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It’s very important for you to know that I have no taste when it comes to clothing, but a generic, black, pullover hoodie should be in every photographer’s toolkit. It has a ton of utility: it can be a napkin, a drop cloth, a pillow for when you need to take a break. I can’t be worried about what I look like when I’m out taking pictures, and a black hoodie rarely looks stained. Long story short: I need to be wearing clothes that, if I fell into a huge puddle, I wouldn’t care. I’d just throw it in the trash and keep on moving.
Mar 15, 2022
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✅a black one i ordered on amazon is one of my most worn clothing items of the past year or so. great quality for like nothing ($15-20) which is rare these days. you can beat the hell out of it not have to worry what happens given you can get a new one just as easy (ideally you don’t need to do this, or very often)
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🌬You just need one good one you can throw on that looks decent on you. Mine is this reverse weave Milwaukee hoodie in college text. Bought it while at the airport waiting to head back west while crying because it was my first time coming back home in 4 years. Anyway, it’s a good ass hoodie. I wear it anytime it gets a lil chilly out here. Its never lost its form and no matter what it’s gets me right.
Jan 16, 2025
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Sometimes a sweatshirt fits great overall, but the collar is too tight on my neck and which causes the the hood to be too tight, blah blah blah. It just leads to not being comfortable in a hoodie. Which is kind of the whole point of wearing one. I bought an old ripped up Russell hoodie on Ebay and it’s become something of a second skin because it 1) fits perfect 2) the collar is loose and 3) it’s not too heavy. Good to have one of these in your rotation.
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💫A great book about the birth of Los Angeles based around the intertwining portraits of engineer William Mulholland, director DW Griffith, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. It presents the city as founded upon myth, greed, and man’s desire to conquer nature- which I think fits into the narrative of just about any metropolis in the USA. In New York City, we have a tendency to write off LA as some kind of self-indulgent city of cars and convenience, but there’s a part of me that thinks that LA’s image is far more honest than NYC’s: it more nakedly illustrates our innate desire as humans to exploit the Earth and each other to claim what we think we deserve as individuals. It’s a true illustration of the “every man for himself” brand of American ambition, and, in my opinion, New York is exactly the same, but we’re just a bit better at hiding it.
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💫Not the Jack Black that you’re thinking of. This is the autobiography of a burglar at the turn of the 20th century who feels like someone ripped out of a cartoon or something. I love stories with unreliable narrators, and this one takes the cake. Full of safe-cracking and train-hopping, it’s one of my favorite books. At one point, he buries a bunch of stolen cash in the ground, and returns years later to retrieve it only to find the stash trapped beneath a house that was built on top of it.
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💫I think these look sick. There’s no way Charlie Chaplin actually wanted his movies to look the way that they did. If it existed at the time, he would have loved that insane “motion flow” setting that your parents keep activated on their TV.
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