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Camile Silvy

The |National Portrait Gallery has a exhibtion of this remarkable early French photographer who set up shop in London in the 1860s and produced millions of images on carte de visites. All developed with the aid of sunlight - winters were slow... The image above is thought to have been developed from sevaral different negatives and is the first use of blurring to indicate movement.

Permission slip

: not finish reading books that you're not really enjoying. Don't force it, close it.
: walk out of movies that suck (and hey, if you leave in the first twenty minutes, you can get your money back.)
: let it go to voicemail (especially during dinner, or snuggling, or watching So You Think You Can Dance?)
: give birthday gifts anytime of the year (which means you can be late or early and you can give yourself time to find just the right gift.)
: talk shit about WalMart (even if they do have the economic power of a small country.)
: cut the obligations cords that are driven by guilt.***
: pursue your own agenda.
: own next to nothing, live on a mattress, read and write and make love all day with no other responsibilities***
: return crappy products to their crappy manufacturers (because you can vote with your dollars.)
: leave your current business model so you can go do something bigger than you***
: tell your kids when you think that something an authority figure told them is bullshit (you need to be in solidarity with your child, not the so-called grown ups.)
: quit your job, even if you just started two weeks ago, or just got a raise, or are seemingly indispensable.

more here from the fabulous Danielle Laporte

Sally Mann

I went to the Photographers Gallery on Ramilies St (off Oxford St) to see the Sally Mann exhibition. She uses old fashioned collidion plates. I saw about 2/3rds of a great documentary about her also being shown as part of the exhibition before I had to leave due to a fit of coughing. She had interesting things to say about art making and inspiration. FT article here.

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slow london

I 've been ambling slowly around London today hopping on and off busses (can recommend getting a bus pass on your lobster card to help this out!)

Inspired to stop frantically ticking off things but just to experience London at a slow amble by this book.

Two places I found in Chelsea today.