The great thing about a television program devoted to the critique of images is that it is, necessarily, composed largely of images itself. That’s what makes looking at “Consuming Images,” a PBS special with Bill Moyers from 1990, such an interesting experience. (The whole thing is available in six parts here, as part […]
Image © Ugo Mulas via WMMNA and GAM di Torino.
I’ve finally done the impossible–read every one of the backlogged posts that have been building up in my Google Reader for the past, oh, month or so. These links are my favorites from the past month. For anyone who’s been keeping up, it might […]
This article from the London Times spotlights Dr. Beau Lotto, a scientist/artist whose work examines the fallibility of human visual perception. Lotto argues that optical illusions, far from being hardwired into the brain, are frequently the result of prior experience. While the illusions are fun, I’m not sure the article (or maybe even […]
Check out the blog here. (via Eyeteeth.)
(Cai Guo-Qiang’s Reflection: A Gift from Iwaki at the Guggenheim.)
The Telepresence Frame being developed by the Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art acts as a kind of dual-purpose baby monitor and digital death mask. The gilt frame displays the vital signs of a distant loved one on life support, then records the final moments for continuous playback after death.
The whole […]
Here’s a riddle: what do you call a blog dedicated to discussing photography? Hint: it’s not “photoblog.” According to most sources, including Wikipedia, the Photobloggies Awards and the Open Directory project (DMOZ), the definition of photoblog is a blog that uses photography as its primary medium, in addition to or in place of […]
A post on MAO and the provocative imagery (a photographer of fire?) drew me to Sarah Pickering’s show “Fire Scene” at Daniel Cooney Fine Art. I knew next to nothing about her, but as I looked over her images, I became increasingly excited. Each photograph confronted me with an elaborate detective story. […]
Cara Phillips has picked up on Christian Patterson’s recent post that announced, essentially, that he is quitting blogging for the indeterminate future. Unlike Cara, I don’t see that much elitism in Patterson’s decision, or, if I do, I more or less agree with it. There ARE a lot of people writing very similar […]
The KERA blog of North Texas notes that the Library of Congress recently opened a Flickr account (see it here), posting photographs from their collection. Says Alan Melson:
The Library of Congress has gotten very Web 2.0, and signed up for a Flickr account. Last week, they posted over 3,000 photos from their […]
