The faces in the store
So on a recent trip to Vermont I actually found a way to entertain myself at a local antique shop. Usually, when I’m dragged to these types of shops, I wander around, staring at the ceiling, hoping my wife or family doesn’t take too long. I just don’t have the antique bug. I take nothing away from people who love antiquing, but it bores the hell out of me. So at this recent...
Read MoreTV break, through the kaleidoscope
If you thought watching television through a kaleidoscope would give you a headache, you’d probably be right. However, it just might put this parade of mind-numbing entertainment in perspective. On my recent trip to Minneapolis, I was surprised that in addition to the squat tubes of soaps and lotions, a ubiquitous white robe and an overpriced minibar, there was a small kaleidoscope in the...
Read MoreUp close and abstract
I’ve been holding on to these photos. Back in the summer, one rainy day I noticed as I was walking my dogs that the wood grain in the Adirondack chairs on my back patio looked like fish scales. And while when they were dry the chairs were gray, when wet the green moss in the cracks and hidden brown in the wood stood out. I also took a few photos of a wet sawhorse I had used a few times to...
Read MoreMaking art from a splatter
I can’t paint. I know I can write, and for the most part I take decent photos, though my subjects are still limited. I can draw a little, but all of my sketches are cartoonish and abstract. Realism, no chance. But painting, no way. Luckily I have some prowess with digital mediums, so maybe, just maybe, I can satisfy my canvas craving that way. Here is my first attempt. The other day, as I...
Read MorePhotos: Art is a vandal
We’re always walking through an art museum, wherever we are, as landscapes and still life pieces, portraits and even abstract art can be found everywhere you look. For example, simple vandalism, lines, scribbles and love notes scratched into the Plexiglas windows of a train station’s rain shelter, is worthy of being hung on a wall. And thank goodness for that. Enjoy these photos,...
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