As my last post indicates, I don’t play well with authorities, except my own. This goes way back to grade school. We had to say the pledge of allegiance before class started, and in some cases back then, the lord’s prayer. There was always a voice in the back of my mind asking what does…

I was listening to a podcast today by a photographer with great professional experience who was discussing certain cameras and the concept of “good work” in the context of people using those cameras. But what constitutes good work. It seems to me that it depends on what type of photography you do. The guy doing…

Decided to deactivate instagram this morning. Posted there a couple of days ago that I was going to do it Monday, but could see no reason to wait. Made the decision not to delete it completely in case I change my mind down the road, and to hold on to the user name. Reactivated my…

i sit here…same chair…same room…depending on lens…settings…light…it can seem different…look different…have shot this shot…many ways…over and over…the dream interpreted…

I will be here more it seems. Took a trip to visit family last week in Asheville, and went untethered, no ipad. I don’t have all the social media stuff on my phone, it is a functional tool. I enjoyed it very much. Since returning, I have found less and less satisfaction with how instagram…

And no, this is not going to be about “selfies”. A guy I follow, Paul Hedderman, who expounds on the concept of nonduality, uses the word selfing to describe the activities generated from the mind that we action figures use to prop up the mistaken idea that we are “long lasting independent separate entities”, a…

I love the concept of barter, trading stuff, zine for zine, or other art for zine. Some people have done trading like this, I even got some mushrooms from a subscriber at the Durham Farmers Market, which was really cool. If you can’t trade something, just send me a letter or a postcard giving some…

Like everything else these days, the printing costs for the zine have gone up, and will continue to go up it seems. Not going to get into details about it as I don’t need to hear people feeling guilty for getting it free in their mailbox. Eighteen of the thirty copies printed went out to…

I posted this image to ello this morning. https://ello.co/nocontextzine I have been on ello, “the creators network”, since it’s beginning more than seven years ago. It was a wonderful free place to be, interacting with other photographers and artists. But as in all things, they had to figure out how to monetize it, and the…