• - Don Weber’s advice in May to make the photographs I want to make not the photographs I think I should make. How do I tell the difference??? How do I tell the difference between inspiration and a case of the shoulds?

• - Wade Robson – I didn’t realize how young he is. It’s shameful really, how much talent a single person can have. These are oldish videos, but I only discovered them last week. If you like dance or Wade Robson, you really must watch them.
• - This is him actually dancing with Cirque du Soleil.
• - And here he is when he was 8! I’m not sure what’s scarier: that he was only 8 in 1992 or that he was that good then.
• - But this is the one I just can’t stop watching. Or listening to the song over and over again (which, if you also want to listen to it on repeat and drive your partner crazy, is John Mayer’s “Slow Dancing in a Burning Room”).
• - And did you see his choreography with Brandon and Jeanette this week? Awesome.

• - Broken Social Scene’s Anthems For a 17-Year-Old Girl. Especially since I heard it in connection with an interview with the author of this book. (Which I plan to read but haven’ t yet.)

• - I love my iPod. I get to wander around town playing mopey songs (see above) in my ears and pretending I’m a miserable, brooding teenager again. I don’t know why I like pretending to brood so much, but I do.

• - The idea that if people in a photo were directed the photos is fake or fictional or even less meaningful or valuable. For me, it just feels right to interact with the people in my photographs. I feel creepy if I’m sneaking around trying to capture them in a so-called ‘real’ moment – even when the person has agreed to let me photograph them. Of course, this could just be narcissism, that I want every photo I make to be about me, or at least as much about me as whatever’s actually in front of the camera. This will take me a while to figure out.

• - Wanting to open a twitter account for this blog, but being stuck on a name – peripheralvision is one letter too long, apparently. But if I’d just done it a few months ago, it would have been fine. I dunno. I guess I’ll make it peripheral_vsn.

Here are some of the images I’ve been shooting while mooning about like a broody teenager:

(that’s my old dorm room in the bottom right corner)