Heterogeneous Spectacles(Jamie Lyons News) ❖ Jamie Lyons

October 5, 2012 · Individualism

The Most Interesting Dog in The World

I’ve spent time with supposed intellectuals, credential-clutching Ivy League types who couldn’t find their own ass with both hands and a roadmap, people so wrapped up in their own mythology they’ve forgotten what actual intelligence looks like when it’s staring them dead in the face with those dark, knowing eyes. And then there’s Sharka. This […]

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July 30, 2012 · Collusion

Franconia Performance Salon #3

It’s a hot summer night in San Francisco, the kind that feels like a mistake, like the city forgot what it’s supposed to be, and I’m at Michael’s house for salon number three. I don’t want to be here. I should be literally anywhere else. And for some reason as I’m thinking about this night […]

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May 20, 2012 · Collusion

Franconia Performance Salon #2

So here’s the real truth: I’d just bought a Canon 5D Mark II and I’d found this gorgeous 1950s Zeiss 35mm lens, put an adapter on it, and I was looking for any excuse to shoot with the damn thing. That’s it. That’s why these photos exist. That’s pretty much why this website exists. And […]

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May 10, 2012 · Wanderlust

no idea of what is going to happen

Tangier light doesn’t just hit the retina, it rewires the goddamn thing. That silhouette against the Mediterranean haze, the way the architecture dissolves into something between memory and hallucination, it’s the exact visual frequency of not knowing what comes next and being perfectly fine with that fact. I have no idea of what is going […]

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April 29, 2012 · Absolute Solipsism

Hostage to the Golden Hour: Beni & Kathy’s Barn

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Beauty… it’s a goddamn trap, and this photograph proves […]

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March 31, 2012 · Engineering

The Lawn Bowlers Have Figured Out What We’re All Running From

So here’s what nobody tells you about escaping Palo Alto: you can’t. Not really. You can put continents between yourself and those manicured lawns where old men in white execute shots with the precision of surgeons, but the Ghetto, yeah that’s what they call it, the Faculty Ghetto, like living in five million dollar Craftsman […]

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The Lawn Bowlers Have Figured Out What We’re All Running From

March 8, 2012 · Industries

Bagan – The Crumbling Truth

Look, there’s a violence to beauty this complete, this unrelenting. You stand there among these temples (thousands of them, no bullshit, actual thousands) rising out of the dust like broken teeth in some ancient god’s jaw, and the whole damned thing refuses to comfort you with meaning. It just is. Stupas and pagodas crumbling in […]

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