special attention to blue bottle, san francisco:



wade lent me his books. have been reading tolstoy non-stop. i love his lust. i put in time for annie dillard here and there. i continue to work for mom, steve sometimes, and then i see my girls, megan and taska. annie was just here!! my room could be more clean, and i could spend more time doing archery. im up in sf for thanksgiving and am pretty excited to visit blue bottle!

been thinking about new work- palm trees? yesssssss. and interviews, a lot of interviews.

is visiting l.a. once a month to do interviews and help my mom get organized a bad idea? i think it would be really nice. maybe my brother would come too.

i am going to pay all of my student loans tomorrow!!! i am going to be free.

at dawn, boats go out with nets

the northerner's always say
"good feeling comes from a nap
good taste comes from a dumpling"

but the southerners still say they're just dough stuffed with meat, nothing special.

my agenda, which was fine at the beginning of the day, is now an annoyance because my mom just reminded me.

really into this:

http://interviewproject.davidlynch.com

and this, chris burden, our city lights:




also updated website finally. it can be seen here. or here: www.july1986.com

what's next. also, what is next?

color photographs made from april 2008 - august 2009. somewhere around 23, give or take two, photographs that constitute a new body of work.

"the more i work, the more i see things differently, that is everything gains in grandeur that day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. the closer i come, the grander it is, the more remote it is." giacometti

last night i walked home w my bike because it was so windy. i watched the palm trees sway 45 degrees north and then a 60 ft cypress tree fell in front of me. it fell from the inside of a woman's property, uprooting gutters and electricity lines and then crushing her white picket fence.

have many things to look forward to this week. im working on sequencing so i can show people new work. im going to bake a blueberry pie w justin and wade, do yoga at fred segal w wade, and im going to make justin and wade watch a movie w me. the apt is coming along, so now i am really feeling that i am starting over again.

its hard to think of philadelphia when i am here, and it is less hard to think of w. mass here but still hard. i've learned not to look back. and i feel good that i am here. like w. mass, the people i know here are very good people and i like that so much, to have sincere people near me. it feels gooooooooood.

David Gilkey

for war coverage, npr published some some pretty great photographs from david gilkey:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114205345

today is a beautiful day. my balcony is set in front of trees and the sun is just glistening away. i am glad it is 69 degrees and not 27. i am working on photographs before i go to work today. have been doing so since 8 am.





sometimes i honestly forget how much i love doing this, how wonderful it is to be in the world this way.

wow amazing yes

i say wow amazing and yes because JOSH ARNOUDSE and RAKY make up 2 of the 5 members of NO EYE CONTACT and they are featured as CMJ Music Festival's 25 must hear artists!!!!! I'm linking you right now


and on NPR!!!