Baba Yaga in Space
The assignment: Create a video that envisions one of the movements from the orchestrated version of Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" piano suite written in 1874. The video should be built using ...
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Found Object Video
The assignment: Create a non-narrative 30 to 45 second video by combining a series of photographs starting with a found object.
I started with the photograph above. One day ...
Color Field Photography
You're probably familiar with color field painting or at least you've seen some of it even if you didn't know the name for it. Usually super large canvases with blocks of flat color ...
Photography and the End of Art
It's April 1964, New York. Philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto is at the Stable Gallery on East 74th street to see an exhibition of work by pop artist Andy Warhol. The encounter ...
Minor White: Garage Door 1960
Minor White isn't a household name like Ansel Adams but he was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He was the photographer's photographer. While Adams was making a splash ...
The Day Photography Changed
Our world was created by William Eggleston over 40 years ago.
September 2006
Here's a photo I took after I'd had my first digital camera for a few months. Of course Autumn is a great time for shooting color. The overhanging trees were just starting to ...
Set the WABAC machine to 2006
I've been taking photographs for a long time, all the way back to the dark ages when we had to use film and chemicals. Although I miss the smell of a fresh new ...
I Try My Hand at Digital Art
The other day I was reading about Vincent Van Gogh and how after moving to Paris he shifted from the muted color tones of the typical Dutch master painters to a more colorful ...
Why Bother?
"No one is interested in my art so why should I even bother doing it?" This thought has crossed my mind way more that once.
Geometric Photography
A while back I had the chance to photograph an old steel bridge that spanned the Erie canal. It had been declared unsafe for traffic and was blocked off for a couple years ...