This marks the end of the eighth full calendar year for Photocritic International, which made its debut in June 2009. During the past 12-month period I’ve published 54 posts here (counting this one), averaging 4.5 per month. According to Google Analytics, as of midnight on December 31, 2017 this blog had served up almost 54,000 […]
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December 31st, 2017 | Tags: Donald Trump, Robert Capa | Category: Digital Life, Project Update | Leave a comment Hoping that Santa was good to you, I present here my own small assortment of little tidbits that, at least for now, don’t seem likely to expand into longer commentaries. […] December 25th, 2017 | Tags: Beyoncé, Emmeline May, John Oliver, Lori Malépart-Traversy, Mechai, Muppets, Paul Simon, reptilians, Shari Weiss | Category: News Commentary | Leave a comment According to the stats provided by my gym, over these past two years I have lifted more than 600,000 pounds, which equates to 76 elephants. This year I’m taking those pachyderms as symbolic of the Republic Party’s crushing weight on democracy; so, to quote Allen Ginsberg, “America, I’m putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.” […] December 19th, 2017 | Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Donald Trump, Doug Jones, New York Observer, Popular Photography, Robert Capa, Village Voice | Category: Digital Life, Digital Technology, News Commentary, Personal History | 8 comments Do the world a favor this gift-giving season. Keep your thought-dreams to yourself, and encourage others to do the same. Don’t buy any digital tech, for yourself or anyone else. Think of how many “real books” you can buy for the cost of even the cheapest IoT gizmo. So use that money to buy and give books instead. You won’t regret it, and neither will those on whom you bestow that bounty. […] December 16th, 2017 | Tags: Dr. Christopher Bonafide, Jacques Ellul, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Lovense, My Friend Cayla, Social Credit System (SCS), We-Vibe, Xi Jinping | Category: Digital Life, Digital Technology, News Commentary | 2 comments |
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Ring In the New: 2018
I’ve long since abandoned the fantasy that a “photography community” exists. I play the hand I’m dealt. Reluctantly, I accept the evaporation of the horizontal platform for what I do and settle for this vertical substitute. So let’s call this blog aspirationally horizontal/vertical but effectively vertical. […]