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I never really knew Fall1. Growing up in Florida, it was nonexistent. We had seasons: hot, hotter, and that one week a year when you couldn’t wear flip-flops and had to find your socks and real shoes because the temps were, maybe, in the 70s. But I live somewhere with seasons now and have come to appreciate the cooling off of days, changing of the leaves, ramping up of apple cider and apple cider donuts at the farmer’s markets, shortening of days, and slowing down of life.
Americans glommed onto the word Fall over the word Autumn because it was shorter and easier, and some speculate it has to do with daylight savings time because of “spring forward, fall back.” Others say it has to do with the “falling of the leaves.” I am guilty of saying Fall, myself, but love the adjective “autumnal.” Fally, Fallish, Fall-like just isn’t as poetic or as much fun to say.
Aside from Fall, here are 5 other things2 I was looking at and loving this week:
Austin Kleon’s Typewriter Interview with Lynda Barry
I’m adding this book to my reading list. Seems topical.
On a related note, Beth Pickens has these amazing resources available as free downloads. I found the Making Art During Fascism PDF to be very useful.
The Onion buying and trolling Infowars is the best media news this week.
Will & Harper is the buddy movie I didn’t know I needed. Now you need it, too.
[Note: The painting above is: Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Autumn, 1573, Musée du Louvre. Arcimboldo painted the other three seasons as well. They’re all worth seeing.]
The painting above is: Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Autumn, 1573, Musée du Louvre. Arcimboldo painted the other three seasons as well. They’re all worth seeing.]
And a bonus sixth: Joel Sternfeld’s Pumpkin Patch photo, aka McLean, Virginia, December 1978, is my favorite Fall photo. This backstory is a good read.
A great roundup, including the painting (which I saw in person this past summer). The Art During Fascism book is an interesting (and important) pick for this moment and made me realize that I’ve recently started dabbling in other creative outlets than photography and now wonder whether it’s likely in response to this Orwellian “new world order” being put together back in my homeland. And I hadn’t heard about the Will and Harper documentary: the trailer made me feel. Thanks for the introduction. Great post.