In 1942, Isaac Asimov began writing the stories that became the Foundation series of books. The series arc centered around the prophetic wisdom and visionary thinking of the mathematician Hari Seldon. Using his formulas of psychohistory, he was able to predict far into the future on a galaxy-wide scale. He predicted massive change, but also [...]
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If you have Adobe Photoshop CS5 and want to be entertained by a hilarious string of text-style messages from the Adobe Photoshop team, do this: Choose “About Photoshop” Wait and the list of names on the right of the splash screen starts scrolling. You can hold down the Option/Alt key to speed up the scrolling [...]
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Magnum photographer Burt Glinn died this month at age 82. His work provided inspiration to me and countless other photographers growing up in the nineteen-sixties (seeing his work in countless magazines) and coming of age in the nineteen-seventies when it was easier, and more common, to build a career moving in and out of the [...]
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My latest tutorial at the Photoshop User web site is a tribute to the art of paper negatives, known as Calotypes. I originally wrote the tutorial to celebrate an exhibition of British Calotypes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. That show has ended but there is an excellent web site where you can [...]
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Thanks to my friend, and master puppeteer, Lara MacLean, I was able to visit the Johnny & the Sprites set at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Astoria NY, the other day, to get a first hand view of this wonderful shows’ production, and of course give quite a thrill to my 4 yr. old. The [...]
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