When discussing photography as art, I don’t feel particularly defensive. Pictures like this can happen in a moment, but in that case you still need the equipment to seize the moment and share it later. When it involves waking up before dawn and being ready to take a picture of a dramatic tree and set …
Month: September 2022
My personal definition of “art” includes the concept that it’s communication. It can communicate feeling, confusion, and it might even communicate a dog’s bark or my yelling, “Dude!” When we have images that feel like art made by programs, our definitions become interesting. If there is a pattern to what we think or feel is …
These are early morning pictures taken with a PinePhone Pro. The PinePhone Pro at the time of this article is not quite ready for mass consumption. Considering the photo quality above and a few other issues. But the PPP has a few interesting things that make it special. For one thing, with the cable I …
Just before a bridge over a dry stream, I glanced at the small fenced-in area with what looked like a winch for lifting. I had passed it countless times and never quite figured it out. My father was a professor, and one of his research projects had a similar place, a bit larger with a …
So I went to Hell again last week. I’m from Texas, so it was good to go someplace with better weather. There was this charming music store where at least six attendants greet you. Odd thing about the music store in Hell. They have no issue with you playing “Stairway to Heaven.” With six attendants, …
“Night of the Living Dead,” the movie, started a genre. Not just in movies but in literature as well. When George A. Romero produced “Night of the Living Dead,” he used the term “ghoul” to discuss the movie. Back then a zombie was a different sort of creature entirely. Part of Voodoo, a zombie was …
Just killing time or am I killing with time? The ultimate horror is that we will soon enough be smoke and dust. Maybe we end. Maybe we continue infinitely. If we are infinite and memory is retained, imagine that all your embarrassment goes forward with you into infinite existence. It might be a relief to …
With artificial intelligence we will have to rethink what art is. Not that we ever really knew. Art has always been a trick to fool the mind. A few lines and we see more than was drawn, as long as the lines were drawn right. Now artificial intelligence can perform the tricks at a level …
My usual state, really. Sometimes I just start painting and follow the shapes and colors to make something out of it.
