4th of July

Danny Glover reads Frederick Douglass, "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (July 5, 1852) from Voices of a People's History on Vimeo.

Form Follows Function

Beauty in design results from purity of function.

The form follows function axiom is interpreted in one of two ways–as a description of beauty or a prescription for beauty. The descriptive interpretation is that beauty results from purity of function and the absence of ornamentation. The prescriptive interpretation is that aesthetic considerations in design should be secondary to functional considerations. The axiom was adopted and popularized by modernist architects in the early 20th century, and has since been adopted by designers in a variety of disciplines. 

Taken from a passage of the book, Universal Principles of Design.

Photography

There is something to be said of a great natural photograph. It invokes dialogue central to the subject. The viewer is left to ponder the complexity of the simple, as oppose to the superficiality of digital enhancements. The ubiquity of graphic pieces passed as photography has numbed us to what photography really is. Photoshop is a powerful tool, yet if left in untrained hands and minds, it yields a new subgenre of what I deem pseudo-photography. To the self-proclaimed photographer, Photoshop is not to be relied upon to create photographs, your camera is.