Because I have children.
Because I’m an artist.
Because I love art.
I’m worried.
I’m worried about the state of “Visual Literacy” and it’s correlation, or lack thereof, in our education system here in America.
Most of our experiences in this world are mediated in photography or art. The general public is not visually oriented/skilled/educated.
Does it matter?
Yes.
It.
Does.
The public education systems [...]
I’ve been really fascinate by decay lately. Truthfully I don’t know if it’s some sort of manifestation of mortal fears or what. Having children really seems to dramatically change one’s outlook on life. I, for example, never worried about what would happen should an early demise rob this planet of my presence. Now, however, I [...]
My wife loves Ellen Degeneres. She DVR’s the show and watches it after work. Ellen had Will Smith on her show sometime this week and he said something that made me have much more respect for him (not that I didn’t before) and it was profoundly true.
He was talking about how he’s trying to get [...]
