Remember when the Web was going to save us all? Jaron Lanier does. And he’s bitter about its failed potential. In “You Are Not a Gadget,” he attacks the pathetic side of Web 2.0, putting his finger squarely on a few of the problems. It’s not that Facebook has turned us all into obsessed adolescents, exactly. [...]
The development of new technology regularly leads to new forms of art. The invention of metal paint tubes in the 19th century, for example, helped artists to carry their paints into the field, fueling the explosion of plein air painting and Impressionism. The invention of the electric guitar spawned rock ‘n roll. But sometimes the [...]
Someone out there, inspired by the essential cheesiness of the Jose Rodriguez wolf-jumping photo, fixed it up! It’s now got all the elements that the original, New Agey, made-to-be-an-inspirational-poster “nature” shot lacked: A full moon and two more wolves! Let’s hope the benighted contest judges take notice….
The news is out that Spanish wildlife photographer Jose Luis Rodriguez has been stripped of his first place title and £10,000 award by judges in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest run by the British Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. This is a sad state of affairs on so very many [...]
Well, I got a voice mail from Ken himself just now. He sounded friendly but called for only one reason: To demand that I not use his photograph on my blog. To which I say, are you kidding? “I wouldn’t steal your work,” his voice mail message said. “And you may not use my work [...]
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