A previous blog post discussed a small sample of Works Progress Administration (WPA) sites from the midwest as an addendum to my El Palacio Magazine winter 2020 article on …
I probably owe the book Art and Fear another reading. This will be third time around, but I am still drawn to it, especially when I find myself needing to touch base with myself, and what better way to do it than with book in hand.
I remember seeing the Michelangelo Antonioni film Blow-Up in a movie theatre back in 1967 just after its release. I went with friends – we did this a lot in those days – Friday or Saturday night at the local theater in Chatsworth…
When I first took up photography and began to take it seriously, I was lucky enough to have included in the very first books I purchased (in addition to the usual how-to books on technique)…
Very sad…
M&M Cigar Store, Butte, Montana, August 4, 2019
Remains of M&M Cigar Store After Fire (from Google)
John Constable’s The Hay Wain versus AI Generated Versions
John Constable: The Hay Wain (1821), National Gallery, The United Kingdom
AI Generated: Hay Wain In the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Hay Wain In the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Hay Wain In the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Hay Wain In the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Victorian English Countryside in the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Victorian English Countryside in the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Victorian English Countryside in the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
AI Generated: Victorian English Countryside in the Style Of John Constable Hyper Photo Realism High Detail
Willy Lott’s Cottage, Flatford Mill, East Bergholt, Essex, United Kingdom (Photograph by Ian G. Dagnall / Alamy Stock Photo)
AI Generated Sunflowers Typology, 2023
Original Sunflower Typology
AI Modified Sunflower Typology (Prompt: Hyper Photo Realism In The Style Of Monet)
AI Modified Sunflower Typology (Prompt: Hyper Photo Realism In The Style Of Monet)
Midjourney-AI-Generated Sunflower
A visual experiment on how background color can influence how we perceive the color of the main subject
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Walter White Bobblehead Series, 2015
Which can also be viewed as…
Walter White Bobblehead Typology, 2015
Another inspiration…
Robert Crumb, A Short History of America, 1979
And yet another…
Bernd and Hilla Becher, Cooling Towers Wood-Steel, 1959-77
“Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art. And tolerance for uncertainty is the prerequisite to succeeding.”