“We’re all skulls”

Thanks to Jon Wilkening and his Monday Morning Dispatch for 1/8/2018, I watched the American Master’s episode on Richard Avedon recently. At 1:00:10, Julius Lester says, of one of Avedon’s portraits of his elderly father

We’re all skulls. And I look at that photograph and I see his skull. And then I wonder, what if we went around and related to each other as if we were all skulls, and we’re all going to die, and whenever we die, it’s going to be too soon… Everything else is irrelevant. Race, religion, gender, all the squabbles we get into is irrelevant to the fact that, in the end, we all look alike: we’re all skulls.

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Eduardo Paves Goya – ‘Several Hours Ahead’

Eduardo Pavez Goya‘s several hours ahead is a sort of travel zine, featuring selections from the 27 rolls of film he shot over a two week period in Tokyo back in October 2017. If you’re familiar with Ed, it’s almost a print version of one of his fun Shoot Film episodes, and the zine itself is beautifully made.

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‘Analog.Cafe’ vol. 1

I was one of the 51 backers that helped kickstart analog.cafe, a “creative outlet that publishes outstanding images and stories… works based on skill, imagination, innovation and diversity” and founded by @dmitrizzl back in May, 2017. The website went live on August 1, and I received the reward—a limited edition zine featuring a photograph from @chichic on the cover—back in October.

The zine isn’t available anywhere, but the website continues, so go and visit, show them some love, maybe submit an article, and spread the analog love, the only kind of love there really is.

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