I’ll try to start again. Maybe fewer words this time, they never were my strong suit.
Starting a Fire
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No Depression
No Depression in Heaven by the Carter Family
For fear the hearts of men are failing,
For these are latter days we know
The Great Depression now is spreading,
God’s word declared it would be so
I’m going where there’s no depression,
To the lovely land that’s free from care
I’ll leave this world of toil and trouble,
My home’s in Heaven, I’m going there
In that bright land, there’ll be no hunger,
No orphan children crying for bread,
No weeping widows, toil or struggle,
No shrouds, no coffins, and no death
This dark hour of midnight nearing
And tribulation time will come
The storms will hurl in midnight fear
And sweep lost millions to their doom
New Pictures From the Distant Past
It was his birthday and my sister Rosie took us to the Gun Club in downtown Los Angeles
Fish for Sale
Samuel D Quinn http://www.samuelquinn.com/
My sister Rosie Pula and Jeremiah Burbank at the Hollywood Reservoir
All pictures taken in Los Angeles in 2011 with a Canon 5d
heaven in 4 frames
I’m gonna go see if I can find their cd, I have it around here somewhere, they sounded amazing, I always did love a choir, I was in one for like 6 years, singing was my first passion, and I was the biggest loudest kid in that choir
frank paulin ****UPDATED W/some context for those who are in the darkest room
his wife just called me, she can’t find this picture and apparently Frank wants to see it, this ones for you frank, you taught me so much, keep up the good work
Frank Paulin is a bit of a undiscovered genius, he didn’t publish till the early 90’s but his work stands up against the great street photogs of the era, but he made his living drafting dresses and then photographing them when that came into fashion, but he always had his Leica on him and got some killer shots new york in the 50’s-80’s
heres a book report on his masterpiece, Out of the Limelight… I picked it up at Grey Matter Books a couple years back, gave me hope when I needed it the most. http://5b4.blogspot.com/2008/02/frank-paulin-out-of-limelight.html
You know what he told me when I asked him for advice about photographing on the street? He told me to get a knife, and “Don’t pretend you are not an animal when you live in a jungle” pretty damn good advice for anyone actually!
Here’s a song I made partly inspired by him and his tenacity in the face of 50 or more years of work on the street, hopefully I can make it that far
PS thats a bit of a cover/folkmashup of one of my favorite songs about art making of all time by the great and obscure Andy Friedman
PS I’m lecturing at AS220 in Providence Rhode Island tonight 8-7-2012 at 7:30 I would be honored to meet you, thanks all
Eddy Pula
thats right in 2 days I’m lecturing
learn how to photo mothers and sons on revolutionary war sites in Providence Rhode Island next tuesday… its me I’m doing a photography lecture, so briefly consider coming, here are the deets
Eddy Pula graduated with a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and has been making pictures and videos for the past 13 years. He focuses on portraits of strangers on the street, clubs, barns and shopping malls of America. Eddy states
“I think a camera is an excuse to be curious.”
We hope to see you August 7th @ 7:30pm!
We’re located on Lucie Way: the rear entrance of the Mercantile Building located at 131 Washington St.
Eddy’s continuous photographic coverage of Western Mass. can be found on his flickr here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/raijsi/), and daily musings on the world and photography here (http://karapture.com/).
lemonster some time ago
waiting for a ride, my Homage to the work of my friend Jay Guerette, if you see him say hello, he might be walking dogs on beacon hill, Jay taught me not to work too hard and how to make amazing work without breaking the plastic… I owe him a beer
TECHNICAL DETAILS
Tripod, we don’t need no stinking tripod, used a traffic barrel, shot on a nikon f3 set to T on kodak portra 160, didn’t meter just guessed and hoped for the best about 8 mississippi’s at f1.8, if you look hard you will find my self portrait as a man waiting for his best friend Jeremiah Burbank
kathleen, benny and ron, my back porch 7-29-2012
the first of many good days too come with old and new friends
Here’s what it looked and sounded like to Kathleen Gens, please excuse any stray mustache hairs or witch like cackles, I can assure you they are purely coincidental
its my birthday ****3:03 UPDATE****
Hey All, today July 29th at 6am I turned 26 at 6am, gonna have a party at my house, 20 Arnold Rd Pelham, Massachusetts 01002, USA
Stop on by, and if you have one please bring a guitar or bongos.
****UPDATE*** PARTY WAS AWESOME
For Zack Holmes, special request
old hippies, got no reason, no reason to live: After Newman
thoughts on the neighbors on west street who told me not to smoke cigarettes in my friends back yard
old hippies got no reason, no reason to live
they took it all in their youth and see no reason to give
everything has to be there way
no one else got a right to say
old hippies got no reason, no reason to live
in their youth they smoked it all
now the police they will call
if you try to talk on a saturday afternoon
they will hit you with their silver spoon
old hippies got no reason, no reason to live
they went all over, and got kicked out
now they want to box us out
of their urban paradise
they judge every vice
old hippies got no reason, no reason to live
eddy pula- July 28th, 2012
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