STAY OBSESSIVE
Joe is an artist. An irreverent, wacked, passionate artist. And a good friend. His advice to young artists is to be obsessive. Good advice. When you are obsessed, you’re focused. …
Photography
CONTENT
What matters more, content of presentation? In the early days of photography presentation was pretty rough. Photos were blurry, over or under exposed and often fairly passive with people just …
SECOND CHANCES
How often do you see a nice shot and think, “I need to get that shot sometime.” This can happen as part of a commute or maybe a local trip …
FOG
Fog is fun. It has softness and mystery. Fun to photograph in, terrible to drive in. It was also a mystery when to expect fog. Sometimes I could guess, like …
DISTRACTION CURE
“The only cure for distraction is attention.” Pico Iyer (and a camera focuses our attention)
DO YOU LIKE ME?
We like being liked. And like liking. The beauty of liking on social media is that there isn’t a don’t like button. If you don’t like me, I’ll never know.
DON’T LIKE
Often we photograph things we don’t like. The world is full of photos of things that are not good. There is an urge to visually point at such things and …
SEEING THINGS
There is a Talmudic saying that says, “We do not see things as they are.” What do we see? Is this a warning sign? A piece of art? Or a …
ATTENTION FATIGUE
Attention gets tired. Not just when we are suffering through a boring lecture or listening to a rambling relative but pretty much all day, every day. Wikipedia has some nice …
CLOSET SPACE
Sometimes you get to work under less than perfect conditions. You go where they put you and do your best…