David Brandon Geeting
Jan 10, 2023 BY
@david-brandon-geetingš
Sometimes I donāt know what Iām supposed to be looking at in peoplesā photos cuz the shit is so far away. We wanna see those juicy details!! The first time I put a long lens on my camera I realized you donāt have to do very much or go very far to make the world look interesting. Itās like when you do shrooms and every little detail in your field of vision is its own universe. The 100mm is the perfect tool to explore those little universes. I know, I know, you could just use a 35mm lens and move closer to what youāre photographing. But it doesnāt look the same ā the 100mm flattens space in a way that makes life look weird as hell. Believe me, that .5x button on the iPhone camera is burned into my muscle memory too, but next time, try reaching for the 2x ā itās a whole new world over there.
Jan 10, 2023
š
I tell my wife I love her like 5 times a day. It feels so good to say! And every time my friends say they love me, I feel so honored, Iām like ādamnā¦ me???ā You can really make someoneās day when you say it. Showing love often gets spun in the opposite way, but letās be real for a second ā HIDING the love is some wussy shit. And lifeās too short for that!
Jan 10, 2023
š“
If youāre anything like me, your body feels completely separate from your mind, which feels completely separate from your heart, and most of your internal dialogue is you getting mad at yourself for doing some shit that another part of you disapproves of. Every part of us matters, but if weāre often neglecting one of these guys itās definitely the vessel that houses this mess to begin with. Your body needs sleep bro! Youād be surprised at how many of these voices start to quiet when you actually let your body do its thing once in a while and decide when it wants to wake up. And you canāt feel an ounce of guilt for not setting an alarm, otherwise this whole experiment is negated. If you really wanna wake up early, then go to bed early (Iām leaving this piece of advice in writing so I can finally learn it myself).
Jan 10, 2023
š§¶
I feel like Etsy has confusing marketing that keeps cool people from using it, but Iām here to set the record straight ā I get all my shit from Etsy! In the past year I have purchased an 80ās laminate kitchen table, a taxidermied praying mantis, vintage 501ās, custom wooden storage boxes, a rock with actual moss on it, 60ās drink coasters, a scorpion sculpture made out of silverware, a Bugs Bunny comic from the 60ās, a David Hockney exhibition poster from the early 90ās, a hanging pendant light, the coveted Nirvana āIncesticideā t-shirt, and a glass blown pipe with a frog jumping on it. One time I had leftover Balenciaga sneakers from a shoot and tried to sell them on Grailed ā some anon messaged me calling them fakes and typed word-for-word āPeople like you should go to hell!ā Thankfully for us, this amount of testosterone is actually illegal on Etsy, so we can all continue to bliss out and browse easy :-)
Jan 10, 2023
āļø
Most of the time, when Iām mad about something, Iāll think back on it months later and be like āwait why did I even care about that?ā We should collectively all try that with Winter. The air smells so fucking good. Like where is that mystery campfire coming from?? I feel like every time I step outside and take a breath, I level up. I get that you think you donāt like the cold. It took me a while to understand that āacquired tasteā means a taste that I can STILL acquire. Now when I donāt like food, I just eat it until I do. This January, when your unadjustable New York apartment heat is cranked so high that you can smell the lead paint melting off the walls, take a step outside onto your stoop for a breath of that crispy ass chimney-scented air, and remember DBG sent you there.
Jan 10, 2023
šØ
Research is the number one deterrent when it comes to making art, because itās the fastest way to see if what you want to make āhas been done beforeā (thatās in air-quotes because we all know deep down that NOTHING has been done the same way that weāre doing it). Imagine the art that would flow out of you without any sort of ābut what will THEY think of itā hang-ups. Thatās really what we all want to see, right? We want to see the most surprising, most vulnerable, most specific-to-your-mind-right-now type shit. The more you care about that one person that kinda did something sorta like it one time, the less youāre gonna make anything. You can always research after the fact, if youāre really hung up on itā¦ but at least you will have made something! Making things feels amazing.
Jan 10, 2023