March 2011
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Images And The Future Of History
The truth is a woman who looks like a man who looks like a woman who stands in front of a mirror opposite a mirror in a room within a room at the end of a circular corridor in space. She’s a bastard. — from a poem by James Turner
As I write this1 I am standing in the confluence of three seemingly unrelated things: On Intelligence, a book I’ve been reading by Jeff Hawkins;...
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Arthur Ganson
Beauty, humor, wit, pathos … If his Machine with Artichoke Petal (#1) doesn’t immediately make an Arthur Ganson fan out of you, check your pulse.
Here’s another of my favorites, but there are many more.
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Margaret Nes
Her artwork always brings the phrase “simple pleasures” to mind. Which, of course, is not to say that what she does is simple (go ahead and try it yourself if you don’t believe me). It just looks that way. And what she does with colors! It probably turns the gods a hundred shades of green with envy.
You can see more of her work by clicking on the above image. There’s...
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urban fossil
When you catch yourself looking for art in what most people just step on, stop for a second and congratulate yourself. It means you’ve become open to the processes that can create artists out of …, well out of mere pedestrians, I suppose.
This photo, taken on a butt ugly street corner in Bakersfield, California, is a negative of the original which is of grooves cut into a sidewalk...
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Abelardo Morell ...
… both inspires and amazes me. His Home series, for example, is a wonderful display of what careful composition can accomplish with even the simplest of subjects. You cannot view the photos in this series and, at the same time, maintain a belief that “there is nothing around here to photograph” (wherever “here” happens to find you not using your camera).
And then...
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Convergence: The Bigger Picture
Almost 3 years ago now the idea of a convergence in digital still and digital video technologies became a hot (warm?) topic. Photography websites like Luminous Landscapes and pundits like Chase Jarvis were getting quite excited about it. There were rumors of a seemingly Borg-inspired RED digital cinema camera that could shoot stills rivaling high-end DSLR cameras at 30 frames per second. And there...
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“Depth of Field is the ‘Wonder Bra’ of photography. You use it to...”
– anonymous
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my favorite collection of photos ... →
… is my collection of favorites on flickr. You can also view them slideshow style.
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