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 …
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 …
“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.
Watercolor One of my favorite paintings is “The Icebergs” by Frederic Edwin Church that I have visited more than once in the Dallas Museum of Art. No photo or copy does it justice. I have not seen it since it was vandalized and repaired, but I hope it is still as amazing a work as …
This is the sketch I made when planning my workstation. I came close enough with the final result.