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luis arrieta

luis arrieta

california

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making photos look old

there's something endearing about spending a couple thousand dollars on a brand new full-frame camera to then process the heck out of the photos to make them look as if they were taken with a $15 disposable film toy.

the day I finished The Rambler

the day I finished The Rambler

in every man's life, however splendid or modest, there are episodes that mark one's journey as a reader or as a person. Reading Samuel Johnson's essays is both a personal and a reader milestone.

the victim card on Christmas Eve

the victim card on Christmas Eve

for what would so soon destroy all the order of society, and deform life with violence and ravage, as a permission to every one to judge his own cause...

beware the ambition of petty accomplishments

beware the ambition of petty accomplishments

the ambition of petty accomplishments, in which we believe we’re advancing, but a wiser perspective offers the opposite diagnosis.

knocked down to the essentials

the environment is driving me, subconsciously, to choose the effective over the fancy.

my favorite pants that some people hate

The hostility is aimed at the second edition of the Stretch Zions because there were changes in the fabric and the button.

the tools were already there

the tools were already there

The tools have already been here. The brain connects ideas, not Obsidian.

marketing for the foolish

marketing for the foolish

... for the impressionable, the young, the foolish, for humanity... It’s not the absurdity of the argument that I find strident, but that it comes veiled as a tautology.

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