In case you've ever wondered "What became of all of paintings Bob Ross completed on his show?"
https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/100000005865824/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html
In case you've ever wondered "What became of all of paintings Bob Ross completed on his show?"
https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/100000005865824/bob-ross-paintings-mystery.html
@fncll interesting. From a practical standpoint I can imagine what a very difficult type of research this would be to conduct on a larger scale or with say a general undergrad population. It would take such care to set up.
For me as a teacher I work to be straight up- students know certain topics will be discussed from the handbook/outline and I give them full permission to participate or not as they wish. -nothing I'd see as sensitive, but for some it is a challenge to discuss their learning.
@dadegroot we keep debating getting (rescuing) a cat, but we have SO many birds in the garden.
At the moment we just enjoy the fleeting visits we get from other people's cats when walking around the village.
@mhawksey WELCOME!!!
Here, find a place where people pull up a chair and have a chat.
You'll find it's definitely different than the firehose of Twitter.
There are some wonderful people here.
baby swans! I didn't expect to see them sitting in the low tide squidge. Positively fluffy. :)
@Downes Hope you had a spare tube and were able to get back on that bike - and I hope you blew past the wave of feeling low the other day.
I have that often with coming back to practice - long projects that seem to have no end and no one along the way. (well there are people, but sometimes it doesn't feel like it) I saw that tweet and posted a pic of our bees (here) as something cheerful that day. Hope you saw it. :)
I'm off to practise.
@tdorey I hope they show up!
and if they don't I hope it is a beautiful starry night and you can find some comfort in the summer evening.
@charlag looks great! :)
@tdorey It took some time, but yes.
Quite astonishing !!
Anyone who uses ZOOM - huge vulnerability. Read whole article.
https://medium.com/@jonathan.leitschuh/zoom-zero-day-4-million-webcams-maybe-an-rce-just-get-them-to-visit-your-website-ac75c83f4ef5
I was compromised - IT WAS RUNNING A WEB-SERVER ON MY MAC.
Read whole article - just uninstalling doesn't fix it.
#security
A picture to cheer us all up on a grey morning and i'm full of cold and ache. (such a difference to yesterday when I was practising cello with full gusto at 6am)
We have bees in our bee hotel in the garden. Here's a photo of a few full bee hotel rooms and two other bees in the process of fixing up their sleepy places.
I like how you can see the circles (doors) chewed out of our raspberry plants!
@tdorey Oh no! I hope you do make it there. Funny indeed how things work, and how people think we'll be in certain places (or maybe they don't particularly think)
hope all those bike rides and lakes were wonderful.
@Downes are you on the trail bike? What's different this year? I remember last year there were lots of punctures. Maybe they cleaned up the roads? (I am kidding!) Seriously, this year seems far less repair-filled.
Great rides.
read this just now, by a photographer friend of mine and I really like it - it's short. about the value of being with people to discuss ideas: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2019/04/17/its-good-to-meet-talk-and-drink-cold-coffee-or-stale-wine-from-a-plastic-cup/
The picture painted in the headline to this article is not a very attractive, aspirational or enticing one but it may be a description that is familiar to many of you who attend talks given by photographers about their work, exhibitions, projects and aspirations. It may also bring back memories to many of you who have delivered talks such as these.
So why do we do it? Why do we put ourselves through the preparation and anxiety of talking to small crowds in unsuitable spaces and why do we attend such presentations huddled together with unfamiliar faces? Questions that occurred to me recently when I saw a photograph online of a photographer talking about his latest project in what looked to me like a basement nuclear bunker with just a few hardy souls in attendance on a cold weekday evening.
The answer of course is simple, because such meetings of minds are essential to our learning, to our experiences with the medium, to the nourishment of both mind and soul. However, much we connect online through social media platforms, forums and blogs personal connection cannot be underestimated in its importance. It’s good for our mental well being and our sense of physical belonging.
The life of the photographer can be a solitary one and an excuse to get away from the computer screen and share views should not be over looked. Opinions and beliefs can provide an essential life line for many struggling with both their personal demons and the devil that can be creative and professional photographic fulfilment. Experience needs to be expressed and shared. You need to feel that you are not alone!
So, the next time you see a talk advertised, go along, talk to the person next to you and ask questions. Get engaged in debate, drink the bad coffee or stale wine and feel good that you are supporting not only the person giving the talk but also yourself and those seated around you, no matter how few there maybe.
Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer in Professional Photography at the University of Gloucestershire, a working photographer, and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Focal Press 2014) and The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Focal Press 2015). His next book New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. He is currently work on his next documentary film project Woke Up This Morning: The Rock n’ Roll Thunder of Ray Lowry.
His documentary film, Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay has been screened across the UK and the US in 2018 and will be screened in the US and Canada in 2019.
© Grant Scott 2019
@Downes haha! I don't think so - only because the font is usually empty! :) I'll take a picture 'bird's eye view' in the morning of where it was. SO odd!
A most extraordinary thing happened yesterday evening, in church, annual choral evensong for the area. Long bible reading & in through the open door hops a blackbird. ! Comes down 4 stone steps, onto the tiled floor, and looks. I stare, mouth open. It looks at people who don't see it. I see it. My mouth open. It hops in. Hops down a side aisle by the 800 yr old font. All this time SILENTLY. Hops. Looks. Hops back down the aisle, looks, head tilting, & hops up the stairs & out. OMG
#smallstories
@Downes !!! yikes?!
@dadegroot gorgeous!! Is this a new pizza oven or did the one you built not get used until now??
@compostablespork have you made your house move? or still getting ready?
@Downes is it a turkey?
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