Rachel Profiling

Hello, I'm Rachel.

Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.

Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.

If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.

Nonobject’s “Behind the Scenes” camera is one of the cooler things I have come across in a while. Too bad it doesn’t exist in reality yet.

The spiel: “Cameras till now have only ever taken images before our very eyes. Rather than accepting this and getting permanently locked into one way of looking at the world – and one way of capturing visual memories through the lens – why not expand our understanding of photography and reveal an augmented view of a given moment? Behind the Scenes Camera is designed to capture what’s going on behind our back, beyond our control, while simultaneously capturing the scene in front of us, the one we control. Technologically, this is not revolutionary. It’s the idea that’s breakthrough! This nonobject camera is designed to unveil a more holistic and nuanced perspective of any slice in time, anywhere in the world. It makes possible a way of looking at life that’s impossible otherwise.”

Posted at 9:34pm.

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