ben delaney

hone the craft, and practice the art, of living.

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:11:38 -0400

hone the craft,
and practice the art,
of living.

I love you all but my creativity gets killed by technology so I have to go for a while. Social media...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:58:57 -0400

I love you all but my creativity gets killed by technology so I have to go for a while. Social media hiatus. See you when I see you. :]

"Art is both love and friendship, and understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:25:02 -0400

“Art is both love and friendship, and understanding; the desire to give. It is not charity, which is the giving of Things, it is more than kindness which is the giving of self. It is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.”

- Ansel Adams

Yesterday.

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:06:00 -0400

Yesterday.

I call it: Pu’earl™

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:05:44 -0400

I call it: Pu’earl™

sweatsandasweater: Some Nights - fun. Love this song. I love...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:39:00 -0400

sweatsandasweater:

Some Nights - fun.

Love this song.

I love that Keith Green has been so wonderfully reincarnated as the lead singer of Fun.

[If you don’t get this, don’t worry about it. If you do get it, you KNOW I’m right.]

"The biggest lie of human memory is that it feels true. Although our recollections seem like literal..."

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:34:08 -0400

“The biggest lie of human memory is that it feels true. Although our recollections seem like literal snapshots of the past, they’re actually deeply flawed reconstructions, a set of stories constantly undergoing rewrites.”

- Jonah Lehrer on memory and how to fix the imperfections of eyewitness testimony. Also see why memory is not a recording device. (via explore-blog)

Shot of me and M at Watch The Throne in Tacoma.

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:44:02 -0400

Shot of me and M at Watch The Throne in Tacoma.

goat cheese… and quail eggs. fancy fancy. (no reason to...

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:31:55 -0400

goat cheese… and quail eggs. fancy fancy. (no reason to put these together here except the color palettes fit together nicely.)

jakestangel: Amsterdam, 2012. This photograph really connected...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:12:15 -0400

jakestangel:

Amsterdam, 2012.

This photograph really connected for me tonight. Can’t say for sure why. But it evokes a certain sense of place, some texture or visual aroma, that I’ve only ever felt in Europe, and that I deeply miss.

Real Food is Beautiful. Veggie Edition.

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:23:00 -0400

Real Food is Beautiful. Veggie Edition.

Real Food is Beautiful. Meat Edition. Charcuterie by Jeremy...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:11:00 -0400

Real Food is Beautiful. Meat Edition.

Charcuterie by Jeremy Hansen of Santé.

this reminds me of something. it feels like a memory, and not of...

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 13:22:00 -0400

this reminds me of something. it feels like a memory, and not of the moment when I took it. something much older. there is some echo of my childhood or ancestry in this somehow.

I hope I can write letters this good to my kids when the time comes.

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:38:41 -0400

I hope I can write letters this good to my kids when the time comes.:

(John Steinbeck to his son, on falling in love. Gut-wrencher.)

There is simply No Possible Way to rightly experience a...

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:30:00 -0400

There is simply No Possible Way to rightly experience a panoramic photograph on a screen. In fact, it may be the last great and lasting holdout of photography as a non-digital medium.

Think about it. For the most part, all of the styles and ideas that photography has given us since the beginning are being successfully digitized. Even the sacred Large Format isn’t quite as special as it use to be. Physically-speaking, many of our screens are as big or bigger than an 8x10 (and will all one day soon be of “Retina” quality, no doubt.) And like it or not, but sheer size does indeed matter when it comes to viewing photographs.

This is why I think panoramics are so special. They are big. And the experience of their bigness simply cannot be conveyed on a monitor. This photo is not terribly impressive onscreen. Even when you view it in high resolution, you still don’t get a feel for the “panoramic-ness” of it. The printed version is amazing. It’s only 6 inches tall, and the color is a bit washed out (test prints) but it still feels bigger and grander somehow.

I need to print more of these. Bigger.

This just made my day. Jay Electronica is using Notations for...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:48:00 -0400

This just made my day.

Jay Electronica is using Notations for his Tumblr blog. I’m honored. The man has taste, what can I say? ;) Go follow him. His new album is coming soon and it’s gonna be huge.
http://eyeofelectronica.com

I’m on Instagram if you like this sort of thing....

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 15:14:36 -0500

I’m on Instagram if you like this sort of thing.
(…and it’s not ALL nature-y tree-climbing stuff, if you don’t.) ;)

“@bendelaney”

New poster I did for Thursday Market.

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:47:40 -0500

New poster I did for Thursday Market.

"And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of..."

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:49:08 -0500

“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. […] Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.”

- Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)

Climbed.

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:09:00 -0500

Climbed.