In the annals of television history there are names that echo through the corridors of time, their contributions immortalized in the chronicles of pop culture. Then, there are names like Sylvia Shichman — a footnote, a whisper, a fleeting moment in the grand tapestry of entertainment. Yet, within that fleeting moment lies a story of absurdity, influence, and the kind of offbeat brilliance that only the truly unconventional can appreciate. Eight years ago I wrote a short blog post here […]
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed the way we interact with technology, from voice assistants to smart home devices. Google has now brought this innovation to mobile photography with its conversational photo editor in Google Photos. Initially available exclusively for Pixel 10 devices, this groundbreaking feature is now being rolled out to a broader range of Android smartphones. By leveraging AI, the editor allows users to edit photos through natural language commands, making professional-level photo editing accessible to […]
Photography, since its very inception, has always dwelt at the crossroads of art and technology. From the very first daguerreotypes that astonished 19th-century audiences to the modern digital revolution that has ushered in the age of a camera carried in every pocket, the medium has never been anything of a stranger to disruption. Now, a new and novel disruption looms ever so ominously large — or perhaps, it may have already arrived — in the form of artificial intelligence. Algorithms […]
We often hear people calling themselves fine art photography maestros, but are they actually what they claim to be? Over the years the digital photography has taken new turns and achieved milestones that seemed unattainable. Anyone can take a great picture with a camera, however, how do they convert their photography into art. People say that there is a fine line between photography and art, although we believe that these very photographs can be converted into pieces of fine arts […]
Just for the sake of whatever interest there may be… This is an old experiment I did about five years ago — the purpose of which was to judge the viability of recording and producing an album ‘on the cheap’ in my own poorly equipped home-studio, all by my little lonesome. I put together this cover of a J.J. Cale tune (Although, my version is really a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s cover of J.J. Cale) with me playing all of […]