Joey L is a photographer of the modern age. He doesn’t really care much about film tools, like light meters-why should he? He can see the image when he takes it and judge for himself if it is too dark or too light. At the same time, he has a serious fondness for the lighting styles of the old Hollywood Masters like Sinclair Bull and George Hurrell. The cover of Photographing Shadow and Light has all the hallmarks of a Hollywood glamour shot, bright highlights and dark shadows and an image that tells a story. As a portrait photographer I have…
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Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
It’s always hit or miss with David Sedaris. His most brilliant work often involves his family and always involves some personal flaw. His worst work, which can be offensive, belligerent, and nausea inducing, usually involves his views on politics. I don’t mind David Sedaris having political views or hating conservative-I just don’t want to find these tirades grouped together with his more traditional humor and nostalgia pieces. Like Squirrel Seeks Chipmonk, I’d like it better if he wrote this stuff under another name and collected them in separate books, perhaps only available in Iran or North Korea and then…
Total Oblivion-More or Less
One of the hallmarks of post apocalypse stories is that things go from bad to worse on a very regular basis. But most of them start off in the fairly familiar, fairly common world and something goes terribly wrong-zombies, atomic war, pandemic plague, EMP, or just some mysterious something that puts an end to life as we know it. But rarely have I seen a mysterious something else quite as odd as the one used in Total Oblivion-More or Less. The Earth finds itself over run by hordes of barbarian Scythians and people from something like the Roman Empire. But…