Musical Vault: Treasure by Cocteau Twins

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Spring. 1985. England. I was a Mormon missionary. Very rainy spring. I spent a lot of time on buses. I was supposed to utilize spare moments while I wait at stops and stations to read scripture. I had made a decision under the guise of cultural research to pick up a very inexpensive copy of Melody Maker or the New Musical Express (NME) when they hit the newsstands. Some of the other missionary guys weren’t down with music or news or current anything. Head down. Scripture study and quiet. That was not my scene. I felt that learning the culture included the amazing post-punk music that was coming out. I also felt that the Walkman allowed for one to imbibe on the evils of worldly music and not pollute the virgin ears of those who walked the straight and narrow; classical music and quiet instrumentals of which, there is nothing wrong. I just hungered for more.

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Happy New Year, internet!

I shot this a week or so ago and worked on it in Snapseed. Then I posted it to Instagram, which cropped it square. That post is here. When I post to Instagram, I send the image simultaneously to flickr and tumblr1. The image gets cropped when I share on Instagram and I loved this image both ways; square and the full frame version that my phone captured. So I’m sharing them both. Apologies for the redundancy.

Tangent: I really wish that the phone apps folks would sell Mac versions of their apps. I’d be all over many photo editing apps on my Mac. So: if you make a popular image editing app for iOS, please consider recompiling for the Mac! I don’t think I’m alone out among the English.