Hit-and-Run Storytelling

          or...

    Fleeing the Scene of the Rhyme

Some stories evoke images. Collected below are images that evoke stories:

      Photo Stories, Photo Stories II

      Photo Stories III, Photo Stories IV

      Photo Stories V, Photo Stories VI

      The Wrong Shortcut

A Random Approach to Photography:

Armed with a point-and-shoot camera and a mere smattering of technical skill at photography, I rely on heavily canvasing a subject and sifting through the photos to find the most compelling ones.

The process is more one of discovering art than of creating it, playing the role of curator at a local art museum rather than being an oil painter. Success or failure is from developing an eye for visual appeal, of single images in isolation, and of sets of images as a cohesive whole.

Quality through quantity

Given a million monkeys on a million typewriters, eventually one of them will type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Digital cameras make this approach more and more practical for photography.

Less is more

Identifying photos that drag down the set or photostream as a whole. What photos are deleted is just as important as what photos are added. Getting feedback from others is an important part of this process.

Guided randomness

Allowing randomly-unique shots to reveal themselves, while vaguely steering in a direction that looks promising.

Finding something in nothing

A random or abstract image that looks as if it were deliberately created to resemble something specific. One example of this is the "Face on Mars", a photograph of a Cydonian mesa on Mars that resembles a human face.

Finding something in something else

A photo of a recognizable object that looks as if it were deliberately intended to resemble something else.

Groups Created:

      Life Imitating Art

      Playing with Chalk

      Playing in Leaves

      Scary Trees

      TV Blur