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. […]
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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 Silloray’s work thus becomes the first book published since our research project began to reflect an awareness of the fruits of our labor. If our efforts can have that effect on a book intended for the general public, the demolition of the Capa D-Day myth has begun, and more serious, scholarly works will surely follow suit. […] December 7th, 2017 | Tags: Florent Silloray, Gerda Taro, John Morris, José Manuel Susperregui, Robert Capa | Category: Book Reviews/Book Notes, Photo History, Photojournalism | One comment The experimenters do not define what they mean by a “human face” from a sheep’s-eye point of view. This may seem self-evident, but I think otherwise, because what comprises a “face” depends to a considerable extent on how we see one, both in an image and in the flesh. […] December 3rd, 2017 | Tags: A. Jennifer Morton, Barack Obama, Emma Watson, Fiona Bruce, Franziska Knolle, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rita P. Goncalves, University of Cambridge | Category: News Commentary | Leave a comment These artifacts are not intended to engage the discourse of art or creativity on any level whatsoever. No meaningful gauge can be applied to them; since they take no risks by which they could be considered failures, it is impossible for them to succeed. […] November 29th, 2017 | Tags: Anthony Burgess, Duane Michals, Ernst Haas, Gordon Parks, Jay Maisel, Kenneth Burke, Lee Witkin, Lucien Clergue, Richard Gitelman | Category: From the Archives, Personal History, Photo Education | 3 comments |
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Birthday Musings 12/19/17
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.” […]