This week, a conversation overheard on the train sparks a discussion around the need to create or not and whether we would trade a creative life (whatever that means) for a nine to five if we could. Also, is your personal value in the experience of making or in the resulting artifact/object? Obscure Romanian shooter Andre Pandele is our Photographer of the Week.

Links for this episode:

• Congressman John Lewis Dancing to Pharrell Williams' "Happy": "Nothing Can Bring Me Down" - YouTube
  
• Dictabelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• From Wax Cylinders To Records, Saving The Sounds Of History : NPR
  
• The Rescued Film Project Archive
  
• Hand Processing Kodachrome
  
• Finding Vivian Maier nominated for Best Documentary? It was one of the worst documentaries of 2014.
  
• Memory and pictures “This is not my Memory” | Wallace Koopmans Artlog
  
• WhiteAlbum
  
• Mosaic Photo Books: Create a printed album from your phone
  
• Robert Frank Collection Guide
  
• Why you should stop relying on your phone, and buy a nice camera | The Verge
  
• On Taking Pictures - Google+ - Assignment: #redux
  
• BBC News - A lost city: Photos of Bucharest's past
  
• Pandele81003.jpg | EST&OST
  
• Book Insider: Forbidden photos and personal images by Andrei Pandele | Romania-Insider.com
  

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