No too long ago I received an e-mail from digital apple juice, an art focused blog network, asking me if I was interested in writing for them. Of course I said yes so that means that the content created here will be spread quicker and over a wider network than we currently have. They will be creating a dedicated column for our feed which will either be titled ” The Working Artist” or ” Art Works”…we are still brain storming. What is amazing and yet not so much … [Read more...]
Yes WE can…Co-Create a Vision!
December 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment
“Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.” -Ansel Adams I got the quote above in an e-mail today and added it to the feelings that have been circulating in my thoughts since last night. For many years I have firmly believed that we all are creative, that we all posses the spark that can turn dull … [Read more...]
A Long List Of Free (and almost free) Stuff
November 25, 2008 By 1 Comment
This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web. Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different licensing agreements- some require a link back to the designer's website, some required copyright credits, others require nothing at all. Make sure you read the licensing agreements carefully. Don't abuse an artist's intellectual property rights and they will keep sharing their work with … [Read more...]
Murder on the Avatar Express
November 11, 2008 By Leave a Comment
I bought my first computer in April of 93 after my typewriter broke. A trip to the local electronics store and two thousand dollars later, I walked out with a Compaq 386 windows 3.1 jam packed with 2 megs of ram. I could have gotten 4 megs but as the salesman noted, "Nobody will ever need that much memory." Fast forward fifteen years. Today, we can do virtually anything online. Our computer is an office. A school. A university. A shopping mall. A tennis court. A baseball stadium. It … [Read more...]
PhotoVoice
November 10, 2008 By 1 Comment
It is well established that if you give someone a fish, they'll have dinner for one night. Teach someone to fish and they'll have dinner for the rest of their life. In 1998, Edinburgh University Social Anthropology students Tiffany Fairey and Anna Blackman established two projects which sought to integrate participatory photography into their MA dissertations. These projects, the Rose Class project in Nepal and the Street Vision project in Vietnam, encouraged and inspired refugees from these … [Read more...]
Photofunia.com
November 4, 2008 By 7 Comments
It never fails. Just as I get rolling on something I need to finish, someone emails me something which completely catches my attention and takes me away from whatever it was that I was doing. (what was I doing?) Distraction du jour: Photofunia.com. There are several online tools which allow you to have fun with images, Dumpr and Gooifier are two free sites that I've used in the past, but Photofunia, also free, offers a more sophisticated selection and I like their interface better. … [Read more...]
Photojojo can set your creativity free
November 3, 2008 By 1 Comment
No kitsch here. Photojojo.com is an original, exciting breath of fresh air. The slightly irreverent tenor and decidedly different ideas and photo projects make this site required reading for photographers and other artists in general. This self-described "newsletter" of photography has projects with detailed how-to projects (at least enough detail to get you started), as well as some quirky cool photo accessories and services to purchase. The sell isn’t hard, and all the items … [Read more...]
Review: Young At Heart
October 27, 2008 By 1 Comment
While preparing dinner at my kitchen counter the other day, I saw a commercial for an Eagles concert at the local Hard Rock indian casino. I immediately conjured a visual of what they looked like back in the seventies, when I was in high school and listened to their music. (which I still do, and which my kids grew up listening to on my car radio set to classic rock and NPR.) I glanced up from my chopping block fully expecting to see long hair and an attitude, and there on the TV screen … [Read more...]
San Diego Comic-Con 2008: Part 2
October 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment
My professional agenda for Comic-Con was fairly simple: Soak in the visuals, get a general feel for the industry and do some basic networking. With this in mind, here are some useful tips I learned along the way on how to take advantage of the convention: Bring a highlighter. You'll need it to track the three-ring circus of panels. Comic-Con often has an online schedule in advance of the convention, so it's possible to do some pre-planning. But it does change/update … [Read more...]
Stephen Colbert Guest Stars In Amazing Spider-Man No. 573
October 20, 2008 By 1 Comment
Stephen Colbert Is The Andy Kaufman of This Generation. Bravery, thy name is Stephen. His performance at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner was the comedic equivalent of the Battle of Hamburger Hill. Marvel Comics rewarded postmodern comedian Stephen Colbert by presenting him Captain America’s shield. For those of you who missed it, his comedy "routine" was performed fully in character, skewering the Bush administration while "W" … [Read more...]
Write of Passage
October 17, 2008 By 1 Comment
I never really gave much thought about the actual process of writing, or even that it was a process at all. I liken it to brushing my teeth or walking or breathing. It's just something I do. And while we all get a little writer's block from time to time, like constipation, eventually you know that something's gonna give. So when a friend recently asked me to blog about "signs" (no smoking, no parking, caution-crime scene etc) I thought "Sheesh. What could I possibly write … [Read more...]
