Russ McClintock - the blog

“I am not concerned with providing commonplace photographs like those made in the finer large-scale studios of the city, but simple, natural portraits that show the subjects in an environment corresponding to their own individuality.” - August Sander

It’s been a long time since I posted a shot of my freezer.

What is it with liberals?

I wonder what Holden Caulfield would have to say about that crappy bit of graffiti writing.

Zoe, 25, Student
Dries van Noten dress,
Balenciaga shoes,
Vintage bag

“This State of the Nation, on a Road to no where(sic), address is mere window dressing served up on a podium of disingenuous rhetoric standing against a backdrop of international war criminality.
Essentially the USA is run by crooks for other crooks and bankrolled by even bigger crooks. It’s really a very simple legacy to trace […]

This is the time of Winter when it seems like we will never make it to Spring.

The threat of international terrorism to the UK was raised from substantial to the second highest level of severe last night, meaning an attack ‘election’ is “highly likely”.
Alan Johnson, the home secretary, said there was no intelligence to suggest an attack was imminent . The escalation reversed a decision in July to downgrade the likelihood […]

WILLARD: Never get out of the boat. Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin’ all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin’ program. - Apocalypse Now.

The last tree of the season
chucked onto the pavement
on 19 of January.
What took
so fucking long?

Democratic calculus
to lose elections
is very complex
and at the same time
very simple.

Still life with swan, cigarette butts, pavement and shit.

Untitled (After Eggleston Show), 2010, j-peg, 400×300 pixels

This is a fairly typical scene in Islington.

” There are certain technical words within every academic discipline that soon become stereotypes and cliches. Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word “maladjusted.” This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology. Certainly, we all want to avoid the […]