Category Archives for "Art & Creativity"

Dec 28

#1074. Four Picture Forest

By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity

……. Sometimes Words Are Simply Superfluous

Dec 25

#1073. Storytelling Challenge Results – Merry Christmas

By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , News

All good things come to an end, this will be our final challenge. But it’s been a good one, and things to come should be just as interesting and even more engaging! Storytelling gets a bad rap. Ask any film editor and they’ll tell you filmmaking is manipulation. Politicians wrap up facts and intentions in […]

Dec 21

#1072. Covid Photographic Ramblings #3

By Lad Sessions | Art & Creativity

I spent nearly half a century learning and teaching philosophy, with a couple of detours into the wilderness of academic administration. The students were wonderful, the courses challenging, the friendships stimulating, and the research rewarding. You can learn a lot about the world—and yourself—by studying philosophy intensively, and I commend it to everyone. When I […]

Dec 03

#1067. fIRst Photo Adventure

By Paul Barclay | Art & Creativity

This article is in response to Pascal’s call for photographic adventures in the time of Covid. Like many of us I have felt constrained and in need of something new photographically. As you can imagine this resulted in a serious case of GAS. The only problem with is was, due to Covid, every other photographer […]

Nov 24

#1064. Where’s your Sense of (Photographic) Adventure?

By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , Opinion

In spite of Covid and mediatised conflict, life on Earth has never been as easy for as many people. And yet optimism and happiness surveys don’t reflect this. What if adventure was the missing ingredient? On French national radio, one early morning program is devoted to positive initiatives undertaken by individuals. Every day a new […]

Nov 21

#1063. Wobbly Beach People – Abstract Watercolour Street Art

By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To

In the art world different mediums and techniques of paint are used. Most of the mediums are opaque and forgiving. Take oils for instance – should an artist make a mistake, he may wait for the oil to dry and apply another layer/layers of oils over it and correct his mistake, as the medium itself […]

Nov 16

#1061. Backyard Gems #4 – Steve’s Garage

By John Wilson | Art & Creativity

For several years I lived in North Vancouver at the eastern end of the north shore of Vancouver Harbour. It is a beautiful area at the foot of Mount Seymour, replete with forests, plenty of wildlife, salmon spawning streams and rivers and a little gem called Deep Cove. To get to North Vancouver you must […]

Nov 04

#1056. Final Challenge : Storytelling

By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity

It’s time for our regular challenges to end. Let me explain why. Let us end brilliantly. And let me tell you why that is in fact great news 🙂 You see, in spite of being a loner who enjoys nothing more than being alone at the top of a mountain with only clouds and the […]

Oct 29

#1054. Photographic Covid Ramblings – part 2

By Lad Sessions | Art & Creativity , Uncategorized

My photographs I suppose would fall into the broad category of nature photography, but with a twist. I call it “serendipitous rambling,” and it was particularly useful during a pandemic when I was hobbled by Achilles tendonitis, especially at the outset. Nothing systematic, nothing planned except for general locale—it’s little more than stopping to look […]

Oct 26

#1053. On The Inside Looking Out

By Ian Varkevisser | Art & Creativity , How-To

There is a story that Italian artist and Picasso contemporary Gino Severini willingly gave his broken (and therefore useless) camera to Picasso, who was curious about the odd images it produced. Picasso played with his new toy and ultimately realized that it showed him a new way to paint. Thus cubism was born. In the […]

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