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My friend Britt just showed me this because we’re both doing Flash in a design class.

Richard Ave­don

Some­time not so long ago (2001?), Richard Ave­don became the first staff pho­tog­ra­pher for the New Yorker, a job he held until his death in 2004. The newest issue of the New Yorker arrived today, it being Tues­day. I hap­pened to flip it open up to page 51 and see a famil­iar image: a par­tic­u­larly ethe­real por­trait of Jacob Israel Ave­don made dur­ing his finals days by his son in 1972. It accom­pa­nies an arti­cle by Atul Gwande about aging. I would like to hear other opin­ions on this, but I feel like the pho­to­graph far out­shines the piece, which seems far too iconic for an edi­to­r­ial con­text. Thoughts?

Urban­code is a local arts and lit­er­ary mag that just got started up here in the Dis­trict of Colum­bia. The pre­mière issue has just become avail­able, and a photo of mine appears on page 43. Down­load the issue and check it out.

Four and a half months later, it turns out that an MFA pro­gram isn’t in the cards for this year. I received strong words of encour­age­ment from a lot of great places and opted not to go to ICP in favor of hope­fully attend­ing a Uni­ver­sity pro­gram in the future. It was an inter­est­ing process and I learned quite a bit about what the pos­si­bil­i­ties are. So, we’ll put this to rest with one final look at the score­card (until next year):