“untitled at the moment”

I decided to make the switch over to color this semester after a lot of resistance.  I’ll be posting some new images on my Flickr widget later this week.

The rain has really depressed me lately.  I don’t want to do anything.  The sun is supposed to make it’s presence for the remainder of the week.  I’m hoping my attitude improves.

Gustave Flaubert, French writer from the 19th Century wrote a book called, Dictionary of Received Ideas.  When you look up the word, Photography it reads, Will make painting obsolete (see Daguerreotype).  Flip back to the word Daguerreotype and it reads, Will take the place of painting (see Photography).

It is fascinating to read and see what people perceived and predicted of this young medium known as photography.

I am working on a new project called, Foto Fortunes.  I have begun to compile quotes from various photographers and make them into printed fortunes like you would receive in a fortune cookie.  Here’s a sample.

Joe Keohane of Boston Magazine writes,

We like to think of ourselves as an arts town, and new numbers back that up. So why do creative people continue to flee Boston—and what is it about this city that drives them away?

Check out the full article (here) and also printed this month in the Best of Boston 2008 issue of Boston Magazine.

For those of you on Facebook, I have made a group page for one of my favorite places in Boston, The Photographic Resource Center. Please join this group when you get a chance. I will be posting information pertaining to lectures, book signings, educational events and exhibitions.

This was a great read.

I was picked to serve on  jury today.  They told me it should be over in 2-3 days.  They gave us the afternoon off and I have to report back at 9am.

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An idea I had for a t-shirt.

(Laurie Simmons - Walking Camera I)

My wife cut out a page from the current Oprah Magazine titled, LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE and it included the above images and this quote:

“Sometimes, I imagine my own life as a series of snapshots taken by some omniscient artist who is just keeping track - not interfering or saying anything, just capturing the moment for me to look back at it again later….This is the way it is, the photograph says, and I nod my head in appreciation.  The power of art is in that nod of appreciation,  though sometimes I puzzle nothing out, and the nod is more a shrug.  No, I do not understand this one, but I see it.  I take it in.  I will think about it.  If I sit with the image long enough, this story, I have the hope of understanding something I did not understand before.  And that, too, is art, the best art.”

- Dorothy Allison, from “This Is Our World”