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The formidable Jackson West just brought this rather wonderful blog to my attention: I Live Here: SF
This blog is a platform for a larger project: photographing the people of San Francisco. The images shared here are willing collaborations between myself and those pictured.
It is my goal to share some of the spirit and fascinating layers of this city through the eyes and visages of those who live here.
In particular was this latest post by Beth Spotswood. It’s one to warm the cockles.
My grandfather was in loud love. He said it a lot, every day, every opportunity. He loved my grandmother, my father, my brother, this city. He thought anyone who lived in San Francisco and had never walked across the Golden Gate Bridge was nuts. He laughed and he argued and he was always stopping at a mailbox.
Twitter’s great and all, but I’m glad blogging is here to stay.
Yay for the Spotswood!
I wonder if you know that that photograph is the statue of Goethe and Schiller in GG Park, a reproduction of one in Berlin given by the German government after WWI. The thing is, the gaygaygaygaygaygay implications of the two poets’ chummy pose was already being noted and made fun of in 1907, when this cartoon ran in the leftist newspaper “Jugend”: http://www.giovannidallorto.com/lavori/panico.jpg with the caption “Wolfgang, let go of my hand! Here comes Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld!”
I love SF kind of a lot myself…
Thank you so much for posting Beth’s story, and a bit about my blog here. It’s always an extra added special surprise to find new people who enjoy what this project is all about, just as much as I do.