Considerations...: The Last Debate

Word of the day : extemporize
: to improvise
: to get along in a makeshift manner

What a weekend... well, it was okay until Julia got back, and then it became great. The boys are glad to have her home. I had the morning to myself, as Julia took Gabriel back to school for his first day since fall break, and I got caught up on shows I recorded last night and took the Daisy for a one hour walk.

Don't forget to keep tabs on my other, book-related, blog: http://mybookylife.blogspot.com/

Today might be a good time to get caught up on our journey through Professional Photographer's list of the 100 Most Influential Photographers of All Time. Let's see, where were we?

Simon Norfolk (#67)

For more information on this acclaimed photojournalist-turned-landscape photographer, go to his website: http://www.simonnorfolk.com/

Araki (#68)

Due to the controversial, graphic content of his work, I won't put up any of his images. If you're interested in reading about him (and be forewarned...), here is a very unusual, at times confrontational, interview with him:

http://www.vice.com/read/nobuyoshi-araki-118-v15n7

Ellen Von Unwerth (#69)

Here's an article on her:

http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/07/the-creative-class-ellen-von-unwerth.html

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A performance today for my list of the 500 Greatest Performances of All Time...
Hmm, how about...

Jeff Daniels
as Bernard Berkman in The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Daniels is a remarkably versatile actor - somewhat unsung - with a natural, comfortable ability to look like or play anybody within any genre. I think this is his greatest role, a part that Daniels digs into with great relish. What's clear right away in writer-director Noah Baumbach's grand comedy about divorce and growing up is how unlikable Bernard is - he's obscure and elitist, closed-off, self-important, and emotionally blocked. But the longer we watch Daniels, the more human he becomes, and we start to realize that most fathers, most parents, are probably more like this or seem more like Bernard than the usual parents we get on-screen; the actor, bearded and quick-witted, lets use see uncomfortable truths.

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And, finally, here are ten shows I'm watching this fall 2012 season that I think you should be too...