portraits, #2.
Friends. Family. Friends of family. Self, and I guess, a cafe waitress passing by a framed Marlon Brando.
Also one of these pictures is from 1996.
Guess which one. (In Homer Simpson whispering voice: It’s film.)
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Travels and Daydreams
Tag: Oxford
May 24, 2012
Oxford, je t’aime
It’s been a busy busy month.
Three cities in three weeks: London, Oxford, and Paris.
A glorious tour prompted by my graduation from Oxford University’s Masters in Creative Writing.
I met with lots of friends. Had a nice Degree Day. Read at a great literary event at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Oxford with a super talented group of writers that shall be henceforth called The Shy Oxford Writers.
Went to bookstores, galleries, museums, theaters, diners, restaurants, coffee shops, pubs, cinemas, parks, malls, and a tiny basement in Dalston to see a band play. Friends’ houses. Train stations. Art supply stores, grocery stores, hotel rooms. Artists’ studios. A very full trip complete with celebrity sightings, more rain that I’ve been in all year, and even an afternoon of a sudden hail storm. (This, London, is not spring weather. This is madness.)
Oh and I took some Impossible polaroids. (It took me more than one film to realize that England was so cold that exposed shots had to be placed in warm pockets to develop, otherwise they came out all yellowy.)
These are the ones I took in Oxford.
Wellington Square park.
Rewley House.
a street off Banbury Road, previously seen here in non-Polaroid form and sunshine.
The Sheldonian Theatre, built in 1664-8, where we had our degree ceremony.
The Emperors. I love these guys. I want to get one for my desk.
Rewley House again. I stayed there. A lot.
And I will miss it, tiny beds and all.
So I’ll just say, au revoir, Oxford. Thank you for a fantastic time, a good degree and great friends. See you again soon. xoxo
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December 4, 2011
Rooms with a View
I got this idea stuck in my head after being in Santorini for about two seconds earlier this month. That over the years I have lived or stayed in a lot of places with great views. And maybe I had pictures of those views somewhere?
(I did. Mostly on film. These are a lot of them. Also the first shot of the last post.)
My friend Alex used to say, it doesn’t matter how your place looks really, only where your door opens out to.
He also used to say: “Sleep is so good. It’s the best. You can’t buy that shit.” But that wisdom is for a different post.
I wish you all (and Alex) all the great views in the world.
xoxo
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November 12, 2011
retreat. relax. reflect… work.
I’ve been doing a lot of traveling recently. Which is great for filling your head with new things, people and places.
But now need to get back to that quiet place that is home.
Relax. Reflect. Retreat back into me.
And get writing.
xoxo
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October 31, 2011
Real Estate, the band.
There is a magical place in London where you can see bands play for the price of an album, a t-shirt and showing up on time (or begging the bouncer to let you in. Good luck with that.) The gigs there are so small you may even get to talk to the band after.
That is where I saw the band Real Estate for the second time.
When I first saw them in Jericho Tavern in Oxford almost two years ago it was their first time in the UK and they were very young, bright-eyed and polite, and they sounded great.
They sounded even better the second time. (They were still very young and very nice.)
Of course I’m a big fan of surf, rock music and the beach, so I might be biased.
I sometimes put their song Beach Comber on repeat and listen to it as I write.
Tiny Mix Tapes has their tour dates. And you can follow them on twitter for updates.
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October 31, 2011
Happy Halloween
Its brain matter made the tastiest pie. Not, not that kind. With leaks and stuff. Savory.
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October 28, 2011
Oxford. walks. weekend. zen. ♥
Sometimes you don’t need words. (said the writer.) shhh…
The Turl Street Kitchen is a nice place that just opened on the corner of Turl and Ship Street. It’s a social enterprise connected to the Oxford Hub, also housed in the same building.
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September 29, 2011
travels + daydreams
So I just finished this amazing graduate writing course in Oxford that I’ve been doing for the last two years and found a few empty pockets of time. So I started scanning some old pictures.
For example this one slide film I shot the first time I went to Oxford in 2009 when the course started.
For the longest time I thought I was going to do a photography book called Travels+Daydreams.
If I did these would be the kind of pictures I would include.
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