Author: Dave

I was just reading Chapter One : The Medium is the Message, from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan ©1964 when I saw “To a highly literate and mechanized culture the movie appeared as a world of triumphant illusions and dreams that money could buy. It was at this moment of the… Continue reading Cubism, McLuhan and Gombrich

When I started the MA in Fine Arts a couple of years ago I had difficulty in thinking of a theme where I could bring my photography skills and knowledge into a Fine Arts setting. In the third week the tutors told me about the work of artists I could easily relate to and I… Continue reading ‘Photography and Art’ or ‘Photography and Literature’?

Placing photography in memory studies This is chapter 23, written by Olga Shevchenko, of the book, “Routledge International Handbook of Memory Studies” (2015), Taylor and Francis, p272-287.

I would like to try something new/different this semester, and soon! This semester is the time to experiment. I’ll probably end up doing more on memory and time, entropy and quantum entanglement, but is there any wild or new method I could try now? I’ve read a good deal on memory and a little more… Continue reading New work?

Week 8 or 9 Informal presentation: It’s the year 3000. Where would you be in the world of photography? Week 13 I’ll make this a bit more coherent when I get the handbook.

There are some things in the past that may have happened and some things that may not have happened. But the reality of their happening or not happening then has no weight now from Engleby by Sebastian Faulks

Kobo Colour Libra I just got an e-Reader. I’ve had the Kindle app for years, but not the physical device. While I was doing the MA I could only get, or afford, some articles and books online and I found this very useful for copying and pasting citations and quotations. Also my eyesight is fading.… Continue reading Kobo and ‘How to be an Artist’

At the time I was in Canada in the 1970s Margaret Atwood was the new star of Canadian literature. I had three of her books at the time, still have them, ‘Surfacing’, ‘The Edible Woman’ and ‘Lady Oracle’ and more. I even went to one of her lectures a few years later when she had… Continue reading Margaret Atwood