Today I revisited self portraiture (see previous Self Portrait). I need practice drawing people and, since I have full access to myself at any time, I gave it another whirl. I think I’m pretty much on the mark, except Joy says my eyes aren’t exactly right. In keeping with the other theme of the past couple […]
My other post today (Self Portrait – Phototherapy) is a self portrait in the style of Jo Spence and Rosy Martin (as I understand their concept). I merged my phototherapy portrait with that of my brother Mike. Mike is older, autistic, low functioning, nonverbal, with eyes that do not normally line up. Here are the […]
Yesterday I was thinking about texture. It began when I noticed the sunlit bark of a tree. I said at the end of yesterday’s post, how I was hoping for a textural year in 2015. Texture has a range, just like tonal values of photographs and paintings. Texture is a multimodal concept. There is texture in sound, […]
I am so disappointed today. Also, in a quandary. I like to stay positive, especially on the eternal Internet, where nothing goes away. A full-on rant could be detrimental to future ambitions, especially if I cross post on LinkedIn, which I don’t think I will do today. What’s this about? I used to play Old […]
We had a great time in LA, especially taking Sidra to the American Girl store. She was trembling with excitement the whole time we were there. We all had a wonderful time celebrating her 10th birthday. While she, Nanna, Mom, Dad and Auntie Sarah and Uncle Ted were perusing the doll paraphernalia, I took some time […]
Today is the first time we actually traveled to Chicago proper. It was the tourist thing. I haven’t seen big old buildings in quite a while, certainly not in San Jose. I enjoyed seeing gargoyles again, and bricks that weren’t a quarter-inch thick and made of vinyl. The portrait I forgot my regular camera, so […]
I haven’t shot a roll of film in quite a while. In fact, I had to drive 20 miles from home just to purchase some. Today I went for a walk and took some practice shots. I didn’t trust the in-camera meter reading, so I brought along my hand-held meter. I haven’t used that in […]
Left and right halves of faces seem pretty much the same. I took portraits of my family in preparation for a little experiment. (My little brother does not appear here.) Experiment I reversed each portrait, cut the faces in half, and made portraits of left halves and right halves. The resulting faces are very strange […]
This post falls into the category of the more things change, the more they stay the same, at least on the surface. The picture below was taken of my little brother and me. It seems as if I’m always trying to get into the act. Little brother and me: The picture is not dated, but […]
I’ve always tried to be a doer. This might have resulted from my attempts to help my mother with my nonverbal older brother, diagnosed with autism and profound retardation, I don’t know. Since the focus of my blog is to address my problems and attitudes from the perspective of a sibling of an autistic brother, […]
