Yesterday was my first photo club meeting as an official member (for background see this previous post) and it was a great one. In addition to getting some great feedback on my own pictures, I'm learning critical eye skills by looking closely at lots of…
Continue reading...As I get older, the more I find that simply learning things is perhaps my favorite hobby. Trying new things and getting better at them. Adding and polishing to the skills I use to interact with the world. To that end, I've been trying to…
Continue reading...I'm trying lately to build a solid base of knowledge in ceramics, not only of aesthetics and mechanics, but of culture and context as well. This book, part of the Routledge Research in Art History series, is an excellent resource for exactly that. It features…
Continue reading...Translator Twitter always sees some kind of drama about rates. Low rates, unclear rates, unpaid rates... This topic never seems to die down, which makes sense, because understanding rates is one of the great mysteries for beginning translators (and, probably, many other freelance fields). For…
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