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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:52:55 +0000

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By: SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Alec Soth: On Assignment, Portraiture, and The Ground Glass

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:52:19 +0000

[...] I’m back and, unlike Alec, I’m not thinking of the benefits of staying disconnected. Though, maybe I should be. [...]

By: Alec Soth

Alec Soth — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:51:12 +0000

More http://fflaneur.livejournal.com/39704.html ” rel=”nofollow”>good stuff from Eric Z.

By: Alec Soth

Alec Soth — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:24:58 +0000

Lisa, I'm so flattered that you read my blog. And I appreciate your comments. Coming from an artist who created her own gallery, I’m sure you have plenty of advice about extra-curricular activities. Thank you. I feel bad that you keep checking for updates. Here is the trick. Try Google Reader. It is an easy way to check all of your favorite blogs at once.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:36:47 +0000

I understand completely what seems like an ambivalence about the blog, or the internet in general. I have had a few other activities outside of what I do as an artist and I am completely aware of the compulsion element of it, but on the other hand, I know that it balances out everything else for me. I have ended projects thinking that I don’t know why I am doing it, only to find that they come back again and again in different forms. It is actually a similar energy to what was in my work when I was starting out, a kind of desire to find a way to frame all of my interests. As important as it is to understand your compulsions, it is also just as important to be able to walk away from them, and know that if it is the right thing, you will find another way to approach it which might be better.

For me, being an artist is kind of boring in the end. I need an alternate outlet, not just for perspective and the social elements, but also to keep me from self-destructing. On the other hand, sometimes the best and fastest way to get through something is not to stay away from it, but to go toward it as directly and totally as possible.

Whatever any of that means to anyone but myself, I enjoy your blog immensely and would miss it should you decide to give it a break (the many times a day I check for updates…um I have way too much time on my hands and not much interest in books at the moment)

By: artlife

artlife — Wed, 23 May 2007 19:34:30 +0000

My internet access got cut off for a nite and i felt like i was missing a finger or something…kept wanting to check on this or that bit of info and couldn’t…very very weird…hmmmm.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:03:16 +0000

I love this blog for real inspiration and art-friendship. The ideas, questions, poetry, insights–and especially the generous sharing of images and the act of looking and seeing together. Not being a photographer, I am always learning from it–it opens me up to so many new visual and ideological realms. It’s gotten me to take a camera along on walks and so forth, just to watch how I see. I wish there were more blogs like this out there. I know it can’t go on forever, but please don’t go away.

By: meira

meira — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:01:01 +0000

u see . u have lots of interested readers .. have a kit kat but always come back..
an hello from the other side of the river

By: Tim Connor

Tim Connor — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:32:30 +0000

All true about the internet & attention spans. But what blogs — this blog — can do is to not only stimulate but also moderate among differing points of view in a genial, fair-minded way (that would be you, Alec). It’s a good place to learn things. You may not want the role but my impression is it leads to a lot of teaching energy being generously dispensed by others too. That’s a good thing.

By: Alec Soth

Alec Soth — Wed, 23 May 2007 03:19:31 +0000

Eric, I’m glad you brought up the ArtForum Top 10. It is perfectly analogous to blogs. It is one of the first things I look at in the magazine. It is a piece of candy. But you can only eat so much before you get sick. Books are restaurants; the Internet is a candy store.