Nine Stories by Salinger

Salinger And the Lovecats

This summer during introductions in an English lit class, a fellow student suggested that I read J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories as a primer for the author. As I sat reading the last of the short stories in his collection (in a gently-used first edition paperback printed in the summer of 1954), the lyricism of one …

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Doing Things

It’s been two and one-half months since I arrived here. Today was the first day that I went to the beach. Today was also the first day I picked up food from a local seafood restaurant. The food from Seaview Crab Company was delicious. (Dining inside wasn’t going to happen.) It’s amazing that it’s taken …

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Back to School

Hi all,My name is Scott and I recently moved to Wilmington, North Carolina to embark on a new path in life. After getting a degree in mathematics in my youth and spending the fifteen years that followed corporate ladder-climbing in tech, I eventually burned out and pursued a more relaxing career in photography. (Creative endeavors …

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We’re Going on a Journey

So many times, this site has gone into cardiac arrest. And almost always, it languishes in agony, forgotten by me until I catch it in my periphery as I whip past, rushing headlong in some new direction. And I’m always more appalled by the aesthetics of its demise than concerned for its actual death. Because …

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My Exit from Sensual Photography

I’ve found it incredibly difficult to put into words why I’m exiting the world of sensual photography but I can most definitely say that nearly everything about my years working in this realm have been utterly fantastic. I’ve met and worked with so many wonderful people over the past decade and a half and, between …

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The Canon FD 24mm

I mentioned in my post on the test shoot that I ran into issues with the Canon FD while shooting. The issues I ran into were twofold. One, despite my light meter readings, everything was way over exposed. And two, focusing was more difficult, I felt, than it should’ve been. After a few shots during …

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The Test Shoot

Had a shoot with Reese last Saturday specifically to test out new equipment and, more importantly, to test out changes to my workflow. Definitely time well spent. Learned a lot and, as an added bonus, Reese and I ended up with a number of shots both of us found exceedingly satisfactory. As far as the …

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The Lunchbox Camera Case

I just built myself a custom lunchbox camera case for a fraction of the cost of what I would pay someone else to do it. And then I built a second one. And I did it with vintage lunchboxes. Could not be more pleased with the results. These are exactly what I’ve wanted for years. …

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Shooting with Vintage Lenses

Two of the three vintage lenses I’ve ordered have arrived along with two focal reducers to match their mounts. The first lens to arrive was a Pentax 35mm f3.5 with M42 mount. I have a straight M42 to X-mount adapter from Urth that I’ll probably keep on it, making the effective focal length ~52m on …

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The New Era

I’ve mentioned previously that my headspace has been shifting with regards to photography. Sort of an overall shift, from what I want to shoot to how I want to shoot. Even to why I want to shoot. Today marks the beginning of the new era. I tend to look at my years in photography in …

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Rest in Peace, Stacy

Recently, I’ve been re-posting words I wrote shortly and long after Alec committed suicide on March 1st, 2010. While I had been planning to republish those words eventually, recent events made getting them up a priority. Cue it up for listening while you read Right after Alec’s wake, I drove into town to meet up …

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It begins with a name

Prior to today and for the last eleven or twelve years, I’ve introduced myself to you as Scott. So in all likelihood, you know me as Scott. Well friends, I’m still Scott. But the ground has been shifting and rumbling underneath me for a while. My digital space here is changing as well, mimicking the …

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It’s a nice town.

Winston-Salem is not the town for me. It’s a nice enough place. Just not for me. As someone who is forever viewing each city or town I live in as Goldilocks’ next bowl of porridge that’s not quite right, I actually knew before I moved here that it was going to be a little lukewarm. …

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Normal Speed Time Traveler

There are a few thoughts that dominate my mind lately. And they’re both sort of broad-ranging and, in a way, tied together. The subjects? Aging and our connected world. I want to talk about aging first. And I’m likely to write more about it but I’ve been trying to get this down digitally forever. Aging, …

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The Pursuit of Happiness

It was during that superficially exciting time in my life when I was living in South Beach, surrounded by beautiful people, and shooting erotica nonstop that someone said to me, “I wish I could be you.”Without hesitation I replied, “No you don’t. I don’t even want to be me.” There have always been dark realities …

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The Darkness and the Light

Cue it up now, please, listen as you read. I’m kind of battling with two different things right now, and trying to find the balance between everything. I think I should warn you that, while this isn’t graphic in nature, that the content of this post may be upsetting. If you’re of influential mind, just …

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Catharsis

Wikipedia (which is the known trusted source of human knowledge or something close to it) has this introduction for their entry on Catharsis: Catharsis is the emotional cleansing of the audience and/or characters in the play. In relation to drama it is an extreme change in emotion resulting from strong feelings of sorrow, fear, pity, …

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Remember

At 4pm this afternoon, we will be burying Alec. I would ask for one thing from those of you who can’t attend the service but who knew Alec, myself, his mother, his brother, his girlfriend, or any of the rest of our family: please take a moment of silence at that time to remember him. …

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Love

Everyone, This post is going to be somewhat short and I have soooooo much to say, but I need to get a message out right now. Everything feels like it’s happening at lightning speed. I don’t know where to begin. I can’t thank everyone enough for your love and support. As a lot of you …

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Alec and Zach surfing

I beg

I beg that you please send all positive thoughts, energies, prayers, whatever you have this way to my family and I. I’m in Charlotte, NC, tonight and will be in Newberry, SC in the morning. Alec, my oldest son, committed suicide today, Monday, March 1st, 2010. I just want to ask that you keep all …

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Nomad’s Land

I’m leaving Miami for a while. I’m taking a trip across the country. On my scooter. Since my scooter maxes out at 35mph unless I’m going downhill, I can’t take the interstate. And so I will be taking the long way: the winding back roads, the busy streets, and the empty stretches of highway, through …

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