Watercolors in the Rain

My photo “Dancing across Broadway” has long been a favorite of mine and so I was delighted when I got a request from Amanda Spencer if she could use it as inspiration for one of her watercolors… …and here it is! Amanda did a great job with this picture – I really love the way she [...]

The Third and The Seventh

Alex Roman has spent a year creating one of the most astonishing CG short films that I’ve seen in a long time: The Third & The Seventh (HD version at vimeo). The film can be best described as a meditation on architecture, photography and the sense of space and depth in the world around us. [...]

Multitudes

China officially recognizes 56 ethnic groups in the country, a fact that is easy to overlook when one travels through the major population centers which look dominantly Han. A trip into the countryside very often reveals a different picture, with smaller villages sporting very different faces and sometimes also different attire from the typical Chinese [...]

Where’s Gigi?

New York based artist Josh Gosfield has created a quite astonishing piece with his “Gigi Gaston, The Black Flower” exhibition, which just recently closed at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan. Gosfield manufactured the life story for an imaginary 1960s French singer, complete with posters, records, many magazine covers and even a music video and [...]

Phase II

Due to some random link-clicking I ended up on the Star Trek Phase II website, which I had not been on for several years… This is the site of a group of Star Trek fans that spend considerable time and energy on creating new episodes of the original series. It is interesting – and frankly [...]

Good Book Weekend

While I usually pretend to keep abreast of what books are coming out, this one was a surprise purchase, oh, about ten seconds after entering our local Barnes and Noble late last week: “Unseen Academicals” by Terry Pratchett. For some reason I hadn’t seen any announcements for this one, so dragging the hardcover book to [...]