A Thud & a Tra-la-la
After two posts devoted to images of elephants we should now look at the ghastly fate of African elephants living today — but I …
Science+Nature
Big: Elephants Where They Don’t Belong part 2
In this blogpost and the last we look at the lively presence of elephants in artwork — in lands where elephants have never roamed. …
Big: Elephants Where They Don’t Belong part 1
Babar the Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (originally in French) via Muse Reviews Elephants are big in non-native cultures like the United States, …
A Trail of Herrings
The Herring Net by Winslow Homer via Wikimedia In Winslow Homer’s The Herring Net you don’t see the …
Massive Motions
Ocean image via creepypasta.wikia.com Earth’s surface is about 70 percent water, almost all of it in constant motion. Tides, currents, roaring rivers, meadow brooks. Even glaciers …
Election Week
Scientific American (September 2012) reported research that the brain may sleep in parts, not all at once. The article was about how a sleeping person …
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds “unusual rock”
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds “unusual rock”. [BBC News – Science & Environment] NASA/JPL-Caltech image via BBC News I’ve been …
Slitscan
This is the second in a series about photography techniques that can provide artistic distortions. Slitscan photography and videography. Artists are already at work in …
An Artist’s World
Did you know that something called a red sprite occurs when there’s a thunderstorm — vast, brief, a glowing red jellyfish? We’ll never see one …
Greetings from LA
Plastic Just as the world is trying to recover from its plastics binge here comes a new wave of gadgets that everyone and their …
The Art of Painting with Light, Part 2: the Poets
I want to look today at a very different form of light painting than we did in the last post. Here the artists carry their …
Recording What Is, Until There’s More of It
Up until about 150 years ago the only recording devices on earth were humans. We notched bones, painted caves, tracked the planets, told history in …
Catching a Wave — with a Camera
Storm waves. Think of the power — to pulverize, shove, snap to pieces. There are photographers who face these seas. The images they return with …
Wood
Maybe I was unduly influenced by JRR Tolkien’s Ents in childhood. Huge trees seem like powers, nearly personalities. You put your hand on a trunk and …
Design and Pattern
Riffing off of yesterday’s post about fluidity. Again an image by Shinichi Maruyama, now compared with one by a 19th century Japanese artist, the master Utagawa …
Fluidity
from Shinichi Maruyama’s Kusho series (copyright the artist) Fluidity. Flow, gush, meander, mingle. There’s something about freedom in a lazy curve. Water – like air, earth, fire …