I entered a photography contest. It did not end well.
If you’re one of the discerning worldwide audience of zero people who read this site regularly, you already know that I don’t …
Are you a photographer? Then DON’T do these five things:
Are you a photographer? Silly question nowadays, a bit like asking “Do you inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide?” Everyone’s a photographer now… …
Portrait of Me Not Seeing Dance at the Kaneko
So there I was at the Kaneko, one of those self-contemplating navels of the downtown cultural scene, a temple of artsy hipsterdom …
The art of luck and the art of schtik in Kansas City.
I’m at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, sitting in a lofty white room designed to make people feel small …
Look, I shot film! Shouldn’t I be famous by now?
There’s an idea going around that shooting cool, artistic, made-from-dead-cows film somehow makes your work more soulful and special than using …
The Recording Angels Guide You to Your Place on the Axis of Resentment
Featuring incredibly beautiful and uplifting illustrations by the author A friend recently shared with me one of those inspiring Facebook posts in …
Carpe diem. Facebook page TK.
This is the year, I’ve decided, that I’ll make the leap. I’ll put up a Facebook page devoted to my photography. Or …
Why I almost, kind of, sometimes nearly miss the Soviet Union
Happy May Day! This is not only a day when we celebrate the arrival of spring – it also used to be …
A Few Bricks Shy of a Revolution
I’ve just been to see ‘New Works,’ a studio performance at Kansas City Ballet’s Todd Bolender Center. It’s a program of, yes, …
Kansas City Ballet – October 12, 2013
Kansas City Ballet this weekend opened its first season under its new artistic director, Devon Carney, with a massive mixed-repertory program. Here …