Color My Missives

re: writing.
On another tack: a wide angle lens can overly dramatize a photograph. Sometimes the effect is desirable; often it is distracting. In the second version of the shot, I backed up and zoomed in a little resulting in a more classical composition — straighter lines on the extreme edges of the frame. […]

Every so often the idea of design hits me in the chest like a medicine ball. The idea that every man-made thing we see — from the hinges on a van to the metal lining on a curb — was designed and built by someone to serve a specific purpose is confounding in its […]

Here’s something from the lab. I wanted to put together some of my favorite pics from a year of blogging, but in the end I still had to skip a few good ones.

Dear reader,
If any one of you claims to have a better suit, tie, and hat combination than the one Ornette Coleman wore to the Grammy’s, I’ll tell you right now, you’re lying.
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No less than five white dudes wearing dreadlocks were counted at the Philadelphia new years party where these paintings were photographed. The artist works with stencils, spray paint, glass, and mirrors sometimes. He explained that “the only way for me to sell those old mirrors was to put someone like Ol’ Dirty Bastard […]