Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Capture Beauty

"It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowing and there's this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. Right? And this bag was just dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. That's the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video's a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember... I need to remember... Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in."

- Ricky Fitts (Wes Bentley) in American Beauty

A Shining White City

In the early 20th century, Carl Fisher imagined the streets to be an all-white city—a sanitary, geometrical dream carved out of a mangrove s...