Tim Barrus Blog
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Tim Barrus: I Lived Here Because I Liked How The Light Slipped Through The Window
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Not everyone in Appalachia lives in a hollow in a trailer. Fuck the stereotype. There can be an archive of poverty porn in your face if you are attempting to see Appalachia the way it actually is. There are a lot of old Civil War era brick buildings and people…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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I read this stuff about work, all I can do is shake my head. Work will not set you free. It will cage you. It’s called slavery. How bad is it. Here’s how bad it is. It’s really hard (but it can be done) to aspire to be a slave…
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Tim Barrus: Pisgah Stream
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My favorite fish (poached in Jack Daniels) is the brown trout. Pisgah Stream goes right by the cabin and the brown trout appear to be feeding on mosquitoes in the evening when the witching hour comes like rust upon the wind where the nettles and the willows in their orphanage…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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HIV has disappeared from lips and print. We beat it. Where do Americans live.
We are still talking about
Our words are lofty. Our reality, less so.
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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Comments get comments. Homo sapiens have always had a backdoor out. Watch where you sit in restaurants. I’m chewing on ice and cracking my teeth. Monica tells me it’s bad to do that. “Your teeth will eat you.”
“I want you to eat me, not my teeth.”
“Everything is sex…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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For a self-identified liberal publication, the New York Times takes a dim view on noncomformity. It begins with security in their building. It’s like walking into a vault. The New York Times publishes lots and lots of the POV that noncomformity is unacceptable. I am a radical. They can take…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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What the person who is reacting to in this comment to the comment (this is ridiculous) is that for him to make sense of it, it has no worth. People like this always want “what is apporpriate.” Appropriate is what the New York Times and I fight about every day.…
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Tim Barrus: Four Bucks Emerge From the Woods
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Four two-year-old bucks. They’re skittish. But I think they smell food, and they can see that the dogs are in the cabin. This was taken with a Go Pro. A traditional camera is too big for me. Often, I will need to run. Bears are not pets. I have out…
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Tim Barrus: Appalachia Town
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I am already getting hits and numbers on Appalachia Town. There’s (so far) no text. Just photographs of Appalachia. I have not so much as really starting this project with the exception of a few of the photographs. This project could take me another year. My average is 2 photographs…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
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We have figured out who the person was who allegedly spoke on the record with media but anonymously (how does that even happen) about my family.
What are they talking about. I don’t even have a family. I don’t come from anywhere. I am an alien from B733D111-1, a star…