couple of years after Marra's Traditional Comics published the first issue of this series in which an N.W.A-like rap group lives the life it rhymes about, he returns with issue #2, using a more streamlined pen-and-ink style to depict the violence and debauchery of his mythical "heroes."

The thrill of this book is not just in its witty satire of politics and hip-hop poses, but in the glee in which the story unfolds. A book like this makes all other macho action comics seem like soft-focus Lifetime movies in comparison.

Check out the list #11 to 30 here.

BEST OF 2011 | GANGSTA RAP POSSE, ISSUE 2

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GANGSTA RAP POSSE, ISSUE 2, comes in at number eight on Tucker Stones Best-of-2011 list over at Comixology. Here's what Tucker had to say:

While Benjamin Marra's reputation precedes him enough that the general tone of his work is unlikely to surprise, his experiments in how he exercises that work seem ever-developing. 2011 saw the guy showing up everywhere, but it was in the gray newsprint pages of Gangsta Rap Posse where the most hits landed. One of those long sought after "perfect comics", GRP #2 didn't hold back from a single transgresion, delivering page after page of shadowless violence. More celebration than revelation, Marra's brazen willingness to prize his own taste above all else bore fruit once again. If more cartoonists were as in touch with what their hands want to create, making these lists would be a whole lot harder.

OBEY INTERVIEW

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OBEY's Chris Ziegler interviews me over at their website. We talk about where my ideas come from, loving what you make, stoner-style doodling, photo-reference and other subjects. Here's a piece of the awesome introduction Chris wrote:

Does Marra simply just love drawing a motorcycle tire smearing some thug’s head into pulp on a sidewalk in Nowhere City, U.S.A., circa 1983? Turns out that ‘Fuck yes!’ doesn’t even do the sentiment justice. The adolescent passion unchained here is matched only in the most ridiculously enduring excesses of punk and heavy metal—the soundtrack to what Marra describes as the kind of artwork that spills out of a sullen stoner in the back of the class in high school. His characters and his plots and his worlds themselves are distorted and deformed beyond the laws of physics and society both, but make up for it with the kind of confident enthusiasm you get only when your sword is also a chainsaw, and you can fly, too.

Check out the full interview here.

LINCOLN WASHINGTON: FREE MAN | ISSUE 1

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LINCOLN WASHINGTON: FREE MAN, is the brand-new comic book from TRADITIONAL COMICS. The first issue will make its official debut at the Stumptown Comics Festival and Toronto Comics Arts Festival. Here is a brief description:

It's 1868, the hostile period succeeding the American Civil War. When the freed slave Lincoln Washington shows up in the small South Carolina town, Butchergrass, with coin and a deed to a plot of land the locals are none too happy about it. In particular, Jasper, the son of a wealthy plantation owner. Lincoln, accused of a crime he didn't commit, must draw on centuries of racial injustice to give him the power to fight his enemies and defend his inherently human right to freedom! Witness the beginning of this Reconstructionist-Era action epic!!

Orders will be available on the TRADITIONAL COMICS website in May!

LINCOLN WASHINGTON: FREE MAN! | FLAVORPILL

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LINCOLN WASHINGTON: FREE MAN!, ISSUE 1, is one of Flavorpill's Most Anticipated Comic Releases for April. Check it out here. Here's a portion of what Tucker Stone wrote about the book:

As with his Maureen Dowd comic, Marra provides the pleasures of pure entertainment so directly that it almost fools you into thinking that anyone can do it. They can’t, but that’s the way that genius is supposed to work: you walk away thinking “perfect” is just that easy.

Setting Up The First 2013 Photo Expedition-Workshop!!

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I'm already planning and setting up the first Photo Expedition-Workshop for 2013, and it promises to be as intense and exciting as The Oracles of Kerala...if not more so.

Provided the costs, logistics and a plethora of other factors work out, it'll follow the long line of photo expeditions-workshops for which I am known for organizing and leading, and which carry the hallmark of uniqueness because they merge off the beaten path destinations, ancient culture, religious rituals, extreme fervor and color.

And similar to The Oracles of Kerala, I believe no travel photographer has ever dared to lead and conduct a photo expedition/workshop where I am planning it to go.

As I usually do,  the details of the photo expedition-workshop will be first announced via my newsletter to those who are subscribers. So if you want to be included, just add your name to the subscription mailing list box on this blog. 

Rebecca Conway: Exorcising The Jinn

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Readers of my blog and others in the photography community know that I'm fascinated by the syncreticism, or the combination of conflicting beliefs, in South Asia especially between Sufism and Hinduism. So I was doubly pleased to view Rebecca Conway's Exorcising The Jinn photo gallery of images made at the shrine of a Sufi saint, Hazrat Abdullah Shah Ashabi, in Thatta, in the Sindh province of Pakistan.

Rebecca is a British freelance photojournalist with Global Radio News, Reuters, in Pakistan. She has also photographed for PBS' Frontline.

I also liked her photo essay on the Kailash community who are indigenous people residing in the Chitral District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Sufis brought their brand of Islam to the Indian subcontinent by walking from the west; from Afghanistan and Iran. These Sufi ascetics walked around India, and eventually settled in towns and villages, counseling and helping people. These ascetics became saints or “pirs” as they’re called. When the ascetics died, their tombs became dargahs, or sacred shrines. It's at one of those shrines that Exorcising The Jinn's photographs were made.

Notwithstanding what our current Western beliefs are, the jinn (or genies) are supernatural creatures  mentioned in the Qur'an, and often referred to in Arab folklore and Islamic mythology.

Eric Kruszewski: Cuba

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Eric Kruszewski's Cuba gallery made me yearn to revisit Cuba having been there on a week's photo workshop over 10 years ago.

It's heaven for street photographers...Just look at the photograph above, and see how he compartmentalized the scene using the columns and the scaffoldings. You'll see others in the gallery, including nicely composed scenes of youngsters playing street baseball.

An engineering vocation took Eric to perform construction assessments in in former Soviet Union countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Georgia. It was there that he started to pick a camera to share what he saw and experienced. In mid-2010, he returned to the USA to evolve his craft, develop personal projects, and discover opportunities to share stories with a larger audience. He began pursuing photography full-time earlier this year.

Don't miss Eric's poignant documentary movie on Courtney Gilmour, whose birth defects are consistent with exposure to pollutants during her mother's pregnancy.Subscribe to The Travel Photographer

Kris Bailey: Red Rivulets (The Oracles of Kodungallur)

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Apart from being an attorney in Northern California, Kris Bailey is a photographer who's keenly interested in South and South East Asia, and is particularly attracted to unusual rituals and religious festivals. She joined my The Oracles of Kerala Photo Expedition/Workshop™, which was her second expedition-workshop with me; the first being Kolkata's Durga Puja.

On her blog and Vimeo page, Kris describes herself as "Inspired by the stories of a young adventurer with a french accent and a cheap wooden guitar, Kris ran home from school one day and announced that she was going to live in Europe. Eight months later, wearing a cowboy hat and white bell-bottom jeans, Kris boarded a DC-10 bound for Brussels. She was 15 years old."

No longer with a hat and white jeans, she has just produced her audio-slideshow Red Rivulets, of her stills and ambient sound recordings made during the festival of the Oracles in Kodungallur. As readers of this blog probably know by now, this was one heck of an intense religious event, and Kris reveled in photographing it.

As background, the festival is called Kodungallur Bharani, and is a wild and unusual localized religious festival near Kochi. It is here that once a year the so-called Oracles of Kodungallur meet to celebrate both Kali and Shiva. By their thousands, these red-clad oracles arrive in this area of Kerala, and perform self mortification acts by banging on their heads with ceremonial swords repeatedly until blood trickle down their foreheads, then daub the wounds with turmeric.

BBC: TPOTY & The Royal Geographical Society (London)

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The BBC has featured an audio-slideshow of Travel Photographer of the Year 2011 photographs which are on show at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in London, from 22 June to 19 August 2012.

I found the conversation between one of competition judges, photographer Nick Meers, and RGS Director Rita Gardner to shed a little light as to what goes through the minds of photo competition judges...some of it was interesting and other parts were not, but it reaffirmed my long standing belief that photo competitions of that sort are won by photographs that speak to the judges...or to the majority of judges. In such competitions, a photograph might be technically perfect, but it could well be arbitrarily chucked out of the running because of the judges' subjective values...

I think the criteria for categories in photographic contests and the like are too broad. The image above is a winning entry in the Exotic Portfolio category.  For the life of me I can't see what's exotic in it. It's of a man passing a sex shop in Soho in London. It's a colorful, well timed and well composed street photograph, but exotic?

Most of the photographs I saw on the slideshow are really good, but it's a pity that the BBC chose music by Norah Jones and Lenny Kravitz. Good music for sure, but with no logical linkage to the photographs.

Rasha Yousif: At The Madrasa

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As Rasha Yousif writes on her Vimeo page, Islam is the second-most practiced religion in India following Hinduism, while 24% of Kerala's population is Muslim. Muslims of Kerala believe that their origins in the area started in the 7th century AD when Islam originated in Arabia.

During my The Oracles Of Kerala Photo Expedition-Workshop, Rasha worked on a number of multimedia photo projects and one of her Soundslides (now converted to video) photo films is her At The Madrasa, whose still photographs and audio were taken at the madrasa of Cheraman Perumal Juma Masjid.

The photographs are in monochrome, and Rasha has done very well in merging the various audio tracks that include the students voices, and religious chants. You will see these Muslim children learning the Qur'anic texts and theology probably in the same style as their forefathers/mothers did centuries ago.

She is a photographer from the island nation of Bahrain, and is only the second Middle Eastern participant in my photo expeditions-workshops since I started them 10 years or so ago.

As a historical note, the Cheraman Perumal Juma Masjid in the Kodungallur is the first mosque in India, believed to have been built in 629 AD by Malik Ibn Dinar, who was a Persian slave and a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad's disciples.

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Christina Feldt: Travel Photography

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"As far back as I can remember, I have been fascinated by other cultures, faces, customs and ways of living."

And this is in essence how Christina Feldt started her photographic career. She was not joking...she writes me that she's just back from a 9 months trip through Mongolia, Myanmar, SE Asia and Ethiopia; a trip that generated enough galleries to occupy its viewers for quite some time. She has also established a Photoshelter website which you can view here.

I've gone through most of them...starting with Ethiopia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, Bangkok and Singapore, and when I got to Vietnam...I paused at Christina's lovely photographs made against the yellow walls of Hoi An.

That done, I read the compelling blog post she wrote about Mai, a 31-year old Hmong woman from Sapa, who told her that her dream was to see the ocean and to be able to read and write, so she could read the text messages on her cellphone.

It's no surprise that I stopped at her Vietnam gallery...after all, this is my forthcoming destination where I'm holding a 15-days photo-expedition/workshop, and her photographs serve to reinforce the 'visuality' of Vietnam and its people.

Matthew Oldfield: Kecak!

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"Kecak dance involves a chorus of chanting men dressed in checked cloth, who build a percussive vocal rhythm that has its roots in the Sanghyang trance-inducing exorcism dance."

Matthew Oldfield  tells us he attended a unique Kecak performance in Bali led by Pak Reno who has been developing his own version of the Kecak dance over several decades, and his chorus performs a much looser version of the typical, choreographed story. No two performances are alike and guests are never sure what will happen.

The Kecak music performance is not accompanied by any music instruments, but by a chorus of around 50 to 100 men. Kecak has roots in sanghyang, a trance-inducing exorcism dance.

I've been to Bali a handful of times, and attended Kecak performances in different spots on the island, notably in Ubud and Nusa Dua, however these were performances designed for tourists. The one attended by Matthew seemed to have been non commercial, and only 7 spectators attended it.

Kecak is a form of Balinese dance and music drama, originated in Bali and is performed primarily by men,  A German painter and musician got interested in the ritual while living in Bali in the 1930s and worked to recreate it into a drama, based on the Hindu Ramayana.

Matthew is a freelance photographer based in South East Asia, specialising in editorial and documentary images. He's been involved in both photography and the environment since 1993. He's had articles published in Asian Geographic, Asian Diver, Scuba Diver Australasia, FiNS Magazine and Scuba Globe, and photo credits in a huge variety of publications.Tom Bourdon, a fellow travel photographer, referred Matthew's work to me and we both agree that these high quality photographs would have been enhanced had it been accompanied by the incredible music and sounds of the Kecak in a simple multimedia photo essay.

Auto De Fe & The Travel Photographer On The iPad

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I am very pleased to appear as the first photographer for the In Focus feature in Auto de Fe's magazine for the iPad.

The feature carries an interview with me, along with some of my favorite photographs that I made over the course of my 12 years career. The interview was conducted with Jack Laurenson, the magazine's Executive Editor.

What is Auto de Fe? Well, it's a cross-platform magazine of inquisitive journalism and intelligent photography. It showcases compelling writing, investigative reporting and visual documentary projects from around the world. ADF is a unique magazine for the 21st century and is available as a fully interactive digital app on the iPad. Other devices will follow. It'll also be online and in print. Its digital & print format will allow many mediums of storytelling and bring some truly spectacular reportage.

I've downloaded the Auto de Fe's App from the Apple Store, and it's truly magnificent on the iPad. I don't have the new iteration of the iPad with the Retina display, but I know people who have it, and they say it's eye-popping! So get it!!!

I would be remiss if I don't mention the photojournalists/photographers whose work appear on the inaugural issue of Auto de Fe. These are Sean Power with 40 Commando, Meredith Alexander with London's Olympic Shame, Sean Hawkey's reports from the mines of Guatemala and Nicaragua, Carole Alfarah's Waiting For Change and Lisa Wiltse's The Charcoal Kids.

Finally, I urge emerging photojournalists and visual storytellers to view Auto de Fe's raison d'etre, and consider the opportunity that it offers as per its "What Do We Offer Our Contributors".

Kieran Doherty: Solstice (Druids & Pagans!)

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I really should've posted this yesterday...

Kieran Doherty thought of me as he finished his new gallery Solstice, whose photographs he thought would be suitable for The Travel Photographer blog. He was right...they are.

He has been covering the druids and revelers at Stonehenge during the summer and winter solstices over the past 10 years, and this gallery consists of 31 large sized color photographs of the scenes in that famed site.

Stonehenge is an ancient pre-historic site, and its well known stone monument is believed to have been constructed anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. It has been a place of worship and celebration at the time of Summer Solstice since time immemorial. In summer, pagans and druids make it a ritual to witness the sunrise on the longest day of the year at the prehistoric site marking the event with unusual rituals and religious ceremonies.

Kieran Doherty is a photojournalist whose career started with the Reuters News Pictures service in London. He remained with Reuters 15 years until resigning his position to undertake commissions in 2008. His photography has taken him to almost every part the world and his work has appeared in all the major international journals and magazines including Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, Stern, National Geographic, The New York Times and The Sunday Times magazine.

The Donkey Show

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 Last night, I attended the 7:30 performance of the Donkey Show—a performance in the ilk of Tony and Tina's wedding—where you are surrounded by the performance—but think more Midsummer Night's Dream in the middle of Studio 54, with the same lack of clothing and overabundance of glitter (my favorite).

Best outfit ever.

 Yes, it may appear that my pictures are a bit fuzzy, but this is a good analogy of the performance—lots of movement and hot bodies in a frenzy (both male and female) covered in glitter, singing the best of the 70's and dancing up a storm. I was a little dizzy by the end, but definitely had a big smile on my face (and no, that wasn't just the vodka tonics I had been drinking).

It's hard to tell in this picture, but the man kneeling on the ground is wearing roller skates.

 To get a close-up look at the show, I highly recommend heading on over to the Oberon for a racy Saturday night, and enjoy the dancing, sweaty bodies, and great performers. Make sure to bypass the seats and get tickets on the dance floor—the best seats in the house (in my opinion.)

Hot bodies dancing up a storm.

Haiku Day

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I really enjoyed the Haiku Day during the 2011 Blogathon, and so I waited very patiently for today day to arrive. And then it actually snuck up on me, and I forgot today was the day. While sitting on the train this evening I observed a man rolling a cigarette, and I was inspired. So without further ado, here's my haiku:
Dry, chapped finger tipsgently shape the tobacco—smoky treat is mine!
Photo: Felix O

If I started blogging today I would….

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Another great theme topic for the 2012 Blogathon. For awhile in my first few years of blogging, the questions were swimming in my head:
Should my topic be more focused?Should I switch platforms?Do I have the courage to post my feelings online?
The questions in my head were endless. As time passed, I stopped thinking as much about the above, and just focused on posting. My topics have evolved, but this blog is an online journal of sorts—my place of creativity—so I haven't limited my topics. Certain questions still come up in my head from time to time, and at one point I did get a WordPress account, but I haven't switched over because it seems like too much work.

So if I started blogging today what would I do differently? Perhaps I would have blogged about a more focused subject, but I really enjoy the organic flow of topics that change as my life evolves. So at this point, I'm happy with my blogging journey, and I guess the advice I can impart is to not take it too seriously. Follow your instincts, enjoy your blogging, and see where it takes you.
Photo: Billy Frank Alexander

Teeccino & Vega Smoothie

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I've been so excited to do a smoothie with my Teeccino herbal coffee and Vega Performance Protein powder, and I finally had time and all the ingredients. This recipe is very relaxed—you can do any sort of adjustments on flavors, ingredients, and amounts but here's what I used:

1 packet Vega Performance Protein - vanilla
1/2 cup prepared and cooled Teeccino - vanilla nut
1/2 cup almond milk
1 teaspoon coconut oil (good fats)
1/2 cup young coconut meat (mine was frozen)
1/4 - 1/2 cup frozen chopped bananas (not pictured)
Dash of cinnamon

Add everything into the blender, and blend. I love the coconut vanilla coffee flavor, and it's a great way to start your day or a good recharge after a workout.


Do you have a favorite smoothie recipe? Share in the comments below.

A quote from Steinbeck

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My friend posted a great Steinbeck quote on Facebook, and I couldn't help but share it with all of you. Whether you are a writer, or in some other field, this quote can be enjoyed by everyone:
From John Steinbeck — Fall 1975 The Paris Review.

"Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material."

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This is the new image I created for the "FUCK The Big C" show taking place at Eve-N-Odd Gallery in St. Petersburg Florida. Curated by Jennifer Kosharek and featuring artwork from Ria Vanden Eynde, Betty Esperanza, Branka Djordjević and a host of MailArtists from around the globe. This exhibit is being created to bring visibility to show "how cancer affects our individual art making practice while doing our small bit for raising cancer awareness."

F**K THE BIG C! show runs through September, opens September 8 at 6pm-8pm with live performances, Gallery Walk on September 10. Donations go to local cancer support projects.

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