(A Tragedy in the Key of Bourbon Minor) There are bureaucratic errors that get corrected, and then there are people like Eliphas Plunk — clerical oddities of existence on which somebody, somewhere, stamped approved out of blind fatigue. He was the human equivalent of a form filed in triplicate and lost in the mail; a man who arrived at life without a manual and kept insisting the missing pages were art. He looked like a person who had once been […]
Exploring how fine art photography can evoke emotions and tell stories through visual imagery There’s a moment—just before you click the camera’s shutter—where the world seems to hold its breath. Light slows. Shadows pause. Time flirts with something resembling eternity. That moment is where fine art photography lives. It’s more than focus, more than exposure, more than a pretty picture. It is emotional architecture built out of pixels and feelings. In the trembling between awareness and image, fine art photography […]
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 […]