gypsy life/part 3: Take it to the beach. The water's deep, and I'm shallow. So shallow, I could swear I'm deep. The dog days of summer tend to bring out the animal in us. A raw streak of sunlight can inflame a burning streak of mean. - "Indian Summer," Glamour France, April 2010, shot by James Macari/Shelby Keeton for "Shake Dreams for Your Hair," Mirage #2, Spring/Summer 2010, shot by Nicole Nodland/Daria Werbowy for "When Goddess Rules the Sea," Vogue Nippon, April 2010, shot by Mikael Jansson/Lara Stone/Josefin Hedstrom/various

To inflict abuse and to refrain the abuser, depending on the moment/Nothing is accidental. Everything follows a pattern, a ritual pattern. - "We look before and after and pine for what is not/Our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught/Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." -Percy Shelley - shots by Remi Rebillard/Linda Evangelista shot by Maurizio Cattelan for W, November 2009/Shannan Click shot by Dan Martensen for Exit/Japanese Vogue, August 2006, shot by Karen Collins/Rie Rasmussen and Jon Kortajarena for "Rie," Vogue Italia, March 2010, shot by Steven Klein/Lara Stone/Brooke Shields, Elaine Irwin, and Candice Swanepoel for "Lady Cops," Vogue Paris, March 2010, shot by Bruce Weber

That old idea: a photograph steals your soul/Together and alone, or, at once, both/Lovers, grip hard, for as soon as a silver of distance creeps in, the might of its repellent pull only swells. - "For me, it's not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress." -Nan Goldin

 

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future." -Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Say yes now: -sweatpants, dressed-up -unpretty pretty -snakes and serpents -lots of leg -greased-up legs -irreverent prints -massive mary janes -peasant tops -boys' briefs -'90s overalls -stars on skin -bangles -eyeglasses -wreaking havoc -slept-in eye makeup -white jeans -white all over -feathers in hair -classic engineer boots -traditional henna -luxury for luxury's sake -sex on the beach

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