There is nothing that computers can do that humans can’t do themselves, with pencil and paper, if only we were given enough time. At a low enough level computation is mind-numbingly dumb. There’s no ghost-in-the-machine hiding down there. But there is a ghost. It is hiding somewhere high above, up…
When I was a teenager I had the flu and I woke up during the night, right about two in the morning, and I went downstairs to watch a little TV. I thought I’d sit there for a bit and then go back to bed. My brother, whose bedroom was…
The hike up to the peak of Cima Dome is not long from the off-road trail that runs along the side of Tuetonia Peak but it is misleading. I parked my FJ Cruiser in a small campground turnout and looked up at the smooth arc of the Dome’s volcanic bulge…
A few unprocessed images from my recent trip to the Mojave Desert.
Stanley Kubrick was a photographer first and then a filmmaker but he was always a photographer. He worked for Look Magazine, like Life but not nearly as famous or remembered today, and he started making images for them while still a teenager. His photography shows in all of his films.…
The stack grows a little shorter. Travels Across the Roof of the World: A Himalayan Memoir by William and Anne Frej.Additional texts by Edwin Bernbaum, Michael Tobias, and Jane Gray Morrison.Published in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in Association with the Center for Places. You may remember The Center…
I’m not so sure people listen to music nowadays. (I hope this isn’t one of those “getting old” rants, but it surely is.) When I was young I used to play an album, especially what I expected to be a “serious” album, with the lights dimmed and all of my…
Starting last spring I began a project to photograph a family of owls that live near my house on Montara Mountain. I had photographed them before, in 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic but those were just fun shots, messing around, more interested in the owls than in the…
A year and a half ago I had an idea for a video that would take a movie—key movies that were important to me, especially when I was younger—and would scramble the frames, playing back the movie now with the film jumping all around at 24 frames per second. The…
Books On My Desk is written so I can get the books off of my desk. Companion to The Robert and Kerstin Adams Photography Collection At the Denver Art MuseumPublished by the Denver Art Museum in 2022 This is an unusual book for an unusual show. It’s a book (and…