From Jacques Racière’s The Future of the Image (translated by Gregory Elliot): The imprint of the thing, the naked identity of its alterity in place of its imitation, the wordless, senseless materiality of the visible instead of the figures of discourse–this is what is demanded by the contemporary celebration of the image or its nostalgic [...]
A photo I took in the halls of UMass Boston was featured in a Wired Magazine (well, on the website) in “Universal ‘Death Stench’ Repels Bugs of All Types”. Image: Flickr/bensheldon. Note: This photo was chosen from a disturbingly large volume of dead cockroach images on Flickr. There is a tiny bit of controversy though: [...]
Boston received its first real bout of inclement weather yesterday. Walking home after helping a friend put together a website for childhood leukemia patients, parents and survivors and in between helping push out a couple cars and not breaking my neck, I snapped these.
