America, lend me your body parts! I was loitering in a shop this weekend and found an interesting book called “The Artist’s Handbook”- page after page of reproductions of artists’ hands; tracings, doodles, and… Continue reading
Or, why you don’t want to eat dinner with me on Sundays… I’ve been wanting to do breakfast for dinner for awhile now, but it seemed a bit overwhelming for the hot days… Continue reading
This week, Esq. Joshua St. John, the botanist, came calling with gifts of dead things to photograph, so tonight I got to goof about with bugs and bits of plants and one antique… Continue reading
I am no believer in the fallacy of foodstuffs as aphrodisiacs and this post isn’t about sex (I swear!). But I believe in the psychology of what food can mean and do to us. In dream interpretation, there… Continue reading
A little minor surgery put me on hiatus for awhile, and I really did mean to take a couple of weeks off from photography. It was a noble idea, since on top of… Continue reading
Like most teenagers, I could be alternately acerbic and cynical and wildly romantic. I may have been infatuated with the Sex Pistols, but one of my favorite romantic poems was Robert Browning’s Summer Bonum (of course not Romantic,… Continue reading
Just what is West Coast cuisine? When confronted with this in restaurants, it seems to imply hazelnuts and salmon. If anything, I think of the abundance of produce, the diversity of cultural influences… Continue reading
I was first introduced to algebra in the fourth grade. It was part of a larger program in math, but the idea that x could represent anything was troublesome. The variable was an abstraction… Continue reading
Mark Menjivar – “You Are What You Eat”. http://markmenjivar.com/you-are-what-you-eat/statement/ It’s well worth the time to check out this artist’s project of taking photographs of the contents of people’s refrigerators. It’s fascinating and sad,… Continue reading
This week it’s all about food from the flip side of Sunday; the stuff you don’t want others to know about. Maybe it’s Chocodiles for dinner or chilli and cheese dumped on nacho chips.… Continue reading
