Camera Obscura October 20, 2009

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the image of all the universe? O mighty process! What talent can avail to penetrate a nature such as these? What tongue will it be that can unfold so great a wonder? Verily, none! This it is that guides the human discourse to the considering of divine things. Here [...]

Your Mileage May Vary October 19, 2009

Here are a few examples of some of the cliches and everyday expressions you will find in The Songwriter’s Journal: • Colder than a Klondike Bar • The devil you know is better than the devil you don’t • Like death warmed over The book contains over 150 cliches and expressions and were narrowed down from [...]

“to convey movement as force” October 19, 2009

Yeats knew what technical resources to call upon to convey movement as force. –Calvin Bedient

“. . . no need to reset the individual letters, just stamp that thing on the page and keep going.” October 19, 2009

For 19th-century typesetters, a cliché was a piece of language encountered so often in the course of their work that it had earned its own printing plate – no need to reset the individual letters, just stamp that thing on the page and keep going. So the cliché was an object, and a useful one: [...]

The Rhythm of Objects: Two Towers October 19, 2009

“to be despised and ignored, unseen, and yet to be somebody on whom the welfare of everybody depends. . . .” October 19, 2009

He thought of their sufferings: to be one thing on the outside, another on the inside; to seem nothing and no one, to be despised and ignored, unseen, and yet to be somebody on whom the welfare of everybody depends, even though they don’t know it. –John Crowley

The Rhythm of Objects: LA Sunset October 19, 2009

“. . . the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.” October 17, 2009

Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. –Susan Sontag

America Obscura: The Rhythm of Objects October 17, 2009

“life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference” October 17, 2009

I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love. –Robert Frank