Slow Light—Moby
Humans are complex and nearly every healthy person shows the entire gamut of emotion at some point in their lives. I, therefore, believe this gives photographers the freedom to capture anything in a portrait and accurately portray that person no matter the expression or mood of the portrait.
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A Conversation with Jay Parkinson - Conscientious
I love Jay Parkinson’s photography.
msg:
Aviary launches Falcon, an image markup app
Falcon becomes super useful in tandem with Aviary’s latest firefox extension
Wow. Earlier today, I was wishing for something exactly like this product to exist, and here it is. I just showed Falcon, & the whole Aviary suite, to my coworkers-for-the-week. Their response: “Why doesn’t everybody know about this?” Somehow, they managed to get those words out with their jaws dropped. Congratulations to msg and the whole Aviary team for building a beautiful and useful thing.
To identify the problem, please start with the whole “I like to pride myself on … ” idea. What we hold up as our greatest strengths usually say more about our greatest vulnerabilities than anything else.
As a medium gets faster, it gets more emotional. We feel faster than we think.
Rosana Castrillo Díaz, Tape Drawing (detail), 2004
“Or for example, I did a show at Mills College, where they have a big skylight on top of the building. It was kind of like the bridge here. The light was intense and very diffuse, and you approached the piece frontally, so many people just missed it. Which is fine. I like that. I think the piece did what it needed to do, which was to surprise you in passing.”
Portrait of young, bare legged girl, seated on wooden chair (via Powerhouse Museum Collection)
Dr. Sands recalled guiding a patient to the Association of Cancer Online Resources, a social network of online communities for patients and families. “That was the most important advice I ever gave him. It was an information prescription.
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Doctor and Patient - Medicine in the Age of Twitter - NYTimes.com
“Information prescriptions”—we need more of these, for all kinds of ailments, medical and not.
Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I’m like, Oh, my god, I’ll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.
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The Believer - Interview with Gary Panter
Gently persisting—what a beautiful idea!
