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I travel to India on the 18th of January

This has always served different purposes: as an outlet for my creative impulses, as a blank sheet of paper for my latest thought or insight. I cannot pretend that I maintain any kind of consistency with regard to the quality and subject matter of what I post on A NEW NADIR. I have been particularly occupied [...]
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interview: eastwestlost

Real name? dima semenovykh. What do you eat for breakfast every day? Since I have some sleep disorders, I have no schedule and so I have no breakfast as such. I just eat when I want to. Mostly burgers and sushi. Whose photography has influenced you the most? Well, i think i wasn’t influenced by anybody. My parents bought me [...]
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update

Sorry for the extreme quiet around here, folks. It’s not like it was really bothering you anyway. I took the LSAT last week, and with my parents gone this past week I’ve been taking care of the house and trying to relax before the next spate of applications, letters of recommendation, transcript requests, etc. Which is [...]
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update your feeds

I have employed yahoo pipes to condense A NEW NADIR on tumblr and A NEW NADIR’s wordpress blog (which you now read) into a single unholy stream of unconscious rebellion and petty aestheticism. enjoy.
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a really great moment

a really great moment, originally uploaded by SW▲MPY. sorry for the drought folks. I’ve been in a bit of a dry period lately. Here’s a list of the things I’ve been seeing and reading: Swampdonkey’s excellent set of medium format photos taken whilst hitching rides on freight trains across America. The New York Times manages to turn Swine [...]
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today’s reading

Yeah, I know, I haven’t done this in a while. one two three This will tide you over, yes?
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inner murmurs

Why, hello. Sorry I’ve been recalcitrant. It’ll happen many times again, but I’m just writing this to let you all–that is, all four people who actually check this site–things are afoot. I’m in the process of making an area that will serve a purpose that A NEW NADIR isn’t quite suited for. It’ll be a place [...]
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sorry, okay.

Yeah, I’ve got two jobs now. This whole writing thing’s going to have to sit in the back while I make some money. Here’s a taj mahal video:
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a pause.

finals week is coming up, I’ve got research papers on Habermas and Estlund due and a portfolio all due by tuesday. This means that updates will be even more sparse. If that makes you sad, this will make you happy. founder’s day is tomorrow, I’ll post pictures from saturday and from the past few weeks sometime [...]
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Former Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld might have described “home” as a “known unknown”. One of those tricky terms that you know exists but which only appears as at best an outline, at worst a placeholder for something you know you’ll never understand. When you look at the taxi driver in the rear-view mirror [...]
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