To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
This photograph entitled “Thisbe” was taken in 1900. The title makes reference to the story of Pyramus and Thisbe first noted in Ovid’s Metamorphosis and since retold by many different authors. There’s no question that the image offers many inspirations, but what story does she inspire in you? Write 1000 words, publish it on your…
The human brain is such a fascinating thing. I look at this photograph and have such a sense of nostalgia. Distant memories try to come to the surface and I can’t resist the smile that crosses my face. The odd thing is there is no way that this should trigger any memory. It would be…
If you keep giving me these eyes that note all the details – if you tell me the lawn is manicured but you dont’t tell me that it makes your character both deeply happy and slightly anxious – then I’m a little bit frustrated with you. I want a story that’ll pull me in. I…
May 10, 1933: Students across 34 universities in Germany gathered to burn books from Jewish intellectuals such as Einstein and Freud, as well as other blacklisted non Jewish authors including Hemingway and Keller. On this same day a gathering of around 40,000 German citizens listened intently as Joseph Goebbels stated “the era of extreme Jewish…
It doesn’t get much more iconic than this, and you can see a million stories in those bedroom eyes. What do you see? Write 1000 words, publish it on your site and drop a link to it in a comment below. “Self-Portrait in the Green Bugatti” by Tamara de Lempicka, 1925 was commissioned by the German magazine…
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. From The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
You really have to love the fact that youth never really changes. Inspite of all the standards and means that we’ve put into place to insure a quality education and quality life, when boys see a hotrod, they can’t help themselves, today just the same as in 1924. There is something beautiful in that connection…
One really great side effect of all the advances in photography and accessibility on the internet is that we, the average person, can see how wonderfully strange our own planet can be. We really should take better care of it. I’m not sure we’ll find another one like it out there. Visit National Geographic’s site…
When one looks at this photograph, it is easy to see why the image of Paris in the early years of the 1900’s still holds such an inspiring place in our collective mythology. The image begs you to write the story of the place, of the man, of the time, of anything and everything that…
So 2013 turned to 2014 and the world keeps spinning. All of the world’s problems, from hunger to excess, are still sitting there, waiting to be solved. Humanity simply watched with optimism as the calendar flipped, hoping that, perhaps by magic, the new year would bring with it all the answers without any of the…