The response to the arrest of Pavel Durov. “It is absurd to claim that a platform or its owner are responsible for abuse of that platform.” Sound familiar? Sound like most Tech Bros? Even after being outed for sparking a …
Read: Camille Pissarro
I will never complain again. Ever. Never, ever. I won’t do it. Nope. Not even going to cross my mind. If you think you are having a difficult time pressing a shutter button to make your “art,” well then let …
Creative: Japan Recap
I just hit “print” on my first Japan publication. An eight-page MagCloud Digest. It had been ages since I created something with MagCloud, so the dusting off of the templates and importing of files into this beauty of a product …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Five
It only takes twenty-seven hours to get home: from a van to the bullet train to the metro to the monorail, then to the plane, another plane, a shuttle, and then the van. There was immediate ingestion of Mexican food, …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Four
I just ate things I can’t identify. Breakfast in the ryokan. Kyoto a nice break from the bustle of Tokyo. Overtourism is a thing now, especially in the Show Me Age. Famous shrines, disgruntled Italians, surly from the reality they …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Three
Not much time to play. Class is in full swing. Two days of shooting with short edits and reviews, and a longer review session, three hours, during this morning’s beginnings. Rain on the windows of the seventeenth floor. Each student …
Creative: Film Follow Up
Oh, my friends. I knew that last post might rile some folks up. I also thought that the takeaway might get lost because the second I mention anything about online photographers, or YouTube photographers, or film hipsters, people seem to …
Creative: Stop Talking About Film
Having just judged another massive contest, I can speak from authority when I say, “I don’t care you are using film.” And I’ll go one step further. In quite a few cases, film is holding you back, and in a …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode Two
Japan broils. Fifteen to twenty degrees above normal. Day after day. The locals tell me it’s common now, like much else. The expected temperature drop keeps pushing out. A day here, a day there. The hotel onsen equipped with a …
Creative: Japan Notes, Episode One
Let me preface this by reminding everyone that I am not in Japan to make photographs. I’m here to teach. Major difference. Will I make a few things along the way? Sure, but if I only made notes in my …
Creative: Thinking Peru in Japan
This is the guy who discovered Machu Picchu. He got lost leaving Costa Mesa and ended up in the jungle just south of the Mexican border. Pretty sure it all worked out in the end. He still has that shirt, …
