Jeff Curto’s podcasts and how I actually miss school
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Since I moved to New York, most of what I’ve been doing has nothing to do with photography, which has been sort of lame. That’s not really a complaint though, so much as an observation. I’m working enough to live pretty comfortably and there’s nothing wrong with that. I also spent a lot of time hanging out with a girl I won’t be seeing any more of and I suppose there’s nothing wrong with that, either.
The past couple of days at work have been relaxing and a nice change. My boss asked me to photograph her entire house, room by room. It’s a beautiful place, a four story brownstone in Carroll Gardens, with loads of light spilling in, all freshly rennovated. Since she has this home and gardening show, all the furniture, appliances, paint, bathtubs, pots, pans, everything, were all donated by her sponsors–it’s pretty unreal. So I’ve just spent 3 days with my headphones in, behind my camera working my way from the top floor down.
My love of podcasts has been rekindled. I listen to hours of public radio. But looking through arts related podcasts to enrich the brain as I work I discovered a photo history podcast by a community college professor in Illinois (I think). His entire spring semester is there, and I’m pretty into it. It’s really fun to take in a class on a familiar subject while I’m working. The best part of it: since it’s the recording of the actual class sessions, you get to be as frustrated with the, er, denser students as you were when you were actually in school! What more could a working person want?