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Yin Every Yang (Part 1)
In this world, there are things that motivate and things that demotivate. Curiously, what motivates one person might be exactly the same thing that demotivates someone else. Case in point: exotic vacations to scenic locales. For many people, such trips stimulate an outpouring of photographic activity. But for me, the only thing they stimulate is…
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Appropriating Cortini
Does a song need an evolving melody in order to be called a song? Or can something else evolve in its place? Composer and sound designer, Alessandro Cortini claims the latter. And it’s a claim I’ve just appropriated to help describe my latest photographic tendencies.
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Up Goes The Ante: Fuji’s X100T
Fuji and innovation go hand-in-hand. My Hasselblad Xpan? A creation of Fuji’s. My pocketable, point-and-shoot Medium Format camera? Also Fuji. My next digital camera? Well, Fuji’s new X100T has certainly warranted a meticulous examination — nearly 5,000 words worth of meticulousness! So is that lump in my pocket a new Fuji X100T? Or is it…
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Whenevergram
This article is for anyone whose obsessive need to update their social media outlets has forced them to post ill-considered crap. It introduces a conceptual new product called “Whenevergram,” which will force people to post carefully-considered crap instead.
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Applied Relativity: The Leica M-A
Somewhere in this meandering tale of chance encounters and philosophical philosophizing, there’s a review of the new Leica M-A camera — a camera that just might be the closest any manufacturer has yet come to that elusive quality known as “perfection.”
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A Measly Million
The Fibonacci sequence might get all the glory, but it won’t help anyone predict which photo will be the first to surpass the $7 million mark at auction. For that, you’ll need the “Egor sequence.”
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Thoughts From The Void
For the first time in a decade, I took a break from photography without existential angst being its impetus — but that’s not to say it didn’t nearly prevent my return.
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Pi
By employing the world’s most circuitous path, this article predicts the impending return of a vibrant and burgeoning film camera market. Crazy? Or crazy like a fox?
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The Are-Bure-Boke-Matic
Grainy. Blurry. Out-of-focus. To the average photographer, these are characteristics to avoid at all cost. Fortunately, I never claimed to be “the average photographer.” So for all you not-so-average photographers seeking to infuse some low-fidelity grunge into your high-fidelity world, I present the Olympus Pen EE-2 camera for your consideration.
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Psycho Semantics
You’d think, after a decade-and-a-half of widespread moaning, bragging, posturing, marketing and pontificating, that every conceivable angle of the film vs digital debate would have been covered ad nauseam by ten thousand bloggers and a hundred thousand forum participants. So how is it I managed to uncover a heretofore un-debated cranny?
