Posts Tagged "art"
Album of the Year {2011}: Love & War & The Sea In Between by Josh Garrels
This past summer my friend Lee sent an email updating Quinn and I on life in California. At the end of his email he left this note: Listen to our friend’s wonderful expression of hope and leaning into God amidst adversity. These words have been an important expression for me during times when I have no expression to give – and I thank him for it. Trusting my friend, and always...
Read MoreDoes Education Kill Creativity?
Creativity, in the midst of long lectures, tedious projects, and sleepless nights spent pouring over illegible notes, takes a solid hit to the teeth during our formal years of higher education. It’s easy to conclude that the education system itself squanders the best of our creative efforts by forcing us into patterns of rote memorization, thereby depleting our appetite for energetic...
Read MoreThoughts On Turning Twenty Seven & Art
Set in 1940′s Greenwich Village, Edward Hopper’s, Nighthawks is one of my favorite pieces. Nighthawks soothes my mind and straightens my often times tousled thoughts in ways no other painting ever has, as if my own existence is somehow bound to its canvas and bordered within its frame. Hopper said this about his art: Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist,...
Read MoreHow To Categorize and Choose Your Next Photographer
A lot of people say to me, “Parke, I want a photographer who knows exactly what he’s doing.” I usually reply with, “Most photographers don’t.” What? Did you just totally bash every photographer who ever lived? What about Ansel Adams, you jerk? OK, so it’s not because we don’t know what we’re doing technically, but because photography is a highly creative and...
Read MoreConcert Photography–Cornmeal, The Waldemere Revival & The Twin Cats
The Vogue in Broadripple hosted Chicago-based, rockin’-bluegrass band, Cornmeal, as well as local favorites The Twin Cats and The Waldemere Revival this past Friday night. IndyMojo asked me to shoot the show, and I gladly agreed! Indoor concert photography is all about waiting for that perfect moment when lighting and subjects align. In those rare moments a photographer can capture the...
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