Mind The Gap…
What with everything else I’ve been doing lately, I find that I have to push myself to shoot the daily photo. I’m still carrying my camera around, but it hasn’t been as natural for me to haul it out. I need to remind myself. But the interesting thing is that forcing myself to look for pictures, makes me wake up from the plodding, somnambulism that can come over me in the course of the day: the sense that I’ve seen everything from every angle already, so I don’t have to look.
For example, I was nearing my home last night when I realized I hadn’t shot anything, so I pulled my camera out of my bag and turned back to scan the view across Flatbush Avenue. Is this such a fantastic picture? I don’t really think so, but that act made me come alert, and really look at my surroundings.
When people talk about the sacred aspect of art, I usually cringe and reach for my gameboy. But there is something that that connects creativity and ritual, and it’s that they are both ways of focusing attention in the present, and reconnecting to the importance of our existence in a particular time.
And now a shout to the hive mind: This is the new welcome page for my website. See how it does that mouseover thing with the pictures? In order to get it to do that I got lazy and used a page I found online to generate the code (a java script, and of course now I can’t find the site again). And now I’d like to get rid of those white bands between the pictures, but I’m stumped as to how to do it. My image borders seem to be set to 0, but still no difference. Got any ideas?
Tags: brooklyn, daily photo, making art, notes on practice, website