An exhibition of very interesting photographer self portraits.

Lovely work by Swedish model turned photographer Lina Scheynius - this is her polaroid scrapbook.

happy birthday Karen. You were cool. Drummer and singer. What a girl.

"damn, she's pretty" - youtube commenter.

Photo of actress, director, and screenwriter Rachel Ward off the coast of Newport R.I. by Stan Shaffer scanned from You Should Have Been With Me: A Photographic Scrapbook by Stan Shaffer.

Scan and quote taken from Lizzie Garrett's moorish blog: http://tomboystyle.blogspot.com/

“To me it is the best place in the world,” O’Keeffe (at 94) said of Ghost Ranch. “It has always been secluded and solitary. When I first went there, it was only one house with one room—which had a ghost living in it.

Read more: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/homes/homes/archive/okeeffe_slideshow_0320...

Lyrical food writing by Allan Jenkins on meeting innovative Sweddish chef Magnus Nilsson. "This is food as alchemy, the unfinished product of an enquiring mind".

Photograph by Per-Anders Jorgensen

This would be the oldest plant by far that has ever been grown from ancient tissue. The present record is held by a date palm grown from a seed some 2,000 years old that was recovered from the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel.

Seeds and certain cells can last a long term under the right conditions, but many claims of extreme longevity have failed on closer examination, and biologists are likely to greet this claim, too, with reserve until it can be independently confirmed. Tales of wheat grown from seeds in the tombs of the pharaohs have long been discredited. Lupines were germinated from seeds in a 10,000-year-old lemming burrow found by a gold miner in the Yukon. But the seeds, later dated by the radiocarbon method, turned out to be modern contaminants.

Read the rest of the article via nytimes.com

Incredible. A thing of beauty.

I've always had a deep love for wildlife and documentary filmmaking. So to find a narrative archive of the lives and histories of those who produce this body of work is like striking inspiration gold - very fortuitous timing at this point in my own career.