Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com Now They Hear Nothing Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:47:11 +0000 https://nowtheyhearnothing.com en introduction https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/introduction Sat, 08 Jul 2017 22:36:36 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/introduction <img width="946" height="690" width_o="946" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48f5f9e564f76ff72edbe72548ba389f84caeae90d7c5a9ffb874881075a831c/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" data-mid="2245322" border="0" data-scale="23" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/946/i/48f5f9e564f76ff72edbe72548ba389f84caeae90d7c5a9ffb874881075a831c/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" /> A photo-fiction collection combining street photography &amp; original short stories. Characters –– some real, some imagined –– cope and thrive within their own little stage amidst turbulent times. Read the most recent piece, More, More, about facing the day from a lower angle. Or hitch a ride back to the first entry in the collection, Ways to Encourage a Leaf. Else, peruse all of the stories or learn why this project exists. scatter_index https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/scatter_index-1 Wed, 02 Aug 2017 01:48:19 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/scatter_index-1 <img width="5504" height="3669" width_o="5504" height_o="3669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51eed8c4e339e2b9db7e00383129aafd3b7c6f7c379296a5ab029bfcce3b7059/160529-150249.jpg" data-mid="1966403" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51eed8c4e339e2b9db7e00383129aafd3b7c6f7c379296a5ab029bfcce3b7059/160529-150249.jpg" /> <img width="3313" height="2197" width_o="3313" height_o="2197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b10d094a6a542e825e51c9cace3f344c36f4365a5cb96726fbd474a51d986ce/160618-140512.jpg" data-mid="1966401" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b10d094a6a542e825e51c9cace3f344c36f4365a5cb96726fbd474a51d986ce/160618-140512.jpg" /> <img width="4848" height="3232" width_o="4848" height_o="3232" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29897809c572f249c634ff01378fb5387b1e3ea6673695b7eb81f2dfce80a58c/160512-135010.jpg" data-mid="1966414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29897809c572f249c634ff01378fb5387b1e3ea6673695b7eb81f2dfce80a58c/160512-135010.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/923d0390d3fc00a513b7aa9c7d3d0f04f2b293dd4c8d148e851bdf9a0282c6b8/160408-103208.jpg" data-mid="1966418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/923d0390d3fc00a513b7aa9c7d3d0f04f2b293dd4c8d148e851bdf9a0282c6b8/160408-103208.jpg" /> <img width="3637" height="2433" width_o="3637" height_o="2433" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58d8f571fcb21aa7a4b39bb352d6b62c5bb0b205a0de8d1a0a41a9c2baa0d0e5/000036.JPG" data-mid="16912254" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58d8f571fcb21aa7a4b39bb352d6b62c5bb0b205a0de8d1a0a41a9c2baa0d0e5/000036.JPG" /> FOOTER https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/FOOTER Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:49:10 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/FOOTER <img width="946" height="690" width_o="946" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" data-mid="2251068" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/946/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" /> is made byNathan Heleine <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ce91f2c635ad982e9149cce070dcb27ff1a398841606aed6942463fc293a216/shade-and-shades-gradient.png" data-mid="2196209" border="0" data-scale="13" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/4ce91f2c635ad982e9149cce070dcb27ff1a398841606aed6942463fc293a216/shade-and-shades-gradient.png" /> NT.HN VSCO Images found/made with a small assortment of film &amp; digital cameras then edited in Capture One &amp; Lightroom. Stories written in Ulysses. Site designed with Affinity &amp; published with Cargo. Write to hello@nt.hn with notes of encouragement or derision, commission offers, collaborative opportunities and so on. All works presented here © 2016 - 2018 Nathan Heleine See it, make believe it. index https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/index-1 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:43:31 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/index-1 &nbsp; <img width="946" height="690" width_o="946" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" data-mid="2245318" border="0" data-scale="30" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/946/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" /> The collection currently consists of thirteen stories. Choose one: – &nbsp;001 &nbsp;– Ways to Encourage a Leaf A leaf is consoled after strong summer winds force a sudden shift in perspective. – &nbsp;002 &nbsp;– Golden Garage Despite doubts, a widower takes a chance. – &nbsp;003 &nbsp;– Lightkeeper A mildly depressed man considers his options at an imagined end of the world. – &nbsp;004 &nbsp;– Whitney A girl living in the near future discovers wind for the first time. – &nbsp;005 &nbsp;– The Place Luca makes a list of qualities he would like to find in a place. – &nbsp;006 &nbsp;– Every Sunday Eileen lives in the village of Ballyferriter on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. – &nbsp;007 &nbsp;–Portals A new father writes his last will and testament while exploring the nature of portals. – &nbsp;008 &nbsp;–Conversations With Walls A series of conversations across time between painters and their audience. – &nbsp;009 &nbsp;–Chicken Marbella A photographer takes a smoke break near the end of her shift at CVS. – &nbsp;010 &nbsp;–Where You’ll Find It A boy searches for a map to the antidote for greed. – &nbsp;011 &nbsp;–Ask Us The election of Donald J. Trump inspires a rebuttal (and a break in format). – &nbsp;012 &nbsp;– Shadow SelfThe author encounters his own shadow. – &nbsp;013&nbsp; – More, MoreA reflection on facing the day, nudged upward by a child’s way of being. <img width="583" height="597" width_o="583" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/695a593ead9ff43cad36b39fd1594832f1eec3f96f724e5f26475536f202faa5/icon-black.png" data-mid="2244021" border="0" data-scale="13" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/583/i/695a593ead9ff43cad36b39fd1594832f1eec3f96f724e5f26475536f202faa5/icon-black.png" /> scatter_index https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/scatter_index-2 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:32:07 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/scatter_index-2 Else, take a chance. <img width="5504" height="3669" width_o="5504" height_o="3669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51eed8c4e339e2b9db7e00383129aafd3b7c6f7c379296a5ab029bfcce3b7059/160529-150249.jpg" data-mid="2293743" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29897809c572f249c634ff01378fb5387b1e3ea6673695b7eb81f2dfce80a58c/160512-135010.jpg" data-mid="2293753" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29897809c572f249c634ff01378fb5387b1e3ea6673695b7eb81f2dfce80a58c/160512-135010.jpg" /> FOOTER https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/FOOTER-9 Wed, 09 Aug 2017 23:47:19 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/FOOTER-9 <img width="946" height="690" width_o="946" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" data-mid="2296367" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/946/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" /> is made byNathan Heleine <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ce91f2c635ad982e9149cce070dcb27ff1a398841606aed6942463fc293a216/shade-and-shades-gradient.png" data-mid="2296366" border="0" data-scale="13" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/4ce91f2c635ad982e9149cce070dcb27ff1a398841606aed6942463fc293a216/shade-and-shades-gradient.png" /> NT.HN VSCO Images found/made with a small assortment of film &amp; digital cameras then edited in Capture One &amp; Lightroom. Stories written in Ulysses. Site designed with Affinity &amp; published with Cargo. Write to hello@nt.hn with notes of encouragement or derision, commission offers, collaborative opportunities and so on. All works presented here © 2016 - 2018 Nathan Heleine See it, make believe it. why https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/why-1 Thu, 10 Aug 2017 00:00:20 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/why-1 <img width="3000" height="1971" width_o="3000" height_o="1971" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/125a442b5afe39d3d134f7bf20ac81cc8437f09aedda82a3321a883134615422/02-william-eggleston-profile.jpg" data-mid="2337114" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/125a442b5afe39d3d134f7bf20ac81cc8437f09aedda82a3321a883134615422/02-william-eggleston-profile.jpg" /> William Eggleston, Untitled, 1969-1970 As quoted by Walter Hopps in an essay titled&nbsp;Eggleston’s World, when asked what he was trying to accomplish with his photographs, William Eggleston said&nbsp;“I think of them as parts of a novel I’m doing.” I wish I could read that novel. I discovered a deep love for reading long before I first held a camera. My life has been shaped by Berger and Solnit, less so by Crewdson and Cartier-Bresson. I don’t identify as a Photographer with a capital ‘P’ (I’m no William Eggleston) –– I’m a writer and visual thinker. I’m also an introvert who enjoys using cameras to create portals into other lives. When I happen across an unrepeatable moment in the street or at the grocery store, I often imagine what led to that moment and what will come next.I’m moved by the marriage of imagery and ideas. Whether the thing exists in book form or on a small screen or in the cinema or at a museum, I crave the careful combination of voice and visuals. I have no trouble visualizing a piece of good writing (so books hold plenty of sway in my heart and mind) but for me it’s not a two-way street. Strictly visual experiences, even the best ones, tend to bore me. A feed of naked images leaves me desperate for context. I don’t subscribe to the view held by many artists and visually-inclined folk that an image must speak for itself. An image is certainly capable of speaking for itself, but some images are bettered by the text woven around them, and vice versa. This project is simply a way of exploring my own inclincations on the matter while sharing the output with visually-inclined readers of like mind. Meanwhile, I get to indulge two of my healthiest habits: writing &amp; street photography. As for the name, Now They Hear Nothing, some friends and kind visitors have asked about its meaning. I’m endlessly fascinated, inspired and disturbed by the tumultuous relationship between people and technology. There’s a very palpable tension in that relationship which permeates nearly every experience and interaction in modern life. I’m not just talking about people (strangers, colleagues, lovers) staring into their smartphones, although that’s part of it. I’m talking about technological progress writ large (transportation, communication, climate adaptation, food systems, digital publishing, virtual reality, unfettered global capitalism in the digital age, etc.) measured against our most basic needs and desires as human beings. A few years ago, I began to imagine a near-future in which our technology is so slick that the world becomes silent: electric motors humming and neutrinos colliding and remote workers clocking in virtually while we swipe quietly at thinner and thinner screens until nothing is left but air. And virtual reality sex. That notion, of the silence not the sex, became the first few chapters of a novel and then became this project. There’s an intangible feeling or mood that I’m looking for in my images and stories. At the end of the day, it’s about isolation and longing. The technologist in me is also interested in publishing things independently to cut against the grain of common internet consumption patterns. I’m curious about the now ubiquitous phenomenon whereby some strange thing simply blinks into existence for an audience of one (the author), everyone (the global internet audience) or no one (the silent reception of a well-intentioned creative misfire). As for my chosen format for the photo-stories (image follows text), I think of the image as an arrival point or a kind of unlocking for each story. As a reader, I prefer to experience the writing unadorned and then encounter the photo, keeping in mind whatever I’ve collected along the way. If you aren’t a screen-reader (or if you’re just trying to catch a quick glimpse) then you might not like the format. That’s ok. For what it’s worth, I recommend exploring this project during a quiet part of your day when you won’t feel rushed. Last but not least, if the stories and images found here seem darkly tinted, please know that I’m a somber optimist. After all, as Jaron Lanier writes, “the most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.” And it’s all in our own hands. scatter_index https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/scatter_index Thu, 10 Aug 2017 19:47:11 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/scatter_index <img width="5504" height="3669" width_o="5504" height_o="3669" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51eed8c4e339e2b9db7e00383129aafd3b7c6f7c379296a5ab029bfcce3b7059/160529-150249.jpg" data-mid="2338587" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51eed8c4e339e2b9db7e00383129aafd3b7c6f7c379296a5ab029bfcce3b7059/160529-150249.jpg" /> <img width="3313" height="2197" width_o="3313" height_o="2197" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b10d094a6a542e825e51c9cace3f344c36f4365a5cb96726fbd474a51d986ce/160618-140512.jpg" data-mid="2338585" border="0" 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height="690" width_o="946" height_o="690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" data-mid="2296560" border="0" data-scale="33" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/946/i/d9c507268a8466e3a28fe5da06f5af1fc369e1ee422a3740fb153d185ea38ce6/now-they-hear-nothing-brand-final-REFINEMENT.png" /> is made byNathan Heleine <img width="800" height="800" width_o="800" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ce91f2c635ad982e9149cce070dcb27ff1a398841606aed6942463fc293a216/shade-and-shades-gradient.png" data-mid="2296559" border="0" data-scale="13" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/800/i/4ce91f2c635ad982e9149cce070dcb27ff1a398841606aed6942463fc293a216/shade-and-shades-gradient.png" /> NT.HN VSCO Images found/made with a small assortment of film &amp; digital cameras then edited in Capture One &amp; Lightroom. Stories written in Ulysses. Site designed with Affinity &amp; published with Cargo. Write to hello@nt.hn&nbsp;with notes of encouragement or derision, commission offers, collaborative opportunities and so on. All works presented here © 2016 - 2018 Nathan Heleine See it, make believe it. Ways to Encourage a Leaf https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/Ways-to-Encourage-a-Leaf Tue, 01 Aug 2017 23:32:25 +0000 Now They Hear Nothing https://nowtheyhearnothing.com/Ways-to-Encourage-a-Leaf –– &nbsp;&nbsp;001 &nbsp; –– Ways to Encourage a Leaf <img width="583" height="597" width_o="583" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8eee99361c5fce77bfe82eabf866234a63bc651b7f58005232d833fd8cc8891d/icon-black.png" data-mid="2196588" border="0" data-scale="10" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/583/i/8eee99361c5fce77bfe82eabf866234a63bc651b7f58005232d833fd8cc8891d/icon-black.png" /> You are not past your prime. No, that’s not the case at all. Think of this instead as a new chapter just beginning. Each chapter has its time and each is filled with doubts aplenty, as you yourself taught me, and yet you’ve always found a way to be still and contented, even when your whole world was rustling in a morning wind. Even when the height of your branch became dauntingly apparent. Even when the spring clouds parted to reveal an incessant, overbearing, self-obsessive and oppressive summer sun. Even when that amorous white-breasted nuthatch shat on you. Even when your friends grew too quickly, faded, then fell. Even when the cool air wafted through and the sun, growing tired of its own obsequious show, slipped away two minutes earlier each evening. Even when you sensed an inevitable end to your days and finally understood, with a tiny, almost imperceptible sense of devastation, that your place in this cycle was somewhat, shall we say, limited. Yes, your color has changed. Well ok, sure, that was a few weeks back. And I see what you mean, you do seem somewhat desaturated. But I’m hear to tell you that you’ve never looked better. Truly! I wouldn’t pull your chain or butter your muffin or kiss your … well, you know as well as anybody that such euphemisms don’t quite suit the sensibilities of a leaf. Ha! Ok, I’ll admit that I was worried to see you down here once I heard what had happened, but then I spotted you against the hedge and nearly cried. I mean, wow. You should really see yourself. Up there you were one among many, a wonderful leaf, but always difficult to distinguish. You see? Whereas down here, I mean, you look stunning. One of a kind. Unrepeatable. Like a rare pearl upended from its shell and drifting dreamily across the ocean floor. Or a lone lock of purple heather bursting up and out from the face of a wet rock wall. Or a single streak of afternoon light filtering through the bedroom window on the day that Grandpa passed away. Do you remember that day? Oh god, what am I saying? Of course not. That’s my story and you’ve been here the whole time. I digress. Here’s my point though, now, you see? I’ve come to believe that our best work is both behind us and ahead. I’ve come to believe that we disappear and continue — that life persists, paradoxically, both within us and beyond us. So that even when you leave this hedge, drift underfoot, fall apart to nothing, cease to even be a leaf and slowly sink into the soil –– even then, you will continue. And I’ll see you up against the sky come spring time.