photograph Courtesy of National Geographic Magazine

“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. Why muck and conceal one’s true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself.” – Everett Ruess

A Mystery of the West is Solved [NYTimes.com]

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1.There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2.Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3.There is no editing stage.
4.Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5.Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6.The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7.Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8.Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9.People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10.Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11.Destruction is a variant of done.
12.If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13.Done is the engine of more.

Cigarettesandpurtity [via Chris Norris] First posted on the Behance Team Blog.

THE CALLER CAN HEAR A FEMALE SCREAMING NOW - 4:09 PM Mar 29th from web

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photograph ©Matheus Chiaratti

“Smiling Faces Tell Lies”

Edited by Luis Torres

Contributors: Fermin Guzman Martinez, Ciarli Scappa, Pedro Ramos, dirtyfeet, Karen Rudd , Iván Santiesteban, Luca De Marchi, Matheus Chiaratti, Barry Fisher, Francesca Nicolosi, Ludmilla Morais

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Frequent LPV contributor Ben Roberts has won the BJP Photography’s Project Assistance Award for his ‘The Brick Business‘ project.  And he’s on Flickr. And Twitter. And he blogs.  Photographer’s young and old should take note of Ben’s approach to marketing his work online.  He’s everywhere. He’s engaging, insightful and generous. He understands the benefits and pitfalls of the online photography world better than just about anyone.  For the old school photographer’s who are not convinced about the benefits of social networking platforms like Flickr or Twitter, you should take note and pay attention because photographer’s like Ben are taking photography in a new, and much more exciting direction. 

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La Pura Vida, January 2009 – Edited by Ben Roberts