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Adrienne got a new MacBook this week and I got all hot-and-bothered when her dad sent an email saying, “make sure you get a picture with you and your new computer” (yeah, she’s a geek… yeah, she’s perfect for me =D). So I got all into strobist mode and spent a couple, few, several minutes taking some shots.

Canon Digital Rebel 1/10sec exposure at 50mm f/8. Lit with one Canon 580 EX (set to 1/8 power) bounced off of white paper on screen (which you can see a little along the top edge… oops), silver umbrella placed just out of frame on camera left to reflect some light back onto top face of computer (didn’t have a reflector on me, had to improvise). Triggered with a hotshoe to household sync cord and Wein HH to hotshoe adapter (Ebay remotes should be in soon!). Cropped a little and dodged a touch in photoshop to bring out the apple a bit. Setup shot here.

Photo: Suits in Motion by Lotus Head, from stock.exchng

I can’t sleep and themes surrounding this Washington Post article keep running through my head. Wanted to get some opinions.
Here’s the lowdown. One of the world’s greatest violin players (Joshua Bell) plays some of the worlds most well-respected (read: difficult, elegant, honored) music on one of the world’s most expensive violins ($3.5 million-ish). The catch? He plays dressed as a street musician in a DC metro station during morning commute. Nearly 2000 people pass him that morning. Here’s a man who can command $1000 a minute to play and he made $32 playing for nearly an hour in this metro station. Seven people stopped what they were doing to listen. Seven.

All of this to bring me to my point… do we have time for art? Are we, as a society, in such a hurry that we don’t notice beauty when it smacks us in the face? Or is this really a question of context? Was it the time or place to be able to stop to listen? Is inconvenience really a good enough excuse here?

I think this experiment by the Post can be applied to any art form… when was the last time that a photo has stopped you in your tracks? Maybe I’m asking the wrong audience though. Is it different for an artist? I know as a photographer I am constantly searching for beauty in the banal. The same goes for my life as a musician. Is it possible that this is an Arts Education issue? In a society of picture perfect pop stars singing to a pitch corrected, beat detected track, do we recognize true talent when we see it anymore?

Whatever the reason, this whole thing is particularly bothersome to me. I’m posting a link to strobist, not because it’s on topic, but because I respect the opinions of the artists who frequent the site and hope to get some discussion going.

I like to think I would have stopped. Let me hear your two cents.

Followed this link to some Photoflex Lighting Lessons through a fellow strobist, Wiedebas. Looks pretty cool, check it.

ka-KA-CHOW! It’s Lightning McQueen!

…entirely too much time on my hands…

Well, actually, strobist put you on the map!
Since posting links that refer to the Strobist Lighting Boot Camp and Lighting 102, I’ve gotten hits to my site from all over the world! On last glance at statcounter, I’ve gotten hits from Turkey, Indonesia, South Africa, Spain, France, Belgium, Canada and the UK! Compare this to just a week ago where they were confined to the eastern United States
and an outlier in California every now and then. Crazy.

So do me a favor, if you’re viewing this site from another country (or from the US, for that matter), leave me a comment, I’d love to know you stopped by!