Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.
Your image is your currency in this world.
The internet does not adhere to the inherent, necessary asymmetry of high-versus-low-art categorizations that we use in the cultural sector: in a banal sense, all photographs on the Web are orphans ready to be claimed.
Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.
We are not only a civilization of amateur photographers; we are amateur curators, editors, and publishers.
I think that the role of curating an exhibition is to reanimate history and make it relevant to a contemporary viewer.
In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.
Our thoughts create our reality-not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is" - but eventually. Where we put our focus - our inner and outer vision - is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.
In the belly of Leviathan. . . one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.