If you’re like me, you may well have spent hours of your youth lovingly recreating the iconic designs of pioneering Santa Cruz artist Jim Phillips. My first deck was a Roskopp 6, and I covered countless notebook covers, a leg cast, my bedroom door, and other surfaces with my humble ...
#2020 has left me feeling like my Gi used to smell after Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, back when things like martial arts classes existed in the world. And it seems like most people I speak with feel the same way. Worn out. Unproductive. Ready for a break It’s gotten so bad, my lack of f...
Light, as you may have understood from previous classes during this course, is one in every one of the six essentials for photography, and understanding light and listening thereto is one in all the quickest ways to enhance your photography. “Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it....
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I also feel less safe. I’ve never felt the need for a gun for safety. I’ve owned a shotgun since my youth when we enjoyed skeet/trap shooting and through the years. I’ve gone to the range many times with my son shooting various handguns to become proficient with them. But never...
Sometimes, those two fearless classes of motorcyclists, the leather-bound speedsters in crotch rockets and the half-helmeted Harley riders in jean vests blaze through the stopped traffic like a hot knife through butter. I’m just trying not to get killed. We fuel up at the Outlet malls in...
To learn about the ideas expressed in this article, take my hands-on landscape photography workshop calledLight & The Landscape. And, learn special techniques for composing your landscape photographs inArt of Landscape Photography. Both classes are held during the summer. ...
For me, the play of light and shadow and the contrast between medieval and modern suggest the timeless and spiritual nature of great art at work in architecture. The patterns and lines reflect in an urban setting the geometric harmony of nature at the cellular level. The picture reminds me ...
Nana Asma’u, the daughter of the late 18th century early 19th century reformer and political leader Usman d’an Fodiyo, wrote and translated poetry in four or five different languages in the early 1800s, and started women’s literacy and religious education classes that go on till this day...
If you’re like me, you may well have spent hours of your youth lovingly recreating the iconic designs of pioneering Santa Cruz artist Jim Phillips. My first deck was a Roskopp 6, and I covered countless notebook covers, a leg cast, my bedroom door, and other surfaces with my humble re...