18: Lissie -2010

Everywhere I Go lyrics

And i fall on my knees
Tell me how's the way to be
Tell me how's the way to go
Tell me all that i should know

And i fall on my knees
Tell me how's the way to go
Tell me how's the way to be
To evoke some empathy

Danger will follow me now
Everywhere i go
Angels will call on me
And take me to my home
Well this tired mind
Just wants to be lead home

And i fall on my knees
Tell me how's the way to go
Tell me how's the way to see
Show me all that i could be

And i fall on my knees
Tell me how's the way to be yeah
Tell me how's the way to go
Tell me why i feel so low

Angels will follow me now
Everywhere i go
Angels will call on me
And take me to my home
Well these tired eyes
Just want to remain closed

I don't see clearly can't feel nothing no
Can't you hear me?

And i fall on my knees
And angels will call on me
Now everywhere i go
Angels will call on me
And take me to my home

17: Iron and Wine -

It's been a favorite of mine for a while now.
such a quiet promise

Love and Some Verses
Love is a dress that you made
long to hide your knees
love to say this to your face,
"I'll love you only"
for your days and excitement,
what will you keep for to wear?
someday drawing you different,
may I be weaved in your hair?

Love and some verses you hear
say what you can't say
love to say this in your ear,
"I'll love you that way"
from your changing contentments,
what will you choose for to share?
someday drawing you different,
may I be weaved in your hair?

16: Chopin - 1834

I don't know. I just can't get over Chopin.

When I hear this, I always think of Stephen playing it
on our old stand-up piano at home.

I see my brother most alive when he is playing piano, as if nothing else in the world mattered then.
If he was upset, mad, or impatient before it is merely pushed used through the music and the piano .

I miss being in a home
that is filled constantly with music... be it piano, trombone, clarinet, drums, or even (god forbid) bagpipes....

15: Andrew Henderson 2003-2010

Andrew Henderson

Documentary Photographer came to our Photo as a Narrative class Monday night.
He went to RIT, photographed in Uganda and Rwanda for a bit, went to school for history and is now working for newspapers.

He actually photographed a Burmese family in Rochester, which just so happens to be my final project as well....
Talked to him afterward and said even if you are a bad photographer, you will become a great photographer if you revisit this family again and again.

maybe there is hope for me after all.

If you want to be a photographer, then you have to work. and work. and work.

14: How To Be Alone - 2010

13: Where the Hell is Matt? - 2009

Dancing 2009

the happiest video ever.

all the people who are dancing with him emailed him after seeing his first videos of him dancing by himself. He invited them to dance with him on his next trip around the world.

Goal: make a project where people can actually feel something at being a part of my work.

12: Afghan Photos - Sept 2010

I Just Can't Stop Scrolling Through These

beautiful images

i wish i could say i could be a war photographer

be like a James Nachtway...

someday

it's not like wars are gonna go out of business...

12: Beethoven - 1825

Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart

(A Convalescent's Holy Song of Thanksgiving to the Divinity)

This is in the Lydian Mode. I wish I paid more attention in Theory class all those years ago, so I could recognize what that is in other works.

Beethoven wrote this shortly after recovering from a deadly illness. My brother, Stephen, suggested I listen to this piece, and (as always) I am so glad that I did.

If hope and peace breathed, I think it would sound like this

11: Will Yurman-2010

"The answer to the why question gives your audience a reason to care."

This photojournalist / professor gave me the worst grade I've gotten since Pre-Calc and Trig back in 11th grade.

This important quote is the last sentence in the email I received about my first interviews for my Multimedia for Photojournalists class. He is absolutely right. This whole quarter all my professors have spoken time and time again on question of "Why Should We Care" about this project or that person. Being able to answer that question for every topic proposal, every interview, every photograph is pivotal. Only after we photojournalists give the viewer an understanding of why we care and why a person lives a certain way can he respond to the stories we are telling them.

Will Yurman's website

10: Lisa Wiltse - 2010

a very talented documentary photographer

her use of the frame is exactly what we've been talking about in class

her portraits and moments make projects that have the same urgent feeling of truth that I would like to see happen within my own future projects

Lisa Wiltse Photojournalism

9: PostSecret - 2010

I just think this is great and whenever I stumble

across notes like these, I thank God....

not just for the person who wrote it but also

for the person who dropped it here for me to find

8: GreenKarat Website - 2010

GreenKarat Website

I'm just so happy that there are eco friendly and safe ways to get

quality jewelry!

way to go greenkarat!

7: Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1889

This poem has been one of my favorites for a while

such a hopeful poem... there seems to be a moment of fleeting freedom at the very end.

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

6: Ernest Hemingway - 1964

One True Sentence

For when you have an artist's block

'' 'Do not worry. You have always written before, and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.'

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say."

5: Fiction Family- 2008

Throw it Away

I think about the life I live
A figure made of clay
And think about the things I lost
The things I gave away

And when I'm in a certain mood
I search the house and look
One night I found these magic words
In a magic book

Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day

And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you

There's a hand to rock the cradle
And a hand to help us stand
With a gentle kind of motion
As it moves across the land

And the hand's unclenched and open
Gifts of life and love it brings
So keep your hand wide open
If you're needing anything

Throw it away
Throw it away
Give your love, live your life
Each and every day

And keep your hand wide open
Let the sun shine through
'Cause you can never lose a thing
If it belongs to you

4: Stephen Edwards-2007

Christmas 2007

written by my ever so talented older brother.

something about owls and loons and crickets sound sooo peaceful together

stephenedwardsmusic.com

3: Benjamin Krain - 1996-2010

Photojournalist.

This guy is absolutely one of my favorites.
He's a genius. Use of color is amazing.

http://www.benjaminkrain.com/

2: Maurice Ravel- 1910

perhaps sad, but the melody is both beautiful and soothing.

1: from Franz Kafka - 1910-20s

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

"Von einem gewissen Punkt an gibt es keine Rückkehr mehr. Dieser Punkt ist zu erreichen."

‎"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

Forward

I am, probably by habit now, a wanderer. I neither belong here nor there... wandering led only by this need to learn and this need to love on others.

I feel as if in learning I am sifting through all this world's shame to find something of use, a speck of beauty and truth in a fallen world. Through this sifting, I have discovered something very important: as much shame there is, there is also that much good and artistic, that much wise and influential.

I want to use this blog as a place to keep all the beautiful things that others have created. There have been so many photo stories, musics, books, paintings, poetry, proverbs and so on that have kept me hoping and believing throughout my growing-up and learning years.

By archiving these inspirational pieces of work, I'm hoping that I will be able to physically see as well as understand what in this world is truly important... what about our lives prompts us to photograph, write, paint, and sing.