by ddavidn Photography Classes - Learning The Basics Photographs serve many different purposes: from serving as graphic memories in an easy store format to acting as a good method of breaking the monotony in reams of printed matter e.g. newspaper story, magazine article or even to educate the public or customer as in a doctor's pamphlet or marketing material. Where illustrations were used earlier, now vivid and beautiful pictures … [Read more...]

Timeless themes in the Facebook age According to Aaron Sorkin, the themes in "The Social Network" are timeless, like the ones that fascinated the Greek playwright Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Hollywood screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky. "It was just lucky for me that none of those people were available, so I got to write about it," he says. Read more on Detroit Free Press Building A Winning 'Network,' But At What Cost? Ben Mezrich's The Accidental … [Read more...]

www.egs.edu Agnès Varda, French director, photographer and filmmaker discussing and featuring the film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse 2000 aka The Gleaners and I, a documentary about things we leave behind or throw away, the leftover, cleaning, what is left, what means picking, selecting, chosing and giving. Agnès Varda, lecturing about making and directing movies and films for television, theatre and cinema, and working as an artist, director, … [Read more...]