fiat lux!: Alan Jaras plays with light.
Photography: the art of painting with light. Most of the time, a print is made from a projection onto photographic paper via an enlarger, but in the case of Alan Jaras, prints are carefully made form the beauty of light itself (typically not through a lens). Jaras is a master of shining light through pieces of glass, or whatever other transparent objects he can get his hands on. Alan Jaras does not alter his images digitally; the color on the prints he makes is true to what he has captured. Here is a link to a blog page with more pretty photos. http://www.neublack.com/art-design/alan-jaras-light-photography/ here is his website, with even more pretty photos. ht...Read more
Twilight
Normally, when a hit series comes out, I make my scorn widely known. Harry Potter, for instance, which I believe are probably great books but everyone and their mother and grandmother have read them. Someone asks me if I'm a fan and I sniff loudly and say I'm saving that series for retirement. I thought Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series would be the same. Massive hoopla surrounds this teen love story of a mortal/vampire love affair staged in the hallways of a rural highschool, and by November when the movie came out, I had already put on my smug face, ready to claim it didn't interest me, too mainstream you know. Then I read Manohla ...Read more
