breakfast in sunny southend

I always sort of imagined my other site to be playing this on a continuous loop. The general basis of it was in line with this song's subject matter, really.

Picture yourself when you're getting old,
Sat by the fireside a-pondering on
Picture book, pictures of your mama, taken by your papa a long time ago.
Picture book, of people with each other, to prove they love each other a long ago.

It's a really sweet sentiment that most modern photography (???) seems to strive for, but is ultimately bogged down by irony, corporate sponsorship, self-centered photographers who seem to have lost (or perhaps never even had) a sense of self or what exactly their work should be focusing on.

Let it be known, there is ultimately nothing inherently wrong about taking photos of drugs, good looking people at parties or all around vapidness, per se. There is something wrong in doing so without a true perspective and/or a sense of humor about it that has at least some basis in reality (i.e. humor that goes past irony, or simple absurdity.) Trying to be compelling or say something of note-even it is about something as purely silly as New York or Los Angeles Red Bull and cocaine parties-is not a crime.

Things like this prove that.

Sorry for the rant, but once I get on a roll...

The Kinks - Picture Book