Duke would have been 114 today. No, wait: he is 114 today, because the music is alive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhbAGKb7VCw&feature=share http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4YdERiF0sA
Q. o’ th’ D.: Robert Adams
“The challenge for artists is just as it is for everyone: to face facts and somehow come up with a yes, to try for alchemy.”
W. o’ W.: Alfred Hitchcock
“A clear horizon… nuthin’ to worry about on your plate.” http://www.openculture.com/2012/03/hitchcock_on_happiness.html
Read The Tweets and Buy The Book
This summary of the main ideas in “Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography),” by Errol Morris, is as terse as the text is expansive. As a photographer who shares this world with the rest of us, you need to acquire this book and digest it. Errol’s book made simple. (Some principles.) All photographs are [...]
W. o’ W.: Robert Frank
“You are free and you risk something by taking a photograph. It’s not taking a snapshot of your sister. You risk because this is maybe not the way people think one should photograph. So you go out on a more different road. There is a risk involved in that. And I think if an artist [...]
John Cleese Pontificates (appropriately).
Listen and learn. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGt3-fxOvug He may not realize it, but he’s describing… the darkroom!
W. o’ W.: Dustin Hoffman
“It’s not intellectual. You’re mostly aware of what you don’t like. Henry Moore said something like that. You keep chipping away at what isn’t an elephant. And Miles Davis said: ‘Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there’ — I’ve put it on my wall. We think the conscious is the determining factor, and actually [...]
W. o’ W.: Alvin Langdon Coburn
“Photography is too easy in a superficial way, and in consequence is treated slightingly by people who ought to know better. One does not consider Music an inferior art simply because little Mary can play a scale. What we need in photography is more sincerity, more respect for our medium and less respect for its [...]
W. o’ W.: Gyorgi Ligeti
Ligeti wrote: I lay my ten fingers on the keyboard and imagine music. My fingers copy this mental image as I press the keys, but this copy is very inexact: a feedback emerges between ideas and tactile/motor execution. This feedback loop repeats itself many times, enriched by provisional sketches: a mill wheel turns between my [...]
W. o’ W.: Bob Brookmeyer (R.I.P.)
“If you give a soloist an open solo for thirty seconds, he plays like he’s coming from the piece that you wrote. Then he says, ‘What the hell was that piece I was playing from?’ And the next thirty seconds is, ‘Oh, I guess I’ll play what I learned last night.’ And bang! Minute Two [...]
