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LILY+MARA / September 1, 2016 by matt freire

It was awesome to be able to take BTS photos of my friend making her dream come true. Congrats Caroline!

The wonderful Oona Laurence and Meghann Fahy

The wonderful Oona Laurence and Meghann Fahy

DP Christopher Raymond with Steadicam operator Don Glenn and 1AC Mike Gomes

DP Christopher Raymond with Steadicam operator Don Glenn and 1AC Mike Gomes

All the awesome people that made it happens

All the awesome people that made it happens

BTS lily + mara, NYC, short film, film, bts, behind the scenes, a7r ii, sony, beach September 18, 2016

SHENANDOAH / August 6, 2016 by matt freire

“Laws change; people die; the land remains.”
— Abraham Lincoln
quote nature, film, outdoors, national park, abraham lincoln, quote, blog September 17, 2016

WEEKEND / August 5, 2016 by matt freire

“To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. ”
— Kurt Vonnegut
quote, video kurt Vonnegut, video, quote September 17, 2016

LDS TEMPLE / April 28, 2016 by matt freire

“I call architecture frozen music.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
April 28, 2016

FAMILY / April 26, 2016 by matt freire

a7s ii, family, utah, sony April 26, 2016
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Reading as Orientation: How Speculative Fiction Shapes Thinking and Choice
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books, speculative fiction, reading reflections, book review, science fiction, fantasy, malazan, best of the shelves
Reading as Orientation: How Speculative Fiction Shapes Thinking and Choice
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books, speculative fiction, reading reflections, book review, science fiction, fantasy, malazan, best of the shelves

I don’t read books just for escape. I read them for orientation. In 2025, I spent the year immersed in 42 works of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction — stories that bend reality just enough to reveal the systems, consequences, and moral frameworks shaping how we think, act, and endure. From the ritual-bound halls of Earthsea to the sprawling consequences of Malazan, these books don’t simplify the world; they make it legible.

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reframing analog
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Reframing Analog argues that analog is not a rejection of digital tools, but a way of working rooted in attention, continuity, and return. It is about spending time with books, music, and ideas long enough for meaning to accumulate, rather than chasing immediacy. In a culture optimized for speed and disappearance, the library becomes a counter-structure—one that assumes memory matters and influence moves both ways. Analog, here, names a practice: attention held over time, work allowed to age, and meaning shaped through use rather than completion.

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Linden Analog Library is a living archive of books, records, images, and objects chosen for their ability to slow time. It is not a collection built for completion or display, but for use—worn spines, surface noise, marginalia, and memory. In an era of infinite access, the library insists on limits, on the weight of objects made and handled by human hands. Attention becomes an ethic here, not nostalgia but resistance. The library asks what remains when speed is removed, and who we become when we choose to stay.

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