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What a week. It's been... a lot. So here are a few of the things I've been distracting myself with and thinking about besides the heartbreaking devastation and senseless loss of life in Ukraine.
I bought Danny Caine’s zine “How to Resist Amazon and Why” not only to support Raven Book Store but also to support the mission behind it after reading “A Kansas Bookshop’s Fight with Amazon Is About More Than the Price of Books.” I’ve long since been a supporter of independent bookstores, especially my local ones, but after reading Danny’s impassioned tweets which were the building blocks for his zine, it was also the nudge I needed, and I — FINALLY — canceled my Prime Membership. Funny aside: when Googling for the link to the zine again so I could post it above, this came up, and the irony made me laugh out loud.
Lauren Walsh smartly tackles so much that’s being talked about in the journalism industry right now, like the Photographer’s Bill of Rights and issues we’re dealing with in real-time in “How photojournalists struggle to capture COVID, Black Lives Matter — and now Ukraine.” Looking forward to reading the book.
As good of any description of NFTs I’ve seen: “It’s like condensed Warhol minus the art, the soup, or the wit.”
When I tell someone I’m blogging again, more specifically on Tumblr, I get asked “Tumblr still exists?” My reply is: not only does it exist, it’s making a come back.
On Creativity: photojournalist turned clinical social worker Rich Glickstein