Creating A Personal Visual Language
Eric HathewaySometime, within the first few weeks of art school, someone will say it. A professor, a visiting critic, a paint-stained upperclassman leaning in a doorway–they say the same thing. And,…
Please Read On ...Photography: A Decisive Engagement With Reality
The ArtistSince receiving my first rangefinder camera at age nine, I have learned from my practice and studies that photography is a decisive engagement with reality. This phrase suggests something far…
Please Read On ...The Mythograph: A Brief Introduction
Once I coined the term “Illusograph” for a certain type of artwork I do, it was easy to coin another phrase for another type of artwork I do – the…
Please Read On ...f/8 And Don’t Be Late!
“f/8 and be there” — the old photographer’s mantra. I paraphrased this expression into the title of today’s post – f/8 and don’t be late” – but the spirit is…
Please Read On ...Buxley’s Blinker Fluid
LumberghSee and be seen! Don’t let your signals fall silent. Keep your turns crisp, confident, and unmistakable with Buxley’s Blinker Fluid™, engineered for modern motorists who demand peak signaling performance.…
Please Read On ...In Defense Of f/16
There is a peculiar moment in photography when technique begins to masquerade as doctrine. One hears it often, spoken casually but with quiet authority: don’t shoot at f/16. The reasoning…
Please Read On ...The 50 Secrets Of Magic Design
This article, The 50 Secrets of Magic Design is written after the spirit—if not the spectacle—of Salvador Dalí and his book, The 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship, written in 1948.…
Please Read On ...Double Diamond Five
An ordered field asserts itself immediately—gridded, measured, rational. It establishes a ground of authority, a silent claim that structure precedes expression. Across this disciplined surface, vectors cut with urgency: black…
Please Read On ...The Return Of Friction
Dirque du SoleilThere is a quiet but unmistakable drift in contemporary culture—a turning back, not in rejection of the present, but in search of something the present seems unable to hold. Call…
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