inspiration

Pour yourselves a Campari and soda, dekeOpolitans, it's time for another Martini Hour. This week's installation is the last of those we recorded in Las Vegas, in the VIP lounge we retired to after our live show at Photoshop World, with two compassionate, inspiring, life-affirming teachers of photography. On my right, fine-art photographer, teacher and all-around leather-sportcoat pony-tailed source of calm inspiration, JP Caponigro. On my left, photographer, art educator,  and all around cropped-hair SoCal surfer source of energized creativity, Chris Orwig.

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This isn't new (two years old), but it's new for me, and perhaps for you too. "One Blood, Many Nations," a United Nations mural mosaic painted live by Lewis Lavoie.

What I love about this piece is that it's not a computer mash-up of miniature photos that thanks to the magic of digital matchmaking render out to create a larger whole. It is instead a painstakingly planned and executed exercise in manual dexterity that involves, not several hundred images, but a scant 20. Which when placed in near each other proximity yield something else, not something better.

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