Nate “Igor” Smith 🎩

@drivenbyboredom

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@drivenbyboredom

Uncensored version of the photo on the right here: https://www.paperview.media/?view=3801&ref=0xc51149934febB0DccBf683060bf6C29BE523e254

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When your goal isn't money or success or happiness or family, but to live an interesting life you get a lot of stories... just maybe it's biting me in the ass now that I'm in my mid 40s.

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Don't sleep on @drivenbyboredom He can tell a helluva story And he brings raw, emotive pics to back them up https://farcaster.xyz/eirrann.eth/0xfc76e317

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Thanks man. It will be years away.

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Just like hospitals were Hamas leaders

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Jesus. I’m so sorry. I hope your loved ones are safe.

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I don’t know about all that but I really appreciate it

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Best photos / stories on the platform, maybe on the internet... hands down.

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So yeah, if you are enjoying these I really appreciate it, because having stories blow up on here really inspires me to keep going and keep pushing. Shout out especially to @eirrann.eth who has been my cheerleader for this from the very start. You guys keep enjoying them and I will keep posting them. Thanks.

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The second step is to just start writing stories down. Going through the photos I started making lists and trying to find threads that run through them, character arcs for my own life. And then of course I just have to write some of them down and using Farcaster (and AlfaFrends for the spicer stories) is a good rough draft. The stories that I think work I have been saving and eventually I can go through those and turn them into something more polished.

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Now I have no idea if I am going to actually do this book, but the first step was to pull a ton of photos and that I finished today. I went through every 35mm photo I have ever taken and pulled all the ones that work with my vision. The book may have some digital too, but my film stuff feels more immediate and less intentional which is what I am going for with this.

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Over the last year I have been sharing stories and photos over on my AlfaFrens and I have had such good feedback from it. I think part of it is just getting older and looking back on my life and realizing how many crazy stories I have and how maybe for the first time I should start think about doing a project that marries both words and pictures. If a picture is worth 1000 words, maybe I could give you 2000. https://www.alfafrens.com/channel/0xC85ABcEc6AE12Bb32CC9e1131682352fD9996E94

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So I have been thinking about how to do it and maybe a month ago I was in the shower and I came up with an idea. I am gonna keep it under wraps for now (although I told my AF subscribers) but I have an idea to do a photo book with some of my best photos and stories, that also sort of acts as a type of memoir.

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I have never considered myself a writer, but to some degree I am. I have run a blog consistently for nearly 25 years, it was mostly about my photography, I have written millions of words. For my journalism work I constantly have to write into paragraphs and captions, I have even been paid to write professionally for some notable outlets like Vice, Playboy, Boing Boing (IYKYK) and the Daily Beast. When I was working for Hustler I found out that for interviews the writer got paid 3x the photographer and the subject didn't get paid. So I started doing the interviews and then paying the subjects from my photo budget.

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So one of the reason I have been doing these story posts is because I have traditionally wanted my photography to speak for itself and I love people wondering what the fuck is going on when I present stuff without context... 🧵

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Or I would put two unrelated images together that might give them new context.

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I took a photo of Danny Trejo. I just love that he is wearing a Machete Kills hat even though that movie had come out several years earlier. Always be promoting.

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I feel this deeply

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